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Trainee Ian Coffman, in collaboration with Prof. Brenda Rapp, conducted interdisciplinary research…

Reorientation in many species has been shown to depend on a geometric representation of the surrounding…

In research combining theoretical linguistics, developmental psychology, and psycholinguistics,…

Due to her interdisciplinary IGERT training, trainee Bonnie Breining is able to integrate a variety…

Language is a collaborative act: to communicate, speakers must generate semantically valid utterances…

A new course was created, Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Inference. This course complements…

A new Professional Seminar was developed by P.I. Paul Smolensky, in which all trainees (including…

A new graduate course on Experimental Syntax and Semantics was developed by Profs. Akira Omaki (psycholinguistics)…

Spatial language provides a window into how the mind represents objects and categorizes the relations…

Brain damage can test whether linguists’ grammars describe actual knowledge in the brain. Linguistics…

Trainee Manuel Vindiola, working with core faculty Profs. McCloskey and Smolensky, has developed…

Neural evidence was shown to support an abstract syntactic hypothesis positing a deep distinction…

How abstract are the units of cognition? To recognize “cat”, do we identify abstract speech segments…

Computational models of learning in the brain have differentiated networks for rapid storage of individual…

The diversity of behaviors of adjectives has challenged semantic analyses in which the meaning of…

How do people intelligently cope with novel situations? A traditional answer is that, from extensive…

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Recent research conducted at Johns Hopkins University has produced some of the first evidence from…

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Bringing together mathematical analysis of neural computation and the cognitive psychology and cognitive…

The new field of processing linguistics developed by this IGERT uses methods of theoretical linguistics…

The program witnessed this year a veritable explosion of trainee research in semantics. IGERT visiting…

The formal core of the training program is a set of Formal Methods courses on mathematical and computational…

The new area of axiomatic linguistics developed in this IGERT was expanded in scope through a…

A new multidisciplinary research team brings together computer scientists, linguists, and psychologists…

A fundamental generalization about phonological grammars is that assimilation – a type of process…

How general across cognition are fundamental principles like those governing the representation…

That the grammars of the world’s languages share many deep properties, universals, has long been…

For our IGERT we proposed to develop the new area of ’statistical Linguistics’, applying insights…

For our IGERT we proposed to develop the new area of ‘Processing Linguistics’ in which methods of…

A new interdisciplinary area for our IGERT was opened up in the juncture between philosophy of language,…

Processing the order of elements in a sequence is central to many aspects of cognition, especially…

We proposed to use IGERT funds for visiting faculty to provide training to trainees in areas unrepresented…

Other, short-term, visitors addressed another under-represented area within the core faculty, neuroimaging….

To address a central question in cognitive science, how autonomous is language from the rest of…

For our IGERT we proposed to develop a seminar in the new area of ’statistical Linguistics",…

A new Professional Seminar was developed by P.I. Paul Smolensky, in which all trainees (including…

Recent research conducted at Johns Hopkins University has produced some of the first evidence from…

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