We invite graduate students and postdocs to submit their 2 slides (in lieu of an abstract) for a Research Snapshot session at the October 16 MindCORE Retreat. The session will feature short talks that are NO LONGER than 5 minutes and use a maximum of two slides. This is an opportunity for trainees to […]
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Florian Schwarz Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Fun filtering facts, if not presupposition projection Presuppositions constitute a core phenomenon at the semantics pragmatics interface. In this talk, I present recent experimental and theoretical work on ‘presupposition filtering’ (Karttunen 1973, 1974), and discuss both recent and new results on conjunction, disjunction, and conditionals. […]
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 Leyla Isik Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University Seeing social interactions Humans see the world in rich social detail. We effortlessly recognize not only objects and people […]
Vlad Ayzenberg Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience Temple University Early developing mechanisms underlying visual object categorization Humans learn new object categories rapidly, often after seeing just one example. Indeed, even infants exhibit remarkable categorization abilities in the absence of extensive experience. What are the underlying visual representations and neural mechanisms that support such […]
Erin Conrad Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania Quantitative EEG to improve surgical planning for drug-resistant epilepsy One third of people with epilepsy have seizures that can’t be controlled by medications. Surgery provides the best option for seizure freedom in these patients, but half of patients have postoperative seizure recurrence. Our lab’s research […]