Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

  • Category MindCORE Seminar Series
  • From January 1, 2018
  • To May 3, 2024

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 […]

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 […]