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From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
Arthur S. Abramson, 1925-2017, Founding Department Head
Oak Hall
UConn Linguists at NELS 50
Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
GLOW 42
GLOW in Asia 2019
American Sign Language involved faculty and alumni at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn.
David Michaels speaking at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn

UConn Linguists at NELS
The 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society is taking place 12-14th of January, at University of Göttingen (https://nels53.uni-goettingen.de), and UConn Linguistics will be well represented, with main session talks by… Linghui Eva Gan. Perspective Blend and Indexical Shift in Hong Kong Sign Language Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell) & Michael […]
Posted on January 12, 2023

Yang Defense
Muyi Yang successfully defended her dissertation Varieties of conditionals as definite descriptions on December 15th. Congratulations, Muyi! Muyi defending: Dr. Yang with her committee: Dr. Yang with her well-earned cake:
Posted on December 17, 2022

UConn linguists at Amsterdam Colloquium
The 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium is taking place 19–21 December, 2022, and UConn linguistics will be represented there by the following presentations: Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), William Snyder and Stella Christie. Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of you ‘again’ with goal-PPs (lightning talk/poster) Yuya Noguchi. Non-past directives in Japanese (lightning talk/poster)
Posted on December 17, 2022

Feb 10 ECOM Speaker Series: Alison Springle4:00pm

ECOM Speaker Series: Alison Springle

Friday, February 10th, 2023

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
FSB220

ECOM Speaker Series will host Alison Springle (Oklahoma University, Philosophy). The title of her talk is "Radicalizing Practical Representations." The event will be held in Family Studies 220, and will be broadcasted via Zoom. For details, contact aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu

Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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Feb 17 Linguistics Colloquium: Robert Stalnaker (MIT)4:00pm

Linguistics Colloquium: Robert Stalnaker (MIT)

Friday, February 17th, 2023

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak Hall

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Robert Stalnaker!

Contact Information: chui_yi.lee@uconn.edu; zixi.liu@uconn.edu
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Feb 24 Logic Colloquium: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal2:00pm

Logic Colloquium: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

Friday, February 24th, 2023

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus
BUSN 218 & Zoom

Join us for a talk in the Logic Colloquium by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (Jerusalem)!

Details t.b.a.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Contact Information: logic@uconn.edu
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Feb 24 CogSci Colloquium: Thomas Naselaris4:00pm

CogSci Colloquium: Thomas Naselaris

Friday, February 24th, 2023

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Oak Hall Room 117

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Naselaris, an Associate Professor from Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.

Time & Location: 4PM, Friday February 24th, 2023, in Oak Hall Room 117. Please RSVP on the COGS colloquium page.

Talk Title: “Why Do We Have Mental Images?”

Abstract: Everyone who experiences mental imagery is the world expert on the contents of their own mental images. We argue that this privileged perspective on one’s own mental images provides very limited understanding about the function of mental imagery, which can only be understood by proposing and testing hypotheses about the computational work that mental images do. We propose that mental imagery functions as a useful form of inference that is conditioned on visual beliefs. We implement this form of inference in a simple generative model of natural scenes, and show that it makes testable predictions about differences in tuning to seen and imagined features. We confirm these predictions with a large-scale fMRI experiment in which human brain activity was sampled while subjects generated hundreds of mental images. We speculate that ongoing mental imagery may impact the structure of noise correlations in the visual system, and present a preliminary analysis of the Natural Scenes Dataset that appears to be consistent with these speculations.
Bio: Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Optical Imaging and Brain Science at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. He is co-founder and currently Executive Chair of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.

Contact Information: crystal.mills@uconn.edu
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