Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A nationally recognized researcher in cognitive psychology will speak April 13 at Mississippi State.
The one-hour public program featuring Tom Carr begins at noon at the university's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, which is located north of campus in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park. A reception follows.
Carr, a longtime Michigan State University faculty member now at Vanderbilt University, is leading the spring semester's Distinguished Speaker in Cognitive Science Colloquium. "Neuroimaging of Language" will be his topic.
The colloquium is an ongoing program of ACCESS, the MSU psychology department's Applied Cognitive Science Research Seminar Series.
Carr's scientific investigations have encompassed the areas of perceptual recognition, semantic memory, selective attention, language production, and problem solving, said assistant professor and ACCESS director Deborah K. Eakin.
"Dr. Carr is breaking new ground in the study of cognition by examining the relationship between cognition and emotion," she said. "By tearing down what he calls the 'Berlin Wall' of cognitive studies, Dr. Carr predicts that we will understand both better."
For more information, contact Eakin at 662-325-7949 or 325-3202.
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