This seminar will be held via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Damon Centola Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology, and Engineering Network Dynamics Group University of Pennsylvania Complex Centrality: Predicting Social Influence Despite decades of work on the network structures underlying social influence, standard measures of node centrality […]
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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Adrienne Fairhall Department of Physiology and Biophysics Co-director, Institute for Neuroengineering University of Washington Variability, learning and robustness in birdsong The songbird zebra finch is an exemplary model system in which to study trial-and-error learning, as the bird learns its single […]
Duane Watson Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University “Language Experience Drives Language Understanding”
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Jared Medina Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Delaware Touch, Embodiment and Plasticity: Understanding Body Representations Research on body perception has led to the concept of a “body schema” – an online, multisensory representation of the […]
Sang-Im Lee-Kim Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan Unmerging the sibilant merger in Taiwan Mandarin: Phonetic, phonological, and social factors According to Garde’s principle, a merger, once completed, cannot be reversed by linguistic means. In cases of near-mergers, however, a merger may be reversed in […]