Event Category: All Events

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  • From January 1, 2018
  • To November 15, 2023

E.A.R.S. (Electronic Auditory Research Seminars) – a monthly auditory seminar series focused on central auditory processing   Maria Loconsole (University of Padova): “Tortoises (Testudo hermanni) spontaneously associate visual and acoustic information”   Crossmodal correspondences refer to a spontaneous tendency to associate information coming from different sensory modalities. For instance, we consider a high-pitch sound as […]

ILST Seminar: Mini-Talks 2

October 27, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for mini-talks by our first-year graduate students.     Abigail Laver – “Does having a semantic seed aid in artificial language learning?”   After acquiring a few words through word-to-world mapping, infants and young children may be able to observe the distributional patterns of these known words and then make inferences about the […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Catherine Sheard Interdisciplinary Fellow University of Aberdeen   Phylogenetic trees and cultural evolution   Understanding the broad-scale variation in human cultural diversity is one approach to uncovering our origins and predicting where we may be headed in the […]