Hollie Putnam Department of Biological Sciences University of Rhode Island Avenues of Marine Invertebrate Acclimatization in Response to Rapid Environmental Change The swiftly changing climate presents a challenge to organismal fitness by creating a mismatch between the current environment and phenotypes adapted to historic conditions. Rapid compensatory response to environmental change generated by […]
Events
Norms and Behavioral Change Workshop 2019 Register by October 10 ($100 for Penn students and staff) The 2019 Norms and Behavioral Change Workshop, organized by Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant and Enrique Fatas, is a two-day workshop the brings together researchers studying the relationship between social norms and behavioral change. This includes experimental, empirical, and theoretical […]
Chen Yu Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington Statistical Learning from the Infant’s Point of View The world presents learners with many statistical regularities. Considerable evidence indicates that humans are adept at discovering those regularities across many different domains including language, vision, and social behavior. In this talk, I will […]
Barbara Partee Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts Amherst Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism in Semantics: Changing Notions of Semantic Competence “Semantics” can mean quite different things in different contexts. There are many reasons to be interested in meaning, and it can be studied from many perspectives. The history of formal semantics over the last […]