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 […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To May 9, 2024
Terry Jernigan Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology Director, Center for Human Development Co-Director, ABCD Study Coordinating Center UCSD Developmental Population Neuroscience and the ABCD Study In the last decade, increasingly large-scale studies with a focus on the developing mind and brain have been launched in an effort to expand and update […]
Christian Ruff Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience University of Zurich Dazed and confused? Neuro-computational origins of variability in goal-directed behavior Goal-directed choices can vary strongly across time, even when the choice options remain constant. Classical behavioral choice models from psychology and economics subsume this variability in unspecific noise terms that have no clearly defined mental basis. In this […]
Mirta Galesic Santa Fe Institute Join us in room 250 Levin Building to watch the Zoom seminar together, or join us virtually via Zoom. Please note that we will not be in our regular SAIL Room location this week. If you can join us in person and would like a to-go sandwich after […]
Tyler Knowlton Linda Chang MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellows Join us for short talks from our newest MindCORE fellows. Tyler Knowlton – “Each and every meaning explained” How do linguistic meanings make contact with the rest of cognition? I’ll consider the universal quantifiers “each” and “every” as a case study because they’re definable and […]