<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow (see below). Hope to see you there! </div><div><br></div><div>Also, CTN graduate students are invited to join the speaker for lunch. Please meet at PAS 2464 by 11:55, or at the Mongolian Grill at 12:10, and contact Eric Hunsberger (cc'd) with questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Bryan </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Bryan Tripp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bptripp@gmail.com" target="_blank">bptripp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone, </div><div><br></div><div>Please join us for our first CTN seminar of the season, next Tuesday (October 18) at 3:30 in PAS 2464. The title and abstract follow. The speaker is Dr. Robert Jacobs from the University of Rochester. Please let me know if you would like to meet individually with Professor Jacobs some time in the morning or early afternoon of the 18th. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Bryan</div><div><br></div><div><div>From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory Perception and Cross-Modal Transfer</div><div><br></div><div>If a person is trained to recognize or categorize objects or events using one sensory modality, the person can often recognize or categorize those same (or similar) objects and events via a novel modality, an instance of cross-modal transfer of knowledge. How is this accomplished? The Multisensory Hypothesis states that people extract the intrinsic, modality-independent properties of objects and events, and represent these properties in multisensory representations. These representations mediate the transfer of knowledge across modality-specific representations. In this talk, I'll present two projects evaluating the Multisensory Hypothesis using experimental and computational methodologies. The first project examines visual-haptic transfer of object shape knowledge, and the second project examines a novel hidden (latent) variable model of multisensory perception. I'll also consider implications of an experiment demonstrating generalization from perception to motor production for our understanding of cross-modal transfer.</div></div><div><br></div></div>
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