The 2018-2019 Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) Talk Series focuses on Drugs, the Brain and Society. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our lectures are free to attend, but due to limited seating, please rsvp to: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu. Thursday, February 7 4:30pm Addiction is a brain disease and it still matters* Alan I. Leshner, CEO Emeritus, American Association […]
Events
Lauren Sallan Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies TED Fellow University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
John Krakauer Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Exploring the cognitive-motor interface: motor skill, movement imitation, and procedural memory The notion of motor skill will be discussed, along with experimental results addressing it. Then I will discuss the basis for ability to imitate and […]
Ollie Sayeed Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Why most languages aren’t chaotic evil Grammarians in the classical tradition (e.g. Priscian 500 CE) thought of grammar as a set of analogical relationships between whole words organized into paradigms. More recent work in the framework of Word and Paradigm Morphology (e.g. Blevins 2016) has […]
Ruth Mace Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology University College London Location: Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)