2001 Colloquium Series
2001 Fall Semester
September 14Fernando Pereira, Computer and Information Science Chair, University of Pennsylvania
Information in the Wild
September 21
David Swinney, UCSD
Modes and Parameters of Language Processing (or, why Occam's razor may cut too closely)
Cancelled.
September 28
Marc Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania
Neural Mechanisms of Auditory/Motor Integration in the Avian Vocal Control System
October 5
Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs
A Trainable Natural Language Generator for Spoken Dialogue
October 19
Jont B. Allen, AT&T Labs
From Lord Rayleigh to Shannon: How do we understand speech?
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October 26
Eero Simoncelli, New York University
Statistical Properties of Natural Signals and their Implications for Neural Representation
November 2
Michael Ullman, Georgetown University
The Declarative/Procedural Model of Language: Extensions to Sex Differences and Second Language
November 9
Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vladimir Borschev, VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences
Topic, Subject, and Point of View and the Genitive of Negation in Russian Existential Sentences
November 30
David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania
Computational Mechanisms of Color Constancy
December 7
Marcel Just, Carnegie Mellon University
fMRI and the Neuro-Architecture of Cognition
2001 Spring Semester
January 19Paul Whalen, University of Wisconsin
Amygdala, ambiguity and anxiety
January 26
Linda B. Smith, Indiana University
How languages reflect and extend deep truths about concrete kinds
February 2
Irene Heim, MIT
A compositional analysis of scope-splitting and less-comparatives
February 16
B.J. Casey, Weill Medical College at Cornell University
Disruption of Inhibitory Control in Developmental Disorders: Clinical, Neuroimaging and Lesion Studies
February 23
Steven Gross, University of Pennsylvania
An Invitation to Vagueness
March 23
Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago
The Computational Nature of Language Change and Evolution
March 30
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam/Stanford University
Logic and Games
April 6
Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University
The Human Conceptual System
April 13
Daniel Osherson, Rice University
Coherent Probability from Incoherent Judgment
April 20
Paul Griffiths, University of Pittsburgh
What is Innateness?
April 27
Orly Goldwasser, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lovers, prophets, and giraffes - Wor(L)d classification in Ancient Egypt
