Vlad Ayzenberg Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience Temple University Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization Humans learn new object categories rapidly, often after seeing just one example. Indeed, even infants exhibit remarkable categorization abilities in the absence of extensive experience. What are the underlying visual representations and neural mechanisms that support such […]
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Erin Conrad Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania Quantitative EEG to improve surgical planning for drug-resistant epilepsy One third of people with epilepsy have seizures that can’t be controlled by medications. Surgery provides the best option for seizure freedom in these patients, but half of patients have postoperative seizure recurrence. Our lab’s research […]
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 […]
Yourdanis Sedarous Department of Linguistics University of Michigan Title and abstract forthcoming
DivE In is a trainee-founded and led mentorship initiative serving students from backgrounds underrepresented in academia, including first-generation students, low-income students, and students attending institutions with more limited resources in the natural sciences. Students from underrepresented backgrounds often lack access to mentorship that bolsters more privileged students while applying to graduate programs. To contribute to […]