Past News and Events
September 15, 2005
MBB Junior Symposium
"Sex, Gender, Mind, and Brain"
June 27-August 5, 2005
Dialogues in Grammatical Theory, Experiment, and Change
May 12-13, 2005
1st Annual MBB Graduate Student Conference
"The Nature of Thought"
April 22, 2005
MBB Conversation Event
"The Science of Gender and Science:
A Conversation with Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke"
- Prof. Steven Pinker, Department of Psychology, HU
- Prof. Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, HU
The speakers discussed research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of gender bias, discrimination, and innate and acquired differences between the sexes.
Preview - full video available on VEOHMarch 24, 2005
MBB Conversation Series
"Understanding the Brain Through Art"
- Prof. Semir Zeki, Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London
- Margaret Livingstone, Department of Neurobiology, HMS
March 10, 2005
MBB Conversation Series
"Language, Thought, and the Search for the Origins of Mathematical Truths"
- Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, Director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Orsay, France
- Prof. Susan Carey, Department of Psychology, HU
March 4, 2005
MBB Conversation Series
"Consciousness: Neurobiological and Philosophical Perspectives"
- Prof. Ned Block, Department of Philosophy and Psychology, NYU
- Prof. Christof Koch, Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, Caltech
