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ILST Seminar: Soo-Hwan Lee

October 11, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Soo-Hwan Lee Language and Cognition Lab University of Pennsylvania   Do language models (LMs) know how to be polite? LM performance on linguistic dependencies sensitive to politeness   Politeness is often associated with a degree of formality that the speaker conveys to the addressee. Languages such as Korean and Hindi showcase morphemes that are sensitive […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Dannagal Goldthwaite Young Department of Communication University of Delaware   Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation   In this talk, based on her new book, “Wrong,” Dr. Dannagal Young unpacks how our social identities (how […]

CNI Seminar: Lowell Thompson

October 15, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Lowell Thompson Gold Lab University of Pennsylvania   dlPFC-LC interactions supporting flexible decision making   Successful decision making relies on our ability to accumulate sensory evidence in a context-dependent manner. For example, our previous choices and learned expectations can modulate the amount of sensory evidence needed to guide future decisions. Here we used an adaptive […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Tyler Bonnen Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley   Modeling neural function within a deep learning framework requires a mechanistic account of animal behavior   Over the last decade, optimization frameworks from deep learning have […]