[CTN] CTN seminar: Prof. Robert Jacobs (Rochester), 3:30 October 18, PAS 2464

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

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.

Regards,
Bryan

>From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory
Perception and Cross-Modal Transfer

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.
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