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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Join us for our bimonthly Social Psychology seminar series, held in the Agora space of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Lunch will be provided. Email bhatiasu@sas.upenn.edu to join the mailing list. Geoff Goodwin Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]