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Come hear from current graduate students in the mind sciences (Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, etc.) about applying to graduate programs in these fields. Learn how much they pay, how long their degree programs take, what the work is like, and more from a panel of experts…current Penn grad students.   Panelists:   Audrey Luo […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Andrew Hein Department of Computational Biology Cornell University   Behavioral algorithms: searching for principles of flexible, robust behavior in the natural world   A dominant paradigm in the analysis of behavior is to separate “the brain” of an […]

SCEW Seminar: Cesko Voeten

November 10, 2023
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cesko Voeten Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   Changes in the Philadelphia accent from the perspective of natural selection   Next to being used as a system for communication, language additionally conveys a large amount of social information. In the literature on language change, there is agreement that this social function of language plays […]