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, March 14 Psilocybin: Implications for healthy psychological functioning and therapeutics Roland Griffiths, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns […]
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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 […]