Large Conference Room - Room 470
3401 Walnut Street - Suite 400A
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2009
Spring Semester

January 23
Nora Newcombe
Department of Psychology, Temple University
Eight Reasons to Question the Existence of a Geometric Module

January 30
IRCS/SILC joint talk
A. David Redish
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Deliberative and automatic spatial decision making in the rat

February 6
Luca Bonatti
Professor of Cognitive Development, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Predicting the future without knowing the past: Infants' sensitivity
to probabilities

February 13
Alec Marantz
Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, NYU
Decomposition to the Root: MEG Studies of Morphologically Complex Words

February 20
Carl Granrud
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado
Judging the size of a distant object: Strategy use by children and adults

February 27
IRCS/SILC joint talk
Aude Oliva
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Remembering thousands of images with high fidelity

April 3
John Halle
Director of Studies in Music Theory and Practice, Bard Conservatory of Music
Connecting Metrical Form in Language and Music

April 17
Robert Frank
Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Neural networks and mental grammar: prospects for a new paradigm

April 24
Regina Barzilay
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
Embracing Language Diversity: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning

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