HLP Lab Meeting Schedule

Autumn Semester '13

Tuesdays at 1:00pm

Possible readings

• Ahissar & Hochstein (2004). The reverse hierarchy theory of visual perceptual learning. TiCS.

• Hochstein & Ahissar (2002). View from the Top: Hierarchies and Reverse Hierarchies in the Visual System. Neuron.

• Ahissar et al. (2009). Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.

• Gonzales & Lotto (2013). A bafri, un pafri: Bilinguals’ Pseudoword Identifications Support Language-Specific Phonetic Systems. Psychological Science. (Bozena)

• Pefors, Tenenbaum, & Regier (2011). The learnability of abstract syntactic principles. Cognition. (Klinton)

• Hickok (2012). Computational neuroanatomy of speech production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Klinton)

• Dikker & Pylkkänen (In press). Predicting language: MEG evidence for lexical preactivation. Brain and Language. (Klinton)

• Vandeberg et al. (2013). Detecting cognitive interactions through eye movement transitions. JML. (Klinton)

• Lori Holt papers on low-level perceptual adaptation (e.g. Laing et al. 2012; Huang & Holt, 2012) (she's coming for a colloquium Oct 23)

• Reinisch, E., & Holt, L. L. (in press). Lexically-guided phonetic retuning of foreign-accented speech and its generalization. (Dave; expands on Kraljic & Samuel papers on generalization across talkers)

• van de Schoot et al. (2013). A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Analysis: Applications to Developmental Research. Child Development.

Possible topics

• Semi-supervised learning, possibly connected to phonetic adaptation (e.g. Cheyenne Munson's dissertation experiments; Zhu, Rogers, Qian et al. 2007; Lake & McClelland, 2010; Feldman 2013)

• Audio-visual speech processing
• The extent and nature of within vs. between talker variability in different phonetic cues/categories (Dave)
• Model adaptation vs. normalization in automatic speech recognition systems (Dave)
• Models of sensory adaptation in other domains
• Particle filters and rational process models tutorial