Benjamin van Buren Seminar: Perception and Cognitive Impenetrability In this seminar, New School professor Benjamin van Buren will discuss his work and that of the Scholl lab at Yale on perception and the problem of cognitive impenetrability. A limited number of seats are available. Lunch is included. If you wish to attend, please RSVP […]
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Marc Johnson Department of Biology University of Toronto The Evolution of Life in the Urban Jungle Urban areas represent the fastest growing ecosystem on earth, in which the development of cities dramatically changes the biotic and abiotic environment to create novel ecosystems. Despite the importance of urbanization, we have little understanding of how […]
Sandeep Prasada Department of Psychology Hunter College Thinking and Talking About Kinds and Their Instances Lexically expressible concepts typically provide multiple intricate and abstract perspectives from which to think and talk. For example, the concept DOG provides a perspective from which to think and talk about a particular thing as one of indefinitely […]
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 […]
Tamar Schapiro Department of Philosophy Stanford University Title and abstract TBA