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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Whitney Tabor, University of Connecticut
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Laura Gwilliams, Stanford University
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
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12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Eleonore Neufeld, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingUnraveling the Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory and Communication for Naturalistic Narratives
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Coraline Rinn Iordan, University of Rochester
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Continue ReadingPrediction During Language Comprehension Impacts Downstream Memory
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Ryan Hubbard, University at Albany, SUNY
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingWhat can the auditory models teach us about speech? Letting nonlinear physiological models have a say
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Laurel Carney, University of Rochester
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Maya Abtahian, University of Rochester
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingTowards Robust Language Technologies for Everyone
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Wyatte Hall, University of Rochester Medical Center
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Jamie Reilly, Temple University
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingSurgery on LLMs: Editing, Unlearning, and Securing Knowledge
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Wengpeng Yin, Pennsylvania State University
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingWhat Role Do Generic Propositions Play in Guiding Action?
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.
Bernhard Nickel, Harvard University
Humanities Center, Conference Room D
Continue ReadingCoffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Douglass 407
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Elise Piazza
Humanities Center Room D
Continue ReadingEventful processing: Constructing event representations from language
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Marten van Schijndel
Humanities Center Room D
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Douglass 407
Continue ReadingRethinking LLM Behaviors: From Uncertainty and Priors to Financial Applications
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Hangfeng He
Humanities Center Room D
Continue ReadingThe Said and the Unsaid: A Confound for Stereotype Detection in Language Models
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Rachel Rudolph
Humanities Center Room D
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Douglass 407
Continue ReadingQuantifying semantic predictability and its role in language comprehension and production
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Cassandra Jacobs
Humanities Center Room D
Continue ReadingFiltered Corpus Training (FiCT) Shows that Language Models can Generalize from Indirect Evidence
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Humanities Center Room D
Continue ReadingElectrophysiological investigations of natural speech and language processing in the human brain
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Edmund Lalor
Humanities Center Room D
Continue ReadingCoffee Hours in Language Science (CHiLS)
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Douglass 407
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