Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

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 […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom.   Catherine Crockford Great Ape Social Mind Lab Institut de Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod CNRS   The patterning and ontogeny of chimpanzee vocal sequences – and brain pathways   A striking feature of the human species is our large brain, enabling some complex skills that surpass those […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom.   Theresa Desrochers Carney Institute for Brain Science Brown University   Cognitive Sequences: Parallel Cross-Species Dynamics in Frontal Neocortex   Sequential tasks are an integral component of the daily lives of humans and other species. These sequences are multifaceted such that they can contain a set of abstract […]