Zoe Ovans Language Learning Lab University of Pennsylvania Developmental Parsing and Cognitive Control Processing sentences incrementally entails making commitments to structure and role assignments before all information in a sentence is present. Children in particular have been shown to have difficulty revising the initial structural commitments they make when these turn out to […]
Events
John Sakon Kahana Lab postdoc “Human hippocampal ripples signal encoding of episodic memories”
Vishnu “Deepu” Murty Adaptive Memory Lab Department of Psychology Temple University Threat-related arousal biases the structure and utility of episodic memory Memories of our past are not veridical accounts of the target event. Rather, an individual’s affective state can bias memory towards the most salient feature of the event. These types of memory […]
Laurel Perkins Department of Linguistics UCLA Linguistic and event representations in early verb learning In order to learn the meanings of new verbs, children relate their linguistic representations of the sentences containing those verbs, and their conceptual representations of events in the world. To determine how they do this, we need to understand […]