Soo-Hwan Lee Language and Cognition Lab University of Pennsylvania Do language models (LMs) know how to be polite? LM performance on linguistic dependencies sensitive to politeness Politeness is often associated with a degree of formality that the speaker conveys to the addressee. Languages such as Korean and Hindi showcase morphemes that are sensitive […]
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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Dannagal Goldthwaite Young Department of Communication University of Delaware Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation In this talk, based on her new book, “Wrong,” Dr. Dannagal Young unpacks how our social identities (how […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact Jessica Marcus: jmarcus@upenn.edu. Daniel Butts Department of Biology University of Maryland Title and abstract forthcoming
Lowell Thompson Gold Lab University of Pennsylvania dlPFC-LC interactions supporting flexible decision making Successful decision making relies on our ability to accumulate sensory evidence in a context-dependent manner. For example, our previous choices and learned expectations can modulate the amount of sensory evidence needed to guide future decisions. Here we used an adaptive […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Tyler Bonnen Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley Modeling neural function within a deep learning framework requires a mechanistic account of animal behavior Over the last decade, optimization frameworks from deep learning have […]