Vaida Rimeikyte Postdoc, Jenkins Lab University of Pennsylvania Neural processing of decision costs and aversive events The ability to engage in avoidance behaviors is vital to adaptively navigating different environments, especially if these environments are unpredictable or hostile. Despite considerable advances in understanding the neural mechanisms that give rise to avoidance, some component […]
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Maya Bar-Hillel Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality The Hebrew University, Safra Campus Towards a theory of default representations Rosch (1975) studied the cognitive representations of semantic categories. A chair is a prototypical representative of “furniture.” A 4-legged wooden chair with a back rest but no hand rests is a prototypical representative […]
Hong Zhang Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Repetitive phenomena in fluent spontaneous speech: What can they tell us about speech production? Disfluencies such as false starts, silent and filled pauses, and self repairs often provide valuable information about speech planning and are cited as evidence in support of architectures of production models. […]