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 […]
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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.
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.