Sound++ Group :: Fall 2007
Meetings are held in Marie Mount Hall 3416
Wednesdays from 9:30am to 10:30am, except where noted in green
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Presenter |
Talk Title/Notes |
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| August 29 MMH 1108B |
Organizational Meeting
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Basic Introduction/New Student Meet & Greet |
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| September 05 MMH 1108B |
William Idsardi |
Vallabha, G.K., J. McClelland, F. Pons, J.F. Werker, & and S. Amano. (2007) Unsupervised learning of vowel categories from infant-directed speech. Proc Natl Acad Sci 104: 13273-13278. BACKGROUND READING: Werker, J.F., F. Pons, C. Dietrich, S. Kajikawa, L. Fais & S. Amano. (2007). Infant-directed speech supports category learning in English and Japanese. Cognition 103: 147-162. |
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| September 12 |
No Meeting |
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| September 19 MMH 1108B |
Kevin de Souza, Philip J. Monahan & William Idsardi |
Inferred Fundamental, MEG Study
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| September 26 MMH 1108B |
David Poeppel |
New Neuron Paper
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| October 03 MMH 1108B |
Paul Hines, Ellen Lau & Diogo Almeida |
Semantic Priming, N400, MEG
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| October 10 MMH 1108B |
Ariane Rhone & Julian Jenkins |
Audio-Visual Processing COURSE READINGS Wilson, S.M., A.P. Saygin, M. Sereno & M. Iacoboni. (2004). Listening to Speech Activates Motor Areas Involved in Speech Production. Nature Neuroscience 7(7), 701-702. Pulvermuller, F., M. Huss, F. Kherif, F.M. del Prado Martin, O. Hauk & Y. Shtyrov. (2006). Motor Cortex Maps Articulatory Features of Speech Sounds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(20), 7865-7870. Skipper, J.I., V. van Wassenhove, H.C. Nusbaum & S.L. Small. (2007). Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices: How Cortical Areas Supporting Speech Perception Mediate Audiovisual Speech Perception. Cerebral Cortex 17, 2387-2399. |
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| October 17 |
NO MEETING |
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| October 24 MMH 1108B |
Elika Bergelson |
Koelsch, S., E. Kasper, D. Sammler, K. Schulze, T. Gunter & A. Friederici. (2004). Music, Language and Meaning: Brain Signatures of Semantic Processing. Nature Neuroscience 7(3), 302-307.
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| October 31 |
NO MEETING |
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| November 07 MMH 1108B |
Greg Cogan |
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| November 14 MMH 1108B |
Peitzu Tsai |
Uusvuori, J., T. Parviainen, M. Inkinen & R. Salmelin. (2007) Spatiotemporal Interaction between Sound Form and Meaning during Spoken Word Perception. Cereb Cortex. 2007 Jun 12.
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| November 21 |
General Lab Meeting |
Discussion of Lab Happenings
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| November 28 |
Ellen Lau |
Yuille, A. & D. Kersten. (2006). Vision as Bayesian Inference: Analysis by Synthesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10(7), 301-308. Bar, M. (2007). The Proactive Brain: Using Analogies and Associations to Generate Predictions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11(7), 280-289. |
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| December 05 |
Ariane Rhone & Yue Zhang |
Stekelenberg, J.J. & J. Vroomen. (2007). Neural Correlates of Multisensory Integration of Ecologically Valid Audiovisual Events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19(12), 1-10. [Ariane] Gandour, J., D. Wong, M. Lowe, M. Dzemidzic, N. Satthamnuwong, Y.Tong & X. Li. (2002). A Cross-Lingusitic fMRI Study of Spectral and Temporal Cues Underlying Phonological Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14(7), 1076-1087. [Yue] Gandour, J., M. Dzemidzic, D. Wong, M. Lowe, Y. Tong, L. Hsieh, N. Satthamnuwong & J. Lurito. (2003). Temporal Integration of Speech Prosody is Shaped by Language Experience: An fMRI Study. Brain and Language 83, 318-336. [Yue] |
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| December 12 |
Ellen Lau & Diogo Almeida |
MEG Data Analaysis Recommended Reading: Maris, E. & R. Oostenveld. (2007). Nonparametric Statistical Testing of EEG- and MEG-data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 164(1): 177-190. |