All colloquia to be in Bobo Room, Hodgin Hall, Fridays 2-3 pm, except where otherwise noted.

(Colloquium committee: Geoffrey Miller, Kent Hutchison, Kent Kiehl)

Feb. 1: Philip Dale, Professor, Chair of Speech and Hearing Sciences, UNM
The role of the environment for language and literacy development: The perspective from twin research

Feb. 15: Rex Jung, Research Scientist, MIND Research Network; Research Assistant Professor, UNM Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychology, rjung@mrn.org
Towards a neuroscience of creativity

Feb 22: Dan Slobin, Professor, Psychology and Institute of Human Development, UC Berkeley
Learning to speak or to sign: Issues of modality and linguistic typology
(Joint colloquium with UNM linguistics; 3 pm, not 2 pm)

March 3 (Monday): Martin Muller, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNM
Sexual coercion among chimpanzees

March 24 (Monday): Paul Andrews, post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University
The social and cognitive functions of depression

April 4: Joan Bybee, Distinguished Professor, Linguistics, UNM
Exemplar models of language

April 11: Randy Thornhill, Distinguished Professor, Biology, UNM
Infectious diseases and diversity across the globe in values, languages, and religions

April 25: Dedre Gentner, Professor, Psychology, Northwestern
Why we’re so smart: Relational ability, symbol systems, and analogical learning
(Joint colloquium with UNM linguistics; 3 pm, not 2 pm)

May 2: Gerardo Villarreal, Associate Professor, UNM Psychiatry
Structural and functional neuroimaging studies in post-traumatic stress disorder