The 19th Annual
PITT-CMU
Graduate Student Conference
Friday, August 24, 2001
University of Pittsburgh
Glaser Auditorium, 2nd
Floor of LRDC
9:30 Continental Breakfast
10:00 Marlene Behrmann: Opening address
10:20 Session 1: Learning and memory
Ryan Baker: “Towards a model of learning data
representations"
Amy Overman: “Altered temporal lobe functioning during semantic tasks among healthy elderly subjects”
David Halpern: “To think or not to think: Imagination inflation, thought suppression, and memory distortion”
11:20 Session 2: Speech and language
Lesley Hart: “Backwards speech is a little like forward speech”
Beau Stephens: "Understanding context effects in speech
perception"
Dan Mirman: "Learning to hear: Formation of complex auditory
categories"
DJ Bolger: "Understanding letters and sounds: A study
on the orthographic
development of early readers"
12:45 Lunch (LRDC 3rd floor conference room)
2:00 Session 3: Development and health issues
Natalie Hamrick: "Being popular can be healthy or
unhealthy: Stress, social network
diversity and incidence of upper respiratory infection"
Lisa Newell: “Infants’ ability to discriminate gender using facial features”
3:00 Session 4: The visual space
Joy Geng: "Implicit statistical cueing affects visual search in normal
participants
and patients with hemi-spatial neglect"
Anthony Cate: title TBA
Anthony Harrison: “Spatial reasoning: A neurologically inspired computational cognitive model”
3:40 Chris Schunn Closing Remarks
5:00 Post Conference Celebration (Overlook Shelter in Shenley Park)