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Giving Generic Language Another Thought

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Eleonore Neufeld, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Neural Algorithms of Speech Comprehension

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Laura Gwilliams, Stanford University

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Syntax that can change

Tuesday, April 7, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Whitney Tabor, University of Connecticut

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Unraveling the Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory and Communication for Naturalistic Narratives

Tuesday, March 31, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Coraline Rinn Iordan, University of Rochester

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Prediction During Language Comprehension Impacts Downstream Memory

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Ryan Hubbard, University at Albany, SUNY

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

What can the auditory models teach us about speech? Letting nonlinear physiological models have a say

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Laurel Carney, University of Rochester

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

What it means to be a 'speaker'

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Maya Abtahian, University of Rochester

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Towards Robust Language Technologies for Everyone

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Language Science Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Wyatte Hall, University of Rochester Medical Center

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Language Science Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Jamie Reilly, Temple University

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Surgery on LLMs: Editing, Unlearning, and Securing Knowledge

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Wengpeng Yin, Pennsylvania State University

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

What Role Do Generic Propositions Play in Guiding Action?

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.

Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University

Humanities Center, Conference Room D

Coffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Douglass 407

Interpersonal alignment supports successful communication

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Elise Piazza

Humanities Center Room D

Eventful processing: Constructing event representations from language

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Marten van Schijndel

Humanities Center Room D

Coffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Douglass 407

Rethinking LLM Behaviors: From Uncertainty and Priors to Financial Applications

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Hangfeng He

Humanities Center Room D

The Said and the Unsaid: A Confound for Stereotype Detection in Language Models

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Rachel Rudolph

Humanities Center Room D

Coffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Douglass 407

Quantifying semantic predictability and its role in language comprehension and production

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Cassandra Jacobs

Humanities Center Room D

Filtered Corpus Training (FiCT) Shows that Language Models can Generalize from Indirect Evidence

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Humanities Center Room D

Electrophysiological investigations of natural speech and language processing in the human brain

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Edmund Lalor

Humanities Center Room D

Coffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Douglass 407