Aditya Akella Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison Location: Wu & Chen Auditorium, 101 Levine Hall Title and abstract forthcoming
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A lunchtime conversation with one of Cognitive Neuroscience’s founding fathers! Dr. Gazzaniga will be interviewed by CNS Director Dr. Martha Farah, about the early days of cognitive neuroscience, the science and politics of split-brain research, the imaging revolution in neuroscience and psychology, his years on G.W. Bush’s Bioethics Commission, and the development of neurolaw. […]
Donald Wilson Department of Neuroscience and Physiology NYU Smell in context: The role of top-down feedback and dynamic networks in olfaction Sensory cortices process afferent input in the context of activity from a wide variety of other inter-cortical inputs. These top-down inputs provide information about expectation, recent history and multisensory associations that modulate […]
Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Joe Thornton, University of Chicago Real and potential histories in protein sequence space: chance, contingency, and the mechanisms of molecular specificity
David Barner Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego Linguistic origins of uniquely human abstract concepts Humans have a unique ability to organize experience via formal systems for measuring time, space, and number. Many such concepts – like minute, meter, or liter – rely on arbitrary divisions of phenomena using a system […]