2017 Events

Spring Semester

Using Human Behavior Modeling and Model Checking to Discover Failures in Safety Critical Systems

February 15
Speaker:
 Matthew Bolton
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo

Content-Driven Machine Learning: Using Lexical Variability to Optimize Models of Natural Language

March 1
Speaker:
 Brendan Johns
Assistant Professor, Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo

Probabilistic Models for Syntax Learning

April 5
Speaker: John K. Pate
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University at Buffalo

Monitoring and Control in Language Production

April 12
Speaker: Nazbanou Nozari
Assistant Professor, Neurology and Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins

What is Attention?

April 26
Speaker: Wayne Wu
Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University

Generative and Item-Specific Knowledge in Language Processing

May 3
Speaker: Emily Morgan
Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology, Tufts University

Fall Semester

Memory for Conversation

September 6
Speaker:
 Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology & Human Development at Vanderbilt University

Cognitive Systems Engineering and Health Informatics: Analysis Outcomes and Design Implications

September 20
Speaker:
 Ann Bisantz
Professor and Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo

Linguistic contributions to speech-on- speech masking

September 27
Speaker:
 Lauren Calandruccio
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

How word learning affects word representation

October 4
Speaker:
 Victor Kuperman
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University

Why whales sing and dolphins don’t

October 25
Speaker:
 Eduardo Mercado III
Professor of Psychology, University at Buffalo

Electromyographic measures of laryngeal and facial muscle activity during musical imagery and singing

November 29
Speaker:
 Tim Pruitt 
Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo