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ILST Seminar: Sarah Hye-yeon Lee

September 15, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Sarah Hye-yeon Lee Language and Cognition Lab University of Pennsylvania   Signatures of individuation across objects and events   The physical world provides humans with continuous streams of experience in both space and time. The human mind, however, can parse and organize this continuous input into discrete, individual units. In this talk, I will characterize […]

ILST Seminar: Ellie Pavlick

September 22, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Ellie Pavlick Language Understanding and Representation Lab Brown University   Understanding Linguistic and Reasoning Mechanisms in Large Language Models   Large neural network language models have become the state of the art for processing language, but are typically considered to be “black boxes”, the underlying representations and mechanisms of which are inscrutable to humans. This […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Vlad Ayzenberg MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow   Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization   Humans learn new object categories rapidly, often after seeing just one example. Indeed, even infants exhibit remarkable categorization abilities in the absence of extensive experience. […]