Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. Space is limited – to sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Leyla Isik Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University Seeing social interactions Humans see the world in rich social detail. We effortlessly recognize not only objects and people […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal Language, Logic and Cognition Center The Hebrew University of Jerusalem When Language Reveals Causality: How Grammar Mirrors Human Reasoning Natural languages offer a remarkably rich repertoire of both implicit and explicit means for expressing causal relationships – from causative verbs and morphological markers to causal conjunctions and complementizers. The observable […]
Robb Rutledge Department of Psychology Yale University A computational and neural model for mood dynamics The happiness of individuals is an important metric for societies, but we know relatively little about how daily life events are aggregated into subjective feelings. We show that happiness depends on the history of expectations and prediction errors […]
Allie Sinclair Annenberg Public Policy Center University of Pennsylvania Resistance and Resilience: Science Communication and Advocacy in a Federal Funding Crisis A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage.
Aaron White Department of Linguistics University of Rochester The Conceptual and Contextual Correlates of Argument Structure: A case study of intentional events and states This talk explores how intentional events and states are expressed in natural language, focusing on the linguistic realization of their participants. It provides an overview of recent research that […]