Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington Contest theory reveals advantages of allocating research funding using partial lotteries Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not the deliverables that the funder seeks, but […]
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Liina Pylkkänen Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, NYU NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Decomposing composition: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe within the combinatory network The neuroscience of meaning composition faces a principled challenge: the integration of words into complex messages is achieved by a cascade of tightly correlated and possibly […]