Felipe De Brigard Department of Philosophy Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Duke University Varieties of counterfactual thinking Our capacity to imagine alternative ways in which reality could have been is known as counterfactual thinking. However, recent evidence suggest that this cognitive ability is not […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To April 24, 2024
Mark Histed Unit on Neural and Computational Behavior NIMH Cortical sensory processing at the single neuron level: circuits, computations, and behavior During any behavior, many thousands or millions of neurons in the brain change their activity. To understand how the brain controls behaviors, it is important to identify the computational steps required, and […]
Kevin Zollman Department of Philosophy Carnegie Mellon University The concept of “signal” in biological and social sciences “Signals” are a conceptual apparatus in many scientific disciplines. Biologists inquire about the evolution of signals, economists talk about the signaling function of purchases and prices, and philosophers discuss the conditions under which signals acquire meaning. […]
Rebecca Waller Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania The Developmental Origins of Callous-Unemotional Traits Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are critical to understanding the development of severe forms of aggression and antisocial behavior. CU traits include deficits in empathy and prosocial behavior, as well as reduced interpersonal sensitivity to others. In this talk, I will […]
Julia Leonard MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania How social evidence affects persistence in early childhood Children’s persistence in the face of challenge is central to learning. But how do young children learn when and how to deploy effort? This talk explores how social evidence impacts children’s decisions about effort allocation. First, I […]