course title
Psycholinguistics colloquium

dates and location
Tuesdays 1300-1500, Golm campus, Haus 14, Room 222

information for visitors and visiting speakers
Arriving in Kongresshotel. If you are one of our visiting speakers and are staying at Kongresshotel, please look here for how to get to the hotel.
Train to Golm. You probably need to work out train connections first (e.g., from Berlin to Golm station). See here. E.g., look for the connection between Berlin Zoo, or Berlin Hbf (which is the main station) to Bahnhof Golm (where our department is).
Golm campus, your final destination Here is the map for getting to our department from the train station Golm.

what this colloquium is about
This is a forum for talks by invited speakers and by researchers in Potsdam, and discussions about all matters related to psycholinguistics research happening in the Vasishth Lab.

schedule
date title abstract speaker readings
Apr 21 CUNY debriefing+lab meeting i'll be concrete Shravan Vasishth -none-
Apr 28 Variation in the time course of visual context influences: evidence from ERPs abstract Pia Knoeferle -
May 5 (Talk 1) Children's grammars grow more abstract with age: Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language abstract Gideon Borensztajn paper
May 5 (Talk 2: Haus 24, Room 173, 3-5PM) The hierarchical prediction network: towards a neural theory of grammar acquisition abstract Gideon Borensztajn paper
May 12 A grammar-based account of acceptability gradients in VP ellipsis abstract Greg Kobele background readings
May 19 Harmonic Minimalist Grammars abstract Peter beim Graben -
May 26 The resolution of personal pronouns in German and Dutch: semantic and syntactic gender matchmaking abstract Monique Lamers -
June 2 Incremental prediction in naturalistic language processing: An fMRI study abstract Asaf Bachrach -
June 9 NO COLLOQ NO COLLOQ NO COLLOQ -
June 16 The interplay of frequency, predictability, and SOA in word recognition: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye movements abstract Michael Dambacher background reading
June 23 Compound effect of probabilistic disambiguation and memory retrievals on sentence processing: Evidence from an eye-tracking corpus abstract Umesh Patil -
June 30 Event files in language processing abstract Jens Apel -
July 7 Talk 1: The mental representation of sentences: Tree structures or state vectors?
Talk 2: Generalization and systematicity in sentence processing by echo state networks 		abstracts Stefan Frank -
July 14 Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Eye Movements: A Method, Software and an Empirical Evaluation coming soon Titus von der Malsburg -