Please join co-Directors John Trueswell and Charles Yang in celebrating the launch of MindCORE’s new initiative in Integrative Language Science and Technology (ILST). Food and beverages will be served. Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B ILST is a research and training program that brings together members of the Penn community who are committed to […]
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Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin-Madison Acquiring and predicting structure via statistical learning Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level Levin Building)
Vijay Singh, CNI postdoc What the odor is not: Estimation by elimination Our olfactory system detects a large variety of odors using a receptor repertoire whose size is much smaller than the number of types of behaviorally relevant odorants. Recent results from compressive sensing show that the olfactory system has the capacity to […]
Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington Contest theory reveals advantages of allocating research funding using partial lotteries Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not the deliverables that the funder seeks, but […]
Liina Pylkkänen Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, NYU NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Decomposing composition: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe within the combinatory network The neuroscience of meaning composition faces a principled challenge: the integration of words into complex messages is achieved by a cascade of tightly correlated and possibly […]