We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Mick Bonner Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University A high-dimensional view of computational neuroscience Brains and artificial neural networks represent information in population codes, defined by the activity patterns of many neurons. Understanding the statistical principles […]
Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series
- Category MindCORE Seminar Series
- From January 1, 2018
- To September 19, 2024
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Catherine Sheard Interdisciplinary Fellow University of Aberdeen Phylogenetic trees and cultural evolution Understanding the broad-scale variation in human cultural diversity is one approach to uncovering our origins and predicting where we may be headed in the […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Emily Perkins Diego Reinero MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellows Emily Perkins – “A biopsychosocial perspective on the development of conduct problems” Conduct problems, such as aggressive behavior and serious rule violations, cause substantial personal and societal burden. Understanding the […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Andrew Hein Department of Computational Biology Cornell University Behavioral algorithms: searching for principles of flexible, robust behavior in the natural world A dominant paradigm in the analysis of behavior is to separate “the brain” of an […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sarah Robins Department of Philosophy Purdue University The Engram Renaissance Memory traces have a long history. For Plato, they were birds in aviaries; for William James, they were furniture in the mind’s rooms. They’ve also been phonographic records, […]