Anna Schapiro Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Learning and consolidating patterns in experience There is a fundamental tension between storing discrete traces of individual experiences, which allows recall of particular moments in our past without interference, and extracting regularities across these experiences, which supports generalization and prediction in similar situations in the […]
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Uriel Cohen Priva Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psychological Sciences Brown University Understanding lenition through its causal structure Consonant lenition refers to a list of seemingly unrelated processes that are grouped together by their tendency to occur in similar environments (e.g. intervocalically) and under similar conditions (e.g. in faster speech). These processes typically include degemination, […]
Angela Potochnik Department of Philosophy University of Cincinnati Our World Isn’t Organized into Levels Levels of organization and their use in science have received increased philosophical attention of late, including challenges to the well-foundedness or widespread usefulness of levels concepts. One kind of response to these challenges has been to advocate a more precise […]
Gidi Nave Assistant Professor, Marketing University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School We are what we watch: Movie contents predict the personality of their social media fans With the growing prevalence of on-demand video streaming services, humans are consuming personalized media in an unprecedented pace. As for 2017, the online streaming service Netflix alone […]