Dave Kleinschmidt Department of Psychology Rutgers University New Brunswick Language processing in the face of variability: Distributional learning all the way down? On the one hand, talker variability is one of the fundamental challenges for speech recognition: each talker has their own mapping from linguistic units to sounds, which means that an effective […]
Events
A presentation by the Geffen Laboratory of Auditory Coding A pizza lunch will be served.
Ragini Verma Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania Topic: MRI Studies of the Mysterious Cuban Diplomat Syndrome Penn grad students, postdocs, and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served.
Vaida Rimeikyte Postdoc, Jenkins Lab University of Pennsylvania Neural processing of decision costs and aversive events The ability to engage in avoidance behaviors is vital to adaptively navigating different environments, especially if these environments are unpredictable or hostile. Despite considerable advances in understanding the neural mechanisms that give rise to avoidance, some component […]