Today at 4 pm. Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Alon Hafri, University of Delaware Title: Where language and vision meet: Shared representational principles and content Abstract: There are few domains as central to cognitive science as language and visual perception. They are typically studied in isolation, yet at some level, they must connect. How? My talk will explore this connection. First, I reveal surprising parallels in how language and vision encode information: Vision, like language, can be compositional. I explore the psychophysics of visual scene composition, finding that the mind builds relational representations (e.g., a vase on a table) in a canonical order. Next, I show that language and vision tap into the same modality-neutral conceptual representations. Using symmetry as a case study, I find a striking correspondence between linguistic and perceptual judgments of the same visual displays. Lastly, I demonstrate how language can offer a window into non-linguistic visuospatial representations, leveraging the unique ways that certain languages encode such properties, particularly Mandarin Chinese. By examining how Mandarin speakers describe novel objects ("daxes") in different visual contexts, I uncover an unexplored influence of spatial relations (a dax in a bowl) on object shape computations. Taken together, my work highlights the representational principles and content shared by language and vision, with implications for how infants acquire language from visual observation. Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09> (passcode: 471712) Chair: Gergely Csibra Best, Bartu ________________________________ From: Salih Bartug Celik &lt;Celik_Bartug(a)phd.ceu.edu&gt; Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:53 To: talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu &lt;talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu&gt; Subject: Re: Online CDC Seminar: Alon Hafri (University of Delaware), 4 pm on Wednesday March 27 Alon is available for individual meetings after the talk. Please indicate your interest and availability here<https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dJE0Jnlb>lb>. Best, Bartu ________________________________ From: Talks &lt;talks-bounces(a)cogsci.ceu.edu&gt; on behalf of Salih Bartug Celik &lt;Celik_Bartug(a)phd.ceu.edu&gt; Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:48 To: talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu &lt;talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu&gt; Subject: [CEU Cogsci Talks] Online CDC Seminar: Alon Hafri (University of Delaware), 4 pm on Wednesday March 27 Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Alon Hafri, University of Delaware Title: Where language and vision meet: Shared representational principles and content Abstract: There are few domains as central to cognitive science as language and visual perception. They are typically studied in isolation, yet at some level, they must connect. How? My talk will explore this connection. First, I reveal surprising parallels in how language and vision encode information: Vision, like language, can be compositional. I explore the psychophysics of visual scene composition, finding that the mind builds relational representations (e.g., a vase on a table) in a canonical order. Next, I show that language and vision tap into the same modality-neutral conceptual representations. Using symmetry as a case study, I find a striking correspondence between linguistic and perceptual judgments of the same visual displays. Lastly, I demonstrate how language can offer a window into non-linguistic visuospatial representations, leveraging the unique ways that certain languages encode such properties, particularly Mandarin Chinese. By examining how Mandarin speakers describe novel objects ("daxes") in different visual contexts, I uncover an unexplored influence of spatial relations (a dax in a bowl) on object shape computations. Taken together, my work highlights the representational principles and content shared by language and vision, with implications for how infants acquire language from visual observation. Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09> (passcode: 471712) Chair: Gergely Csibra Best, Bartu ______________________________________________ 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