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2005
Fall Semester

September 23
David White, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
The context of communication: Social influences on development in cowbirds

September 30
Daniel Swingley, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Phonetic categorization and phonological interpretation in infants and toddlers

October 7
Tom Griffiths, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University
Revealing inductive biases through iterated learning

October 14
Ken Norman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Tracking thoughts with fMRI

October 21
Colin Phillips, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Locality and Prediction in Language Processing

October 28
Paul Bloom, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Bodies and Souls

November 4
Michael Collins, MIT EECS/CSAIL
Discriminative Machine Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing

November 11
Sharon Peperkamp, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholingistique, Université de Paris 8
A psycholinguistic approach to loanword adaptations (and non-adaptations)

November 18
Branden Fitelson, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
Judgment Under Uncertainty Revisited: Probability vs Strength of Inductive Support

December 2
Alison Gopnik, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley
Babies and Bayes Nets: Mechanisms of Theory-Formation in Young Children

December 9
LouAnn Gerken, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of Arizona
Some Generalizations About Linguistic Generalization By Infants

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2005
Spring Semester

January 28
Daniel Gildea, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
Syntactic Structure and Statistical Machine Translation

February 4
Cecil Balmond, Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Informal Networks

February 11
Patrick Sturt, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
The time-course of syntactic structure building during language comprehension

February 18
Murray Grossman, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
and Robin Clark, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Too Much to Count On: Comprehension of Numbers and Generalized Quantifiers in Corticobasal Degeneration

February 25
7th Annual Pinkel Lecture
Location: Logan Hall G-17
Colin Camerer, Axline Professor of Business Economics and Neuroeconomics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech
Behavioral Game Theory

March 4
Anthony Kroch, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Modeling language change: a population and learning perspective

March 18
Alan Leslie, Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University
Belief-desire reasoning: Biases, processing models, and developmental shifts

March 25
Clayton Curtis, Department of Psychology, New York University
Spatial working memory in the human frontal eye fields

April 1
Cosma Shalizi, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Coarse-graining, symbolic dynamics and collective coordinates: How physicists deal with large, complex systems, and why cognitive scientists might care

April 8
Sheila Blumstein, Neurolinguistics, Brown University
Neural Systems Underlying Speech and Lexical Processing

April 15
* Talk Cancelled * Randall O'Reilly, Psychology Dept., U. of Colorado, Boulder
Making Working Memory Work: A Computational Model of Learning in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia

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