Michael Beauchamp Department of Neurosurgery University of Pennsylvania Speech Perception: A Multisensory Perspective Humans naturally interact face-to-face, communicating with face and voice. Two fundamental observations are that seeing the face of the talker improves the perception of noisy auditory speech; and that integrating conflicting auditory and visual speech cues produces a percept different […]
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Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. Space is limited – to sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Nadia Brashier Department of Psychology UCSD Fact-Checking Fake News Amid intense public scrutiny, social media companies have hired, and then fired, professional fact-checkers. Is it beneficial to flag […]
Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the talk. To sign up, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu. Richard Krauzlis Senior Investigator, Visual Circuits Section Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research NEI “The low road to higher visual functions” We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the […]
Diane Lillo-Martin Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics University of Connecticut ASL pronoun acquisition: Implications for pronominal theory In American Sign Language (ASL), pronominal functions are carried out by pointing signs: point to self for first-person, point to addressee or non-addressed persons or things as second- and third-person. This picture is complicated […]
Lyle Ungar Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming