Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Jutta Müller<https://psy-ling.univie.ac.at/en/> (University of Vienna) Auditory sequential learning across ontogeny and phylogeny: Evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological and modeling studies Humans’ ability to learn complex sequential structure from auditory information forms a basic component of spoken language. As an exemplary case of a linguistically relevant sequential structure, I investigate the learning of non-adjacent dependencies between units of sound. I will present neurophysiological studies in young infants, children and adults and integrate this with behavioral findings in order to show that complex sequential learning in the auditory domain undergoes dramatic changes across ontogenetic development including age-related decline. In contrast, the basic ability to learn non-adjacent dependencies has been found across many species, even in those that are related to humans only distantly. Computational modeling underscores that relatively simple mechanisms suffice to acquire those structures. Based on empirical evidence I will argue that the ability to learn complex structures from the auditory environment is a basic ability of primate (and maybe non-primate) brains which is specifically modified across human ontogeny in order to support the full complexity of human language. Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D001-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Ágnes Kovács *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/r/i1nCmekPLp> to get access to the lecture hall. Let me know if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Barbu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu