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Language and Cognition Brownbag

Psychology Colloquia and Other Events

Cognitive Science Talk Series

Perceiving-Acting Workshop (Center for the Ecological Study of Perceiving and Acting

Haskins Labs Staff Meetings

Other Events

Psychology and Linguistics BrownBag Seminar


Fall 2006
Sep 11 Dan Mirman Contrasting effects of near and distant semantic neighbors on visual word processing
Sep 25 Jim Magnuson Bottom-up constraints on spoken word recognition
Oct 2 Debbie Moncrieff Timing is everything: Effects of voice onset time on lateralization of consonant-vowel syllables
Oct 9 Carol Fowler Gestural drift in bilingual speech
Oct 16 Navin Viswanathan TBA
Oct 23 Lauren Swensen Maternal input affects the language of children with autism
Oct 30 Diane Lillo-Martin Gesture and the acquisition of verb agreement in sign languages
Nov 6 Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University) Theoretical and experimental perspectives on the acquisition of French tense and agreement: production vs. comprehension
Nov 13 Michele Sinotte, Bernard Grela, & William Snyder Compound nouns in aphasia
Nov 27 Annie Olmstead TBA
Dec 4 Takashi Mitsuya TBA




Spring 2006
Feb 13 Len Katz Signal Detection Theory Approach to Response Bias
Feb 20 Corinne Juhasz Verb Particles in Children with SLI
Feb 27 Kent Kiehl TBA
Mar 13 Anue Kukona & Whit Tabor Intermediacy of Grammatical Representation: Evidence from Spectrographic Analysis of Sentences Read Out Loud
Mar 20 Karen Aicher & Jay Rueckl Mind in Motion: A New Window on Psycholinguistic Processes
Mar 27 Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish
Apr 3 Kristen Begosh & Topher Logan Expert Memory and Cello Performance
Apr 10 Jim Boster TBA
Apr 17 Sarah Rowland TBA
Apr 24 Eva BarShalom & Elena Zaretsky Verbs in Narratives of Russian-English Bilingual Children




Fall 2005
Sep 12 Jeff Bernath The Influence of Sign System Structure on Language Acquisition in Deaf children
Sep 19 Dan Mirman Information Selection: Attentional Modulation of Lexical Effects on Speech Perception
Sep 26 Bruno Galantucci Studying the Emergence of Human Communication Systems in the Laboratory: A progress report
Oct 3 Len Katz Word Recognition
Oct 10 Miguel Moreno Lexicality and Coordination Behavior
Oct 17 Jennifer Tufts TBA
Oct 24 Valerie Johnson Comprehension of 3rd person -s in Children
Oct 31 Topher Logan and Roger Chaffin Memory and Attention in Cello Performance
Nov 7 Letty Naigles TBA
Nov 14 Donald Shankweiler Neural Events in Sentence Processing by Ear and by Eye
Nov 28 Joanne Lee Verb learning and Acquisition of verb argument structure: A comparison of Mandarin Chinese and English
Dec 5 Takashi Mitsuya TBA




Spring 2005
Jan 31 James Magnuson Familiarity, expectations, and talker normalization
Feb 7 Diane Lillo-Martin The acquisition of focus constructions in ASL and LSB
Feb 21 Eva Bar-Shalom Aspect, finiteness and mood in child Russian
Feb 28 Takashi Mitsuya, Annette Jenner, and Leonard Katz Short-term repetition of words leads to long-term retention
Mar 14 Valerie Johnson Verb Fast Mapping in Children
Mar 21 Bernard Grela The acquisition of verbs with fixed and alternating argument frames
Mar 28 Joanne Lee and Letty Naigles The acquisition of verb argument in Mandarin Chinese
Apr 4 Jay Rueckl Morphological effects in word recognition: Behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging data
Apr 11 Laura Sabadini TBA
Apr 18 David Braze, Aaron Schultz, Donald Shankweiler, Whitney Tabor Individual differences in sentence reading
Apr 18 Georgije Lukatela Experiment du jour




Spring 2004
Feb 2 William Snyder Recursion in Language Acquisition
Feb 9 James Boster Naming and Similarity Judgment: Cross-language Comparison
Feb 16 Jay Dixon Episodic and Alignment Accounts of Abstraction: Evidence from Spontaneous Discoveries
Feb 23 Aaron Schultz, Miguel Moreno, and Whitney Tabor Reaction-time Distributions in Sentence Processing
Mar 1 Bernard Grela Can Toddlers Learn Words from TV?
Mar 8 Spring Break
Mar 15 Dave Braze & Don Shankweiler Eye Movements in Sentence Reading: Individual Differences
Mar 22 Tom Eaton & Laura Sabadini Nature of the Mediating Phonology in Visual Word Recognition
Mar 29 Jay Rueckl When Morphology Goes, Orthography and Phonology Are Soon to Follow: Perspectives on the Psychological Representation of Words and Their Linguistic Properties
Apr 5 Roger Chaffin Experiments in Musical Performance
Apr 12 Dan Yaffee Contextual Disambiguation of Idiomatic Phrases
Apr 19 Tom Eaton Motor Coordination and Reading Fluency
Apr 26 Lauren Swenson and Letty Naigles Language Acquisition in Autism




Fall 2003
Sept 22 Jay Rueckl Reading and its neural basis: An integration of behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging evidence.
Sept 29 Diane Lillo Martin, William Snyder, Sarah Felber, BoSook Kang, Lara Reglero, and Emma Ticio Classifying verbs of motion by the Compounding Parameter
Oct 6 Bianca Sumutka, Haskins Laboratories Lexical Parsing Strategies in Two Languages: Constraints on language selection in word recognition
Oct 13 Annette Jenner, Haskins Laboratories Neuronal pathways associated with phonologic-to-orthographic mapping (spelling)
Oct 20 Joanne Lee and Letitia Naigles Syntactic bootstrapping: a viable strategy for Mandarin verb learners
Oct 27 Aaron Schultz and Whitney Tabor Ungrammaticality as failed self-organization: a processing approach which takes some of
the explanatory burden off the grammar.
Nov 3 Brett Miller, Haskins Laboratories Using boundary experiments as a tool to investigate letter processing in reading

Nov 17
Jay Trudeau Discovering deep structure through comparison: Does property depth matter?
Nov 24 Thanksgiving week
Dec 1 George Lukatela Experiment du jour


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