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Conference Program
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PURC Fall 2008 Schedule of Events
8:30-9:00 am
Registration and Refreshments, Registration Desk, Rialto Lobby
9:00-9:15 am
Welcome and Opening Announcements
9:15 - 10:30 am
Poster Session
10:45am-11:45am
PURC 2008 Keynote Address
Dr. Roger K. R. Thompson will speak about “Knowing (Other) Animal Minds"
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch and Presentation of Awards
Keynote Speaker Information
Dr. Roger Thompson is the Dr. E. Paul and Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biological Sciences and Schnader House Don at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA where he is a member of the Psychology Department and Chair of the Biological Foundations of Behavior Program. He has taught also in France, Bulgaria and Croatia.
Prof. Thompson received his undergraduate and Masters degrees in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and completed his doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he studied sensory and memory processes in bottle-nosed dolphins.
Prof. Thompson’s primary teaching and research interests lie in the comparative analysis of cognition which -in their quest for understanding “other” animal minds - his colleagues, students, and he have explored in chimpanzees, old- and new- world monkeys, human infants and our bipedal ‘cousins’– birds.
PURC 2008 Sponsors
Founded in 1981, the Georgia State University Language Research Center is internationally renowned for studies of animal minds, and specifically for studies of the cognitive competencies of various primates, including human adults and children. Using a computer-based keyboard, LRC chimpanzees acquired symbolic communication skills to
make requests, comprehend instructions, label objects and events, and otherwise interact with one another and with humans. Faculty and student scientists from our departments of psychology, biology, communication, anthropology, neuroscience-and from dozens of universities around the world-have studied these unique chimpanzees and monkeys for clues about the nature and emergence of language, and how learning, memory, attention, and other aspects of mental competency are altered by language acquisition. For more information, see http://www.gsu.edu/lrc.
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, is one of the largest academic neuroscience research centers in the world with more than 100 scientists from Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse Medical School, Morehouse College, Spelman College and 
Clark Atlanta University. The CBN’s Undergraduate Research Training Programs provide unique, cross-disciplinary training to undergraduate students through access to multiple laboratories. Behavioral Research Advancements in Neuroscience (BRAIN) is the hallmark program of the undergraduate education arm of the CBN. BRAIN consists of a 10-week summer research and education experience. The CBN is proud to be a co-sponsor of PURC for a 3rd time.For more information on the CBN and its undergraduate education programs log on to: http://www.cbn-atl.org.
All events are located in the Lobby
and Mezzanine
of the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts
