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

Dynamic, social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans

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

RNNs too expressive to properly learn local phonological patterns? Although recurrent neural networks with long short-term memory mechanisms (LSTMs) can learn many existing phonological patterns, they vastly overgenerate. This raises questions about whether LSTMs are suitable models for understanding how humans learn phonology, similar to phonological theories that overgenerate. In this work, we examine whether […]

This talk is rescheduled from April 11 to April 18. High-dimensional structure underlying individual differences in naturalistic visual experience.

This talk is rescheduled from April 18 to April 25. Neural computations underlying human social evaluations from visual stimuli Abstract: Humans easily make social evaluations from visual scenes, but the computational mechanisms in the brain that support this ability remain unknown. Here, we test two hypotheses raised by prior work: one proposes that people recognize […]