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SBSI seminar: Gidi Nave

October 2, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Gidi Nave Assistant Professor, Marketing University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School   We are what we watch: Movie contents predict the personality of their social media fans   With the growing prevalence of on-demand video streaming services, humans are consuming personalized media in an unprecedented pace. As for 2017, the online streaming service Netflix alone […]

Alec Marantz Department of Psychology NYU   Morphemes in the Brain/Theory from the Brain   This talk will bring the audience up to date on the continuing research from the NYU MorphLab. First, I will clarify how the separation of morphemes (minimal units of syntactic processing) from their phonological or orthographic realizations underpins neurolinguistics work […]

Michael Hochberg Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique University of Montepellier Sante Fe Institute   How evolution and environment shape cancer   Evolutionary theory explains why metazoan species are largely protected against the negative fitness effects of cancers. Nevertheless, cancer is observed across a range of species and sometimes at high prevalence. I […]