Events

An all day workshop on Op and Kinetic Art   We will welcome scientists from two continents, Ivana Bianchi from the University of Macerata, Italy, Gideon Caplovitz and Lars Strother, both from the University of Nevada-Reno, to discuss the experience, perceptual principles and underlying neuroscience of viewing works of op and kinetic art.   The […]

CNI Seminar: Vincent McGinty

October 14, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

To join the graduate student/postdoc lunch with the speaker after the seminar, please email: compneuro@sas.upenn.edu.   Vincent McGinty Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers University   Value, attention, and action in primate prefrontal cortex​   Our lab studies the mechanisms of economic decision-making using animal behavior, neural recordings, and computational models. In this talk, […]

VRC Symposium

October 14, 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Join us for short talks in Vision Research: &nsbp: 2:00pm    Dirk Trauner 2:30pm    Timothy Machado 3:00pm    Benjamin Kim 3:30pm     trainee presentations in AI: Minkyu Kim Haotian Ma Almiqdad Saeed                      Sergey Shuvaev   Reception to follow in Barchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building

MindCORE Retreat

October 16, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Click here to register!   Connecting Minds: Building Collaborations Across Penn   MindCORE affiliated faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students are invited to join a day of community connection at the beautiful Tyler Arboretum. Take one day off campus to foster a sense of belonging and shared purpose within the MindCORE and Penn communities, […]

Robb Rutledge Department of Psychology Yale University   A computational and neural model for mood dynamics   The happiness of individuals is an important metric for societies, but we know relatively little about how daily life events are aggregated into subjective feelings. We show that happiness depends on the history of expectations and prediction errors […]