Leenoy Meshulam Computational Neuroscience Center University of Washington Emerging simplicity in the nervous systems of mouse and octopus For an animal to perform any function, millions of neurons in its nervous system furiously interact with each other. Be it a simple behavior or a highly complex computation, all functions involve the concerted activity […]
Events
Join us for short talks by our first-year graduate students in the ILST program.
Join us for short talks by our new postdocs! We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Sam Clarke MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow The number sense represents number On a now orthodox view, humans and many other animals possess a “number sense,” or approximate number system (ANS), that represents number. Recently, this orthodox view has been subject to numerous critiques that […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. Terry Regier Language and Cognition Lab Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science UC Berkeley Semantic categories in computational perspective I will review recent and ongoing computational work that addresses two related questions at the intersection of language, cognition, and culture: (1) Why do languages […]