Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]