All meetings are in Bousfield A106 at 12:20-1:10 on Mondays. Please keep in mind seating, lighting, pacing and slide design concerns regarding accessibility.

Talk Shop Spring 2019

Date	Presenter	Title	Discussant
8/26/2019	Planning Meeting
9/2/2019	Labor day
9/9/2019	Faculty Blitz
9/16/2019	Sahil Luthra	Lexical information guides retuning of neural patterns in perceptual learning of speech	Drew Marina
9/23/2019	Jim Magnsuon	EARSHOT: A minimal neural network model of human speech recognition that learns to map real speech to semantic patterns	Ashley Parker
9/30/2019	Nick Monto	An interactive discussion on the use of Gorilla (experiment building software) and Prolific (online participant pool)	Ashley Parker
10/7/2019	Noelle Wig	Matching the Mismatch: The interaction between perceptual and conceptual cues in bilinguals’ speech perception	Lee Drown
10/14/2019	Anne Krook	Webinar-‘Abstracting your Skills’ – for Careers Outside of the Academy	Ashley Parker/Jason Crutcher
10/21/2019	Meaghan Perdue	Brain activation during reading mediates association between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and reading ability	Shireena McGee
10/28/2019	David Saltzman	Articulatory vs. abstract category representations for speech in the dorsal stream	Jason Crutcher
11/4/2019	Jason Crutcher	The relationship between pragmatic language and externalizing behaviors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder	David Saltzman
11/11/2019	Clifton Langdon	Language Deprivation as Lens into Functional Specificity of Neural Networks for Language Processing (working grant proposal)	Nikole Giovannone
11/18/2019	Hannah Mechtenberg	Semantic predictability modulates cortical sensitivity to phonetic competition in passive listening	Hannah Morrow
11/25/2019	Thanksgiving Break
12/02/19	Ashley Parker	He Drank Coffee on the Floor: The Interaction between Semantic Predictability and Phonetic Competition in the Brain	Amanda Mankovich