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jane li & alan zhou
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 […]

Dr. Moira Dillon
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, […]

Marlene Behrmann
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 […]

greta tuckute

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 […]

gerard avelino

Early Career Colloquium: Gérard Avelino

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

The case of Tagalog Case Abstract: In this talk, I revisit the longstanding debate on the nature of the Philippine-type morphosyntactic alignment system, often also referred to as "Austronesian voice". This system is typologically unique in tracking a privileged argument (the "pivot") through affixes on the verb rather than relying solely on nominal case marking […]

emmorey
Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Karen Emmorey

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

A unique neurocognitive reading profile for skilled deaf readers Abstract: Our research is uncovering a deaf-specific neurocognitive reading profile that differs from hearing individuals with equal reading ability. This work focuses on deaf adults who have achieved reading success (despite poor phonological abilities) and who acquired a sign language in early childhood (reducing potential effects […]

jieneng chen
Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Jieneng Chen

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

Generative (Mental) World Explorer Abstract: Understanding, navigating, and exploring the 3D physical real world has long been a central challenge in the development of artificial intelligence. In this work, we take a step toward this goal by introducing GenEx, a system capable of planning complex embodied world exploration, guided by its generative imagination that forms priors […]

Manasi Malik smiling and wearing a black blouse with floral design
Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Manasi Malik

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

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 […]