Multi-disciplinary Insights into Language Processing

Keynote speaker Jay McClelland, Stanford
The case for TRACE in the Deep Learning Era: Could a 40 year-old model of spoken language perception still be relevant today?

Lightning talks

• Erin Kunz & Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, Stanford Representation of perceived & inner speech in motor cortex 
• Maria Ivanova, UC Berkeley Cognitive & neural mechanisms of impairment & recovery in aphasia 
• Lily Xue Gong, UC Berkeley Phonemic segmentation of speech in human cortex 
• Nora Beier, UC Davis Temporal attention in language comprehension 
• Yizhen Zhang, UCSF Word extraction in human speech cortex 
• Julie Kallini, Stanford Mission: Impossible language models

Happy hour reception to follow!