Brown Bag Talk: Jane Li

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

Dog, cat, and leash: Difference in processing costs among inflectional allomorphs during speech production. Abstract: We need to generate contextually-appropriate inflections to produce well-formed words and sentences, and a key component of […]

Colloquium: Evelina Fedorenko

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

The language system in the human brain. ABSTRACT: The goal of my research program is to understand the representations and computations that enable us to share complex thoughts with one another […]

Dissertation Talk: Hongru Zhu

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

Investigating compositional visual knowledge through challenging visual tasks ABSTRACT: Human vision manifests remarkable robustness to recognize objects from the visual world filled with a chaotic, dynamic assortment of information. Computationally, […]

Colloquium: Alan Yuille

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

Approximate Analysis by Synthesis: Towards a Computational Theory of Vision ABSTRACT: Vision is humans'  underappreciated superpower. It gives us the miraculous ability to perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world […]

Dissertation Talk: An Nguyen

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

Acquiring syntactic variation: regularization in wh-question production. ABSTRACT: Children are often exposed to language-internal variation. Studying the acquisition of variation allows us to understand more about children’s ability to acquire […]

Brown Bag Talk: Ray Chen

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

Canonical dimensions of vision. For department members, department major/minor undergraduate students, and invited guests. In-person and on Zoom.

Dissertation Talk: Kyriaki Neophytou

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

Selection 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 […]

Brown Bag Talk: Hannah Small

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

Lateralization 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 […]

Brown Bag Talk: Paul Soulos

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

Differentiable 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 […]