Perception

2024 Mar 26

Psychology Department Colloquium ~ Yejin Choi, PhD, University of Washington

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

WIlliam James Hall - Basement Auditorium, B-1

Yejin Choi, Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Senior Research Director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

from  Time's 100 Most Influential in AI - October, 2023

Title: Possible Impossibilities, Impossible Possibilities, and Paradoxes

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2023 Feb 28

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Celeste Kidd, Ph.D. ~ U. of California, Berkeley

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Basement Auditorium, B-1

Celeste Kidd, Ph.D., Assistant Professsor, University of California, Berkeley

 

Talk title: “How to Know”
Abstract:  This talk will discuss Kidd’s research about how people come to know what they know. The world is a sea of information too vast for any one person to acquire entirely. How then do people navigate the information overload, and how do their decisions shape their knowledge and beliefs? In this talk, Kidd will discuss research from her lab about the core cognitive systems people use to guide their learning about the...

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2016 Nov 02

Colloquium - Jenny Saffran, PhD

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall - Room 1, Basement Auditorium

Jenny Saffran, PhD

 Professor of Psychology

University of Wisconsin - Madison

https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/pi-Saffran-Jenny.htm

Topic : Building a lexicon

  Abstract: 

Words are bundles of meanings and sounds (or signs). As mature language users, we have sophisticated knowledge about how words work, both on their own and as part of a lexicon. How does that knowledge emerge? In my...

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