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you to the following <a href="https://events.ceu.edu/2026-01-14/departmental-colloquium-gerry-altmann-university-connecticut" id="OWA6537b13f-58da-0e5c-3e20-2df4d6f56e87" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://events.ceu.edu/2026-01-14/departmental-colloquium-gerry-altmann-university-connecticut" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://psychology.uconn.edu/person/gerry-altmann/" target="_blank" id="OWA6ce192cd-adf9-8f91-6d46-07fd354696a6" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://psychology.uconn.edu/person/gerry-altmann/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-outlook-id="1e80651d-c794-4fd0-bdab-69c36242e763" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Gerry
Altmann</a><a href="https://psychology.uconn.edu/person/gerry-altmann/" target="_blank" id="OWA4ab7bd4e-13d5-adc2-6fa4-d2f503e11ed2" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://psychology.uconn.edu/person/gerry-altmann/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-outlook-id="207e1b9b-2548-4977-afcc-c2d59ae9a2cf" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.25pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> (University
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</b>(t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">o 5 pm) CET</span></div>
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<b>Date</b>: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Wednesday, 14<sup>th</sup> January 2026</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.25pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><b>Venue:</b> D001 (QS Vienna) and Zoom:
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<span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Meeting ID: 925 4271 5048</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Chair:</b></span><span style="font-size: 11.25pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Eva Wittenberg</span></div>
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<b>Title</b>: Objects as Event Representations: Theory, Data, and Models.</div>
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To understand events like “the chef chopped the onion,” we need to grasp that objects have shared properties (inherited from their type) and unique properties that distinguish one token from another. The chef and the onion have (intersecting) histories that
started with them in one state and ended with them in another. These histories are in fact trajectories of changes in state across time and space, and their intersection defines the interactions between objects (in this case, the action of the chef on the
onion). To comprehend events, or their descriptions, in real time requires creating on-the-fly representations of object tokens and their changes in state. In this talk I shall outline an account of how this might be accomplished in a brain that is able to
distinguish the systematic associations that define semantic memory for object types from the non-systematic accidental associations that define the episodic characteristics of object tokens. The talk will include fMRI, behavioral and eye tracking data, and
computational modeling – all presented for audiences new to neuroscientific and computational methods.</div>
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