Culture, Brain and Development Student Group Spring 2010

= Meeting Archives =

May 4: Last meeting of the semester - screening of City of Lost Children. Join the CBD student group to watch French sci-fi film City of Lost Children. Delicious dinner (from Fresh Side!) will be served. 6PM in ASH 222.

April 27: Food, Advertising &amp; Empowerment: Regulating the marketing of junk food to protect children? We will discuss Charlene Elliott’s paper, “Envisioning children: On food, fat and freedom.” (2010). Red Feather Journal, 1(1). 87-99. Dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

'''April 20: Neurocognitive Perspectives on Meditation. '''We will follow up Antoine Lutz’s lecture with a discussion of one of his papers, “Attention regulation and monitoring in mediation,” Trends in Cognitive Science (2008). Dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

'''April 6: Infant Perspectives Project with Casie Smith and Kim Ripley of Children's Center. '''Background reading is available in the ASH Lobby and at the Library Circulation Desk. Dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

March 30: Models of Trauma - Are We Hurting More Than Helping? We will read "Bad Theories Can Harm Victims" by Elizabeth F. Loftus and Steven J. Frenda (Science 327, pp. 1329) and "Psychoeducation for Survivors of Trauma" by Bethany J. Phoenix (Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 43(3), focus on pages 123-127). Dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

March 23: Culture, Language, Memory and Self. We will read &amp; discuss the paper “Culture and Language in the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory” by Robyn Fivush and Katherine Nelson (2004) Psychological Science, 15(9), 573-577. Dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

March 9: Grant Application Workshop. Need funding for a summer project, internship, or other CBD-related work? Come talk with the Steering Committee about how to get funded. Dinner will be provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

March 2: Ghost In Your Genes - a CBD screening. We will show the Ghost in Your Genes (2008) a NOVA documentary on epigenetics. Dinner will be provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

February 23: Don't Blame the Computer - When Self-Disclosure Moderates the Self-Serving Bias. We will discuss computers, consumerism, and the self-serving bias. Our jumping-off reading is Moon, Y. (2003). Don’t blame the computer: when self-disclosure moderates the self-serving bias. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 13, 125-137. Delicious dinner will be provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

February 16: Controversies in Neurotechnology - Privacy, Ethics, &amp; Perfection. We will discuss "Open Your Mind," from The Economist,'363 (8274), 77-79. Delicious dinner provided. 6PM in the ASH Lobby.

February 9: Ethnomusicology and the Neuroscience of Trance. Discussion lead by Div III student Evan O'Donnell. Reading: Judith Becker’s “Music and Trance” (from Leonardo Music Journal 4, 1994, pg. 41-51). 6PM in the ASH Lobby. Dinner provided.