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Tim Machado Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania Brainwide circuits for descending command and control Even seemingly simple movements require complex, context-dependent processing of sensory signals and motor commands. How does the joint activity of neural circuitry distributed across the brain subserve motor behavior? To address this question, we first studied context-dependent motor […]
Erin Isbilen Haskins Laboratories Yale University Statistical learning and chunking shape language and reading across development How do individuals acquire language in the face of its perceptual challenges? In this talk, I argue for the contribution of chunking—a basic memory process—to the statistical learning of language across the lifespan. My research illustrates how […]
Kathryn Davidson Department of Linguistics Harvard University Information structure insights from sign language anaphora Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages, which – like many spoken languages – tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations, along with perhaps some modality-specific considerations provided by suprasegmental nonmanuals, […]