The Department of Psychology is proud to announce this year’s Kendon Smith Lecture Series:
Memory across time: From neurons to life stories
Featuring: Dr. Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University), Dr. Thomas Lyon (University of Southern California),
Dr. Elaine Reese (University of Otago, New Zealand), and Dr. Daniel Schacter (Harvard University)
Organizer: Dr. Jeni Pathman
Schedule
Thursday, March 2nd 2017 – School of Education Building 120
1:30 – 1:45pm
Series Opening Remarks by Drs. Pathman, Marcovitch, and Kiss
1:45 – 3:00pm
Dr. Howard Eichenbaum, “The hippocampus: Memory in time”
3:00-3:15pm
Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:30pm
Dr. Daniel Schacter, “Memory and Imagination: Functions of Episodic Simulation and Retrieval”
Friday, March 3rd 2017 – Elliot University Center (EUC) Auditorium
8:30-9:00am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15am
Dr. Elaine Reese, “Origins of Autobiography: Development of Memory and the Life Story”
10:15-10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45am
Dr. Thomas Lyon “Asking Child Witnesses about Time and Number”
11:45-12:15pm
General Discussion and Questions
Lecture attendance is free and open to the public. Details about parking on campus will be posted here as they become available. The Kendon Smith Lecture Series is an endowed annual event that brings international experts to the UNCG campus to discuss specific themes in psychology that are of interest to the academic community and the public. Click here to learn more about Dr. Kendon Smith and to see the list of luminaries and past themes of the series.
