Kristopher Smith, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology/Social Behavioral Science Initiative University of Pennsylvania How exposure to other cultures is changing Hadza cooperation Human cooperation differs in scope and scale from other animals. Whereas cooperation in nonhuman animals is restricted to kin and reciprocal relationships, humans cooperate in large groups and with anonymous […]
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Melissa Warden Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Cornell University
Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA) Seminar Hersh Sagreiya Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania New Frontiers in the Application of Machine Learning to Ultrasound While there are many applications of traditional machine learning and deep learning to x-rays, CT, and MRI, projects with ultra-sound are comparatively less well explored. […]
Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution Speakers’ descriptions can be associated with a varying margin of imprecision: an actual time of 2:57 could be reported precisely as “2:57″, or less precisely as “3 o’clock” (Lasersohn 1999 i.a.). This variability introduces an element […]
Taylor Jones Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Regional Variation in African American English Accents after the Great Migration Early work on African American English (AAE) described its phonology as remarkably uniform, however nearly five decades after the end of the Great Migration, is this still the case? In order to investigate this, […]