Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 21, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77448 77448-19854032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science Seminar Series for its first meeting of the Fall 2020 semester.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:57:11 -0400 2020-09-21T14:30:00-04:00 2020-09-21T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Social / Informal Gathering
Motivation, Inside or Out? (September 24, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77498 77498-19877773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Why do we do the things we do? Computational models in Cognitive Science such as Reinforcement Learning often focus on extrinsic motivation. However, motivational researchers have made a distinction between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation depending on whether motivation comes from outside (extrinsic) or inside (intrinsic) an individual. Research has shown that there is an interesting relationship between extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motivation. Based on this relationship, we will discuss how to effectively use external rewards to motivate behaviors.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94054501865
Meeting ID: 940 5450 1865
Password: cogsci

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:29:18 -0400 2020-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar CSC logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 28, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77453 77453-19854035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Rachel Weissler will give a talk titled "Cognitive behavioral evidence of linguistic expectation based on both speaker identity and language variety in American Englishes."

ABSTRACT
In order to understand the intersection of linguistics, neurological processing, and race, I engage with language variation and social cognition to better understand how we as listeners interact with people who speak varying language varieties in the U.S., particularly African American English (AAE), through a three study dissertation using mixed methodologies. Bountiful neurolinguistics evidence shows that people invoke prediction during sentence processing through ERPs (Kutas et al 2014), and that these predictions are conditioned by the identity of the speaker, as early as 200-300 milliseconds after the beginning of a word(van Berkum et al 2008). However, ideologies about standard language in the U.S. often posit Standardized American English (SdAE) as a morally superior variety (Hill 2008). This hierarchical treatment of language varieties leads to negative perceptions of minoritized language varieties, such as AAE, which in turn makes them stigmatized, and ultimately perpetuates minoritized language discrimination. Thus, the first two studies ask, does positing SdAE as superior lead us to treat all minoritized language varieties equally, or do people have language variety-specific expectations? We test this using two EEG experiments. The final study (in progress) examines how the influence of varied linguistic knowledge modulates perception and online processing of AAE, as indexed by responses elicited from a virtual eye-tracking study. This final study seeks to understand how listeners of varied knowledges process linguistic variation in AAE & SdAE, and also brings together eye-tracking and emotion, expanding upon previous research which shows that various cultural groups are differently sensitive to emotional differences expressed in language, and arguably, through prosody (Weissler & Boland 2019). With this dissertation, I want to enhance the linguistics field by tapping into the find-grained knowledge correlates that listeners bring with them when processing language, specifically AAE. I also want to make the connection between language knowledge and racialization based on that language knowledge.This work has implications not only for intracultural perception, but more broadly, for understanding the functionality of the human language faculty in general. Ultimately, perceptions of stigmatized languages and language varieties leads to language discrimination, which affects the way speakers, people, are treated in their day to day lives. Through a multi-method neurolinguistic and sociolinguistic approach, we can better understand how the human language faculty is capable of recognizing and processing American English language varieties.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:08:32 -0400 2020-09-28T14:30:00-04:00 2020-09-28T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Rachel Weissler
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 5, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77842 77842-19933640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Research fellow Elisa Felsche (U-M Psychology) will give a talk on "The origins of inference: A hierarchical Bayesian modelling approach to imitation and abstraction in children and primates."

NOTE: If you would like to attend this meeting, please send an email to cogsi-seminar@umich.edu to receive the passcode.

ABSTRACT

Humans have an immense behavioural and cognitive repertoire that has been shaped by cumulative cultural evolution. In my PhD project I investigated two cognitive abilities that crucially enlarge the efficiency of skill and knowledge acquisition: 1) the capability for abstraction that enables powerful generalization of information to make wide ranging predictions in new situations and 2) the ability to imitate others which allows the quick and low-risk adoption of new behavioural strategies. Despite decades of accumulating data in both domains, it is still debated to what extent other species share these abilities and how they develop in humans. Solving these persisting disagreements requires an alteration of how data are generated and analysed.
In my dissertation project, I introduced the approach of hierarchical Bayesian modelling to the field of comparative psychology to investigate abstract rule formation and action copying in capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees (only abstract rule formation) and children. In the first two studies participants had to use sampled evidence to infer abstract rules about the item distributions in containers and efficiently guide behaviour in novel test situations. In a third study, we investigated children's and capuchin monkeys' ability to integrate causal and social information when copying a goal-directed behaviour. Whereas children’s performance was mostly in line with the predictions of the computational models, showing that they are capable of abstraction and consider causal information when imitating, capuchin monkeys performed in all experiments at chance and chimpanzees showed some understanding of abstract rules.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:51:03 -0400 2020-10-05T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-05T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Workshop / Seminar
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Which linguistic theory for CogSci?" (October 12, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77894 77894-19941560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics professor Jeffrey Health will give a talk titled "Which linguistic theory for CogSci?"

Please visit the seminar website for Zoom link and details.

ABSTRACT
The linguistic theory most familiar to cognitive scientists, the syntax-centric generativist model, has deep-seated problems for which no patches are available. Syntax-centrism alienates the model from processing and especially from speaking, and therefore from any natural cognitive processes. Its emphasis on economy now seems quaint in the context of the brain’s massive storage and computational power. The evo-devo theory that is joined to the theory’s hip makes no sense biologically. Under the microscope, current minimalism consists largely of ad hoc devices to account for language-specific linear ordering: functional projections some of which are meaningless, unnecessary specifier positions for these projections, phonological deletion due to unmotivated “computational efficiency,” and ad hoc processes like “remnant movement” when all else fails. Even with this proliferation of makeshift entities and processes, the model cannot account for basic morphosyntactic phenomena in many nonwestern languages. In this talk I discuss how a directional, speaker-centric model that stands up to crosslinguistic findings might be cobbled together from “cognitive linguistics” on the semantic end and morphophonological (including prosodic) theories on the output end. I describe some linguistic issues that are, and some that are not, amenable to experimental study and to computational modeling.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:31:58 -0400 2020-10-12T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits (October 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76330 76330-19687523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

In this workshop, we'll build on the lessons of growth mindset and put failure into practice, with activities that allow us to focus on the learning that goes along with mistakes. This way, we can create environments that allow for innovation, personal, and professional growth.

Register on Sessions: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/29116

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:08:58 -0400 2020-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar
Cognitive Science Seminar: Extending a task-general computational model of procedural learning (October 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77895 77895-19941561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Bryan Stearns will give a talk titled "Extending a task-general computational model of procedural learning."

Please visit the seminar series website for Zoom link and details.

ABSTRACT
Can we understand human generality and learning well enough to make computer systems that learn the way we learn? Many models exist that help us describe various aspects of human learning or let us evaluate competing theories. It is harder to find models that specify processing at a level that is detailed enough to allow a computer system to actually perform human-like learning. This talk presents some of my thesis work that extends a model of human procedural learning to have more specific computational detail. In the process, I also extend the model by discovering connections with prior theoretical work in human skill acquisition and some neuroscience.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:20:34 -0400 2020-10-19T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Psychology and Computer Science: What Goes On In Our Brains When We Read And Write Code? (October 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78684 78684-20105419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Is reading code more like reading prose or more like doing math? Is balancing a tree data structure like balancing a pencil on your finger? Is learning a programming language like learning a natural language? How can we make novices more like experts faster? To answer these questions, this talk presents a high-level summary of work at the intersection of computer science and psychology, in which techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging are used to study patterns of neural activity associated with coding tasks. We will cover some background information on psychology as well as some recent results in computer science. In addition, we will highlight efforts involving U-M undergraduate researchers and elaborate on career paths for those interested in pursuing similar topics.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97316042553
Meeting ID: 973 1604 2553
Password: cogsci

Interested in getting involved or want to attend one of our events? Contact us at cogscicmty@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:54:09 -0400 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: Children's intuitions about trade (October 26, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77896 77896-19941562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Margaret Echelbarger, University of Chicago, will give a talk titled "Will she give you two cookies for one chocolate? Children’s intuitions about trade."

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom link and access details.

ABSTRACT
Trade is a cornerstone of economic exchange and can take many different forms. In simple trades, one item is often exchanged for another; but in more complex trades, agents can trade different numbers of items, reflecting the differing value of the items being traded. Though young children regularly engage in simple trades, we examine whether they understand a key element involved in more complex trades—the idea that people may subjectively value the same item differently and accept trades that numerically disadvantage themselves in the service of acquiring more of a preferred item. To do so, we ran three studies with 5- to 10-year-old children (N = 314) in which they were asked to predict whether a third party would accept or reject different types of trades. Results revealed that children across this age range predict that a third party will accept a numerically disadvantageous trade when they prefer one resource over another, but not when they have an equal preference for both resources. Importantly, their predictions were not merely a reflection of what they thought was fair, but rather what was in the best interest of the third party—they thought a third party would be more likely to accept an “unfair” trade that benefitted himself rather than someone else. We discuss our findings in terms of what they reveal about children’s early economic intuitions.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:44:19 -0400 2020-10-26T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
How to get involved in research as an undergraduate (and what to do if you can’t get a position this year) (October 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76438 76438-19717133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Getting involved in research is a great way to build your skills and get the “behind the scenes” look into the science that you later learn about in your textbooks and classes. If you’re thinking of going to graduate or medical school, ideally you want to be starting in a lab by your sophomore year and in most cases no later than your junior year. But how do you find and apply for a position? And what do you do if there’s a pandemic and no positions are available? We’ll go over tips for both these situations.

RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/0W1zZ

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:33:26 -0400 2020-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Psychology Undergraduates Workshop / Seminar VIRTUAL FALL SEMINAR SERIES
Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series: A Brief History of Computation; Computational Approaches for Mental Health (October 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78429 78429-20042433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series brings leading cognitive scientists to U-M to present a special pair of presentations on the same day. The first presentation serves as an introduction to an important theoretical idea or method in the field (the Foundations). The second presentation concerns the application of that idea or method to an innovative topic, thus exploring the Frontiers of the field in a way that highlights the significance of the theoretical idea.

Frederike Petzschner is a Carney Institute Fellow in the Center for Computational Brain Science and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. Dr. Petzschner will give two presentations on October 30:

A Brief History of Computation (Foundations presentation)
Our notion of what the capabilities and function of the brain and mind are has evolved fundamentally in the past century. As a result, we have moved from early Psychophysics to Behaviorism to the Cognitive Revolution, when theories of computation entered the forefront of modern Cognitive Science. This history and the fundamental questions posed at different times provide a great deal of insight into our modern thinking and paves the way where the field might take us in the future. In this lecture, I will try to provide a short guide through the history of computation and discuss what could be learned from it.

Computational Approaches for Mental Health (Frontiers presentation)
The growing field of Computational Psychiatry provides a prime example of how theories of computation may provide not only insights into the function of healthy minds but also mental disorders. In this lecture, I will discuss three examples of where we apply computational methods to understand learning, perception or decision-making in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Gambling Addiction and Disorders of Interoception.

Presentation Schedule (EST):
11:00 - 11:30 am. Foundations presentation
11:30 - 11:45 am Q&A
11:45 am - 12:35 pm Frontiers presentation
12:35 - 1:00 pm. Q&A

Q&A Protocol
Please save any questions for the Q&A periods. If you would like to ask a question, please use the ‘Raise Hand’ feature of Zoom. If you have a follow-up question, please use the green ‘Yes’ feature of Zoom. I will manage the queue and call on participants in the order in which hands are raised. Once called upon, unmute your mic and ask your question.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:47:18 -0400 2020-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Foundations & Frontiers informational flyer
Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Object-Interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79137 79137-20215738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

First-person object-interaction tasks in high-fidelity, 3D, simulated environments such as the AI2Thor virtual home-environment pose significant sample-efficiency challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) agents learning from sparse task rewards. To alleviate these challenges, prior work has provided extensive supervision via a combination of reward-shaping, ground-truth object-information, and expert demonstrations. In this work, we show that one can learn object-interaction tasks from scratch without supervision by learning an attentive object-model as an auxiliary task during task learning with an object-centric relational RL agent. Our key insight is that learning an object-model that incorporates object-relationships into forward prediction provides a dense learning signal for unsupervised representation learning of both objects and their relationships. This, in turn, enables faster policy learning for an object-centric relational RL agent. We demonstrate our agent by introducing a set of challenging object-interaction tasks in the AI2Thor environment where learning with our attentive object-model is key to strong performance. Specifically, by comparing our agent and relational RL agents with alternative auxiliary tasks with a relational RL agent equipped with ground-truth object-information, we find that learning with our object-model best closes the performance gap in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. Additionally, we find that incorporating object-relationships into an object-model's forward predictions is key to learning representations that capture object-category and object-state.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99927591266
Meeting ID: 999 2759 1266
Password: cogsci

Wilka Carvalho is currently a PhD student studying machine learning at UM. Check out his website for research publications, experiences, helpful resources in machine learning or pursuing grad/PhD, and ways to reach out.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:31:35 -0500 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
Cognitive Science Seminar: Daily cognition: The design and validation of open intensive longitudinal assessments (November 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77897 77897-19941563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dominic Kelly, U-M Department of Psychology, will give a talk titled "Daily cognition: The design and validation of open intensive longitudinal assessments."

ABSTRACT

Although cognition is often assumed to be stable, there is evidence that it can in fact vary over relatively short timespans, including from day to day. Investigations of cognitive fluctuations, especially fluctuations in cognitive skills that show gender differences, however, are limited by a lack of suitable instruments that are specifically designed for intensive longitudinal assessment (e.g., that reflect daily variation instead of practice effects). Our goal was to design and validate two new, freely available 75-occasion measures of gendered cognition – three-dimensional mental rotations and delayed paired verbal recall. We accomplished this by conducting a 75-day study with 121 participants who completed the novel cognitive measures every evening. Focusing on an age- and language-matched sample of 27 men and 27 women, results suggested that the novel measures are valid, and that they show parallel forms reliability across 75 days and the expected gender differences each day. Moreover, significant intra-individual variation was observed in cognition across the 75 days, indicating that gendered cognition fluctuates daily (in men and women). These findings encourage future work on the antecedents and consequences of cognitive fluctuations and on intra-individual variation in spatial and verbal skills with the new 75-occasion assessments.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:31:31 -0500 2020-11-09T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 16, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77907 77907-19941573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Wilka Carvalho will give a talk titled "Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-reward Object-interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment"

ABSTRACT
Learning how to execute complex tasks involving multiple objects in a 3D world is challenging under any circumstances, and especially so when there is no ground-truth information about how to use the objects or any opportunity to learn by demonstration. Rewards for completing a task in such a setting are few and far between (sparse rewards), making it difficult for the agent to figure out what to do next. In this work, we show that these challenges can be overcome by including an auxiliary task: learning to predict how objects change upon interaction (the attentive object-model). We show that when this model is used to learn representations of objects, the core learner (a relational RL agent) receives the dense training signal it needs to rapidly find a solution. We demonstrate results in the 3D AI2Thor simulated kitchen environment with a range of challenging food preparation tasks. We compare our method's performance to several related approaches and against the performance of an oracle: an agent that is supplied with ground-truth information about objects in the scene. We find that our model achieves performance closest to the oracle in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. With further analysis, we also demonstrate that the attention model is key to the success of our method.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:35:34 -0500 2020-11-16T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in “punish or protect” dilemmas (November 30, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77908 77908-19941574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Laura Soter, U-M Department of Philosophy, will give a talk titled "What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism and partiality in 'punish or protect' dilemmas."

ABSTRACT
After a long history of focusing primarily on judgments about anonymous strangers, moral psychologists have increasingly begun to study how social relationships influence people’s moral judgments. Weidman et al. (2020), for instance, found that in “punish or protect” dilemmas, people are more likely to say they would lie to protect a close other (vs. a distant other) who commits a crime, particularly when the transgression is severe. But do people believe it is morally right to behave this way? On the one hand, impartiality and universalism are key tenets in all three major philosophical ethical theories. On the other, there are philosophers who argue in favor of moral partiality, and there is increasing empirical evidence that social relationships matter for moral evaluations. In the context of Weidman et al.’s “punish or protect” dilemmas, these considerations deliver two competing hypotheses: either people think it is right to preferentially protect close others, suggesting that people believe moral norms are importantly sensitive to context; or people think they should treat close and distant others equally, revealing an inconsistency between judgments of what is right and how they would behave in the context of close relationships. I will present a series of studies that adjudicate between these hypotheses by exploring the relationship between what people think they would and should do in “punish or protect” dilemmas.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:24:50 -0500 2020-11-30T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual
Cognitive Science Seminar: "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication" (virtual) (December 7, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76965 76965-19782527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Judith Fan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC San Diego, will give a talk titled "Cognitive Tools for Learning and Communication."

ABSTRACT

How does the human mind transform a cascade of sensory information into meaningful knowledge? While traditional approaches to learning focus on how people process the data provided to them by the world, this approach leaves aside all of the powerful tools people have to actively reformat their experiences and generate new ones. For example, we choose what to look at, bring certain memories to mind, produce pictures to share, and compose stories to tell. The goal of our lab’s research is to “reverse engineer” the core mechanisms by which employing such cognitive tools enable humans to learn and communicate more effectively. Our recent work focuses on visual communication, one of our most basic and versatile tools, because it also represents a key challenge for understanding how multiple cognitive systems interact to support complex, natural behaviors. This talk will highlight our recent progress, as well as open research questions in this domain.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:22:51 -0500 2020-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2020-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Judith Fan
Science Success Series | Growth and Grit: Developing a Mindset for Success (January 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80591 80591-20759748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

What if your ability to succeed in your classes was determined in part before you even stepped into the classroom? What is the one quality you need to overcome adversity academically and in life? This workshop will detail the research of Dr. Carol Dweck and her groundbreaking work on the concept of mindset. Students will learn how to abandon a debilitating fixed mindset in favor of a growth mindset, leading to success in areas they once considered too difficult. The workshop will also introduce students to the research of Dr. Angela Duckworth, and how a growth mindset can lead to the development of grit, an essential characteristic to overcoming our fear of failure.

Register at: myumi.ch/DEDPD

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:23:23 -0500 2021-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar growth and grit
CogSci Community Mass Meeting! (January 28, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81314 81314-20885822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

We're having a mass meeting THIS Thursday 5 pm (ET). Join to learn about our board, our planned speaker events, or to ask any questions.

Otherwise, hope you had a good first week!

Mass meeting:
Thursday (1/28) 5-6pm (EST)
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95607140044
Meeting ID: 956 0714 0044

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:38:12 -0500 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Rally / Mass Meeting CSC logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Aristotle on Light and Vision: An 'Ecological' Interpretation" (February 1, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81506 81506-20903714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Philosophy graduate student Sean Costello will give a talk about his work on Aristotle's conception of light and vision, titled "Aristotle on Light and Vision: An 'Ecological' Interpretation."

ABSTRACT
Scholarship on Aristotle's theory of visual perception has traditionally held that Aristotle had a single, static conception of light and that he believed that illumination occurred prior to and independent of the actions of colours. I contend that this view precludes the medium from becoming actually transparent, thus making vision impossible. I here offer an alternative to the traditional interpretation, using contemporary conceptual tools to make good philosophical sense of Aristotle's position. I call my view the 'ecological' interpretation. It postulates two conceptions of light: non-visible mobile propagated light and visible static illumination produced by the interaction of propagated light with the environment's coloured textured surfaces. I argue that these contemporary conceptual tools can find a foothold in and consistently enrich Aristotle's extant position and that, with their aid, we can restore coherence to his theories of light and vision.

Please visit the Cognitive Science Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:29:32 -0500 2021-02-01T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Science Success Series | Make It Stick: Research-Based Learning Strategies You Need to Know (February 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80585 80585-20759746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

The study and learning strategies students often bring to college are often insufficient to help them succeed at the university level. Particularly in challenging STEM courses, students can't simply memorize or cram their way to a good grade. This workshop will focus on the popular learning strategies to avoid, as well as the top three strategies you don't know but are shown by research to be the most effective for long-term learning.

Register at: myumi.ch/885DK

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:24:23 -0500 2021-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar make it stick
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81508 81508-20903719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Justin Craft will present "Linguistic and Social Expectation Beyond The Gender Binary," coauthored by Justin T. Craft, Ian Calloway, and Dominique A. Bouavichith.

ABSTRACT
Previous research has demonstrated social information affects listeners’ linguistic decision-making. Strand and Johnson (1996) showed that imputed gender shifts listeners’ sibilant category boundaries. Further research has shown sibilant identity influences listeners’ binary categorization of gender, suggesting social-linguistic bidirectionality (Bouavichith et al., 2019). This study extends this body of literature by investigating how sibilant categorization changes when acoustically masculinized speech is framed within differing social contexts.
Participants completed a lexical decision task, where each word consisted of a synthesized sibilant onset and a naturalistic rime. In Block 1, rimes were minimally manipulated; listeners were told the speaker identified as female during the recording. In Block 2, rimes were masculinized; this manipulation was contextualized in Condition 1 as the speaker’s gender transition and in Condition 2 as digital manipulation.
If sensitive to the use of phonetic variation to convey social meaning, Condition 1 listeners would be more likely than Condition 2 listeners to adopt a categorization strategy in Block 2 consistent with hearing a male-sounding voice (i.e., more likely to categorize ambiguous sibilants as /s/). As expected, Condition 1 participants were more likely to categorize a sibilant as /s/ in Block 2, while Condition 2 participants did not differ across blocks.

Please visit the Cognitive Science Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:26:02 -0500 2021-02-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Science Success Series | Ace Your Courses: Metacognition is Key! (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80592 80592-20759749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Have you ever found yourself putting forth a great deal of effort into your courses, but not feeling like you are actually learning or are left unsatisfied with your grade? This workshop, based on the work of Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, will enable you to analyze your current learning strategies, understand exactly what changes you need to implement to earn an A in your courses, identify concrete strategies to use during the remainder of your semester, and become a more efficient learner.

Register at: myumi.ch/9o7zb

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:32:51 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Teach Yourself How to Learn
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 1, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81509 81509-20903720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Yushi Sugimoto will present "Forming the Structural Spine of Creole Languages: A neo-constructivist approach to Creole Languages." Please visit the Cognitive Science Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT
In this presentation I suggest that that the formation of the functional categories can be underspecified, which will yield “hybrid grammar”(Aboh 2009, 2015), assuming that syntactic configuration determines the information such as argument structure based on a neo-constructivist approach to mono/bilingual/creole Grammar (Borer2003, Marantz 1997, Lohndal 2014, Riksem 2018).
In the language mixing in which the words are mixed within the same categories such as nominal phrases, functional categories (FCs) are determined by one of the two languages and the roots are determined by the other language. Thus, even if the language is “mixed,” it does not mix the properties of FCs (Grimstad et al. 2018, Riksem et al. 2019). I will argue that, for some creole languages, unlike some patterns of language mixing whose FCs are selected by one of the source languages, FCs are formed derivationally, resulting in having the hybrid nature of FCs.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:08:16 -0500 2021-03-01T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series: Universalization: philosophical origins and cognitive applications (March 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79447 79447-20327783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Sydney Levine is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She will give two presentations on March 5 as part of the Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series.

Schedule
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Foundations Presentation
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Q & A
—5 minute break—
3:50 pm - 4:40 pm Frontiers Presentation
4:40 pm - 5:05 pm Q & A

Title:
Universalization: philosophical origins and cognitive applications

Abstract:
Some people think it is immoral not to vote, but why? Current theories of moral psychology — based largely on outcomes, rules, or affect — have trouble explaining this intuition. After all, one vote typically makes no difference in the overall outcome of an election. Moreover, there is not necessarily a rule or norm that mandates voting. And the thought of not voting isn’t particularly emotionally charged. Rather, I propose that moral judgments in cases like this arise out of the logic of universalization — essentially the process of asking “what if everyone did that?”

The logic of universalization is well-known to moral philosophers, appearing in the theories of Kant, RM Hare, George Singer, TM Scanlon and others. In the Foundations section of this talk, I will introduce the concept of universalization and explore how and why it has been used so effectively in moral philosophy. In the Frontiers section of the talk, I will demonstrate how I have used this philosophical concept as a starting place for a model of moral cognition. I will define a computational model of universalization and show how it predicts subject judgments with quantitative precision. In addition, developmental work suggests that universalization may even be used by children as young as 4. Finally, I will end by showing how universalization may be the key to a unified theory of moral cognition.

About the Series
The Foundations & Frontiers Speaker Series brings leading cognitive scientists to U-M (virtually) to present a special pair of presentations on the same day. The first presentation serves as an introduction to an important theoretical idea or method in the field -- the Foundations. The second presentation concerns the application of that idea or method to an innovative topic, thus exploring the Frontiers of the field in a way that highlights the significance of the theoretical idea.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:41:48 -0500 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T17:05:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Dr. Sydney Levine
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81510 81510-20903721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Wil Gonzales will present proposed work on stop voicing in Hokkien. Title: Age and ethnicity in the perception of Hokkien stop voicing: A proposal.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT

Can listeners’ knowledge of socially-condition linguistic variation influence how they perceive the speech of talkers from different social groups? Can the listeners’ perception be conditioned by their own social background? In this talk, I propose a study that hopes to answer these questions in the Sino-Philippine context. I focus on the potential effect of age (young vs. old) and ethnicity (Lannang vs. Mainlander) on the perception of Hokkien stop voicing in individuals with Southern Chinese heritage (SCH) - the Lannangs and the Mainlanders .
I plan to conduct a perception experiment to be administered over PsychoPy. I will subject my participants to a two-alternative forced choice task, where they will be first exposed to stimuli (created using a Hokkien voiced-voiceless stop continuum) and then decide which word they believe they heard from two alternatives on the computer screen. These are minimal pair Hokkien words that differ only by the voicing of the stop onset – /gau35/ ‘smart’ and /kau35/ ‘monkey’. In the experiment, participants will decide on the word based on audiovisual stimuli (social manipulation).
At the level of the talker, I hypothesize that individuals with SCH will differ in their perceptual judgments of stimuli varying along a voiced-to-voiceless stop continuum in ways that are sensitive to expected social characteristics of the talker. I expect there to be an asymmetrical effect: only talker ethnicity and not age will affect the judgments, as ethnicity is ‘socially marked’ in the Manila SCH community whereas age is not (McGowan and Babel 2019; Gonzales 2021). At the listener level, I hypothesize that the age and ethnicity of the listener can predict the perceptual judgments that they make. Young SCH listeners, having more exposure and experience with dialectal variation, may have significantly different /gau/-/kau/ perceptual crossover points in the Lannang and Mainlander talker conditions. Mainlander listeners, with little to no motivation to distinguish themselves from the Lannangs and no motivation to pay attention to the variation, may be inclined to have the similar crossover points for both Mainlander and Lannang talker conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:33:07 -0500 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
CogSci Community Speaker Series (March 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82908 82908-21217311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This Thursday, Professor of Psychology Stephanie Preston will be presenting for our speaker event. Topics include behavioral neuroscience, neural substrates of decision making, and intrinsic effects of emotion on decision making.

We will release further details within the next day or so watch out for your inbox.

In the meantime, you can check out her research lab Ecological Neuroscience Laboratory and publications page.

Hope to see you there!


Thursday (03/11) 5pm (EST)
Speaker: Stephanie Preston
Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92296396266
Meeting ID: 922 9639 6266
Who we are
The Cognitive Science Community is an inclusive undergraduate organization that aims to further interest in cognitive science and related fields.

We meet biweekly Thursdays 5pm (ET) mostly for professor talks, alumni Q&A, paper seminars, or social events. Attendence isn't mandatory, so feel free to join whatever interests you.

At the end of the Winter Semester we hold a Colloquium where students can showcase their research and members can listen to hosted panelists. Undergraduate students are prioritized. Check out previous Colloquiums.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:15:22 -0500 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "What shared decision strategies are used in economic and moral decisions?" (March 15, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81511 81511-20903722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Psychology graduate student Stella Hao will give a talk titled "What shared decision strategies are used in economic and moral decisions?"

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT
This work aims to understand the strategies people use in making moral decisions and how such strategies are compatible with the characteristics of the environment and the cognitive limitation of the mind. To do this, we investigate what general decision strategies in moral decisions are, and ask whether they are adapted to the environment in the same way that non-moral decisions are. In this talk, I will first introduce a process-tracing method — the MouseLab paradigm (E. Johnson et al., 1989) — that helps identify strategies in decision making. Then, I will propose a series of studies investigating strategies in moral decisions in a given bounded environment. The environmental bounds that we explore are time constraints, numbers of choice alternatives, and numbers of attributes. We will then compare the strategies used in our moral decision tasks with those identified in non-moral decisions in the literature, as well as those identified in our non-moral decision tasks.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:36:51 -0500 2021-03-15T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Science Success Series | Overcoming the Fear of Failure in Personal and Academic Pursuits (March 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80594 80594-20759752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

In this workshop, we'll build on the lessons of growth mindset and put failure into practice, with activities that allow us to focus on the learning that goes along with mistakes. This way, we can create environments that allow for innovation, personal, and professional growth.

Register at: myumi.ch/1pBpO

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:37:45 -0500 2021-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar you can('t) do it
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Homeostatic Processes Are Not Actions: Against Capacity Views of Action and Agential Control" (March 22, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81512 81512-20903723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Malte Hendrickx (U-M philosophy) will give a talk titled "Homeostatic Processes Are Not Actions: Against Capacity Views of Action and Agential Control."

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

ABSTRACT
Philosophy of action seeks to explicate the difference between what we do (actions) and what happens to us (mere behavior). The popular control view argues that one acts if and only if one agentially controls a movement. But is an agent in control only when causally affecting an occurrent movement in the right way? Or is having the capacity to affect the unfolding movement, as needed, sufficient for agential control? According to the "Capacity View", whether I control a movement is not settled by what I do to control it, but by what I could do to control it. I show that this is wrong, since there are controlled movements for which agents have the capacity for control, yet which are neither actions nor agentially controlled. These are movements like your passive breathing and blinking, which are controlled by bodily subsystems and allow for agential interference. The capacity view is unable to separate the passive process from the active interference. Consequently, the capacity for agential control can neither be a sufficient condition for action, nor for agential control.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:21:45 -0400 2021-03-22T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Speaker & Affiliations (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83266 83266-21328376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The stream of consciousness refers to ideas, images, and memories that meander across the mind when we are otherwise unoccupied. The standard view is that these thoughts arise from "automatic" subpersonal processes, and we are for the most part passive observers of them. Drawing on a series of laboratory studies we have conducted, I argue this view is importantly incorrect. On the alternative view I put forward, the stream of consciousness arises from “basic decisions”, a ubiquitous and underappreciated feature of our mental life. Basic decisions lie in a grey zone: They are both manifestations of agency as well as obstacles to it.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:10:05 -0400 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 29, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81513 81513-20903724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Xin Sun (U-M Psychology) will be the featured speaker.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:31:02 -0500 2021-03-29T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: "Memory and Expectation in Processing Mandarin Relative Clauses" (April 5, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81514 81514-20903725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Linguistics graduate student Tzu-Yun Tung will present her work on the processing of relative clauses in Mandarin.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

Title: Memory and Expectation in Processing Mandarin Relative Clauses

Abstract: The cause(s) of processing cost of different types of relative clauses (RC) have been difficult to pin down due to the opposite direction of processing asymmetry reported in the literature. While an advantage of subject relative clause (SR) has been found in English, both subject and object relative clause (OR) advantage have been documented in Mandarin. The discrepancy may however be due to (1) ambiguities in the experimental stimuli that obscured RC processing with ambiguity resolution, and (2) different word regions of interest.

The current study eliminates the stimuli confound, and unveils the word-by-word processing of Mandarin RCs using electroencephalography (EEG), compared against predictions of expectation-based Surprisal account, as well as memory-based Dependency Locality Theory (DLT). Instead of viewing the critical RC region (relative verb and relative noun) as a whole, we extract results at the relative verb region which is nearest to the co-dependent trace. Since the relative verb is situated later in the sentence in OR compared to SR, an object advantage indexed by the left anterior negativity (LAN) effect surfaces, which aligns with the Surprisal account, as well as the storage metric of DLT. At the head noun region where the filler-gap dependency is completed, a symmetric processing profile emerges, consistent with the Surprisal account. We additionally speculate the retrieval process of the trace with regard to predictions of the Activation and Direct-access model.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:13:08 -0400 2021-04-05T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Community Speaker Event (April 8, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83613 83613-21438452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Assistant Professor Savithry Namboodiripad, U-M Department of Linguistics, will give a talk on language change.

ABSTRACT
How do languages change in multilingual contexts? In this talk, I'll run through a few different types of language change, and show how taking an interdisciplinary approach can help us understand how factors such as language ideology and language policy might influence how words are pronounced/understood, as well as how words are ordered. I will show some examples across contexts, from American English and Malayalam, and argue that differences in how speakers categorize linguistic material as belonging to one language or another is an important factor in how languages change due to language contact.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:52:47 -0400 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 19, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81515 81515-20903726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Soo Hyun Ryu (U-M Psychology) will be the featured speaker.

Please visit the Seminar Series website for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:29:55 -0500 2021-04-19T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
2021 Cognitive Science Virtual Graduation (April 30, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83683 83683-21454205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join us for a virtual commencement ceremony celebrating the Cognitive Science Class of 2021. The Weinberg Institute invites our graduating students, families, and friends to tune in to the institute website on Friday, April 30, at 1 pm, to watch a special commencement video.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:08:16 -0400 2021-04-30T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Livestream / Virtual Virtual graduation promotional graphic