Events

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Paul Cisek Department of Neuroscience University of MontrĂ©al   Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution   In theoretical neuroscience, the brain is usually described as an information processing system that encodes and manipulates representations of information about the […]

ILST seminar: Martin Ip

April 5, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Martin Ip Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania   Searching for the “Edges” of Speech: How Prosody and Speaker Identity Support Language Processing   Human speech contains a continual cascade of information, from the physical properties of the speech sounds to the sequencing of words and the wider discourse context. To anticipate the likely continuations […]

Gavin Bidelman Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Indiana University Bloomington   For the Zoom link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Live-streaming location: Seminar Room, Linguistics Department, 3401-C Walnut Street, Suite 300, C Wing   “Phonetic categories in speech emerge subcortically: Converging evidence from the frequency-following response (FFR)”   The brain transforms continuous acoustic events into […]

Silvia Finnemann Bepler Chair in Biology Department of Biological Sciences Fordham University   Photoreceptor outer renewal: molecular mechanisms and link to retinal disease   Routine diurnal photoreceptor outer segment renewal is a fundamental homeostatic process in the vertebrate retina. The talk will focus on molecules and pathways that mediate cross-talk between photoreceptors and neighboring retinal […]