Cognitive Neuroscience
Talk and discussion will last one hour. At 3:30 we will have a brief Q&A with Susan about her career path since completing her PhD at UMD.
Persistence and Control during Recognition of Speech in Noise
Bilingualism is the norm, not the exception: How using two or more languages shapes the mind and the brain and reflects society itself
Edward Vogel (Psychology, University of Chicago)
Title: The impact of distraction on working memory
Using Computational Linguistics to Investigate Multiword Expressions at the Brain Level
Arthur Wingfield (Psychology, Brandeis University)
Stability in the Face of Change: Cognitive supports and cognitive constraints in speech comprehension by older adults with age-related hearing loss
Title: Using fMRI to Quantify Increased Differentiation of Neural Representations Due to Learning
Title: Bridging NLP and brain science to improve natural language understanding
Abstract: Natural language processing systems have made impressive strides in producing useful task-oriented language tools - but even the most sophisticated NLP systems fall dramatically short of the human brain in robustness and nuance of language understanding. A particular area of need in NLP is that of sentence composition: the combinatory capacity that allows humans to generate and understand the meanings of infinite sentences based on their parts.
Title: A Comparative Biological Approach to Language Evolution: People are Animals Too