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SUMMARY:From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisen
 sory Perception and Cross-Modal Transfer - Prof Robert Jacobs (University 
 of Rochester) 
DTSTART:20160503T100000Z
DTEND:20160503T110000Z
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CONTACT:Zoubin Ghahramani
DESCRIPTION:If a person is trained to recognize or categorize objects or e
 vents using one sensory modality\, the person can often recognize or categ
 orize 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\, mod
 ality-independent properties of objects and events\, and represent these p
 roperties in multisensory representations. These representations mediate t
 he transfer of knowledge across modality-specific representations. In this
  talk\, I'll present two projects evaluating the Multisensory Hypothesis u
 sing experimental and computational methodologies. The first project exami
 nes visual-haptic transfer of object shape knowledge\, and the second proj
 ect examines a novel hidden (latent) variable model of multisensory percep
 tion. I'll also consider implications of an experiment demonstrating gener
 alization from perception to motor production for our understanding of cro
 ss-modal transfer.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room 438
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