Graduate Student Seminars
An important aspect of building an interdisciplinary student community is to promote a common understanding of how different groups approach the question of mind, brain and behavior. What is the intellectual framework that evolutionary scientists use to study behavior? What kind of questions can we presently ask about the mind within linguistics or psychology? What tools or strategies are used by neurophysiologists to identify the mechanisms of brain function? To this end, the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative is currently holding biweekly seminars that provide a common forum for graduate students from different departments at Harvard University. Each session features a brief presentation led by a graduate student from one of the main participating programs within MBB, focusing on one of the following views of mind, brain and behavior. See Graduate Steering Committee.
The seminars are held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays at in room 1305 of William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St. in Cambridge. Dinner and refreshments are served before each presentation. All graduate students are welcome to attend. For a list of past seminars, click here.
MBB Fall 2008 Graduate Student Seminar Series
- October 16
"Using EEG to Study Neurocognitive Development: Its Uses and Limitations"
Adrienne Tierney - Department of Human Development (GSE)
"An Evolutionary Biologist's Toolbox for the Study of Brains and Behavior"
Adrian Young - Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS) - October 30
"Winners don't punish: costly punishment and the evolution of cooperation"
Dave Rand - Program for Evolutionary Dynamics/Systems Biology (HMS) - December 4
"Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language and its cognitive determinents"
JB Michel - Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Departments of Systems Biology, Mathematics, and OEB (FAS)