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This seminar has been postponed to November 7, 2025.   Aaron White Department of Linguistics University of Rochester   The Conceptual and Contextual Correlates of Argument Structure: A case study of intentional events and states   This talk explores how intentional events and states are expressed in natural language, focusing on the linguistic realization of […]

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    Constantina Theofanopoulou Herbert and Nell Singer Research Assistant Professor Rockefeller University   Neurobiology of social communication: from speech to dance   Dr. Theofanopoulou’s overall goal is to dissect the neural […]

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu    Chris Baldassano Department of Psychology Dynamic Memory Lab Columbia University   Building new memories using mental maps of space and time   Our everyday experiences consist of familiar sequences of […]

ILST Seminar: Halie Olson

February 21, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Halie Olson McGovern Institute for Brain Research MIT   Language in the developing brain   The human brain is unique (at least amongst biological organisms) in its ability to learn, produce, and comprehend language. Language is learned rapidly over the first few years of life, but even before it is fully developed, humans successfully use […]