Center Seminar Series

CENTER FOR CHILDREN, RELATIONSHIPS, AND CULTURE & DEVELOPEMENTAL SCIENCE FIELD COMMITTEE CO-SPONSORED COLLOQUIUM SERIES SCHEDULE

Spring 2008
12:00 to 2:00, Wednesdays, 1121 Benjamin Building
University of Maryland, College Park

January 30th
- Paul Quinn, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, What do infants know about cats, dogs, and people?
February 6th
- Mark Sabbagh, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Brain electrophysiological studies of theory-of-mind in young children
February 13th
- Marc Lewis, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Prefrontal mechanisms of emotion regulation in children with behavior problems: Individual differences and treatment-related change
February 20th
- Alan Leslie, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, The theory of mind mechanism and beyond
February 27th
- Yair Bar-Haim, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Changing responsiveness to threat by manipulating attention: From Neuroscience to potential interventions for anxious children
March 5th Seema Shah, Department of Bioethics, NIH, The ethics of research with children
March 12th Brenda Jones-Hardin, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, Professional Development
March 26th Natasha Cabrera, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, Professional Development, IRB policies and procedures
April 9th James Winslow, Head of NIMH IRP Neurobiology Non-Human Primate Core, Stress, social buffering, and safety signals: Possible role for neuropeptides in monkeys
April 16th Janet DiPietro, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, From fetus to child: Neurobehavioral development before birth
April 23rd Peter Marshall, Department of Psychology, Temple University, A developmental social neuroscience approach to perception-action interactions
April 30th Daniel Pine, NIMH Chief of the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, Integrating basic neuroscience with an understanding of the development of anxiety
May 7th BJ Casey, Department of Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Director of Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Emotional reactivity and the adolescent brain

Dr. Nathan Fox (fox@umd.edu ) is the faculty coordinator and Megan Kelly (mclark8@umd.edu) is the student coordinator of the Center Seminar, spring 2008.