We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Falk Lieder Department of Psychology UCLA Improving Decision-Making Societal decisions about issues such as climate change, advanced artificial intelligence, nuclear security, and conflicts between the US, Russia, and China can substantially impact humanity’s future. In this […]
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This seminar will stream via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Quentin Atkinson Department of Psychology University of Auckland What a global tree of the world’s languages can tell us about the past, present and future of human cultural diversity Since Darwin, it has been recognised that languages, like species, evolve […]
Sébastien Tremblay Platt Lab University of Pennsylvania Epiphenomenal neural activity in the primate cortex When neuroscientists record neural activity from the brain, they often conclude that neural responses observed during task performance are indicative of the functional role of the brain area(s) studied. In humans and nonhuman primates, it is often hard to […]