How do humans conceptualize time? One clear pattern is that temporal concepts are based on spatial ones, however how this is done is not universally determined in the human brain and varies significantly across cultures.
What information can young children use to aid them in understanding spoken language? Recent work in the Creel lab shows that preschoolers are able to use who is talking to limit the set of things that person might talk about.
Though prediction has been proposed across a variety of neural domains, language has not traditionally been one of them - until recently. Using event-related brain potentials, we show that prediction is part and parcel of sentence comprehension.
Artificial agents such as humanoid robots and interactive animated characters are rapidly becoming participants in many aspects of social and cultural life. With applications in domains such as education and health care, we need to understand human factors guiding our perceptions of and interactions with these agents.
Inhibitory control is the ability to withhold or modify prepotent or planned actions that are no longer appropriate in a behavioral context. We are studying the computational and neurophysiological basis of inhibitory control in healthy individuals and those affected by conditions such as ADHD and stimulant abuse.
The ability to recall our experiences as they evolved over time is truly an impressive feat accomplished in large part through the working of a thumb-sized portion of the brain called the hippocampus. How the brain encodes memories is a difficult, but exciting and burgeoning area of neuroscientific research.
People drive more poorly when they're talking on the phone. What is it about having a conversation that interferes with steering, changing gears, and noticing brake lights?
We introduce a system to aid the process of data collection and analysis during observational research by providing non-intrusive automatic capture of paper-based annotations.
The introduction of computer workstations into the medical interview process makes it important to consider the impact of such technology on older patients as well as new types of interfaces that may better suit the needs of older adults.
ChronoViz is a system to aid annotation, visualization, navigation, and analysis of multimodal time-coded data. Exploiting interactive paper technology, ChronoViz also integrates researcher's paper notes into the composite data set. The goal is to decrease the time and effort required to analyze multimodal data by providing direct indexing and flexible mechanisms to control data exploration.
This is an upper-level undergraduate course focused on the design of gesture-based intearction techniques. The course will cover original research in HCI on various gesture-based input techniques, including mouse, pen, touch, and whole-body interaction. Students will work in small teams to complete prototyping activities related to various gesture-based techniques.
Human language is unlike any other naturally occurring communication system. It’s expressive, flexible, and in principle limitless. It’s also dirty.
This class is an introduction to language through the lens of its dark underbelly. We’ll look at vulgarities, taboo words, and epithets. They will tell us a lot about how people learn language, how they pronounce words, how they put words together into sentences, how they understand meaning, and why language changes over time.
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, students who believe they could be offended by the study of swearing and other taboo language might not find this course appropriate for them, and are encouraged not to enroll.
The Language Acquisition & Sound Research lab is seeking enthusiastic, motivated, and reliable undergraduate research assistants to assist with a study. The study investigates how different people interpret sounds when processing language. Successful applicants will receive course credit and gain valuable experience with language research! Interested students should contact Carolyn ...
We are evaluating two interventions for dyslexia that involve training the temporal dynamics of the visual system (magnocellular pathway) and the auditory system, and whether the two interventions together have super-additive effects. As a Research Assistant, you would be traveling to one or two of five participating local elementary schools ...
The Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) is a multidisciplinary effort to explore innovative approaches to making future automobiles safer and "intelligent". Our research considers issues in sensing, analysis, modeling, and prediction of parameters associated with drivers, occupants, vehicle dynamics and vehicle surroundings as well as transportation infrastructures. This ...
Computational Psycholinguistics Lab. We study how language comprehension unfolds in real time through psycholinguistic experiments. Duties include preparing experimental sentences, recruiting participants, running experiments, compiling results and assisting with analysis. Training is provided on these tasks, and you will learn a lot about both the structure of language and human ...
A number of brain regions have been linked to emotion processing, perception, and expression in EEG and functional imaging studies. However, structural correlates of these processes are not well understood, and individual differences in the development of these processes are even less clear. One potential obstacle to understanding these developmental ...
Learning a second language is difficult, and we want to help make it easier. As a 199 research assistant, you would have the opportunity to participate in the development of a new online system for second language learning. We are using tools from computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, ...
The Language Acquisition & Sound Research lab is seeking enthusiastic, motivated, and reliable undergraduate research assistants to assist with a study. The study investigates how different people (monolinguals and bilinguals) interpret sounds when processing language. Successful applicants will receive course credit and gain valuable experience with language research! If interested, ...
Are children really better than adults at learning languages, and why? Learning even one language presents a challenge: children must figure out what sounds are meaningfully different and what sounds are not. This gets very complicated when children grow up learning more than one language! Researchers are very interested in ...
Get involved with eyetracking studies that explore language development in children. Duties will include testing children and adults in eyetracking and behavioral studies, recruiting children, data entry, preparing experimental stimuli, and attending lab meetings.
EEG/ERP Studies of Sensory and Attentional Processing in Typical and Atypical Development. We are studying attention and sensory processing in children and adults with typical and atypical development (e.g., autism). Students will learn to design experiments and collect and analyze Event-Related Potential (ERP) data. Each quarter's emphasis will be slightly ...
People witness, experience, and describe hundreds of events every day. These events are then encoded into memory and recalled as needed. This project focuses on the factors which can affect this encoding and subsequent recall. We are specifically interested in the extent to which speaking a particular language--Spanish or English--can ...
A number of brain regions have been linked to emotion processing, perception, and expression in EEG and functional imaging studies. However, structural correlates of these processes are not well understood, and individual differences in the development of these processes are even less clear. The Center for Human Development is looking ...
Human speech proceeds at an extremely rapid rate. In order to successfully understand language, the comprehension system must be able to extract meaning from speech as quickly as it comes in. To some extent, speech comprehension thus must involve predicting upcoming words and the information they convey before they have ...
The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UC San Diego is pleased to announce a competition for 2012-13 Undergraduate Student Research Travel Grants to support senior honors thesis research by undergraduates in international, comparative, and area studies.
The Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine is interested in recruiting highly qualified students from the University of California, San Diego for an exciting new pre-doctoral fellowship for current graduates or graduating seniors. The position will commence June 2012 and will be 2 years in duration.
Mayor Sanders and the City of San Diego are challenging the software developer community to create new apps using city and partner data. They’re also inviting the public to share their ideas for innovative new apps.
Google is proud to announce the 2012 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, awarding a group of female students each a $10,000 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Associate or Full Professor in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE AT UCSD
The Department of Cognitive Science (http://cogsci.ucsd.edu) within the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body. The department invites applications for a new faculty position in human-computer interaction. The department has a preference for a senior researcher to be appointed at the associate or full professor level, but will also consider junior candidates. Appointment begins July 1, 2012.
The impact of implicit learning and development of conceptual knowledge in children with SLI
It has recently been suggested that specific language impairment (SLI) is a domain general deficit in implicit learning. Ullman and colleagues have argued that the implicit learning impairments in SLI are restricted to procedural learning impairments and that procedural learning deficits impact the acquisition and use of bound morphology and syntax; leaving the acquisition and use of the mental lexicon largely intact. Our recent work ...
Language, Sensori-Motor Interfaces, and Time: Temporal Integration Windows in the Perception of Signed and Spoken Languages
Linguistic structures are processed in time, whether listening to acoustic speech or viewing the visual input of sign language. In this talk, I will discuss the perceiver’s sensitivity to the rate at which linguistic form and meaning unfold for integrating the sensory input in time chunks. The duration or size of time windows for integrating the input is tested by measuring the intelligibility ...
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Tue, Jan 31st, 4:00pm-5:00pm (CSB 280)
(2 days, 4 hours from now)
Machine learning and AI via large scale brain simulations
By building large-scale simulations of cortical (brain) computations, can we enable revolutionary progress in AI and machine learning? Machine learning often works very well, but can be a lot of work to apply because it requires spending a long time engineering the input representation (or "features") for each specific problem. This is true for machine learning applications in vision, audio, text/NLP and other problems. To address this, researchers have recently ...
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Mon, Jan 30th, 11:00am-12:00pm (EBU3B, Room 1202)
(23 hours, 29 minutes from now)
Motor Simulation, Emulation & Imagery: When does the motor system solve problems of cognition?
Rapid advances in brain-machine interfaces, the application of machine learning algorithms and efforts to augment human performance demand a deeper understanding of the structure of goal directed information being derived from the human motor system. This talk considers alternative accounts of motor related information and asks whether simulation within the motor system is used to solve problems of perception and cognition. New behavioral studies highlight ...
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Tue, Jan 31st, 12:00pm-1:00pm (Mandler 3545 (Crick Conference Room))
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