Sandy LaTourrette University of Pennsylvania Staying in the moment: When does sentence context benefit word learning? Infants’ earliest word learning opportunities are often ambiguous, with multiple possible referents present when a novel word is uttered. But as children gain experience with language, the linguistic context of a novel word can help children to […]
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Savithry Namboodiripad Department of Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Imagining and creating a Linguistics without “nativeness” A Department lunch will follow in the Linguistics Library.
Nicole Rust Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania On the Grand Plan for brain and mind research Why have we been learning so much about the brain and mind for so many decades, but our ability to understand and treat its dysfunction continues to be so frustrated? While there are important exceptions, the […]
Nicole Varga Department of Neuroscience UT Austin “The influence of brain development on memory representation”