Maiken Scott WHYY Why Talking About Science Matters (and How to Do it Well) Think about the last time a non-scientist asked you what you do for a living, or what you’re studying. Did you see their eyes glaze over as you tried to explain? Did they suddenly have to take an […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To September 26, 2024
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Fritz Breithaupt Germanic Studies, Cognitive Science, and Comparative Literature Indiana University – Bloomington The Narrative Brain Through narratives we are able to reexperience past episodes and we are able to transform individual experience into shared experience. To […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Vlad Ayzenberg MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization Humans learn new object categories rapidly, often after seeing just one example. Indeed, even infants exhibit remarkable categorization abilities in the absence of extensive experience. […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Marlyse Baptista Presidential Distinguished Professor of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania The Founder Principle: In search of long-lasting linguistic imprints in Creole emergence One of the core areas of Creole studies is the search for the set of […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Falk Lieder Department of Psychology UCLA Improving Decision-Making Societal decisions about issues such as climate change, advanced artificial intelligence, nuclear security, and conflicts between the US, Russia, and China can substantially impact humanity’s future. In this […]