Felipe De Brigard Department of Philosophy Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Duke University Varieties of counterfactual thinking Our capacity to imagine alternative ways in which reality could have been is known as counterfactual thinking. However, recent evidence suggest that this cognitive ability is not […]
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Sudha Arunachalam NYU/Boston University Input and intake in verb acquisition The challenges of lexical acquisition, and young children’s solutions to these challenges, have been well studied. In recent work, I’ve been focusing on two aspects of this research program: refining our understanding of how children use linguistic information to learn new verb meanings, […]
How to write a successful research grant MindCORE Professional Development Series We are excited to announce that we are launching the MindCORE Professional Development Series, formerly known as SCIPS (Successful Careers in Psychological Science). Our mission is to support and enhance the professional development of trainees within MindCORE. Panelists: Dr. Konrad Kording (Professor, Dept […]
Thomas Graf Stonybrook University Title and abstract forthcoming Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B
Benjamin Machta Department of Physics Yale University Information geometry and Bayesian priors for model selection Science is filled with toy models: abstractions of complicated systems that ignore microscopic details even when they are known. These toy models are often as good and even better than more accurate models. But why? In this talk […]