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Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Jennifer Groh Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Computing the location(s) of sound(s) in the visual scene I […]
Megha Sundara Chair, Department of Linguistics McGill University How do infants learn phonotactics? Languages differ in their phonotactics, that is, in the segments and segment sequences that are permissible. Therefore, sensitivity to phonotactics must be learned from the input infants receive. I will use behavioral looking time experiments to show that sensitivity to […]
Tom McCoy Department of Linguistics Yale University Bridging the divide between linguistics and artificial intelligence: From vectors to symbols and back again Capturing the structure of language is a central goal of both linguistics and artificial intelligence (AI). Despite this overlap in goals, linguistics and AI differ substantially in how they handle language. […]