Brain and Emergence: From Syntergetic Cort to Causal Structure ABSTRACT: Emergence, also known as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", is a widespread phenomenon in various complex systems. How did the first living cell emerge from the collisions of different molecules in the early Earth's environment? How do large neural language […]
Rethinking Language-Alignment in the Human Visual System Using Controlled Comparisons of Vision-Language Models and Wordplay ABSTRACT: Recent success predicting ventral visual stream responses to images from large language model (LLM) representations of image captions has sparked renewed interest in the possibility that high-level human visual representations are “aligned” to language. In this talk, we’ll further […]
Associative Memory Contributes to Regular and Irregular English Past Tense Production: Evidence from Williams Syndrome Abstract TBA. Rennie Pasquinelli is a PhD candidate interested in cognitive and linguistic development in typically and atypically developing populations. Current work focuses on the intersection of language acquisition, development, and memory in Williams syndrome.
What do recurrent neural networks learn and use from morpho-phonological alternations?: a case study of Turkish vowel harmony
Speech production and its neural substrates: evidence from sound-based errors in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Speech production and its neural substrates: evidence from sound-based errors in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Dynamic, social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans
It is our pleasure to announce Woo Jin Choi as this year's 2024 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Science Prize recipient! Woo Jin will give a talk on "Questions Under (natural) Discussion." Read more about Woo Jin here in our news announcement.
Social visual and language processing during a naturalistic movie
Differential effects of syntactic complexity in congenitally blind and sighted individuals: evidence from self-paced listening and reading
Title and abstract to come. presented by PhD Students Jane Li & Alan Zhou
presented by PhD Student Manasi Malik Title and abstract to come.