We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Ev Fedorenko McGovern Institute Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT The language system in the broader landscape of the human brain I seek to understand how our brains understand and produce language. I will discuss three […]
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Carlos Ponce Department of Neurobiology Harvard University Insights into the single neuron in the age of generative networks Visual cortex neurons are optimized to respond to natural images, realizing our ability to understand the world. What is the nature of this optimization? We are pursuing two overarching hypotheses about how neurons respond to […]
Savithry Namboodiripad Department of Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Imagining and creating a Linguistics without “nativeness” A Department lunch will follow in the Linguistics Library.