Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

  • Category MindCORE Seminar Series
  • From January 1, 2018
  • To April 24, 2024

Philippe Schlenker Directeur de Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Global Distinguished Professor, New York University   Click here to register!   Combining Logic and Iconicity in Sign Language Semantics   It has long been accepted that sign language (i) employs the same logical structures as spoken language (occasionally making its abstract components overt), and simultaneously […]

Vishnu “Deepu” Murty Adaptive Memory Lab Department of Psychology Temple University   Threat-related arousal biases the structure and utility of episodic memory   Memories of our past are not veridical accounts of the target event. Rather, an individual’s affective state can bias memory towards the most salient feature of the event. These types of memory […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our speaker will present a virtual seminar, via Zoom. All are welcome to join us in the SAIL Room for the Zoom seminar – pizza will be served as usual! Please bring your own beverage.   To join the seminar remotely, please email for link: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Dwight Kravitz Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences […]