Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholars in Symbolic Systems

The Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholars in Symbolic Systems is a series at Stanford inaugurated in 2006. Supported by an endowment grant from anonymous donors, Wasow Scholars are chosen for their outstanding research contributions in areas of current interest across two or more departments represented within the Symbolic Systems Program. Visits by Wasow Scholars to Stanford may last for one or more weeks, and include a mix of public talks and informal discussion with students and faculty.

The next Wasow Scholar is...

Ken Norman ('93)

Professor Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute Princeton University

At Stanford January 6-10, 2014

Seminars and lectures featuring Ken Norman:

Monday, January 6, 12:15 pm, Building 460, Room 126 Symbolic Systems Forum "How context shapes memory: tracking contextual drift with multi-voxel pattern analysis"

Friday, January 10, 12 noon, Building 460, Room 126 Lunch discussion about psychology and neuroscience at Princeton, and life after a Symbolic Systems degree (for students and faculty only)

Friday, January 10, 3:15 pm, Building 420, Room 050 Cognitive Psychology Seminar "How do retrieval dynamics drive learning? Insights from fMRI and computational models"

Past Wasow Scholars:
Stuart M. Shieber (Oct. 16-Oct. 27, 2006)
Bonnie E. John (Jan. 15-Feb. 15, 2007)
Terrence J. Sejnowski (Apr. 28-May 6, 2008)
Ben Shneiderman (May 19-23, 2008)
Hiroshi Ishii (May 19-30, 2008)
Margaret Boden (Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2009)
Joshua Knobe (May 10-14, 2010)
Josh Tenenbaum (Oct. 24, 2010-Jan. 21, 2011)
Tania Lombrozo (Oct. 8-12, 2012)

Tom Wasow, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, is a founder and long-time director (1992-2000 and 2001-2005) of the Symbolic Systems Program. Tom's outstanding work in building and teaching in the program has been recognized through several university honors, including the Rhodes Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1996), a Bert and Candace Forbes University Fellowship in Undergraduate Education (2003-present), the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education (2004). Now the C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy and Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department, Tom continues to teach in SSP and serves on the Symbolic Systems Program Committee.