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Gloria Choi Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences MIT Cortical Dysfunction & Social Behavior Viral infection during pregnancy has been correlated with increased frequency of neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in offspring. This phenomenon has been modeled in mice prenatally subjected to maternal immune activation (MIA). We previously showed that […]
Eva Telzer Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Neurobiological sensitivity to social context in adolescents Social influence from parents and peers represent the most potent predictors of adolescents’ initiation and escalation of risk-taking behaviors. However, emerging evidence also implicates the protective role of parents and peers in adolescents’ […]
Eugen Dimant Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program (PPE) University of Pennsylvania Observability, Social Proximity, and the Erosion of Norm Compliance Social norms are ubiquitous in social and economic life but the drivers of norm conformity are poorly understood. We study the specific ways in which others’ norm compliance influences own norm compliance. Our […]
Martin Ip ILST Fellow University of Pennsylvania Universal and Language-specific Prosodic Processing A key question in the psychology of language is how speech processing (i.e., speaking and listening) can be influenced by both language-universal and language-specific mechanisms. In the segmental domain, speech processing involves both universal constraints based on syllabic structures and patterning […]