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 Calendar ColloquiaFall 2007Spring 2007 Fall 2006Cognitive CritiqueReading Groups |
Spring 2007 Colloquia
| January 18 |  |
Maria Sera, Institute of Child Development "Count-Mass Syntax and Categorization: Current State and Future Questions"
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| January 25 |  |
Michael Georgieff, Pediatrics and Child Development "Iron and the developing brain"
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| February 1 |  |
Kamil Ugurbil, Radiology, Neuroscience, and Medicine "Brain Imaging Using Nuclear Spins and High Magnetic Fields" |
| February 8 |  |
Noel Zahler, School of Music "Playing in time: Score following and understanding aspects of musical performance"
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| February 15 |  |
Giuseppe Pellizzer, Neuroscience "On the use of information in planning a motor response"
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| February 22 |  |
John Dickhaut, Carlson School of Management "Cognitive Development in the Context of Poverty " |
| March 1 |  |
Juergen Konczak, Kinesiology |
| March 8 |  |
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science and Engineering "Distributed Robotic Teams" This talk presents a distributed heterogeneous robotic team useful for reconnaissance and surveillance, search and rescue missions, decontamination and decommissioning efforts, and monitoring highly sensitive areas or populations, such as elderly or disabled patients in residential care. The small mobile scout robot, developed at the University of Minnesota, is the key element of the team. A large number of miniature robots robots (scouts) are deployed and controlled by humans and/or larger 'Megascout' robots. The specially designed and constructed scouts are extremely small (roughly the size of a soda can) yet are readily deployable (by tossing or launching), have multiple mobility modes, have a variety of sensing capabilities, can transmit and receive data and instructions in a wireless way, and have a limited capability for autonomous action. The Megascouts are significantly larger vehicles, based on a custom platform, augmented with powerful processors, radios, and additional sensors. Recent designs of modified scouts and improved mobility mechanisms will be presented. An analysis of the issues along with extensive experimental results will conclude the talk. |
| March 15 |  |
SPRING BREAK No Colloquium |
| March 22 |  |
Elissaios Karageorgiou Department of Neuroscience and Brain Sciences Center "Synchronous Neural Interactions: A Possible Functional Biomarker of Brain Disorders"
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| March 29 |  |
Apostolos Georgopoulos, Brain Sciences Center "Encoding by neurons, decoding by neuronal populations." (John Peponis lecture cancelled owing to illness) |
| April 5 |  |
Barry Gordon, Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology Johns Hopkins University "Applied Cognitive Neuroscience: Teaching speech to the nonverbal" |
| April 12 |  |
SPRING RESEARCH DAY No Colloquium |
| April 19 |  |
John Soechting, Neuroscience "Intercepting targets: Eye-hand coordination and strategies" |
| April 26 |  |
Joseph P. Stemberger Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia "Word-specific vs. system-general storage of information for language production"
Abstract: While many aspects of a word's form are unpredictable and must be stored as part of an arbitrary association of meaning and form, some aspects are predictable in a statistical fashion. (a) When a speaker of English wishes to explicitly encode past time in a sentence, it is statistically likely that the verb will end in -/ed/ (as in/ washed/). (b) It is statistically likely that any given consonant in a word will be an anterior coronal (t, d, s, z, É, ©£, n, l), and that the vowel will be a front vowel and/or a mid vowel. In cognition in general, there are three options for the storage and processing of fully or statistically predictable information: (1) Store the information as part of the "lexical entry" (the arbitrary association of meaning and form) exactly like unpredictable information, and add cognitive machinery to account for generalization to other words. (2) Extract the information and store it as a general part of the system, leaving it out of individual lexical entries. (3) Some combination of these two, possibly with a weaker level of storage of the information in the lexical entry. I will discuss production of past tense in English to explore this question relative to -/ed/ (whether words like/ washed/ are stored) and to the phonological features of mid front vowels. Data come from experiments with adults and from ChiLDES-based studies of child language. Using frequency and "neighbourhood" effects, I argue that most of the storage and processing of statistically predictable information is system-general, but that there is a small word-specific component as well. |
| May 3 |  |
Liz Romanski, Neurobiology and Anatomy University of Rochester "Representation and Integration of Audio-Visual Communication Information in the Prefrontal Cortex"
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