Vishnu “Deepu” Murty Adaptive Memory Lab Department of Psychology Temple University Threat-related arousal biases the structure and utility of episodic memory Memories of our past are not veridical accounts of the target event. Rather, an individual’s affective state can bias memory towards the most salient feature of the event. These types of memory […]
Events
Laurel Perkins Department of Linguistics UCLA Linguistic and event representations in early verb learning In order to learn the meanings of new verbs, children relate their linguistic representations of the sentences containing those verbs, and their conceptual representations of events in the world. To determine how they do this, we need to understand […]
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 […]
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 […]