Sandy LaTourrette University of Pennsylvania Staying in the moment: When does sentence context benefit word learning? Infants’ earliest word learning opportunities are often ambiguous, with multiple possible referents present when a novel word is uttered. But as children gain experience with language, the linguistic context of a novel word can help children to […]
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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sabine Kastner Princeton Neuroscience Institute Attention Control in the Primate Brain The selection of information from our cluttered sensory environments is one of the most fundamental cognitive operations performed by the primate brain. In the visual domain, […]
Nicole Rust Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania On the Grand Plan for brain and mind research Why have we been learning so much about the brain and mind for so many decades, but our ability to understand and treat its dysfunction continues to be so frustrated? While there are important exceptions, the […]
Nicole Varga Department of Neuroscience UT Austin “The influence of brain development on memory representation”