Events

Integrating behavioral, neuroscience, and computational methods in the study of human speech – Lynne Bernstein (Department of Communication Neuroscience, House Ear Institute)

October 27, 2015

When: October 2, 2001 all-day

http://vimeo.com/70375554 View Seminar Video Abstract Speech perception is a process that transforms speech stimuli into neural representations that are then projected onto word-form representations in the mental lexicon. This process is conventionally thought to involve[…]

Time-frequency auditory processing in bat sonar – James Simmons (Brown University)

October 27, 2015

When: September 25, 2001 all-day

Abstract I’m interested in understanding how the bat’s sonar works and how?the bat’s brain makes sonar images. They make sounds, listen to echoes, and then see objects. To study echolocation, we go into the field[…]

Predictive clustering: smaller, faster language modeling – Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Corp.)

October 27, 2015

When: September 11, 2001 all-day

Abstract I’ll start with a brief overview of current research directions in several Microsoft Research groups, including the Speech Group (where I used to be), the Machine Learning Group (where I currently work) and the[…]