Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Tobias Donner Dept of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf   Flexible Behavior through Adaptive Brain Network Dynamics   Cognitive behavior rapidly adapts to changing environmental contexts. This flexibility distinguishes cognitive behavior from reflexes. I propose that this flexibility […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Robert Reinhart Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences Boston University   Noninvasive neuromodulation for impaired cognition   In the past century, age-related cognitive deficits and dementia have surged, and this trend is expected to intensify with the rapidly aging […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Sabine Kastner Princeton Neuroscience Institute   Attention Control in the Primate Brain   The selection of information from our cluttered sensory environments is one of the most fundamental cognitive operations performed by the primate brain. In the visual domain, […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Paul Cisek Department of Neuroscience University of Montréal   Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution   In theoretical neuroscience, the brain is usually described as an information processing system that encodes and manipulates representations of information about the […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Jonathan Phillips Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College   Domain-general modal thought   Much of high-level cognition relies on the ability to determine what the relevant possibilities are in a particular situation. To judge that someone is […]