Ueli Rutishauser Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology Probing human memory at the single-neuron level Memories are central to cognition and define each of us as an individual. We are utilizing extracellular recordings in humans undergoing neurosurgical procedures and computational […]
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Anne Charity Hudley Department of Linguistics North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America University of California, Santa Barbara Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice As Ashkenas, Park, and Pearce (2017) summarize, Black and Latix students “are more underrepresented at the […]
Lila Davachi Department of Psychology Columbia University Title TBA Refreshments will be served after the seminar. Click here for more information.
Megan Peters Assistant Professor of Neuroscience UC Riverside / UC Irvine Computational Approaches to Studying Qualia Few people tackle the neural or computational basis of qualitative experience (Frith 2019). Why? One major reason is that science and philosophy have both struggled to propose how we might even begin to start studying it. I […]
Takahiro Doi Burge Lab University of Pennsylvania Suboptimal visual averaging reveals compulsory nonlinear mechanisms in human vision How humans integrate ambiguous and conflicting signals has been a focus of perception and decision-making research for decades. Identifying the source of suboptimality can reveal the information integration strategy used by the nervous system to solve […]
