The 3rd annual UMass Cognitive Science Workshop will take place from 2:30 – 5 on Friday Feb. 3rd, 2017 in ILC N400. Talks by Rosie Cowell, Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, and Florence Sullivan will be followed by a poster session and reception. This is a chance not only to hear about exciting new research, but also to meet fellow cognitive scientists from across the campus, and discuss the further growth of CogSci at UMass.
Talks
2:30 Rosie Cowell, Cognitive Division, Psychological and Brain Sciences
3:00 Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Hispanic Linguistics, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
3:30 Florence Sullivan, Education.
Posters
| Title | Authors | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Mothers' use of F0 after the first year of life in American English and Peninsular Spanish | Alba Arias, Eduardo Garca, Isaac McAlister, Covadonga Snchez & Meghan Armstrong | Spanish and Portuguese, LLC |
| The acquisition of recursive locative prepositional phrases and relative clauses in child English | Roeper T., Sevcenco, A., & Pearson, B. Z. | Linguistics |
| Syntactic and prosodic marking of focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish | Covadonga Snchez-Alvarado | Spanish and Portuguese, LLC |
| Learning to Identify Speakers from Kinematic Information | Alexandra Jesse and Michael Bartoli | Psychological and Brain Sciences |
| Attention Modulates Cross-Modal Retuning of Phonetic Categories to Speakers | David Kajander, Elina Kaplan and Alexandra Jesse | Psychological and Brain Sciences |
| Localized representations contain distributed information: insight from simulations of deep convolutional neural networks | Nicholas Blauch, Elissa Aminoff and Michael Tarr | BDIC (NB), Psychology (Fordham University; EA), Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University; MT), Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (NB, EA, MT) |
| Linguistic Pressure and Dialect Change: Dominicans in Madrid | Fiona Dixon | Spanish and Portuguese, LLC |
| A visualiation technique for Bayesian reasoning | Cara Bosco, Andrew Cohen, Jake Nadler, Jeff Starns | Psychological and Brain Sciences |
| Ambiguity Resolution in Relative Clauses: Prosodic vs. Contextual Information in L2 Spanish | Eduardo Garca-Fernndez | Spanish and Portuguese, LLC |