1/28/2003 3:30 PM
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Information Structure in Discourse: A Basic Pragmatic Framework |
| Craige Roberts |
| Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University |
| Rush Rhees Library
Gamble Room
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| This talk will give an introduction and overview of my on-going work on Information Structure, a framework for interpretation based on the way that interlocutors' shared information is organized and e... |
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2/7/2003 3:30 PM
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Relating attention to intention in Information Structure |
| Craige Roberts |
| Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University |
| 513
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| Focus is a pragmatic phenomenon that clearly has conventional reflexes in human
language. As its name suggests, it has been taken to pertain to what speakers
intend addressees to attend to during... |
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2/24/2003 11:00 AM
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AI and the Impending Revolution in Brain Sciences |
| Tom Mitchell |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| The sciences that study the brain are currently undergoing a revolution, caused mainly by the invention of new instrumentation for observing and manipulating brain function. This new instrumentation ... |
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3/3/2003 11:00 AM
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An Intelligent, Adaptive Cognitive Orthotic |
| Martha E. Pollack |
| University of Michigan |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| The world's population is aging at a phenomenal rate, and older adults often face a range of challenges: physical, social, emotional, and cognitive. In this talk, I will describe technology being des... |
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3/17/2003 12:00 PM
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Learning to Perceive While Perceiving to Learn |
| Robert Goldstone |
| Associate Professor of PsychologyIndiana University |
| 269
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| The concepts that we learn are at least partially based on the outputs of perceptual processing, but this talk will explore the possibility that concept learning also has a reciprocal influence on per... |
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3/17/2003 4:00 PM
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The HORROR: Speech Errors and Phonological Production Models |
| Harlan Harris |
| Graduate Student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 418
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| Computational modeling of speech errors has been an important aspect of the
study of language production. Models developed over the last twenty years have
proposed mechanisms for the sequential pr... |
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3/19/2003 3:00 PM
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Interpreting and anticipating reference in discourse |
| Elsi Kaiser |
| Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania |
| 418
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| Previous on-line comprehension studies of languages with flexible word
order have found that noncanonical structures induce more processing
difficulty than canonical structures (e.g. Hyona & Hujanen... |
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4/16/2003 12:00 PM
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TBA |
| Bob McMurray |
| BCS Lunch Talk |
| 269
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4/18/2003 4:00 PM
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The limits of dissociation between linear order and scope |
| Jean-Pierre Koenig |
| Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo |
| 269
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| The scope of (non-quantificational) operators often matches their linear
order in fixed word order languages. In SVO languages, if they are
syntactic heads, their scope matches their left-to-right o... |
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5/28/2003 12:00 PM
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From Ears to Categories: Intermediate Steps in Speech Recognition |
| John Kingston |
| University of Massachusetts, Department of Linguistics |
| 513
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| What happens between the moment when the acoustic signal arrives at the ear and the moment when the listener recognizes its phonological content? I present the results of three experiments here that... |
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6/11/2003 11:00 AM
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Implications of the Trichromatic Mosaic for Color Vision |
| Heidi J. Hofer |
| PhD Defense |
| 269
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| The organization of the human trichromatic mosaic and its role in color vision is not well understood. The advent of adaptive optics for the human eye has made it possible to characterize the arrangem... |
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6/12/2003 12:00 PM
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DESIGN OF OPTIMAL CONTROLLERS FOR BIOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS |
| Emanuel (Emo) Todorov |
| Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California at San Diego |
| 269
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| This will be a methods talk. It will start with a mini-review of optimal control theory in the context of biological control,
and then compare available and new algorithms for controller design for c... |
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6/27/2003 12:00 PM
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TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED! |
| Rebecca Sappington |
| Graduate Student working in David Calkins' lab |
| 269
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7/10/2003 12:00 PM
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Computational studies on rapidly-adapting mechanoreceptive fibers |
| Burak Guclu |
| Syracuse University |
| 269
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| A firing-rate-based population response model for monkey rapidly-adapting
(RA) mechanoreceptive fibers was used to find the probability of stimulus
detection in the population . It is shown that sev... |
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8/14/2003 1:00 PM
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Mechanisms of Neural and Vocal Plasticity in the Adult Song Bird |
| Luisa Scott |
| Neuroscience Thesis Defense |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| While all songbirds experience an early postnatal period of auditory-dependent song development, many also use auditory feedback to shape adult vocalizations. Even species that normally produce fixed... |
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9/12/2003 12:00 PM
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Research on the anterior segment using optical coherence tomography |
| Jay Wang |
| University of Rochester, Opthalmology Department |
| 269
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| Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non invasive imaging technique that can recreate a
high resolution cross-sectional image of the cornea from many sagittal scans of backscatt... |
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9/22/2003 12:00 PM
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How accurately fMRI detects neural activity sites
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| Seong Gi-Kim |
| Professor of Neurobiology Brain Imaging Research Center University of Pittsburgh |
| 269
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| The conventional fMRI approach has been extensively used for investigating various brain functions with a spatial resolution ranging from a few millimeters to a few centimeters. While this spatial sca... |
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9/24/2003 12:00 PM
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A Developmental Approach Aids Motor Learning |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Volodymyr Ivanchenko |
| BCS Graduate Student |
| 269
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| I will make an introduction to theory of motor control using an example of an artificial robot arm. The law of motor control even for a simple 3 joint arm is very complex and needs to be learnt. There... |
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9/26/2003 12:30 PM
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Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation |
| Big Picture Seminar: Dan Gildea |
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| 703
Computer Science Building
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| I will present the work done at this year's
Johns Hopkins summer research workshop on machine
translation. In recent evaluations of machine
translation systems, statistical systems based on
proba... |
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10/2/2003 4:30 PM
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Who’s the Ham Sandwich? A Pragmatic Analysis of Deferred Equatives |
| Gregory Ward |
| Professor of Northwestern University |
| 1101
Dewey
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| Previous accounts of DEFERRED REFERENCE (e.g. Nunberg 1995) have argued that all (non-ostensive) deferred reference is the result of MEANING TRANSFER, a shift in the sense of a nominal or predicate ex... |
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10/7/2003 2:00 PM
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A Spoken Dialogue System for Geological Exploration |
| John Dowding |
| NASA Ames Research Center |
| 703
Computer Science Building
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| Two recent field tests have demonstrated that speech recognition and
synthesis are now practical human-computer interfaces for astronauts
in space suits. The RIALIST group at NASA Ames Research Cen... |
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10/14/2003 11:00 AM
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Linking Language Understanding and Vision |
| Sven Wachsmuth |
| University of Toronto, Dept. of Computer Science and Bielefeld University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| An essential aspect of everyday communication is the ability of humans to ground verbal interpretations into visual perception. However, many innovating computer applications, like image database sea... |
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10/15/2003 12:00 PM
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Segment Similarity in Word Learning |
| BCS Lunch Talk, Sarah Creel |
| BCS Graduate Student |
| 269
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| As sounds unfold in spoken utterances, listeners generate a variety of potential word candidates before all of the acoustic information is available, thereby making the process of lexical access extre... |
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10/20/2003 12:00 PM
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TBA |
| Michael Paradiso |
| Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University |
| 269
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10/24/2003 3:30 PM
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Levels of analysis of tongue motion |
| Khalil Iskharous |
| Research ScientistHaskins Laboratories |
| 513
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| Most consonants and all vowels of the world's language require a distinctive configuration of the tongue. This articulator is therefore crucial in most of the contrasts that shape segmental inventorie... |
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10/27/2003 12:15 AM
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Dual-Task Interference and Cognitive Architecture |
| Hal Pashler |
| Professor of Psychology, University of California San Diego |
| 269
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| Most people claim to be able to perform ìeasyî cognitive tasks simultaneously. However, objective
measurement often reveals interference when even seemingly trivial tasks are paire... |
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10/27/2003 11:00 AM
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"CONTRASTIVE BACKPROPAGATION" |
| Geoffrey Hinton |
| Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Toronto |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| I will describe a way of modeling high-dimensional data, such as images, by
using an unsupervised, non-linear, multilayer neural network in which the
activity of each neuron-like unit makes an addit... |
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10/29/2003 12:00 PM
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Reinforcement Learning and the prefrontal cortex |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Jeong-Woo Sohn |
| BCS Graduate Student |
| 269
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| Animals interact with their environment and try to discover the optimal sequence of actions for their survival. According to reinforcement learning theory, optimal sequences of actions can be determin... |
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10/31/2003 12:30 PM
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Statistical Goal Parameter Recognition |
| Nate Blaylock |
| Graduate Student, Computer Science |
| 703
Computer Science Building
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| I will be talking about James' and my recent work on combining our
statistical goal schema recognizer with a statistical parameter recognizer
to get full goal recognition. ue... |
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11/3/2003 11:00 AM
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Syntax-Based Language Modeling for Machine Translation |
| Dr. Eugene Charniak |
| Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing and Department of Computer Science |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Formally a language model is a probability distribution over all string in a language. Practically they are used to improve the output of speech recogntion systems and, more recently, language-tran... |
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11/3/2003 12:30 PM
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Statistical learning: What goes in, and what comes out |
| Jenny Saffran |
| Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| 269
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| While much recent attention has been devoted to the properties of statistical learning mechanisms themselves, less work has focused on the nature of the input and output to statistical learning. I wil... |
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11/5/2003 2:00 PM
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"Probabilistic language processingby humans (mainly) and machines (briefly)" |
| Dan Jurafsky, Ph.D. |
| Department of LinguisticsCenter for Cognitive ScienceUniversity of Colorardo |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| This talk summarizes a number of results from our lab on the
role of probabilistic and statistical knowledge in comprehension,
learning, and production of language, at many levels (phonological,
sy... |
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11/6/2003 4:00 PM
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TBA |
| Margot Mayer-Proschel, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Genetics |
| K207
Medical Center
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11/14/2003 12:00 PM
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Visual determinants of eye movements revealed by reverse correlation |
| Ben Tatler |
| University of Sussex, UK |
| 269
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| To determine the visual characteristics that specify where we move our eyes, we recorded saccades while viewing natural scenes. We then used the reverse correlation technique to determine the optimal ... |
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11/17/2003 12:00 PM
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Two Learning Mechanisms in the Development of Action |
| Karen Adolph |
| Professor of Psychology New York University |
| 269
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| Many everyday problems require highly flexible solutions because the specifics of the problem space are highly variableóholding a conversation, fixing a meal from leftovers, driving a car through Manh... |
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11/19/2003 12:00 PM
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Hand and Brain: Finger movements as a model for studying human motor control |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Karen Reilly |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neurobiology & Anatomy M&D |
| 269
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| Scientists have yet to design an artificial hand that achieves the same level of dexterity as the human hand. Part of the reason for this might be that the actual design of the human hand is far more ... |
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12/4/2003 4:00 PM
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"Neural Basis of Social Intelligence" |
| Daeyeol Lee, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor Center for Visual Sciences Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
| K207
Medical Center
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12/12/2003 12:00 PM
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IS OPTIC FLOW USED TO CONTROL WALKING? |
| Jeff Saunders |
| Postdoc working w/ David Knill |
| 269
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| Optic flow can provide a strong cue to self-motion, and has been assumed to play an important role in guiding locomotion. However, there has recently been some debate about whether or not perceived he... |
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12/12/2003 2:30 PM
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"Declination, downstep and final lowering in English and Greek" |
| Svetlana Godjevac |
| SDSU/Brown |
| 513
Lattimore
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| In this paper we discuss factors that affect tonal scaling in English and Greek. In particular, we have experimentally investigated the role of declination in tonal scaling in Greek, and the scope and... |
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12/15/2003 4:00 PM
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Transformations of stimulus representations in the ascending auditory system |
| Israel Nelken |
| Dept. of Neurobiology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University |
| 1-7619
Med Center
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| The auditory system has the most extensive subcortical component of all sensory systems. Responses of neurons in auditory cortex as almost, but not quite, as informative as those of neurons in subcort... |
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12/18/2003 10:00 AM
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Spatial and Temporal Integration for Cognitive Mappingin Cortical Area MST" |
| Michael Froehler |
| Advisor: Charlie Duffy, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Upper S-Wing Auditorium
Med Center
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| Spatial orientation is supported by two parallel systems utilizing allocentric cues and self-movement information, respectively. The allocentric system depends on a cognitive map that links an animal... |
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12/18/2003 10:00 AM
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"Spatial and Temporal Integration for Cognitive Mappingin Cortical Area MST" |
| Michael Froehler |
| Neuroscience Thesis Defense: Advisor: Charlie Duffy, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Upper S-Wing Auditorium
Med Center
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| Spatial orientation is supported by two parallel systems utilizing allocentric cues and self-movement information, respectively. The allocentric system depends on a cognitive map that links an animal... |
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12/18/2003 4:00 PM
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NASA Studies of Physiologic Adaptation During and After Space Flight |
| David L. Tomko, Ph.D. |
| Lead Scientist for Biomedical Research and Countermeasures Program Bioastronautics Research Division NASA Headquarters |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| NASA's Biomedical Program has sponsored numerous physiology and behavior experiments on animal and human subjects in ground-based laboratories and during space flight. The objective of such experimen... |
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1/14/2004 9:00 AM
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"The Effects of Sleep Loss on Brain Function as Measured with Functional MRI " |
| Sean P. A. Drummond, Ph.D. |
| Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of California at San DiegoVA San Diego Healthcare System |
| G-9425
Med Center
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| Dr. Drummond first became fascinated with sleep research when he volunteered as an undergraduate research assistant in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona, under the direction o... |
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1/14/2004 2:00 PM
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"Attributions of Memory: True and False Recognition of Words, Pictures, and Faces" |
| STEPHEN GOLDINGER, Ph.D. |
| Department of Psychology Arizona State University |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Over the past several years, the profound effects of cognitive
heuristics have generated renewed interest among researchers.
Along with classic domains (e.g., decision making), heuristic
processes ... |
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1/20/2004 10:00 AM
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Biophysics of the Inner Ear: From Fluid Mechanics to Molecular Motors |
| Richard D. Rabbitt, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Bioengineering, Unversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| Sensory hair-cell organs of the inner ear are remarkably sensitive and can resolve mechanical motion at a level approaching thermal noise. On the organ level, biomechanical specializations play a cen... |
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1/21/2004 2:00 PM
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"COGNITIVE IMPLICATIONS OF DIABOLICAL WITCHCRAFT BELIEFS" |
| PHILLIPS STEVENS JR, Ph.D. |
| Department of AnthropologyUniversity at Buffalo |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| The term "diabolical witch" is used here to distinguish this belief from
the several other meanings of the loaded words "witch" and "witchcraft."
This is the nearly universal complex of beliefs in a... |
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1/22/2004 4:30 PM
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"Hearing Rhythmic Gestures: MovingBodies and Embodied Minds." |
| Justin London |
| Carleton College |
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| The limits on our ability to produce and/or hear rhythmic patterns have long
been known; studies of our ability to synchronize with a series of taps,
discriminate differences in duration, and so for... |
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2/26/2004 4:50 PM
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When going means becoming gone: Framing motion as state change in Yukatek Maya |
| Juergen Bohnemeyer, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University at Buffalo |
| 513
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| This presentation discusses the framing of motion as change of location in Yukatek Maya and crosslinguistically. Jackendoff (1983, 1990) advances a number of arguments to the effect that representati... |
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3/3/2004 2:00 PM
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"Interaction in language processing: Pragmatic constraints on lexical access" |
| James Magnuson, Ph.D |
| Department of Psychology Columbia University |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Everyday language use is rich and textured. Conventional
psycholinguistic laboratory tasks abstract away from natural
complexity in order to isolate information relevant at different levels of
ling... |
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3/10/2004 2:00 PM
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"COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PRAGMATICS" |
| Chrysanne DiMarco, Ph.D |
| School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Current natural language processing (NLP) systems are, almost without
exception, still able to deal only with restricted, simplified,
language. While researchers in natural language are now beginni... |
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3/18/2004 11:00 AM
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Brain Image Analysis:From Computational Anatomy to Functional Mapping |
| Yongmei (Michelle) Wang, Ph.D |
| Associate Research Scientist of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University |
| 1-6823
Med Center
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| Medical imaging and brain research bring us exciting possibilities to improve diagnosis and treatment in medicine and to advance our understanding of the human brain. These opportunities have motivate... |
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3/24/2004 2:00 PM
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"Discrete Thoughts: Why cognition must use discrete representations" |
| Eric Dietrich, Ph.D. |
| Department of Philosophy SUNY at Binghamton |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Advocates of dynamic systems have suggested that higher mental processes
are based on continuous representations. In order to evaluate this claim,
we first define the concept of representation, and ... |
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3/25/2004 11:00 AM
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Studies of the underlying physiology of the fMRI signals |
| Vladislav Toronov, Ph.D. |
| Senior Research Scientist University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| K207
Medical Center
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| Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain is based on the dependence of the MR signal on the hemoglobin content, which is known as the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) effect. The d... |
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3/31/2004 10:30 AM
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MENTAL HEALTH POSTER SESSION |
| COLLIER RESEARCH DAY |
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| Flaum Atrium
Medical Research Building
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| All students and young investigators are invited to submit a research poster for peer review and display. Any research pertaining to psychiatric and behavioral sciences will be accepted. Prizes will b... |
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4/5/2004 12:00 PM
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Toward an Embedded Process Theory of Selective Attention |
| Steve Luck |
| Department of Psychology, University of Iowa |
| 269
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| What should a theory of selective attention look like? Most current theories treat selective attention as a unitary process that operates according to one set of principles to achieve a single comput... |
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4/5/2004 1:30 PM
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Developing Robust MRI Techniques for the Study of Brain Development |
| Tie-Qiang Li |
| Department of Radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
| G-3270
Medical Center
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| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an increasingly important research tool for the study of normal and abnormal brain development. For the detection of minor cognitive and neurological defici... |
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4/6/2004 11:00 AM
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Applications of Time-Delay Estimation to Medical Ultrasound Imaging |
| STEPHEN A. MCALEAVEY, Ph.D. |
| Biomedical Engineering Department, Duke University |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| Diagnostic ultrasound is a safe, widely used medical imaging modality. The axial resolution of a modern diagnostic scanner is on the order of a hundred microns, but time delays corresponding to tissue... |
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4/7/2004 2:00 PM
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"HOW THE BRAIN PAYS ATTENTION" |
| Leslie Ungerleider, Ph.D. |
| National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Not all objects in a visual scene can be analyzed simultaneously due to the
limited processing capacity of the visual system. As a consequence, attention
is used to selectively process relevant obje... |
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4/8/2004 4:00 PM
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TBA |
| Ben Segal, MD |
| Assistant Professor of Neurology |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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4/12/2004 12:00 PM
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Functional architecture and plasticity of lateral interactions |
| Uri Polat |
| Tel-Aviv University, Goldschleger Eye Research Institute |
| 269
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| **LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED FOR ATTENDEES**
The functional architecture and plasticity of lateral interactions in the
visual system was explored using psychophysics, visual evoked potentials and
sin... |
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4/15/2004 4:00 PM
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Trkin' in the Fast Lane: A Tale of Two NTs |
| Hermes Yeh, PhD |
| Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology in the CADB |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| The traditional and prevailing concept that, in the long-term, neurotrophins (NTs) play a regulatory role in the differentiation and survival of neurons is being extended by emerging evidence indicati... |
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4/20/2004 1:15 PM
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Phonological development: Mechanisms and representations |
| Kyle E. Chambers |
| Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| 418
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| Language comprehension occurs with surprising facility and speed. Part of this efficiency arises from taking advantage of language-specific regularities at multiple levels of linguistic structure. R... |
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4/21/2004 6:00 PM
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High Dynamic Range Imaging: Algorithms that Mimic Human Vision |
| John McCann |
| McCann Imaging, 2003-2004 IS&T Visiting Lecturer |
| Room 1275
RIT campus
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| Receptors in the human retina respond to a range of light that is
10 billion to 1 in radiance. Yet, the optic nerve has a dynamic range of
less that 100 to 1. In 1953 Kuffler and Barlow showed tha... |
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4/22/2004 12:30 PM
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Development and Application of Diffusion Tensor Imaging |
| Shawn Ma |
| Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Emory University |
| 2-W-211
Helen Wood Hall
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| The effect of FLAIR on the measured diffusion anisotropy is investigated in gray matter. DTI data were obtained, with and without FLAIR, in six normal volunteers. The application of FLAIR was experime... |
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4/23/2004 9:30 AM
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University Day in Genetics |
| Keynote lecture: Cynthia Kenyon |
| Univesity of California at San Francisco |
| Flaum Atrium
Medical Research Building
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| We wish to invite you and your colleagues to submit abstracts for the Genetics Day poster sessions to be held in the morning and afternoon of Friday, April 23. All researchers are encouraged to submi... |
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4/24/2004 2:00 PM
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PROBABILISTIC (BAYESIAN) MODELING OF MUSIC |
| MUSIC COGNITION SYMPOSIUM, SPRING 2004 |
| THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER/CORNELL UNIVERSITY |
| Old Sibley Library 101
Eastman School of Music
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| The meeting will be on probabilistic modeling in music cognition. It will feature presentations by Davy Temperley (of the ESM theory department) and Panos Mavromatis (PhD theory student at ESM, curr... |
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4/26/2004 11:30 AM
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How young babies discover Language |
| Laura Ann Petitto |
| Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Department of Education, Dartmouth College |
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| For several millennia humans have pondered the nature of Language, with the fundamental question being what are we born with and what is in the environment that makes possible the remarkable feat of a... |
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5/3/2004 7:30 PM
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What vocabulary learning is and how it works |
| Lila Gleitman |
| Steven and Marcia Roth Professor, Department of Psychology & Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Wine and hors d'oeuvres served at 6:00 p.m.
Toast to Lissa at 6:45 p.m
Dinner served at 7:00 p.m.
Talk at 7:40 p.m.
Dessert and coffee served at 8:30 p.m.
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5/12/2004 3:00 PM
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Wide-Coverage Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar |
| Mark Steedman |
| School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh |
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| Progress in wide-coverage parsing has been made in recent years by combining rule based parsing using grammars automatically induced from hand-annotated treebanks with statistical models of such seman... |
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5/13/2004 4:00 PM
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The Physiology and Psychophysics of Visual Attention in the Monkey |
| Michael E. Goldberg, MD |
| David Mahoney Professor of Brain and Behavior in the Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons * New York |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| Attention improves visual perception and manual reaction time. Monkeys display perceptual advantages to the spatial goal of a delayed saccade, and the spatial location of a flashed, tas-irrelevant di... |
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5/17/2004 12:00 PM
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Waves of activity in early visual cortex during binocular rivalry |
| David Heeger |
| Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University |
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| When the two eyes view large dissimilar patterns that induce binocular rivalry, alternating waves of visibility are experienced, as one pattern sweeps the other out of conscious awareness. We have us... |
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5/21/2004 9:30 AM
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2004 Neuroscience Annual Retreat |
| Keynote Speaker: Frederick P. Rose Professor, Mary Beth Hatten, Ph.D. |
| Rockefeller University |
| Rochester Museum and Science Center
Rochester Museum and Science Center
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| University of Rochester
Graduate Program in Neuroscience presents...
2004 Neuroscience Annual Retreat
Keynote Speaker: Frederick P. Rose Professor
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6/3/2004 12:30 PM
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Adaptation to a spectrally degraded and frequency shifted auditory input |
| Mario A. Svirsky |
| Dept. of Otolaryngology-HNS, Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering |
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| Part 1: Long term results and longitudinal studies
Cochlear implants (CI's) attempt to mimic the tonotopicity of the normal ear by stimulating more basal regions of the cochlea in response to highe... |
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6/10/2004 2:00 PM
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Discourse Contrast and Interactivity in Language Comprehension |
| Dan Grodner |
| post-doctoral fellow at Brown University |
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| Multiple and diverse types of information must be rapidly coordinated to support real time language comprehension. In order to explain the efficiency of this process, investigators often posit limits... |
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6/29/2004 9:30 AM
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"Embodied Language Learning in Humans and Machines" |
| Chen Yu |
| Thesis Defense, Dept. of Computer Science |
| 601
Computer Science Building
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| This thesis addresses questions of embodiment in language learning: how language is grounded in sensorimotor experience and how language development depends on complex interactions among brain, body a... |
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8/30/2004 11:00 AM
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Machine Translation = Automata Theory + Probability Theory + Linguistics" |
| Dr. Kevin Knight |
| USC/Information Sciences Institute |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Recently, machine translation (MT) systems have become much more accurate. A major reason is that machines now gather translation knowledge autonomously, combing through large amounts of human-transla... |
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9/13/2004 11:00 AM
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" Complexity Theory and Cryptography, or the Power of Zero-Knowledge " |
| Dr. Joerg Roth |
| University of Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| In this talk, some results from complexity theory and cryptography are presented. The talk consists of the following three parts:
Part I shows that for various voting systems such as Carroll electi... |
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9/17/2004 2:00 PM
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Dedication Lectures and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony |
| Rochester Center for Brain Imaging |
| Three lectures by leading experts in the field of magnetic resonance imaging |
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Med Center
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| You are cordially invited to attend a special symposium consisting of three lectures by leading experts in the field of magnetic resonance imaging. Following the lectures, there will be a ribbon-cutt... |
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9/23/2004 8:00 AM
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Neural control of coordinated action |
| Schmitt Program on Integrated Brain Research |
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Med Center
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| 8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast in Atrium
9:00 - 9:20 Ed Freedman "Head-eye interactions during visual orienting movements"
9:30 - 10:15 David Sparks "The reliability of oculomotor command signals carried by ... |
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9/30/2004 4:00 PM
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Mapping the Cerebral Cortex in Humans and Monkeys |
| David Van Essen, Ph.D. |
| Edison Professor of Neurobiology, Washington University |
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Medical Center
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| Cerebral cortex contains a mosaic of cortical areas (~100 areas in monkeys, even more in humans). These are interlinked in a distributed hierarchical network and are associated with a complex pattern ... |
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10/6/2004 2:00 PM
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"THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGY IN THE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING OF SYNTAX" |
| Morten Christiansen, Ph.D. |
| Department of Psychology Cornell University |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| When learning their language children face a difficult ? chicken-and-egg? problem. Discovering the syntactic constraints governing their native language requires being able to assign individual words... |
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10/11/2004 11:00 AM
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What Can We Do in Sublinear Time? |
| Dr. Ronitt Rubinfeld |
| M.I.T. |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| We have long considered showing the existence of a linear time algorithm for a problem to be the gold standard of achievement. Indeed, it is hard to imagine doing any better than that, since for most... |
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10/13/2004 12:00 PM
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Retinotopic Mapping with MR |
| Alex WADE |
| UCSF |
| 269
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| After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Brian Wandell at Stanford, I joined SKERI to set up the Brain Imaging Center in 2002.
Current research projects include the combined use of fMRI, EEG... |
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10/15/2004 11:00 AM
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What's New in CISE: Status Report and Strategic Directions |
| Gregory R. Andrews |
| Division Director, Computer and Network Systems Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) National Science Foundation (NSF) |
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Computer Studies Building
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| This is a pivotal and exciting time for computing research and computing researchers. Our underlying technologies have exploded over the past decade, and our field has become critical to scientific p... |
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10/18/2004 11:00 AM
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“Taming High Performance Computing with Compiler Technology” |
| John Mellor-Crummey |
| Department of Computer Science Center for High Performance Software Research Rice University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Many important computational problems posed by scientists and engineers require harnessing the power of parallel computers to provide timely solutions. Today, parallel systems are most commonly built ... |
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10/27/2004 2:00 PM
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"ETHNOPHYSIOGRAPHY: AN ETHNOSCIENCE OF THE LANDSCAPE" |
| David Mark, Ph.D. |
| Dept. of Geography Natl. Center for Geographic Information & Analysis, University at Buffalo |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Recently, ethnophysiography has been defined as an ethnoscience
of landscape. Ethnophysiography explores the meanings of terms
used in various languages and cultures to refer to the landscape and
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11/3/2004 12:00 PM
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Frequency Effects in Homophone Production |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Austin Frank |
| BCS Graduate Student: Advisor Michael Tanenhaus |
| 269
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| The frequency with which words occur in a language can affect the way they are produced. For example, low frequency words tend to be more susceptible to phonological errors in production. One instan... |
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11/10/2004 12:00 PM
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Innate learning structures |
| Rochel Gelman |
| Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers Univeristy |
| 269
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| I will develop the view that early cognitive development benefits from the presence of some key domain-specific skeletal structures.
The mind's active tendency to apply existing structures leads to t... |
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11/12/2004 3:30 PM
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"Disrupting the Brain to Improve Behavior" |
| Alvaro Pascual-Leon |
| Harvard |
| 202
Uris Hall
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| COLLOQUIUM
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
Friday Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. in 202 Uris Hall
Alvaro Pascual-Leon (Harvard)**
"Disrupting the Brain to Improve Behavior"
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11/17/2004 12:00 PM
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Circuits and Cellular Signaling Engaged for Vocal Learning |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Kathy Nordeen, Professor |
| Brain & Cognitive Sciences |
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| Passerine songbirds are one of only a few animal groups that have evolved the ability to imitate vocalizations produced by other members of their species. Like human language acquisition, vocal lear... |
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11/22/2004 12:00 PM
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Ganglion cell signals and motion mechanisms |
| Barry Lee |
| SUNY College of Optometry |
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| We are concerned with the nature and precision of motion signals emanating from retinal ganglion cells. It turns out that the signals of the transient, magnocellular (MC) pathway are spatially accurat... |
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11/29/2004 11:00 AM
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" Toward Unified Graphical Models of Information Extraction and Data Mining” |
| Andrew McCallum |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Although information extraction and data mining appear together in many applications, their interface in most current systems would better be described as serial juxtaposition than as tight integratio... |
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12/4/2004 2:00 PM
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ABSOLUTE PITCH |
| MUSIC COGNITION SYMPOSIUM 2004-05 |
| EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER/CORNELL UNIVERSITY |
| ESM 305
Eastman School of Music
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| The music cognition symposium meets 3-4 times annually. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, faculty, and students from the institutions listed above. Our steering committee includes Be... |
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12/6/2004 11:00 AM
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" Network Games and the Price of Anarchy or Stability" |
| Eva Tardos |
| Cornell University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Networks that operate and evolve through interactions of large numbers of participants play a fundamental role in many domains, ranging from communication networks, such as the Internet, to social net... |
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12/8/2004 12:00 PM
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The Costs of Ignoring High-Order Correlations in Populations of Model Neurons |
| BCS Lunch Talk: Melchi Michel |
| Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Graduate Student: Advisor Robert Jacobs |
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| Background: Investigators debate the extent to which neural populations use high-order statistical dependencies among neural responses to represent information about a visual stimulus. A number of rec... |
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12/13/2004 12:00 PM
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CVS Research Talk |
| Jaime Hillis |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| 269
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1/13/2005 12:00 PM
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PC VIPR: Phase contrast with 3D undersampling projection reconstruction |
| Tianliang Gu Ph.D |
| Research Associate in Magnetic Resonance Angio group; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Medical Center
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| MR phase contrast (PC) technique provides a method to acquire in vivo quantitative flow information as well as qualitative angiographic images with clean background subtraction. 3D PC with high isotro... |
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1/17/2005 12:00 PM
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Area V4: representation, attention and working memory |
| Jack Gallant |
| Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley |
| 269
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| Form vision is mediated by several hierarchically organized cortical areas spanning striate to inferior temporal cortices. We have focused on one intermediate visual area, V4, that plays an important ... |
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2/2/2005 2:00 PM
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"A LOGIC OF ARBITRARY AND INDEFINITE OBJECTS" |
| Stuart Shapiro, Ph.D. |
| Department of Computer Science and Engineering Center for Cognitive Science University at Buffalo |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| A hardcopy of this flyer can be found here:
http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/Activities/Colloquium/CLLQs05/shapiroannounce.pdf
Please print it out and post it in your department/office... |
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2/2/2005 4:30 PM
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Athapaskan Lexicalization Patterns: Motivations and Implications |
| Sally Rice |
| Professor, Department of Linguistics University of Alberta, Edmonton |
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| For reasons which may be more sociolinguistic than linguistic, Athapaskan languages resist borrowing as a way of expanding the lexicon. Instead of borrowing or conversion, most Athapaskan languages ha... |
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2/4/2005 1:30 PM
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Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Epileptic Activity Waves in Brain Slices |
| Prof. David Pinto |
| Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Department of Biomedical Engineering |
| Room 224
Hopeman Engineering Building
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| Epileptic events are characterized by uncontrolled waves of neural activity
propagating through the brain. Several groups have studied the structure of
these waves, both experimentally and mathemat... |
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2/7/2005 11:00 AM
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"Linear Models for Structure Prediction" |
| Fernando Pereira |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Over the last few years, several groups have been developing models and algorithms for learning to predict the structure of complex data, sequences in particular, that extend well-known linear classif... |
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2/9/2005 2:00 PM
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"BUILDING A VIRTUAL PERSON(E) FROM THE "DARK SIDE" |
| Selmer Bringsjord, Ph.D |
| Department of Cognitive Science, Artificial "Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory (RAI), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| We describe our general approach to building what we call advanced synthetic characters (or *bona fide* virtual persons), within the paradigm of logic-based AI. This approach, based on our RASCALS arc... |
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2/23/2005 12:00 PM
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Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning |
| Josh Tenenbaum |
| Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 269
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| In everyday learning and reasoning, people routinely draw successful
generalizations from very limited evidence. Even young children can
infer the meanings of words or the existence of hidden biolo... |
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2/24/2005 1:00 PM
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Functional imaging of the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus |
| Keith Schneider, Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Princeton University, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior |
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| Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided intriguing insights into the topography and functional organization of visual cortical areas in the human brain. However, human subcortical n... |
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2/25/2005 10:00 AM
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Semi-Supervised Clustering: Probabilistic Models, Algorithms and Experiments |
| FACULTY RECRUITING: SUGATO BASU |
| University of Texas @ Austin |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Clustering is one of the most common data mining tasks, used frequently
for data categorization and analysis in both industry and academia. The
focus of our research is on semi-supervised clusteri... |
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2/25/2005 3:30 PM
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On the semantic of free relatives cross-linguistically and related matters |
| Ivano Caponigro |
| Ph.D. UCLA 2003 University of Milan-Bicocca |
| 513
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| In this talk, I look at the semantic behavior of non-interrogative wh-constructions known as free relatives (e.g. the underlined string in Christine, Daphna and Luca have tasted what I cook, and they ... |
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2/25/2005 3:30 PM
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On the semantics of free relatives and related matters |
| Ivano Caponigro |
| Ph.D. UCLA 2003 University of Milan-Bicocca |
| 513
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| In this talk, I look at the semantic behavior of non-interrogative wh-constructions known as free relatives (e.g. the underlined string in Christine, Daphna and Luca have tasted what I cook, and they ... |
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2/28/2005 11:00 AM
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“Dimension Reduction Algorithms with Applications” |
| Jieping Ye |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Many real-world applications, such as face recognition, text mining, and microarray data classification, involve data of very high dimension. Since query efficiency and accuracy deteriorate as the dat... |
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2/28/2005 12:00 PM
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TBA |
| Fred Fitzke |
| Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London |
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3/2/2005 2:00 PM
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"In Defense of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: How to Do Things with Words in Context" |
| William Rapaport, Ph.D. |
| Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Philosophy Center for Cognitive Science |
| SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo, 280 Park Hall
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| Context" is notoriously vague, and its uses multifarious. Researchers
in "contextual vocabulary acquisition" differ over the kinds of context
involved in vocabulary learning, and the methods and be... |
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3/4/2005 11:00 AM
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" A Virtualization Architecture for Wireless Network Cards " |
| Ranveer Chandra |
| Cornell University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| There are a number of scenarios where it is desirable to have a wireless device connect to multiple networks simultaneously. Currently, this is possible only by using multiple wireless network cards i... |
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3/7/2005 11:00 AM
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“Collaborative Filtering” |
| Professor Rong Jin |
| Michigan State University |
| 209
Computer Studies Building
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| Collaborative information filtering is to make recommendation decisions for a specific user based on the judgments of users with similar interests. It is an extremely useful technique for information ... |
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3/17/2005 4:00 PM
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Parallel Pathways and Local Circuits in Visual Corte |
| Edward M. Callaway, PhD |
| Associate Professor Systems Neurobiology LaboratoriesSalk Institute for Biological Studies |
| K307 (3-6408)
Med Center
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| We have studied the organization of local circuits within the primary visual cortex (V1) to better understand how neural circuits give rise to the visual response properties of cortical neurons and to... |
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