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 Aaron White Department of Linguistics Center for Language Sciences University of Rochester Characterizing Uncertainty in Lexically Triggered Inferences We don’t always know what people we are speaking to […]
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Ila Fiete McGovern Institute MIT Spontaneous emergence of complex cortical structure from simple precursors: maps, hierarchies, and modules Modular and hierarchical structures are ubiquitous in the brain. Two distinct hypotheses for such morphogenesis involve genetic specification (e.g. chemoaffinity and positional information) or spontaneous structure emergence from symmetry breaking (e.g. pattern formation). Indeed, there […]
Benjamin Karney UCLA Title and abstract forthcoming Social Psychology seminars are held in the Agora space of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Lunch will be provided.
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 Nadia Brashier Department of Psychology UCSD Fact-Checking Fake News Amid intense public scrutiny, social media companies have hired, and then fired, professional fact-checkers. Is it beneficial to flag […]
Michael Beauchamp Department of Neurosurgery University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming