Location: Room 357 Levin Building Eugen Dimant Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program University of Pennsylvania When a Nudge Backfires: Using Observation with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Pro-Social Behavior Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggests that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) […]
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Terry Jernigan Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology Director, Center for Human Development Co-Director, ABCD Study Coordinating Center UCSD Developmental Population Neuroscience and the ABCD Study In the last decade, increasingly large-scale studies with a focus on the developing mind and brain have been launched in an effort to expand and update […]
Marieke van Heugten Department of Psychology SUNY Buffalo Children’s navigation of linguistic diversity In many parts of the world, children grow up in linguistically diverse communities, where individuals differ tremendously in the way they speak. In order to develop mature communication skills, children must learn to rapidly accommodate all of these different speaking […]
Dima Amso Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Brown University Location: Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Victor Barranca Department of Mathematics and Statistics Swarthmore College Reconstruction of Sparse Connectivity and Stimuli in Neuronal Networks Using Compressive Sensing of Network Dynamics Sparsity is a fundamental characteristic of numerous biological, social, and technological networks. Neuronal network connectivity demonstrates sparsity on multiple spatial scales and natural stimuli typically also possess sparse representations […]