PAL TALKS
All talks start at noon in the Graduate Lounge

April 18th
Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Capture Categorical Word Relationships
Brant Kay, Graduate Student in Computational Linguistics, UNM

3rd Annual Psychology Research Day - April 25, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kent Kiehl, 12 noon, Trail/Spirit Room, SUB
Two hour-long poster sessions start at 1pm in Acoma A & B.

New Mexico Psychological Association Friday Forums
For information on any of the forums below or to register, please visit the NMPA Friday Forums site.

March 21:“Psychopharmacology: Current Medications and Clinical Applications”
Marlin C. Hoover, Ph.D., M.S.,

March 28: “The Relevance of the Assessment of Psychopathy for Forensic Populations”
Kent A. Kiehl. Ph.D.

April 11: “The Role of Executive Functions in the Decline of Cognitive Abilities with Aging"
Carole Mazurowski, Ph.D.
April 25: “Positive Psychology: From Learned Helplessness to Learned Optimism”
Mary Eisele Cummings, Ph.D.
May 9: “The Rorschach: Friend or Foe?”
Caroline B. Williams, Ph.D., P.C.

 

Psychology Colloquia for Spring 2008

All colloquia are in the Bobo Room of Hodgin Hall, Fridays 2-3 pm, except where otherwise noted.

Feb. 15: Rex Jung, Research Scientist, MIND Research Network; Research Assistant Professor, UNM Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychology, rjung@mrn.org
Towards a neuroscience of creativity

Feb 22: Dan Slobin, Professor, Psychology and Institute of Human Development, UC Berkeley
Learning to speak or to sign: Issues of modality and linguistic typology
(Joint colloquium with UNM linguistics; 3 pm, not 2 pm)

March 3 (Monday): Martin Muller, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNM
Sexual coercion among chimpanzees

March 24 (Monday): Paul Andrews, post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
The social and cognitive functions of depression

April 4: Joan Bybee, Distinguished Professor, Linguistics, UNM
Exemplar models of language

April 11: Randy Thornhill, Distinguished Professor, Biology, UNM
Infectious diseases and diversity across the globe in values, languages, and religions

April 25: Dedre Gentner, Professor, Psychology, Northwestern
Why we’re so smart: Relational ability, symbol systems, and analogical learning
(Joint colloquium with UNM linguistics; 3 pm, not 2 pm)

May 2: Gerardo Villarreal, Associate Professor, UNM Psychiatry
Structural and functional neuroimaging studies in post-traumatic stress disorder

 

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