Brown Bag Talk: Ray Chen
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesCanonical dimensions of vision. For department members, department major/minor undergraduate students, and invited guests. In-person and on Zoom.
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Dissertation Talk: Kyriaki Neophytou
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesSelection in Written Language Production: Evidence from Aphasia ABSTRACT: Most models of word production assume that in the process of producing a target word, multiple distractors also get activated, both other words (at the lexical level) and other phonemes/letters (at the segmental level). Thus, a selection mechanism is needed to select the targets at each […]
Early Career Colloquium: Apoorva Shivaram
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDevelopment of relational reasoning: When do children pass the Relational Match-to-Sample task? ABSTRACT: Relational ability—the ability to compare situations or ideas and discover common relations – is a key process in higher-order cognition that underlies transfer in learning and creative problem solving. For this reason, it has generated intense interest both among developmentalists and in […]
Brown Bag Talk: Hannah Small
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesLateralization of Social Interaction Perception. ABSTRACT: Social perception emerges early, occurs automatically, and is used ubiquitously in daily life. Understanding its neural underpinnings is critical to cognitive neuroscience. A region in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) that selectively supports social interaction perception has been found by contrasting brain responses to interacting and non-interacting […]
Omega Psi 8th Annual Conference- Rethinking “Normal”: Learning from Cognitive Differences
Keynote speakers from nearby universities will deliver presentations on aspects of cognitive science in alignment with this year's conference theme. Keynote Speakers: Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to present their accepted research posters, and enter a poster competition to receive an award!
Brown Bag Talk: Paul Soulos
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesDifferentiable Tree Operations Promote Compositional Generalization. ABSTRACT: In the context of structure to structure transformation tasks, sequences of discrete symbolic operations (e.g., op codes or programs) are an important tool but are difficult to learn due to their non-differentiability. To support learning sequences of symbolic operations, we propose a differentiable tree interpreter which compiles high-level […]
Colloquium: Brice Menard
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesNeural representations: From humans to artificial networks and back ABSTRACT: I will discuss various properties of neural representations (dimensionality, spectra, hyperalignments) found in biological brains and show how they can be connected to recent findings in the inner workings of artificial neural networks. I will show results in the context of vision using fMRI data […]
Colloquium: Josh Tenenbaum
170 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MarylandWhat kind of computation is cognition? Prof. Josh Tenenbaum is a Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Prof. Tenenbaum studies the computational basis of human learning and inference.
Glushko Talk by Zihan Wang
Online/ZoomIt is our pleasure to announce Zihan Wang as the 2023 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Science Prize recipient! Zihan will give a virtual talk on "Characterizing Complex Spatial Skills: Block Building in Children as an Exemplar Domain." The event link is being circulated among students and affiliates of the department via email only. Inquiries may […]
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CogSci Commencement Reception – RSVP
134A Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesStudents who have received a degree in Cognitive Science in Summer 2022, Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 are invited to celebrate with us and to bring their family and friends along after the University-wide Commencement ceremony. Email invitations have been sent out. RSVP required by May 15th.
Dissertation Talk: Natalia Talmina
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesPragmatic inference in spatial language. ABSTRACT: Spatial prepositions left, right, above, below, in, on, and others belong to a closed lexical class, meaning that the same spatial term frequently describes a wide range of spatial relations. As a result, speakers have to make generalizations about what kind of spatial relations can be described with the […]
Dissertation Talk: Suhas Arehalli
111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesStructural Representations in Online Syntactic Processing: An Artificial Neural Network Approach. ABSTRACT: Speakers of a language are able to effortlessly determine whether sentences abide by grammatical rules: we instantly know "The dog runs" is a good sentence, but "The dogs runs" is not. Work in syntactic theory suggests that it is necessary to represent complex […]