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 via language, and their neural implementation. A decade ago, I developed a robust new approach to the study of language in the brain based on identifying […]

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, our visual system is challenged by the enormous variability in two-dimensional projected images as a function of viewpoint, lighting, material, articulation as well as occlusion. […]