Events

LDC Institute

December 1, 2023
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

David Temperley Eastman School of Music   In person: LDC Conference Room (Room 135), 3600 Market Street, Suite 810   For the Zoom link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Repetition and Information Flow in Music and Language   The theory of Uniform Information Density makes two predictions regarding the use of repetition: (1) when a pattern […]

Mixed-effects regression models have been a popular choice of statistical analysis in experimental psychology and linguistics research. While they’ve historically been developed and taught in R (namely, via the lme4 package), a newer implementation in the Julia programming language called MixedModels.jl has emerged and matured as a successor. The MixedModels.jl Julia library preserves much of the familiar interface from […]

CNI seminar: Tim Machado

December 5, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tim Machado Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania   Brainwide circuits for descending command and control   Even seemingly simple movements require complex, context-dependent processing of sensory signals and motor commands. How does the joint activity of neural circuitry distributed across the brain subserve motor behavior? To address this question, we first studied context-dependent motor […]