Events

CNI Seminar: Caroline Runyan

October 16, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Caroline Runyan Department of Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh   Distinct timescales of population coding across cortex   The cortex represents information across widely varying timescales. For instance, primary auditory cortex encodes stimuli that fluctuate over milliseconds, whereas in association cortex behavioral choices can require the maintenance of information over seconds I will discuss our recent […]

Brad Postle Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin   Controlling the Contents of Working Memory   The fact that a task as seemingly simple as the colored-squares change-detection task has such phenomenal psychometric properties (predicting, e.g., general fluid intelligence, standardized test performance, even lifetime earning potential and personality traits) suggests that it engages more than […]