Perceiving-Acting Workshop

                             Fall, 2009

        Room: Bousfield 378A (unless otherwise noted)

                           Fridays at 4:00

 

Sept 11

 

Anjana Bhat and Tim Gifford

Robot-child interactions as an intervention for children with autism

Sept 18

All

CESPA organizational meeting

Monday

Sept 21

Tin-Cheung Chan

Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Self assembly: Motor and brain

Sept 25

3:00

Aaron Schultz

Dissertation Defense

Oct 2

 

 

Dobri Dotov

Positive and negative hysteresis in perception-action systems: Searching
for a principled distinction

Oct 9

Bous 160

William H. Warren

Brown University

Geraldine Pellecchia Memorial Lecture:

The dynamics of perception and action

Oct. 14

Bous 160 (Psych Dept. Colloquium)

Gene Goldfield

Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston

 

Coaction between brain-injured infants and biologically-inspired assistive devices for promoting emergence of action systems

Oct 16

 

Till Frank and Zsolt  Palatinus

Differential learning and prism adaptation

Oct 23

Alan Gilchrist

Rutgers University

Lightness computation by perceptual grouping of equally illuminated surfaces

Oct 30

Sliders

 

Till Frank:

 

 

Damian Stephen:

 

 

Ben Meagher:

 

Evolving psychological processes from a modeling perspective: infant development, learning, adaptation, habituation, and priming

 

Strong anticipation emerges from the multifractality of perception-action

 

Implications of Anticipated Joint Action on Distance Perception

Nov 6

Michael Turvey

On the concept of "control" in self-organizing systems

Nov 13

Ennio Mingolla

Boston University

The edges of perception

Nov 23

Monday

Jeffrey Wagman

Hard and soft constraints influence willingness to pass under a barrier

Dec 4

Bous 160

Dava Newman

MIT

Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture: