2019-2020 Year of Brain Science Technology Neuroimaging Seminar Series Richard Wise, PhD Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre fMRI-Based Quantitative CBF and Metabolism
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Alexandre Filipowicz Kable Lab, University of Pennsylvania Adapting to a changing world To make sense of the world, humans build beliefs from past observations to guide actions and expectations. In changing environments, effective beliefs need to balance being both flexible and adaptive to new information, while also being resistant to noisy, spurious events. […]
Nazlı Bhatia Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania “I was Going to Offer $10,000 but…”: The Effects of Phantom Anchors in Negotiation Negotiators commonly attach phantom anchors—retracted and aggressive figures—to their actual and less aggressive offers. For example, a seller might say, […]
Richard Shiffrin Memory and Perception Lab Indiana University Cursor movements analyzed with a Hidden Markov Model provide rapid reliable inference about cognition Individuals’ use of attention is studied by use of a mouse to move a cursor to rapidly appearing and disappearing targets, and not toward foils. Four aspects of the cursor movement […]