Nicole Rust Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania On the Grand Plan for brain and mind research Why have we been learning so much about the brain and mind for so many decades, but our ability to understand and treat its dysfunction continues to be so frustrated? While there are important exceptions, the […]
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Nicole Varga Department of Neuroscience UT Austin “The influence of brain development on memory representation”
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 Montréal 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 […]
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 […]