Location: Room 357 Levin Building Feng Sheng and Scott Rennie Wharton Neuroscience Initiative University of Pennsylvania The neuroscience of branding Brands are a relatively recent symbolic system. How brands, and the companies they represent, are processed in the human brain remains poorly understood. Here in two fMRI studies, we try to answer […]
Events
Coren Apicella Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Before we got WEIRD: Hunter-gatherers and the evolutionary origins of cooperation Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Anscombe Archive Conference on Mind & Action Friday, April 26, 2019 – 10:30am to Sunday, April 28, 2019 – 12:00pm First Anscombe Archive Conference on Mind & Action, with talks from Prof. Michael Bratman, Prof. Jennifer Ann Frey, Prof. Ellen Fridland, Prof. Jennifer Hornsby, Prof. Richard Moran, Prof. Susanna Schellenberg, Prof. John Schwenkler, Prof. Kieran […]
Anna Papafragou Language and Cognition Lab University of Delaware From conceptual representations to linguistic meaning A standard assumption within psycholinguistics is that the act of speaking begins with the preverbal, conceptual apprehension of an event or state of affairs that the speaker intends to talk about. Nevertheless, the way conceptual representations are formed […]
Tatiana Engel Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Discovering dynamic states of neural populations Neural responses and behavior are influenced by internal brain states, such as arousal or task context. Ongoing variations of these internal states affect global patterns of neural activity, giving rise to apparent variability of neural responses under the same experimental conditions. […]