Omega Psi Conference

Omega Psi hosts a cognitive science conference every year in the Spring as a platform for for undergraduate cognitive science researchers to present their work while learning from our plenary speakers and each other. Details on this year's conference are forthcoming: https://jhu.campusgroups.com/omegapsi/new-2024-conference/.

Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Zeynep Saygin

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

Innate neural scaffolds for mental function Abstract: What determines the landscape of functional specialization in the human brain? I’ll present experiments that investigate how neural processors for uniquely human skills emerge in development, focusing specifically on written language for this talk. First, I'll demonstrate how a pre-reader’s brain connectivity scan can pinpoint exactly where that […]

Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Jane Li & Alan Zhou

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

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 […]