Friday Noon Colloqium Series
Large Conference Room - Room 470
3401 Walnut Street - Suite 400A
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2007
Fall Semester
September 14IRCS Forum on the Future of Cognitive Science at Penn
September 21
Scott Johnson, Department of Psychology, UCLA
New views of infant visual
development: Insights from eye tracking
September 28
Éric Racine, Neuroethics Research Unit,
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
The brain at the intersection of ethics and the public
October 5
Barbara Partee, Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Some notes on Symmetry and Symmetrical Predicates
October 12
Gregory Hickok, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
The Cortical Organization of Speech Processing
October 19
Greg Kochanski, Phonetics, Oxford University
Maintaining Intonation Contours in the Brain
October 26
Barbara Malt, Department of Psychology,
Lehigh University and IRCS visiting scholar
Category essence or essentially pragmatic? Creator's intention
in naming and what's really what
November 16
Ani Nenkova, Computer and Information Sciences Department,
University of Pennsylvania
Multi-document summarization by people and machines
November 30
Michael Tanenhaus, Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Miniature lexicons and languages in the visual world: a strategy
for examining learning and real-time processing
*Cancelled* December 7
Daniel Grodner, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College
Discourse Contrast and Interactivity in Language Comprehension
2007
Spring Semester
January 19
Gillian Sankoff, Department of
Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
The locus of language change in the
life course of speakers
January 26
Mark Steedman, School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh
The computational problem of natural language acquisition
February 2 - Rescheduled for May 4
Bonnie Webber, School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Discourse Structure and its Complexity
February 9
Michael X. Delli Carpini,
Deborah Linebarger,
and Diana Mutz,
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
An Introduction to Research at the Annenberg School
for Communication
February 16
Matthew Lambon Ralph,
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
IRCS Short Term Visitor 2/14 - 2/16
Category-specificity reflects not only the location but type of damage: Evidence from a direct comparison of HSVE, SD
and an associated computational model of semantic memory
February 23
Marvin Chun, Department of Psychology,
Yale University
The constructive nature of scene perception and memory
March 2
Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
University of College London
The neural basis of spatial memory
March 16
Elizabeth Brannon, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
Evolutionary and Developmental Precursors to a Concept of Number
March 23 -- NOTE: this talk has been moved to Wednesday, March 28
Helen Neville, Brain Development Lab,
University of Oregon
Experience shapes human brain development and function
March 30
Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna
Social cognition in ravens: from
‘who does what’ to ‘who knows what’?
April 6
Jeff Lidz, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Language and Number: Towards a Psychosemantics for Natural
Language Quantifiers
April 13 - Canceled
Nick Chater, Department of Psychology,
University of College London
General principles of cognition?
May 4
Bonnie Webber, School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Discourse Structure and its Complexity
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