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 […]
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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
Simine Vazire Associate Professor, Psychology University of California, Davis Do we want to be credible or incredible? What makes a scientific claim credible? Historically, we have relied on various safeguards against high levels of false positive results, such as counting on peer review to catch most errors, waiting for consensus among experts before […]
A presentation by the Geffen Laboratory of Auditory Coding A pizza lunch will be served.