RuCCS - Meet Me at the Elevator - Hybrid talk - Tuesday 12, 2023

Shannon Bryant (Ph.D., Linguistics, Harvard)
Language as a window into our inner worlds
Learn more about Shannon and her research here:
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Chuanxiuyue (Carol) He (Ph.D., Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB)
Spatial thinking and navigation: Unraveling individual differences
in cognition through naturalistic complex tasks
Preston Lennon (Ph.D., Philosophy, The Ohio State University)
What does it feel like to think? Consciousness, Content, and Value
Read Preston’s writing about aphantasia here:
What Can Aphantasia Tell Us About Conscious Thought?
Joseph Sommer (Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Rutgers)
What explains irrational beliefs?
Explore examples of Joseph’s work here:
Updating, evidence evaluation, and operator availability: A theoretical framework for understanding belief
A hobgoblin of large minds: Troubles with consistency in belief - Sommer - 2023 - WIREs Cognitive Science
The Cognitive Science of Belief
Shuyan Wang (Ph.D., Linguistics, UConn)
Semantics in child language: The role of grammar and cognition
Read one of Shuyan’s papers here:
Effects of processing limits on computing scalar implicatures: Evidence from child English and child Mandarin
And learn more about her here:
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