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

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow (see below). Hope to see you there!


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.

Regards,
Bryan


On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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