Psychology General Calendar
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Demonstrations of perceptual organization processes like grouping, surface completion, figure-ground assignment, and correspondence across time and space, are fascinating not just because of their compelling phenomenology, but because they provide insight into different levels of representation and their functions within the visual cognitive system more generally.
Friday, April 4, 2025
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On average, English speakers utter around 16,000 words per day, most of it in interactions with other people. Yet, the language sciences have predominately approached language as if we use it for monologue. In this talk, Dr. Christiansen will argue that we should view language as being fundamentally collaborative and improvisational, like a game of charades.