2025/2026
| Name | Title | Date/Time | Room |
| Cat Hobaiter
University of St Andrews |
Storytelling apes: ape gesture and the evolution of human language Co-hosted by COGS and ECOM |
November 14, 2025
4PM |
McHugh 205 |
| Catherine Tamis-LeMonda
New York University |
Word learning in context: Disambiguating the ambiguous |
October 3, 2025
4PM |
McHugh 302 |
Past Speakers
| Brian Boyd, University of North Carolina, 2025 |
| Viorica Marian, Northwestern University, 2024 |
| Psyche Loui, Northeastern University, 2024 |
| Samuel Mathias, Harvard Medical School, 2023 |
| Marjorie Rhodes, New York University, 2023 |
| Jennifer Zak, Boston University, 2023 |
| Robyn Carston, University College London, 2023 |
| Cristiano Chesi, University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), 2023 |
| Thomas Naselaris, University of Minnesota, 2023 |
| Jonathan Peelle, Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University, 2023 |
| Franco Pestilli, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023 |
| Hady Ba, Cheikh Anta Diop University, 2022 |
| John Hale, University of Georgia, 2022 |
| Ani Patel, Tufts University, 2022 |
| Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut, 2021 |
| Joseph Henrich, Harvard University, 2021 |
| Barbara Rogoff, University of California in Santa Cruz, 2021 |
| Jonathan Prather, University of Wyoming, 2020 |
| Iris Berent, Northeastern University, 2020 |
| Carol Miller, Penn State University, 2020 |
| Aaron Shield, Miami University of Ohio, 2019 |
| Marjorie Solomon, UC Davis, 2019 |
| Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019 |
| Richard Wilson, University of Connecticut, 2019 |
| Paul Bloom, Yale University, 2018 |
| Cristine Legare, University of Texas at Austin, 2018 |
| Russell Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, 2018 |
| Will Gervais, University of Kentucky, 2018 |
| Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins, 2017 |
| David Rand, Yale University, 2017 |
| Phil Corlett, Yale University, 2017 |