Kate Hong Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Primary somatosensory cortex and superior colliculus in tactile perceptual decision-making For even the simplest forms of tactile perception, the function of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is still debated. We previously reported that S1 inactivation only transiently, and partially impairs whisker-mediated tactile detection in […]
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Come hear from current graduate students in mind & brain sciences about research, pay, how long degree programs take, what the work is like, and more! Panelists: Callista Dyer (Psychology) Eren Kadafar (MD/PhD program) Hector Vazquez Martinez (Linguistics) Jordan Matelsky (Bioengineering)
Join MindCORE Director & Woodlands’ President, Heather Calvert, for a walk from Penn to The Woodlands and back (~40 mins) on Wednesdays at Noon. Meet at the benches in front of Leidy Labs at 3740 Woodlands Walk. We depart at 12:05 exactly! Walks take place rain or shine. We can talk about anything […]
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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Jesse Snedeker Department of Psychology Harvard University Bottom-up syntax and top-down lexical processing in children: a theoretical challenge Twenty-five years ago, I started working with John Trueswell on how children resolve syntactic ambiguity. The findings were cumulative, […]