Tufts University
Cognitive Science
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is derived from universal design, a name coined by the architect Ronald L. Mace for the concept of designing accessibility into buildings, structures, and places from the onset. However, it was the... more
Speakers of more than one language, (i.e. bilinguals) may intentionally mix their languages during conversation in a phenomenon known as “code switching”. As a line of scholarly inquiry, code switching is generally limited to the context... more
This is a proposal to investigate whether lexical input received by a shared auditory and visual speech process can create a priming effect by making contact with the shared bilingual lexicon and activating overlapping phonological... more
Results from empirical studies in bilingual research demonstrate that “code-switching” in bilinguals, i.e., the change from one language to another, comes at a cost. What is still unclear is the exact nature of the cost. In this paper,... more
The "hard problem" in speech production is embodied in the cognitive process which selects the single, correct word that the speaker intends to utter from among multiple words activated by their shared semantic concept. Bilingual word... more
We show how temporal and spatial information can be represented as stable patterns in a dynamical system. We describe a model in which category perception arises from the incremental recognition of temporal patterns from sequences of... more
We show how temporal and spatial information can be represented as stable patterns in a dynamical system. It is hypothesized that human perception and knowledge representation arise from such patterns. We describe how these patterns can... more
Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) are used to interact with intelligent agents through natural language. Speech processing errors may cause the system to fail to generate an appropriate response. In this paper, we present a novel framework... more
Results from empirical studies in bilingual research demonstrate that “code-switching” in bilinguals, i.e., the change from one language to another, comes at a cost. What is still unclear is the exact nature of the cost. In this paper, we... more
Previous attempts at modeling the neuro-cognitive mechanisms underlying word processing have used connectionist approaches, but none has modeled spoken word architectures as the input is presented in real-time. Hence, such models rely on... more
In typical human interactions emotional states are communicated via a variety of modalities such as auditory (through speech), visual (through facial expressions) and kinesthetic (through gestures). However, one or more modalities might... more
Page 1. TWISTIN' THE NIGHT AWAY RAY JACKENDOFF Brandeis University The 'time'-away construction, exemplified by We slept the whole afternoon away, proves to have a complex set of syntactic and semantic properties. ... b.... more
The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to... more