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 […]
Events
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sabine Kastner Princeton Neuroscience Institute Attention Control in the Primate Brain The selection of information from our cluttered sensory environments is one of the most fundamental cognitive operations performed by the primate brain. In the visual domain, […]
Sandy LaTourrette University of Pennsylvania Staying in the moment: When does sentence context benefit word learning? Infants’ earliest word learning opportunities are often ambiguous, with multiple possible referents present when a novel word is uttered. But as children gain experience with language, the linguistic context of a novel word can help children 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.