Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Jack Gallant

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

The distributed conceptual network in the human brain. ABSTRACT: Human behavior is based on a complex interaction between perception, stored knowledge, and continuousevaluation of the world relative to plans and goals. Even seemingly simple tasks such as watching a movie orlistening to a story involve a range of different perceptual and cognitive processes whose underlying […]

Event Series CogSci Colloquia

Colloquium: Chris Baker

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

Making sense of the world: People, places, and THINGS. Abstract: Light falling on the retina triggers neural activity that is propagated along sub-cortical and cortical pathways to ultimately elicit the perceptual experience of a world that is full of people, places, and things. However, much prior research has focused on broad visual distinctions (e.g. scenes, […]

Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Rennie Pasquinelli

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

Associative Memory Contributes to Regular and Irregular English Past Tense Production: Evidence from Williams Syndrome Abstract TBA. Rennie Pasquinelli is a PhD candidate interested in cognitive and linguistic development in typically and atypically developing populations. Current work focuses on the intersection of language acquisition, development, and memory in Williams syndrome.

Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Colin Conwell

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

Rethinking Language-Alignment in the Human Visual System Using Controlled Comparisons of Vision-Language Models and Wordplay ABSTRACT: Recent success predicting ventral visual stream responses to images from large language model (LLM) representations of image captions has sparked renewed interest in the possibility that high-level human visual representations are “aligned” to language. In this talk, we’ll further […]

Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Yingqi Rong

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

Brain and Emergence: From Syntergetic Cort to Causal Structure ABSTRACT: Emergence, also known as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", is a widespread phenomenon in various complex systems. How did the first living cell emerge from the collisions of different molecules in the early Earth's environment? How do large neural language […]