Cognitive Science Series

LouAnn Gerken

By Jodie Mocciaro
University Relations student-intern

The Cognitive Science Series is offering four lectures in the month of April as part of the new cognitive science course.

Fresno State Linguistics professor Brian Agbayani speak on "Sentences, Sentence Complexity and the Study of the Human Mind/Brain" on April 1 at 6:30 p.m. in Science Building , room 147.

Connie Clarke, postdoctoral research fellow at the State University of New York, Buffalo , will speak on "Adapting to Foreign-Accented Speech: implications for Theories of Spoken Word Recognition" on April 15 at 6:30 p.m. in Science Building , room 147.

Don Freed, chair of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies at Fresno State , will speak on " Neurogenic Language Disorders" on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Science Building , room 147.

LouAnn Gerken , director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona Tucson , will speak on "The Language Gene Goes to Las Vegas " on April 29 at 6:30 in the Alice Peters Auditorium of the Peters Business Building .

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary area of study focusing on cognition: How we think about and perceive the world, the nature of thought itself and how we can model the ways in which we think or perceive. 

The Cognitive Science lecture schedule (subject to change) can be found at http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~wlewis/NewCourses/CogSci-Seminar.htm .    

For more information, contact William Lewis in the Linguistics Department at 8-2441.