CRL Talks

Past Talks

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2007-2008

October 16 2007	Susan Fischer Sign Language Surprises
October 23 2007	Daniel Casasanto Meaning & Motor Action: The role of motor experience in concept formation
October 30 2007	Sarah Creel The development of word recognition: a cognitive control problem?
November 1 2007	Nina Dronkers Aphasia Rounds III Patient Presentation, followed by a lecture on An Overview of Aphasia Syndromes
November 6 2007	Xavier Alario Cross-linguistic investigation of determiner production
November 13 2007	Pia Knoeferle Investigating situated sentence comprehension: evidence from event-related potentials
November 20 2007	Matt Goldrick Interactions between word- and sound-based processes in multilingual speech production
November 27 2007	Daniel Casasanto How do people transform experience into knowledge?
December 4 2007	Dieter Hillert The Neural Correlates of Figurative Expressions
January 29 2007	Phillip Hofmeister Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension
February 5 2008	Gabriel Doyle Environment prototypicality effects on syntactic alternation
February 19 2008	Ken McRae Emergent Conceptual Hierarchies and the Dynamics of Similarity Mary Hare Meaning, structure, and events in the world
March 4 2008	Sarah Callahan The Activation of Verbs in Sentences involving Verb Phrase Anaphors
April 8 2008	Roger Levy Modeling uncertainty about the input in online sentence comprehension
April 15 2008	Laura Kertz Toward a Discourse Model of Ellipsis
April 22 2008	Nathaniel Smith Surprisal as optimal processing
April 29 2008	Gabriela Simon-Cereijido Verb Argument Structure In The Language Of Latino Preschoolers With And Without Language Impairment: Preliminary Findings
May 6 2008	Katie Travis The Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Word Knowledge in Infants
May 13, 2008	Kensy Cooperrider The Deictic Urge
May 20 2008	Whitney Goodrich, University of California, Berkeley Gesture as input in language acquisition
May 27 2008	Tim Beyer Children's interpretation of third person present -s as a cue to tense
June 3 2008	Tanya Kraljic How the perceptual system adjusts to speaker variability

2003-2004

January 13 2004	John Iversen & Ani Patel "Cultural differences in non-linguistic rhythm perception: what is the influence of native language?"
January 20 2004	Gina Taranto Discourse Adjectives
January 27 2004	Susanna Flett Syntactic persistence in non-native language production
February 3 2004	Rob Liebscher & Rik Belew Language movement in Scientific Discourse
February 10 2004	Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, Carol Padden & Wendy Sandler Morphological Universals and the Sign Language Type
February 17 2004	Mary Hare & Ken McRae "Redefining semantic and associative relatedness"
March 2 2004	Stephen Wilson Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production
March 9 2004	Lea Hald Brain potentials related to negation and sentence verification
December 2 2003	Horacio Barber ERP Associated to Gender and Number Agreement during Syntactic Processing
November 25 2003	Lisa King Locality, Frequency, and Obligatoriness in Argument Attachment Ambiguities
November 18 2003	Alycia Cummings Is there a dissociation between verbal and environmental sound processing in young children?
November 4 2003	Holger Keibel First language acquisition: Building lexical categories from distributional information.
October 21 2003	Analia Arevalo In search of the brain's organization for meaning: the N-V double-dissociation and other interesting phenomena
October 14 2003	Ayse Pinar Saygin Brain areas involved in the processing of biological motion revealed by voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) and fMRI
October 7 2003	Doug Roland / Jeff Elman / Vic Ferreira Using CORPUS Data to Model Ambiguity Resolution and Complementizer Use

2002-2003

May 20 2003	Mary Hare "Admitting that admitting sense into corpus analyses makes sense"
May 13 2003	Aniruddh D. Patel "Language, music, syntax, and the brain"
May 6 2003	Lea Hald "The integration of semantic versus world knowledge during on-line sentence comprehension"
April 22 2003	Gedeon O. Deak, Gayathri Narasimham "Flexible Induction of Meanings and Means: Contributions of Cognitive and Linguistic Factors"
April 15 2003	Ayse Saygin Action comprehension in aphasia: Linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates
April 8 2003	Stephen Wilson "Generative grammar and the evolution of language"
March 11 2003	Rob Liebscher & David Groppe "The behavior of abstract and concrete words in large text corpora"
March 4 2003	Robin Thompson "The relationship of eye gaze and agreement morphology in ASL:An eye-tracking study"
February 25 2003	Doug Roland, Jeff Elman, Vic Ferreira "Signposts along the garden path"
February 18 2003	Ayse Saygin & Fred Dick "Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds:Lesion-symptom mapping of patients with left hemisphere damage and fMRI with normal controls"
February 11 2003	Vic Ferreira "Can speakers avoid linguistic ambiguities before they produce them?"
February 4 2003	Jeremy Boyd "Computational Limits on Natural Language Suppletion" [Note: PDF version of abstract has additional tables & figures]
January 28 2003	Ani Patel "Empirically-oriented comparative studies of rhythm and melody in language and music"
January 21 2003	Amy Ramage "Perturbation & adaption during language comprehension: results from behavioral and fMRI studies"
January 14 2003	Thomas Jacobsen "Pre-attentive auditory processing of lexicality"
December 3 2002	Herbert H. Clark Talk in the here and now
November 26 2002	Andrew Stringfellow An accounting of accounts: Pragmatic deficits in explanations by right hemisphere-damaged patients
November 19 2002	Mieko Ueno "On the processing of Japanese Wh-Questions: An ERP Study"
November 5 2002	Katherine Roe "Verbal working memory and language development"
October 29 2002	Vic Ferreira "'That' as syntactic pause: Retrieval difficulty effects on syntactic production"
October 22 2002	Doug Roland "Verb sense and verb subcategorization probabilities"
October 1 2002	Elizabeth Bates 'Voxel-based Lesion-symptom Mapping'
September 9 2002	Nicolas Lewy "BIMOLA: A localist connectionist model of bilingual spoken word recognition"

2001-2002

June 4 2002	Ken McRae & George S. Cree "How Chipmunks, Cherries, Chisels, Cheese, and Clarinets are Structured, Computed, and Impaired in the Mind and Brain"
May 28 2002	Mieko Ueno/Masha Polinsky Maximizing Processing in an SOV Language: A Corpus Study of Japanese and English
May 21 2002	Fred Dick Understanding the functional neural development of language production and comprehension: a first step using fMRI.
May 7 2002	Mairead MacSweeney Neural systems supporting British Sign Language processing
April 30 2002	Brooke Ingersoll Teaching Children with Autism to Imitate Using a Naturalistic Treatment
April 23 2002	Matt Davis "Hierarchical organisation in spokenlanguage comprehension: evidence from functional imaging"
April 16 2002	Heike Behrens "Complex Morphological Systems and Language Acquisition"
April 9 2002	Katie Alcock Phonological awareness in children in and out of school
March 19 2002	David Balota Components and Consequences of Attentional Control Breakdowns in Healthy Aging and Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease
March 5 2002	Laura Kemmer A point of agreement between generations
February 26 2002	David Balota Lexical Decision and Naming Latencies for Virtually All Single Syllable English Words
February 12 2002	Shannon Rodrigue From Theory to Practice: Addressing the Pediatrician's Dilemma
February 5 2002	Suzanne Moineau Pushing the Limits of Word Comprehension in Normal and Aphasic Listeners
January 22 2002	Andy Kehler Coherence and Coreference Revisited
January 15 2002	Discussion Session Moderated by Elizabeth Bates and Tim Rohrer "Embodiment and Language"
December 4 2001	Todd Ferretti Verb Aspect and the Activation of Event Knowledge in Semantic Memory
November 27 2001	Svetlana Godjevac "Free word order" and Focus Ambiguities: A case study of Serbo-Croatian
November 20 2001	Virginia De Sa Towards optimal feature interaction in neural networks
November 13 2001	Bob Slevc "Halting in Single Word Production: A Test of the Perceptual Loop Theory of Speech Monitoring"
November 6 2001	Robert Thornton Modeling semantic constraints in sentence processing
October 30 2001	Don Robin Temporal Processing and Language Disorders: Review and Evaluation
October 23 2001	John Lewis A Connectionist Investigation of Linguistic Arguments from the Poverty of the Stimulus: Learning the Unlearnable
October 16 2001	Todd Haskel The interaction of semantics, phonology, and compounding: Implications for theories of inflectional morphology.
October 9 2001	Gowri Iyer Age of acquisition ratings: actions and objects.
October 2 2001	Antonella Devescovi, Simone Bentrovato, Elizabeth Bates et al. Psychophysics of Verb Conjugation

2000-2001

June 5 2001	H. Wind Cowles and Victor Ferreira Effects of Prior Mention on Sentence Production and Word Recall
May 29 2001	Ayse Pinar Saygin Verbal and Non-verbal Auditory Processing in Aphasic Patients
May 22 2001	Michael Klieman Evidence for a U-shaped learning Curve
May 15 2001	Ezra van Everbroeck How (Not) to Build a Language:The Trouble With Pronouns
May 8 2001	Curt Burgess Can high-dimensional memory models have affordances? Comparing HAL, LSA and the Indexical Hypothesis.
May 1 2001	Fred Dick & Marty Sereno 96 Sentences
April 24 2001	Kara Federmeier Aging and individual differences in auditory sentence processing
April 17 2001	Liz Bates Comparing Lexical Access for Nouns & Verbs in a Picture Naming Task
April 10 2001	Vic Ferreira Central Bottleneck Influences on the Processing Stages of Word Production
Mar 13 2001	Murray Singer Constructing Inferences in Text Comprehension
Mar 6 2001	Stephen Wilson Lexically specific constructions in the acquisition of inflection in English
Feb 27 2001	Debra Mills and Melissa Schweisguth Developmental changes in sentence processing: electrophysiological responses to semantic and syntactic anomalies in 3 to 4 year old children and adults
Feb 20 2001	Jim Hurford The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure
Feb 6 2001	Don Robin
Jan 30 2001	Jelena Jovanovic Comparing Reading And Auditory Comprehension In Aphasia
Jan 23 2001	Leslie Carver (4:15 pm, CHIP Conference Room in McGill Hall) The development of long-term explicit memory in infancy: Brain and behavioral measures.
Jan 16 2001	Spencer Kelley (4:15 pm, CHIP Conference Room in McGill Hall) Putting Language Back in the Body: The Influence of Nonverbal Action on Language Production and Comprehension.
Nov 21 2000	Gary Cottrell The Early Word Catches the Weights: Age of acquisition effects in Connectionist networks.
Nov 14 2000	Mieko Ueno ERP Study on the Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Japanese Scrambling
Nov 7 2000	Axel Mueller What's Wrong With The Autistic Brain And Why Can't Development Plasticity Take Care Of It?
Oct 31 2000	Seana Coulson Metaphor and the Space Structuring Model
Oct 24 2000	Todd Ferretti Inflectional Morphology and the Activation of Thematic Role Concepts
Oct 17 2000	Paul Munro A Connectionist Model of Spatial Knowledge Acquisition
Oct 10 2000	Robert Thornton Plausibility and Grammatical Agreement
Oct 3 2000	Gregory Hickok Dorsal And Ventral Pathways In Speech And Language Processing
June 6 2000	Gideon Deak Do Children Have Specialized Word Learning Abilities?
May 16 2000	Nicole Wicha Grammatical Gender Modulates Semantic Integration Of A Picture In A Spanish Sentence
May 9 2000	Andy Clark (guest lecture; in CSB 003) Reasons, Persons and Cyborgs
May 2 2000	Seana Coulson & Kara Federmeier In search of ... the lexicon
April 25 2000	Barbara Conboy Cerebral Organization For Word Processing In Bilingual Toddlers
April 18 2000	Vittorio Gallese Mirror neurons: implications for language, technology and culture