2003 Colloquium Series
2003 Fall Semester
September 19Geoff Pullum, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Model-Theoretic Perspective On Syntax: Three Significant Consequences
September 26
Dani Byrd, University of Southern California
Dynamic Units in Speech Production
October 3
Ofer Tchernichovski, City College at CUNY
IRCS Short Term Visitor
Vocal learning: from moment-to-moment to lifetime
October 10
Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT
Optimizing with synapses
October 17
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Putting Meaning into Your Trees
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October 24
Matthew Botvinick, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Short-term memory for serial order: A recurrent network model
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October 31
William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
Detecting reading errors by their semantic shadows
November 7
Charles Fillmore, University of California at Berkeley
An extremist approach to multiword expressions
November 14
Fernanda Ferreira, Michigan State University
Psycholinguistic and Computational Perspectives on Disfluencies in Language Comprehension
November 21
Marty Banks, University of California at Berkeley
Why do pictures, viewed from the wrong place, look so good?
December 5
Ann Senghas, Columbia University
From Gestures to Grammar: How Children are Creating Nicaraguan Sign Language
Special feature: There will be an ASL interpreter for this talk.
December 12
Gerry Stefanatos, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Word deafness: Speech perceived through a damaged temporal window
2003 Spring Semester
January 17An all-day symposium, located in Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall
Keynote at noon: Elissa Newport
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century
January 24
Henkjan Honing, University of Amsterdam/University of Nijmegen
Rhythm Perception: Formation of rhythmic categories and metric priming
January 31
Lera Boroditsky, MIT
How the languages you speak affect the way you encode, remember and represent the world around you
February 7
Ann Senghas, Columbia University
From Gestures to Grammar: How Children are Creating Nicaraguan Sign Language
Cancelled due to snow. Rescheduled on December 5, 2003
February 14
Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania
Broca's area revisited: Language, selection, and the inferior frontal gyrus
February 21
IRCS Short-term Visitor
David Poeppel, University of Maryland, College Park
A brain's-eye-view on speech perception
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February 28
Michael T. Turvey, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action,
University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories
Theory of Brain and Behavior in the 21st Century: No Ghost, No Machine
March 7 - Pinkel Lecture
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
Learning Representations by Unlearning Beliefs
March 21
Rescheduled for April 25
March 28
Francisco Gil-White, University of Pennsylvania
Are mating and reproduction what the representation of a species category is all about?
April 4
Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester
Does Visual Development Aid Visual Learning?
April 11
Andy Kehler, University of California, San Diego
Coherence and Coreference Revisited
April 25
Robert DeRubeis, Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Research on the changes produced by cognitive therapy, an effective psychological treatment for depression
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May 2
Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University, Computer Science Department
Resurrecting the Turing Test
