[lingtalks] TWO TALKS LINKING ACTION TO LANGUAGE, February 11 and 12 - USC

[Karma Dolma]

TWO TALKS LINKING ACTION TO LANGUAGE, February 11 and 12 

Alistair Knott from the University of Otago in New Zealand will be visiting
the Arbib group and will present 2 talks during his visit:

Wednesday, February 11:
12-1: Knott Talk 1: Analysis of a sentence reporting a simple reach-to-grasp
action; this links to theories of the control (and perception) of
reach-to-grasp actions

Thursday, February 12:
3-4: Knott Talk 2: The syntax of noun phrases (NPs), and the NP/clause
interface, with links to analysis of the visual saliency map, and an
associated model of object categorization.

Both talks will be in HNB 15. All are welcome.




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