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Brownbag Seminar 

Autumn 2006 

Green 104 ~ 12 PM 

September 25

Introduction and Planning

October 9

Brian Schwegler,  Director  Ethics, Education, Policy, and Compliance
IRB Discussion 

October 16

Catherine So and Ece Demir,  University of Chicago Graduate Students
"What's Hidden in the Hands?  How Children Use Gesture to Convey Arguments in a Motion Event" 

Michelle Arroyo, University of Chicago Graduate Student
"What Counts as Effective Input for Language Learning?"

October 23

Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Indiana University
"Loose Lips and Promiscuous Categories:  The Phenomenon of Overgeneralization in Young Children"

October 30

Mark Courtney, Professor School of Social Service Administration and past director of Chapin Hall Center for Children
"The Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth:  Early Findings from a Longitudinal Study"

November 6

Patricia Ganea, Northwestern University
"Symbol Based Learning in Young Children"

November 13

Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
"Why We're So Smart:  Analogy and Language in Learning and Development"

November 20

Cynthia Fisher, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
"Verb Learning and the Early Development of Sentence Comprehension"

November 27

Sandy Waxman, Northwestern University
"What Does It Mean to be Alive?  How Notions of the Natural World Unfold - Across Development, Across Cultures and Across Languages"

December 4

Renee Baillargeon, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana
"Psychological Reasoning in Infancy"

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