Karine Fenelon Department of Biology University of Massachusetts Amherst Malte Wöstmann Institute of Psychology Universität zu Lübeck via Zoom – check the E.A.R.S. website for the link!
Events
E. W. Tekwa Hakai Postdoctoral Fellow University of British Columbia Meritocracy, Affirmative Action, and the American Dream Academia does not represent the greater population but it is unknown what this implies for academia’s fairness and productivity. Existing measures of representation do not capture socioeconomic histories, and an intractable web of biological and social […]
Kyle Gorman Department of Linguistics CUNY Black box phonology There is recent interest in the abilities of neural network sequence-to-sequence models to acquire “irregular” morphophonological generalizations. While it is not often explicit, this body of work views such models as potential computational models of language acquisition. I argue that these models as they […]
Katherine Duncan Department of Psychology University of Toronto The Rhythms of Memory Behaviour When are you best prepared to learn? Our intuition points to slowly changing factors, like having a good night’s sleep or a cup of coffee. Remarkably, an influential factor may operate so quickly that eludes not only our conscious reflections but […]