Dan Rokni Hebrew University of Jerusalem Complexities of olfactory behavior and circuitry Many mammalian species rely on the sense of smell for guiding crucial daily behaviors. Odor-guided behaviors require complex processing to enable detection and identification of important objects over rich and dynamic backgrounds as well as localizing these objects. The neural circuits […]
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Mackenzie Mathis Bertarelli Foundation Chair of Integrative Neuroscience Director of the Adaptive Motor Control Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) via Zoom From pose to actions, how deep learning can be harnessed for measuring animal behavior Behavior is an essential component to understanding neural function. As part of our quest […]
Marlyse Baptista Department of Linguistics University of Michigan Cognition and language emergence: A focus on Creole genesis Creole languages typically emerge in multilingual settings involving dramatic power differentials between the populations in contact, as in the case of enslavement, indentured or migrant labor. They result from the multiple, complex social factors and linguistic […]
Rafael Ventura SCEW Postdoc/MindCORE via Zoom Drift and Selection in Language Change Over half a century ago, George Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to be older. Corpus studies since then have confirmed this pattern, with frequent words being replaced and regularizing less often. Two main hypotheses have been proposed to […]