Location: Room 357 Levin Building Kris Smith Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Partner choice and the evolution of human cooperation: Evidence from hunter-gatherers Humans cooperate to an unparalleled scope and degree in the animal kingdom. How did this propensity to cooperate with strangers evolve? One hypothesis is that our ability to […]
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Eric Turkheimer Department of Psychology UVA What is Intelligence? What is Heritability? What is the Heritability of Intelligence? Starting with Francis Galton, scientists trying to understand the genetics of complex human behavior have begun with the question of why people differ in intelligence; similarly, the foremost goal of intelligence researchers has been to […]
Ping Li Center for Language Science Penn State University Understanding the Second Language Learning Brain: Cyber-enabled technologies and computational methods Human language acquisition provides a powerful experience to the mind and the brain. In this talk, I present an interdisciplinary approach toward the study of second language (L2) from the perspectives of cognitive science, […]
Long Ding Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania The caudate nucleus and reward-biased visual decisions Decision making is a complex process that interprets sensory information within the context of reward contingency, task goal and intrinsic bias, etc. How and where this process is implemented in the brain remain unclear. The basal ganglia have […]
Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Ground Floor Levin Building (425 S. University Avenue) Jen Christiansen Senior Graphics Editor Scientific American Science Graphics: What, Why, When and How What are science-centric information graphics? Why are they useful? When should they be produced, and how does one go about creating them? Jen will answer these […]