Events

Michael Platt Departments of Marketing, Psychology, Neuroscience   How marketing exploits our social brains   Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from four of Penn’s schools, presenting their research into the social implications of neuroscience. […]

Joseph Hill National Technical Institute for the Deaf   The Past, Present, and Future of Black ASL   The historical and linguistic changes in Black ASL align with the U.S. educational, political, and cultural landscapes which are identified as the sociolinguistic and geographical factors in the formation of Black ASL. As the recognizable part of […]

Cynthia Lukyanenko Department of Linguistics George Mason University   English subject-verb agreement: variability, representation and processing in acquisition   How do children represent and process morphosyntactic dependencies, and what can this tell us about acquisition? In this talk, I discuss two projects exploring children’s representation and real-time comprehension of English subject-verb number agreement. One set […]