Culture, Brain, and Development Student Group Fall 2010

Meetings and Events
September 15 - This is your brain on Facebook. Dinner &amp; discussion of New York Times article "Attached to Technology and Paying the Price" by Matt Richtel. Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

September 22 - No meeting. Science and Religion: Gorrillas and God Lecture in FPH Main Lecture Hall at 5:30 PM.

September 29 - Grant Application Workshop with Steering Committee faculty Laura Sizer, Jane Couperus, and Cynthia Gill.

October 6 - Fall 2010 Consciousness Series: Human Consciousnes. Reading: “How rich is consciousness? The partial awareness hypothesis” by Kouider, S., de Gardelle, V., Sackur, J., and Dupoux, E. (2010). Trends in Cognitive Science 14 (7). Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

October 13 - Fall 2010 Consciousness Series: Animal Consciousness with Dan Taub. Reading: "Human and animal cognition: Continuity and discontinuity" by David Premack. PNAS 2007. Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

October 20 - Fall 2010 Consciousness Series: Machine Consciousness with Evan Silberman. Reading: "Minds, brains, and programs" by John Searle (1980). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457. Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

October 27 - CBD Screening: Becoming Human: A NOVA Documentary.

November 3 - Fractals in Culture with Kat Mott. Reading: Short excerpt from "African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design" by Rob Eglash. Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

November 10 - Neuroethics, Free Will, and Responsibility. Reading: "New Neuroscience, Old Problems: Legal Implications of Brain Science" by Stephen J. Morse. From Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science, Walter Glannon (ed.). Copies of the article are available in ASH and at the Library Circulation desk.

November 17 - Stem Cell Research: Ethical and Religious Considerations. Reading: “Stem Cell Research: Religious Considerations” by Margaret A. Farley. Reproduced from Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, 2009. Copies are available in the ASH Lobby and at the Library Circulation Desk.

''*November 20 - Special Event: Field Trip to the Warren Anatomical Museum, home of the Phineas Gage Exhibit. *''

December 1 - Cheating in Higher Education. Reading: "The Shadow Scholar" by Ed Dante, from The Chronical Review. Copies are available in the ASH Lobby and at the Library Circulation Desk, and can be found online here.

December 8 - Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries? A discussion of the scientific enterprise, funding practices, and academic culture. Reading: “P, NP, And Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries?” by Mark Changizi and “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us” by Jonathan Yewdell. Copies are available in the ASH Lobby and at the Library Circulation Desk, and can be found online here and here.

December 15 - End of semester film screening: Blade Runner. Dystopia, AI, and Harrison Ford. Plus delicious comfort food from Black Sheep. 5:30 PM, **ASH 222**.

See also: CBD Student Group