Emily Falk Annenberg School of Communication Neuroscience approaches to understanding how ideas and behaviors are spread Location: Room 260 Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St. Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from […]
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Jesse Goldberg Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell University Male songbirds turn off their self-evaluation systems when they sing to females Attending to mistakes while practicing alone provides opportunities for learning1, 2, but self-evaluation during audience-directed performance could distract from ongoing execution3. It remains unknown how animals switch between practice and performance modes, […]
Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Fellow University of Pennsylvania When is the food simply delicious? Tackling the puzzle of emphatic exclusives When occurring next to predicates located at the extreme of a scale, exclusive modifiers such as “just” and “simply” contribute an emphatic effect, intensifying the meaning of the utterance. I will refer to these […]
Kant and German Idealism: A Conference in Honor of Rolf-Peter Horstmann Oct. 4: 2pm – 7pm Oct. 5: 9:30am – 4:30pm Click here for more information, including the full Program schedule.
Topi Miettinen Professor, Hanken School of Economics Exploration in Teams and the Encouragement Effect: Theory and Experimental Evidence This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration, where both information and payoff externalities exist, and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically show that evenwhen agents are self-interested and perfectly […]