Laura Getz, Villanova University Title and abstract forthcoming Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B
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Eva Tardos Department of Computer Science Cornell University Location: Wu & Chen Auditorium, 101 Levine Hall Title and abstract forthcoming
Caroline Runyan Department of Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh Distinct timescales of population coding across cortex The cortex represents information across widely varying timescales. For instance, primary auditory cortex encodes stimuli that fluctuate over milliseconds, whereas in association cortex behavioral choices can require the maintenance of information over seconds I will discuss our recent […]
Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Amy Schmid, Duke Calm under stress: Comparative analysis of gene regulatory networks across related species of archaeal extremophiles
Brad Postle Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin Controlling the Contents of Working Memory The fact that a task as seemingly simple as the colored-squares change-detection task has such phenomenal psychometric properties (predicting, e.g., general fluid intelligence, standardized test performance, even lifetime earning potential and personality traits) suggests that it engages more than […]