Dear all,
Dr. Floris van Vugt (McGill Psychology), a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. David Ostry, will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, September 29, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College).
His talk is titled “Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps"
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line.
Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found herehttps://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series.
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"Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps" Floris T van Vugt, McGill University
Imagine that you are first learning to talk or to play a music instrument. How do you learn which movement to use to produce a particular sound? Existing research has focused extensively on motor and perceptual learning in isolation, but has left unsolved the fundamental puzzle of how mappings between them are formed in the first place. In this talk, I present a paradigm to study how sensorimotor maps are initially formed, through a task that involves learning to reproduce sounds by making arm movements. Since our arm movements normally do not make sounds, participants in these studies are in much the same position as infants who have to learn from scratch which sounds result from particular movements of their vocal apparatus. A computational model of this task motivates a set of predictions, which are tested in a series of experiments.
___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.comhttp://mehrgoltiv.com
Hello everyone,
Just a reminder that Dr. Floris van Vugt, a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor David Ostry, will be speaking in today’s (September 29) CRAM session, 11:45-12:45 (Room 735, 2001 McGill College).
His talk is titled, “Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps”
Feel free to bring your lunch and join us for this event!
Mehrgol ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.comhttp://mehrgoltiv.com
On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Mehrgol Tiv <mehrgol.tiv@mail.mcgill.camailto:mehrgol.tiv@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
Dear all,
Dr. Floris van Vugt (McGill Psychology), a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. David Ostry, will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, September 29, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College).
His talk is titled “Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps"
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line.
Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found herehttps://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series.
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"Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps" Floris T van Vugt, McGill University
Imagine that you are first learning to talk or to play a music instrument. How do you learn which movement to use to produce a particular sound? Existing research has focused extensively on motor and perceptual learning in isolation, but has left unsolved the fundamental puzzle of how mappings between them are formed in the first place. In this talk, I present a paradigm to study how sensorimotor maps are initially formed, through a task that involves learning to reproduce sounds by making arm movements. Since our arm movements normally do not make sounds, participants in these studies are in much the same position as infants who have to learn from scratch which sounds result from particular movements of their vocal apparatus. A computational model of this task motivates a set of predictions, which are tested in a series of experiments.
___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.comhttp://mehrgoltiv.com/