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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 22 octobre 2026 par Louise CONNELL
Louise CONNELL - 22 octobre 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Sensorimotor Structure in Lexical Meaning RÉSUMÉ The cognitive sciences view concepts as the heart of cognition, yet it remains a matter of debate how we mentally represent lexical meanings as diverse as cat, affection, and calculus. Grounded theories of…
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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 15 octobre 2026 par Gabriella VOGLIOCCO
Gabriella VOGLIOCCO - 15 octobre 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Situated Multimodal Word Learning RÉSUMÉ I will discuss similarities and differences between the way people learn about new things in everyday life from caregivers or teachers and the way language models learn. In everyday face-to-face contexts, in addition to…
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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 8 octobre 2026 par Patrick C. M. WONG
Patrick C. M. WONG - 8 octobre 2026 à 10h30 au PK5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE: Forecasting Spoken Language Development RÉSUMÉ Can bottom-up neural signals — brain data collected from infancy — forecast how spoken language develops, better than top-down clinical categories like diagnosis or demographics? Using MRI and EEG, we build predictive…
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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 1er octobre 2026 par Michael C. FRANK
Michael C. FRANK - 1er octobre 2026 à 10h30 au PK5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE: Data efficiency in children and language models RÉSUMÉ Large language models show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive at least three to four — and sometimes as much as six — orders of magnitude more language data than…
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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 24 septembre 2026 par Reto GUBELMANN
Reto GUBELMANN - 24 septembre 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Grounding Reasoning RÉSUMÉ This talk will explore an unconventional way of thinking about grounding reasoning: that reasoning is a kind of action, properly predicated of an entire animal, and integrating cognition, affect, and conation in the case of humans.…
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Séminaire DIC-ISC-CRIA - 17 septembre 2026 par Ziqiao MA
Ziqiao MA - 17 septembre 2026 à 10h30 au PK-5115 (201, ave President-Kennedy, 5e étage) TITRE : Mechanistic Emergence of Grounding RÉSUMÉ What does it mean for a language model to actually ground a word in the world? Much of the current discussion treats grounding as an observed correspondence: a word like “horse” aligns with the…