This is a talk at the University of Michigan offering some small measured optimism on mapping between language and neurobiology. It includes some of the newest work modeling fMRI data with CCG, reports brand new data from Tzu-Yun Tung on the interaction between memory load and prediction, and discusses some of Rachel Weissler’s observations about…
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Video: Rachel Weissler gives BU Colloquium
Rachel Weissler’s April 30th colloquium for the Linguistics Department at Boston University was titled “How do our experiences influence perception? Exploring the intersection of sociolinguistics and cognitive processing” Check it out! https://youtu.be/VPTabadZidk
Video: Jon on bridging computation and implementation
Here’s a video of Jon’s talk from the MPI Psycholinguistics 40th anniversary workshop “Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward“. You can also download the slides. The talk includes some wonderful work from Chia-wen Lo’s recent dissertation on the functional role of low-frequency oscillations in sentence comprehension, and a collaboration with friends-of-the-lab Milos Stanojevic,…
Video: Rachel Weissler on syntactic expectations and dialect variation
In case you missed it, you can now watch Rachel’s stellar CUNY2020 talk! Watch it at osf.io. (Indeed, all of the presentations from this year’s virtual CUNY conference recorded and available at osf.io. What a wonderful idea.)
Video: Emily Sabo gives TEDx talk about language and humor!
Emily Sabo takes us through three guiding principles on what the scientific study of language can tell us about what makes us laugh. “Emily is a Ph.D. student of Linguistics at The University of Michigan. By night, she performs standup comedy at dive bars near you. In her work as a linguist, she investigates the…
Podcast: Language in Minds and Machines
Jon talks with Paul at the excellent podcast Brain Inspired. Blurb:
Video: Modeling EEG with deep neural networks
It turns out that John Hale’s talk at ACL 2018 last summer was recorded! Here it is: You can also, of course, read the paper.
Video: Language comprehension in ASD
Together with Ioula Kovelman and Renee Lajiness O’Neill, we presented a brief report of our ongoing research on language comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders using Magnetoencephalography.