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Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. Space is limited – to sign up, email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Nadia Brashier Department of Psychology UCSD   Fact-Checking Fake News   Amid intense public scrutiny, social media companies have hired, and then fired, professional fact-checkers. Is it beneficial to flag […]

ILST Seminar: Michael Beauchamp

February 6, 2026
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Michael Beauchamp Department of Neurosurgery University of Pennsylvania   Speech Perception: A Multisensory Perspective    Humans naturally interact face-to-face, communicating with face and voice. Two fundamental observations are that seeing the face of the talker improves the perception of noisy auditory speech; and that integrating conflicting auditory and visual speech cues produces a percept different […]

Vision Seminar: Richard Krauzlis

February 9, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Graduate students and postdocs are invited to join the speaker for lunch after the talk. To sign up, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu.   Richard Krauzlis Senior Investigator, Visual Circuits Section Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research NEI   “The low road to higher visual functions”   We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the […]

Diane Lillo-Martin Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics University of Connecticut   ASL pronoun acquisition: Implications for pronominal theory   In American Sign Language (ASL), pronominal functions are carried out by pointing signs: point to self for first-person, point to addressee or non-addressed persons or things as second- and third-person. This picture is complicated […]