Filipe Hisao Kobayashi Department of Linguistics MIT Interpreting NPs as predicates of individual concepts The starting point of this talk is an observation due to Nathan (2006) concerning the meaning of sentences of the form ‘every NP changed.’ For example, for sentence (1) to be true, it must be that I replaced every […]
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Juvenal Bosulu Gold Lab University of Pennsylvania Needing: an active inference process for physiological motivation Need states are internal states that arise from deprivation of crucial biological stimuli. They direct motivation, even independently of external reward learning. Despite their separate origin, they interact with reward processing systems that respond to external stimuli. In […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Tobias Donner Dept of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Flexible Behavior through Adaptive Brain Network Dynamics Cognitive behavior rapidly adapts to changing environmental contexts. This flexibility distinguishes cognitive behavior from reflexes. I propose that this flexibility […]
Katie Schuler Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Rules and variation in child language acquisition A well-known phenomenon in language acquisition is that children can acquire rules when they are available (Berko 1955; Brown 1973). But precisely how children acquire such rules under circumstances of language variation is not as frequently discussed. In […]
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk Department of Physiology & Biophysics Department of Ophthalmology University of California, Irvine Role of aging in shaping cell structure and function Biological age is one of the most relevant clinical traits in predicting disease risk, as well as mental and physical performance decline, including the loss of vision. The molecular link […]