Events

Location: Room 357 Levin Building   Enrique Fatas School of Business and Economics Loughborough University   Democracy fights in darkness   It is an empirical regularity that democratic countries go to war with each other less than pairs of dictatorships (the so called dyadic interaction). The question is whether this relation is causal: do democracies […]

ILST seminar: Charles Yang

February 1, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Charles Yang Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   The Linguistic Basis of Natural Number     Only humans learn language and only humans develop the concept of natural number: How are these two abilities related? We propose that the Successor Function, which provides the infinity of natural numbers, becomes available to children through learning the […]

Catherine Hartley Department of Psychology NYU   Developmental tuning of action selection   Computational reinforcement learning models provide a framework for understanding how individuals can evaluate which actions are beneficial and which are best avoided. To date, these models have primarily been leveraged to understand learning and decision-making in adults. In this talk, I will […]