Location: Room 357 Levin Building Corey Cusimano Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Regulating emotion regulation: When people make others feel worse in order to make them feel better A great deal of work has investigated the conditions under which people seek out help from others in order to regulate their negative emotions. By contrast, relatively little work has […]
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Sam Gershman Department of Psychology Center for Brain Science Harvard University The compositional nature of human function learning How do people recognize and learn about complex functional structure? Taking inspiration from other areas of cognitive science, I argue that this is achieved by harnessing compositionality: complex structure is decomposed into simpler building blocks. […]
Alethia Cui Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Minimal Pairs and the Emergence of Phonological Categories Phonological categories form a system of contrast in the lexicon. In phonological analysis, minimal pairs are used to diagnose whether two speech sounds are phonemes. Although statistical learning has been popular as an explanation for phonological acquisition, […]
Flavia Vitale Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania When nano meets neuro: high-resolution interfaces for multimodal mapping neural circuit dynamics Unraveling neural processes underlying cognition, sensation, volitional movement, neurological and neuromuscular diseases requires decoding the activity of millions of neurons at millisecond resolution, over months to years and without inducing foreign-body reactions. These […]
Ailís Cournane Child Language Lab NYU Developmental possibilities: modal variables in acquisition and change The language development process is rich ground for theorization about language change. Each child must learn their individual grammar(s) via the indirect process of analyzing the output of others’ grammars (the input; e.g., Lightfoot, 1979), and the process necessarily […]