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...

Talia Konkle

Assistant Professor

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, object representation, neural organization

... Read more about Talia Konkle

Konkle Lab

William James Hall 784
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

talia_konkle@harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3886

George A. Alvarez

Professor

The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment.... Read more about George A. Alvarez

Alvarez/Vision Science Lab

William James Hall 760, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

alvarez@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5225

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology

Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, including the capacity for formal mathematics,... Read more about Elizabeth S. Spelke

Spelke/Developmental Lab

William James Hall 1130, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

spelke@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3876