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This page lists dissertation defenses, conferences, and other events sponsored by the UConn Language & Cognition program.


Dissertation Defense: 

Thomas A. Eaton
Language Skills and Finger Tapping: Identifying relationships between language skills and motor control in the non-impaired reader
August 24, 2006
3 pm, BOUS 378


Dissertation Defense: 

Jeremiah Trudeau
Semantic Contributions to Word Naming with Artificial Lexicons
August 14, 2006
3 pm, BOUS 109


2006 UCONN Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Cognition

Aug 10 AM: MOUSE TRACKING
Michael Spivey (Cornell Univ): Motoric Emissions of Cognitive Continuity: Mouse-tracking.
Jay Rueckl, Karen Aicher, & Dan Yaffee (UConn): Mouse Tracking and Visual Word Recognition
Larry Brancazio (Southern Connecticut): Mouse Tracking and the McGurk Effect

Aug 10 PM: 1/f NOISE
Guy Van Orden (Univ of Cincinnati): Three Paradoxes of Cognition
Jay Holden (California State Univ, Northridge): 1/f noise
Chris Kello (George Mason Univ; NSF): 1/f noise
Whit Tabor & Aaron Schultz (Uconn): Mechanisms of Self-Organization: RT Distributions in Sentence Processing

Aug 11  AM: RECURRENCE QUANTIFICATION ANALYSIS
Bruce Kay (UConn): Overview and Recent Findings
James Dixon & Damian Stephen (UConn): Negentropy and the Emergence of New Representation
Aaron Schultz &Whit Tabor (UConn): RQA and Speech Analysis

Aug 11  PM: ADDITIONAL METHODS & ANALYSES
James Magnuson (Uconn): A comparison of Eye tracking, mouse tracking, and ERP
James Dixon & James Magnuson(Uconn): Growth curve analysis and eye movements
Chris Kello (George Mason Univ; NSF): Scale-free Networks

2006 Second-Year Projects  (May 5, 2006)

Navin Viswanathan, "Compensation for coarticulation: Two theories compared"
Sarah Rowland, "The aid of manual gestures in story comprehension"
Shin-Yi Fang, "An investigation of factors that affect performance on word-picture matching by continuous hand-movement"


Dissertation Defense: 

Joanne Lee
The Processing Interaction of Radicals and Characters in Chinese Word Recognition
May 5, 2006
10 am, BOUS 109


Dissertation Defense: 

Julie Brown
Audiovisual asymmetries in speech and nonspeech
December 9, 2005
3 pm, BOUS 109




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