Friday Noon Colloquium Series
Large Conference Room - Room 470
3401 Walnut Street - Suite 400A
Click here for directions
2008
Fall Semester
September 19
Fred Karlsson
Department of General Linguistics,
University of Helsinki
Constraints on syntactic recursion
September 26
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Veronique Bohbot
Faculty of Medicine,
McGill University
Modulating grey
matter in the hippocampus and striatum in mice and humans
IRCS/SILC joint talk
David Waller
Department of Psychology, Miami University of Ohio
Two systems of spatial knowledge and their application to virtual environment interfaces
October 17
Roland Fleming
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Visual perception of materials that transmit light
October 24
Natascha Müller
Professor of Linguistics and Romance Languages, University of Wuppertal
Code-switching in young bilingual children
November 7
Ben Taskar
Computer and Information Science Department,
University of Pennsylvania
Learning Visual Lexicons from Movies
November 14
Virginia Valian
Department of Psychology, Hunter College
Programs in Linguistics and Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Language Acquisition and Innateness: Logic and Evidence
December 5
Keith Kluender
Director, Speech Perception Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Speech perception within a biologically-realistic information-theoretic framework
2008
Spring Semester
January 25
Michael Ramscar, Department of Psychology,
Stanford University
Human communication as a predictive process
February 1
Dagmar Sternad, Department of Kinesiology,
Penn State University
Rhythm 'n' Moves - A Window into Brain and Behavior
February 8
Jerry Hobbs, Intelligent Systems Division, USC/Information Sciences
Institute
Deep Lexical Semantics
February 15
Mark Wagner, Department of Psychology,
Wagner College
Geometry, space, and visual perception
February 29
Daniel Grodner, Department of Psychology,
Swarthmore College
Discourse Contrast and Interactivity in Language Comprehension
March 28 - Pinkel Lecture
Christof Koch, Division of Biology and Division of Engineering
and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
The Biology
of Consciousness
April 4
Deb Roy, Director, Cognitive Machines Group, MIT Media Lab
Situated Language Use: Robots, Children, and Games
April 11
Ted Berger, Biomedical Engineering
Department, University of Southern California
Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses for Lost
Memory Function
April 18
Nick Chater, Department of Psychology,
University College London
On being the right size: Scaling and psychological laws
April 25
Matt Goldrick, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
Linking grammatical principles and speech production data
Click here to see past Colloquium Series (archived thru 2001).
