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Infant Center/SFRC Colloquia

October 28, 2013

     Dr. Rebecca Landa, Founder and Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD

 

October 17, 2012

     Dr. Mark Tommerdahl, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

 

March 26, 2012

     Dr. Dankert Vedeler, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, "Developing Affordances."

 

March 20, 2012

      Dr. Bo Johansson, Department of Education, Uppsala University, "Arithmetic Performance: The Impact of the Number Word Sequence and Numeral Skills."

 

October 3, 2011

      Dr. Elena Patten, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Temporal Synchrony and the Capture of Attention in Children with Autism."

 

April 16, 2009

     Dr. Rachel Herz, Department of Psychology, Brown University.

 

 March 23, 2009

     Dr. Mark Wallace, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt   University, "Development and Plasticity of Multisensory Representations: Basic and Clinical Applications." (Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts & Sciences).

 

March 12, 2009

      Dr. Robyn Fivush, Department of Psychology, Emory University (Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts & Sciences).

 

February 19, 2009

     Dr. Samuel Sommers, Department of Psychology, Tufts University (Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts & Sciences).

 

December 4, 2008

       Dr. Eva Kimonis, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, "The Making of a Psychopath:  The Role of Context and Emotion." (Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and the College of Arts & Sciences).

 

April 16, 2007  

        Dr. Scott Robinson, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa "Amniotic Fluid and Milk: Behavioral Continuities and Consequences During Prenatal and Neonatal Development."

 

April 2, 2007    

         Dr. Daniel Messinger, Department of Psychology, University of Miami "Early Socioemotional Development: The Broad Autism Phenotype"

 

April 24, 2006

         Dr. Amy Needham, Department of Psychology, Duke University

         "Learning and Transfer in Infants' Perceptual and Motor Skills" Early cognitive development, categorization and generalization of learning

 

March 27, 2006

         Dr. Marie Cheour, Department of Psychology, University of Miami "Language Perception in Infancy as Reflected by Event-Related Potentials" Cognitive neuroscience, early identification of developmental disorders

 

March 6, 2006

         Dr. Michael Goldstein, Department of Psychology, Cornell University "Parallels in Social Mechanisms of Avian and Human Vocal Development" Early social and language development, social contingency

 

Feb. 20, 2006      

 

        Dr. Gilbert Gottlieb, Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior in Ducklings" Comparative psychology, perceptual development, developmental systems theory

      

 Feb. 6, 2006    

       Dr. Daniel Messinger, Department of Psychology, University of Miami"Early Emotion Dynamics and Development" Early social and emotional development

 

April 15, 2005

          Dr. John Colombo, Professor of Psychology, University of Kansas Title:  The Development of Visual Attention: Basic and Applied Perspectives

 

February 28, 2005

            Dr. Peter Mundy, Professor of Psychology, University of Miami & Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities

            Title: Joint Attention, Neurophysiology and Individual

            Differences in Autism

 

February 14, 2005

           Dr. Christian Meissner, Professor of Psychology, Florida

           International University Title: Encoding-based processes and the cross-race effect: Are we really experts with own-race faces?
 

November 30, 2004

Dr. Tony Shimizu, Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida

Title: Evolution of the Brain: A Bird’s Eye View

 

October 11, 2004

          Dr. George Hollich, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Purdue

            University Title: Emergent effects in Language Acquisition

 

October 4, 2004

       Lisa Newell, Research Associate, Florida International University Title: Face Expertise: The Role of Typicality and Experience

 

March 29, 2004     

Dr. David Moore, Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College

Title: The Message in the Motherese: How Babies Make Sense of Infant Directed Speech

 

 

March 1, 2004      

Dr. Lorraine E. Bahrick, Professor of Psychology, Florida International University & Director, Infant Development Research Center

Title: The Development of Intersensory Perception: The Importance of Intersensory Redundancy

 

 

November 21, 2003

Dr. Charlene Krueger, Assistant Professor of Women's, Children's, & Family Nursing, University of Florida

Title:Heart Rate Variability and Learning in the 28-34 Week Old Fetus and Newborn

 

 

November 12, 2003  

Dr. Peter Mundy, Professor of Psychology, University of Miami & Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities

Title: Infant Joint Attention

 

 

October 15, 2003     

Dr. David Lewkowicz, Professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University Title: Intersensory Perception and Memory for Temporal Order

 

 

July 23, 2003            

Dr. Marie Cheour, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Miami

Title: Mismatch Negativity (MMN) as a Tool for Investigating Auditory Discrimination and Sensory Memory in Infants and Young Children

 

May 15, 2003         

Dr. Daniel S. Messinger, Associate Professor of Psychology & Pediatrics,  University of Miami Title: Emotions and Communication in the First Years of Life