Join us for short talks by our new postdocs! We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Sam Clarke MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow The number sense represents number On a now orthodox view, humans and many other animals possess a “number sense,” or approximate number system (ANS), that represents number. Recently, this orthodox view has been subject to numerous critiques that […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To June 25, 2024
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Terry Regier Language and Cognition Lab Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science UC Berkeley Semantic categories in computational perspective I will review recent and ongoing computational work that addresses two related questions at the intersection of language, cognition, and culture: (1) Why do languages […]
Jennifer Culbertson Director, Centre for Language Evolution University of Edinburgh Linking cognitive biases to language universals A foundational goal of linguistics has been to understand why languages look the way they do. We know that languages are shaped by a range of forces, from limitations on our cognitive system, to cognition-external facts about […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Aaron Boes Department of Neurology University of Iowa Brain lesions as a window into the mind Aaron Boes is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa, home to the Iowa Neurological Patient Registry. This Registry is a rich dataset of more than […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Ellen Winner Department of Psychology Boston College The Child as Artist: Claims and Counter Claims The radical idea of the child as artist (as closely akin to adult artists) emerged in the 20th century, possibly due to the overlapping progressive education and modernist art […]