Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Molly Dillon

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Who, what, where... how? Abstract: Humans are the best knowers and learners of the natural world. From infancy, we are sensitive to the who, what, and where in everyday life… but how? In this talk, I will focus on how our intuitive cognitive biases interact with language to support our learning of abstract concepts. In particular, […]

Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Marlene Behrmann

Hodson Hall 210 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

The development, hemispheric organization, and plasticity of high-level vision Adults recognize complex visual inputs, such as faces and words, with remarkable speed, accuracy and ease, but a full understanding of these abilities is still lacking. Much prior research has favoured a binary separation of faces and words, with the right hemisphere specialized for the representation […]

Early Career Colloquium: Greta Tuckute

Krieger 111 Baltimore, MD, United States

Organizing Dimensions of Language in the Brain How does the human brain encode the meaning of a sentence? I will focus on two studies investigating this question.  The first study investigates what kinds of linguistic input the human fronto-temporal language network is most responsive to. By leveraging large language models to identify sentences that maximally […]