Annemarie Kocab Department of Psychology Harvard University The Origins of Language: Evidence from Nicaraguan Sign Language and Homesign All human societies have languages capable of expressing the richness of human thought. To what extent is this achievement an historical accomplishment, similar to mathematics or science, and to what extent does it rely on […]
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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Ellen Winner Department of Psychology Boston College The Child as Artist: Claims and Counter Claims The radical idea of the child as artist (as closely akin to adult artists) emerged in the 20th century, possibly due to the overlapping progressive education and modernist art […]
Cesko Voeten Fryske Akademy A view into the processing of sound change: sociolinguistic migration Sociolinguists (e.g. Labov 2007) and phonologists (e.g. Hamann 2009) often assume that adults do not perform structural reanalyses in processes of sound change. I present empirical data from Dutch that challenges this assumption. Over the past 100 years, the […]
Alexandria Lesicko Geffen Labaratory of Auditory Coding University of Pennsylvania Cortico-fugal regulation of predictive coding Sensory systems must account for both contextual factors and prior experience to adaptively engage with the dynamic external environment. In the central auditory system, neurons modulate their responses to sounds based on statistical context. These response modulations can […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Catherine Crockford Great Ape Social Mind Lab Institut de Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod CNRS The patterning and ontogeny of chimpanzee vocal sequences – and brain pathways A striking feature of the human species is our large brain, enabling some complex skills that surpass those […]