Michael Frank Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Stanford University Bigger data about smaller people: Investigating children’s language learning at scale Every typically developing child learns to talk, but children vary tremendously in how and when they do so. What predicts this variability? And which aspects of early language learning are consistent across […]
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McCall Sarrett Villanova University via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97106379648 Decoding speech information from neurophysiological data The acoustics of spoken language are highly variable, and yet most listeners easily extract meaningful information from the speech signal. Psycholinguistic work has revealed which acoustic dimensions are relevant when listeners categorize speech sounds. However, the real-time neural mechanisms […]
Date & Time: 4pm – 5pm each Wednesday from February 23rd through April 6th Deadline to Apply: 11:59 pm ET Sunday, February 13th The Social and Behavioral Initiative (SBSI) supports interdisciplinary research in the social and behavioral sciences. Each semester, SBSI supports undergraduate students who are interested in research through the Research Assistant […]
Marc Badger GRASP Lab University of Pennsylvania Location: Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building) and via Zoom Multi-view pose estimation and tracking of cowbirds in an outdoor aviary Automated understanding of animal activity is poised to transform many fields in biology. Of particular interest to ecology, biomechanics, behavior, and neuroscience are studies of […]