Language & Cognition (LangCog)
Psychology Language Development Labs (Snedeker Lab & Bergelson Lab), Meaning and Modality Lab (Davidson Lab)
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 pm ET in William James Hall 1550 (Harvard University)
Organizers: Genia Lukin (elukin@g.harvard.edu), Nayantara Das (nayantaradas@g.harvard.edu)
Full Schedule Spring 2025:
| Date | Presenter | Location | Talk Title |
| January 28th | Elena Luchkina | #1550 | Developmental origins of talking about the unseen |
| February 4th | Josh Hartshorne | #1550 | Grounding language in thought with Probable World Semantics |
| February 11th | Tory Sampson | #1550 | |
| February 18th | TBA | #1550 | |
| February 25th | Victor Gomez | #1550 | |
| March 4th | James A. Michaelov | #1550 | |
| March 11th | Jacob Vigly | #1550 | |
| March 18th | Spring recess – no talk | #1550 | |
| March 25th | Siqi Lin | #1550 | |
| April 1st | Kalinka Timmer | #1550 | |
| April 8th | Marc Maffei | #1550 | |
| April 15th | Isabel Papadimitrou | #1550 | |
| April 22nd | Natasha Thalluri | #1550 | |
| April 29th | Greta Tuckute | #1550 |
Full Schedule Fall 2024:
| Date | Presenter | Location | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3 | NO TALK – First week of classes | | |
| 9/10 | Meet and Greet Picnic | WJH Courtyard | |
| 9/17 | Valerio Pepe (Harvard) | WJH 1550 | Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling |
| 9/24 | Aditya Yedetore (BU) | WJH 1550 | Semantic training signals promote hierarchical syntactic generalization in neural networks |
| 10/1 | Najoung Kim (BU) | WJH 1550 | Generating novel experimental hypotheses from language models: A case study on cross-dative generalization |
| 10/8 | Hayley Ross (Harvard) | WJH 1550 | When is artificial intelligence still intelligence? Measuring and modelling adjective-noun inferences |
| 10/15 | Simge Topaloglu (Harvard) | WJH 1550 | Number Sense and Number Nonsense: Children’s Understanding of the Structure of Number Words |
| 10/22 | Roman Feiman (Brown) | WJH 1550 | Distinguishing children’s concepts from non-conceptual representations: The case study of possibility representations |
| 10/29 | Ezer Rasin (MIT/Tel Aviv) | WJH 1550 | How children learn the hidden sound patterns of their language: a computational approach |
| 11/5 | Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh) | WJH 1550 | Lexicalization, compositionality, and communicative efficiency: The case of deontic priority |
| 11/12 | Erin Campbell (BU) | WJH 1550 | Form-Meaning Systematicity in the ASL lexicon |
| 11/19 | Adele Mortier (MIT) | WJH 1550 | How do Large Language Models process scalar Hurford Disjunctions? |
| 11/26 | Thanksgiving Break | WJH 1550 | |
| 12/03 | Patrick Juola (Duquesne University) | WJH 1550 |