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ILST Seminar: Jiayi Lu

February 28, 2025
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Jiayi Lu University of Pennslyvania   Probing the satiation of island effects   Certain structural domains in sentences have been found to restrict syntactic operations (e.g., movements), a phenomenon termed the “island effect”. Recent work has revealed that some island-violated sentences, which are traditionally considered ungrammatical, are susceptible to satiation, an effect whereby speakers come […]

CNI Seminar: Angeles Salles

March 4, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu    Angeles Salles Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois, Chicago   Social Behavior and Acoustic Communication in Bats   Bats are auditory specialists, using acoustic signals to guide their behaviors, […]

This event has been cancelled due to illness.   Penn Neuroscience & Society Public Talk Series: The Brain in Socioeconomic Context   “Socioeconomic influences on language development: Neural mechanisms of risk and resilience”   Rachel Romeo Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology College of Education University of Maryland College Park   Click here to […]

ILST Seminar: Briony Waite

March 7, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Briony Waite Department of Psychology Harvard University   Lexical access during story listening across development   Recognizing and retrieving words from the mental lexicon is a key aspect of understanding language in real time. Previous work with adults has shown that the amplitude of the N400, an ERP component related to accessing the meaning and […]