Events

ILST Seminar: Drew McLaughlin

December 5, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Drew McLaughlin Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Villanova University   Phonemic category recalibration, criterion relaxation, or both? Defining the mechanism(s) that support adaptation to accent   English spoken in the Western United States is not the same as English spoken in New York, just as English spoken by early English learners is not the […]

William Bialek John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics Princeton University   Optimization principles, revisited   On a dark night, our visual system can count single photons, a sound we can barely hear vibrates the eardrum by the diameter of an atom, and the resolution of many eyes is set by diffraction. In these and other […]

CNI Seminar: Eva Dyer

December 9, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

This event is also a Perelman School of Medicine Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar.   Eva Dyer Department of Bioengineering Department of Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania   Large-scale pretraining on neural data allows for transfer across individuals, tasks and species   The brain is incredibly complex, with diverse functions that emerge from […]