Laura Gwilliams

Invited Talks

2022

Gwilliams, L. (2022, May). The computational architecture of speech comprehension. Meta AI and ENS. Paris, France.

Gwilliams, L. (2022, March). The computational architecture of speech comprehension. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Special Talk Series. Neurobiology of language: Ley issues and kays forward II.

Gwilliams, L. (2022, February). The computational architecture of speech comprehension. New York University, New York, USA.

2021

Gwilliams, L. (2021, November). Decoding the neural architecture of speech comprehension. Duke University, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. North Carolina, USA. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2021, April). Decoding the neural architecture of speech comprehension. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Linguistics Department. Amherst, USA. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2021, April). Computational models of speech comprehension using neural time series. University of California, Davis. Davis, USA. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2021, March). Decoding the neural architecture of speech comprehension. University of Oxford. Oxford, UK. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2021, January). Decoding the neural architecture of speech comprehension. Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow. Glasgow, UK. (presented remotely).

2020

Gwilliams, L. (2020, December). MEG studies of morphological representations. Mini- Workshop on Morphological Processing. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2020, December). Decoding the neural architecture of speech comprehension. University of Maryland. Maryland, USA. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. & King, JR. (2020, October). Is it that simple? The use of linear models in cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Generative Adversarial Collab- orations Debate. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2020, October). Rapid transformation of phoneme sequences into (sub)lexical units. Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Symposia presentation. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2020, October). Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension. Soci- ety for the Neurobiology of Language. Dissertation award talk. (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2020, July). Neural dynamics of phoneme sequencing. Martin Lab, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands (presented remotely).

Gwilliams, L. (2020, January). Recurrent processes emulate a cascade of hierarchical decisions. Kriegeskorte Lab. Columbia University, New York City, USA.

2019

Gwilliams, L. (2019, July). Transforming acoustic input into a hierarchy of linguistic representations. Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt, Germany.

Gwilliams, L. (2019, June). Transforming acoustic input into a hierarchy of linguistic representations. BCBL. Donostia, Basque Country.

Gwilliams, L. (2019, May). Transforming acoustic input into a hierarchy of linguistic representations. Bedny Lab. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, USA.

Gwilliams, L. (2019, April). Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension in the human brain. University of Maryland. College Park, USA. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2019, February). Transforming acoustic input into a hierarchy of linguistic representations. École Normale Supérieure & Facebook AI Research. Paris, France. [Slides]

2018

Gwilliams, L. (2018, December). Parsing continuous speech into linguistic representations. Mesgarani Lab, Columbia University. New York, USA.

Gwilliams, L. (2018, November). Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension in the human brain. brainLENS Lab, UCSF. San Fransisco, USA. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, October). From brain responses to algorithms: advances in parsing the computational architecture of perceptual decision making with MEG and machine learning. Perception and Brain Dynamics Lab, NYU Langone Medical Center. New York, USA. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, August). Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension in the human brain. Trueswell Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, USA. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, July). Towards a mechanistic account of speech comprehension in the human brain. Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Frankfurt, Germany. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, March). Back to the future: Tracking the neural mechanisms supporting speech comprehension. UCSF. San Fransisco, USA.[Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, February). Back to the future: Investigating the neural mechanisms supporting speech comprehension. Columbia University. New York City, USA.[Slides]

Gwilliams, L. (2018, January). Postdictive processing in spoken word recognition. Mesgarani Lab, Columbia University. New York City, USA. [Slides]

2017

Gwilliams, L. (2017, June). In spoken word recognition the future predicts the past. Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Cambridge, UK. [Slides]

2016

Gwilliams, L. (2016, November). In spoken word recognition the future predicts the past. HLP Lab, University of Rochester. NY, USA. [Slides]

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2016, February). Taking Morphology Seriously: MEG Studies of Morphological Representations. Presentation at 17th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria. [Slides]

Slide Presentations

2019

*Abrams, E., *Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2019, August). Tracking the building blocks of pitch perception in auditory cortex. SMPC, New York, USA.

2018

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, August). From brain responses to algorithms: advances in parsing the computational architecture of perceptual decision making with MEG and machine learning. Symposia presentation, BioMag, Philadelphia, USA.

Gwilliams, L., King, J-R. & Poeppel, D. (2018, August). Parsing continuous speech into linguistic representations. Presentation at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference. Québec City, Canada.

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, July). Perceptual decision making is supported by a hierarchical processing cascade in both biological and artificial neural networks. Presentation at the Young Scientists Symposium (YSS), Salzburg, Austria.[Slides]

Gwilliams, L., Poeppel., D., Marantz, A. & Linzen, T., (2018, January). Phonological (un)certainty weights lexical activation. Presentation at Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL). Salt Lake City, USA. [Slides]

2016

Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Neophytou, K., Poeppel., D & Marantz, A. (2016, September). Tracking lexical garden-path resolution with MEG: Phonological commitment and sensitivity to subphonemic detail are independent. Presentation at AMLAP 2016, Bilbao, Basque Country. [Slides]

Stockall, L., Manouilidou, C., Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2016, February). Un/Re-packing argument and event structure restrictions on prefixation: MEG evidence. Workshop on the syntax of argument structure: empirical advancements and theoretical relevance. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Leipzig, Germany.

2015

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, June). Abstract representation of the root morpheme: A magnetoencephalography study of spoken Arabic. Presentation at the 9th Morphological Processing Conference, Potsdam, Germany

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, March). Decomposition of spoken Arabic words into root morphemes during processing: Evidence from magnetoencephalography. Presentation at the Linguistics in the Gulf 5 Conference, Doha, Qatar

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, March). Letter specific sensitivities in the brain: located in time, space and current direction. Presentation at the Neuroscience of Language Workshop 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, February). Non-linear processing of a linear speech stream. Presentation at the NYUAD Annual Research Conference 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2014

Gwilliams, L. & Fontaine, L. (2014, July). Ambiguity in Process Type Selection in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presentation at the 25th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Paris, France

Brodbeck, C., Gwilliams, L. & Pylkkänen, L. (2014, February). Reference resolution and prediction in a visual world: MEG evidence from English and Arabic. Presentation at NYUAD Annual Research Conference 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Poster Presentations

2019

Gwilliams, L., Poeppel, D. & King, J-R. (2019, March). Transforming acoustic input into a hierarchy of linguistic representations. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. San Fransisco, USA. [Poster]

2018

Gwilliams, L., King, J-R. & Poeppel, D. (2018, November). Parsing continuous speech into linguistic representations. Poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA. [Poster]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, July). Identifying The Neural Architecture of Perceptual Decision Making with Normative, Shallow and Deep neural network approaches. Poster presented at BioMag, Philadelphia, USA. [Poster]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, July). Perceptual decision making is supported by a hierarchical processing cascade in both biological and artificial neural networks. Poster presented at CuttingEEG, Paris, France.[Poster]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, July). Perceptual decision making is supported by a hierarchical processing cascade in both biological and artificial neural networks. Poster presented at the Salzburg Mind and Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), Salzburg, Austria.[Poster]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2018, March). Perceptual decision making is supported by a hierarchical processing cascade in both biological and artificial neural networks. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference (CNS), Boston, USA.[Poster]

2017

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2017, November). Uncovering the cascade of computations involved in ambiguity resolution: Decoding from MEG and deep neural networks. Dynamic poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., USA.[Poster (Static version)]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2017, November). Uncovering the cascade of computations involved in ambiguity resolution: Decoding from MEG and deep neural networks. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Baltimore, USA. [Poster]

Gwilliams, L. & King, J.R. (2017, September). Perceptual decision making unfolds in a processing cascade within and across brain regions. Poster presented at Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, New York, USA. [Paper] [Poster]

2016

Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Neophytou, K., Poeppel., D & Marantz, A. (2016, August). Tracking lexical garden-path resolution with MEG: Phonological commitment and sensitivity to subphonemic detail are independent. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, London, UK. [PDF]

Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Neophytou, K., Warnke, L., Poeppel., D & Marantz, A. (2016, April). Early and asymmetric sensitivity to phonological boundaries and within-category variation across hemispheres. Poster presented at the 2016 CNS Annual meeting, New York, USA. [PDF]

Brodbeck, C., Gwilliams, L. & Pylkkanen, L. (2016, April). Amodal reference resolution in medial parietal cortex. Poster presented at the 2016 CNS Annual meeting, New York, USA.

Gwilliams, L., Linzen, T., Neophytou, K., Warnke, L., Poeppel., D & Marantz, A. (2016, March). Phoneme ambiguity is reflected very early in primary auditory cortex. Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Florida, USA. [PDF]

Brodbeck, C., Gwilliams, L. & Pylkkanen, L. (2016, March). Modality general and specific brain responses during reference resolution. Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Florida, USA

2015

Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, October). Representations of the stems you can't see: A MEG study of morphological decomposition. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA

Stockall, L., Gwilliams, L., Manouilidou, C. & Marantz, A. (2015, October). Access to lexical category and verb argument structure in the early stages of processing morphologically complex words: MEG investigations of prefixation. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA

Gaston, P., Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, October). The time-course of cohort restriction in syntactic context: MEG evidence for a single auditory word-form. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA

Oseki, Y., Gwilliams, L., Blanco-Elorrieta, E., Gaston, P., Pylkkanen, L. & Marantz, A. (2015, October). Neural Dynamics of Morphological and Phrasal Composition. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA

Brodbeck, C., Gwilliams, L. & Pylkkanen, L. (2015, October). EEG can track the time course of successful reference resolution in small visual worlds. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA

2014

Gwilliams, L., Lewis, G., & Marantz, A. (2014, August). Revealing the cortical dynamics of letter string perception. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands [View]

Linzen, T., Gaston, P., Gwilliams, L. & Marantz, A. (2014, August). Competition and prediction in the auditory processing of morphologically complex words. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands [View]

2013

Gwilliams, L., Monahan, P., & Samuel, A. (2013, June). Why an Avalanche is faster than an Explosion. Poster presented at The 8th International Morphological Processing Conference, Cambridge, UK. [View]