Katie Franich Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science University of Delaware Examining the relationship between speech timing, grammar, and predictive processes across languages Languages differ in fundamental ways with regard to their phonetic-prosodic profiles: while some, such as English and other Indo-European languages, show acoustic evidence for rhythmic prominence asymmetries (e.g. stress or […]
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Joshua T. Vogelstein nstitute for Computational Medicine Center for Imaging Science Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences Johns Hopkins University Lifelong Learning: From Biological to Artificial To transition from artificial (narrow) intelligence to artificial general intelligence will require incorporating additional fundamental learning principles that evolved in biologically intelligent systems. One such property […]
Steven Pinker Department of Psychology Harvard University “The Emperor, the Elephant, and the Matzo Ball: Common Knowledge as a Ratifier of Relationships” The seminar will be held in the Levin Auditorium (Levin Building lower level), with a simulcast screening in the SAIL Room (111 Levin Building). Refreshments will be served after the seminar […]
Joyce Zhao Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Towards a space of behavioral interventions: Insights from the drift diffusion model Choice behavior can be influenced by many different types of incidental contextual factors, including those pertaining to presentation format, emotion, social belief, and cognitive capacity. Many of these contextual factors form the basis of behavioral […]
Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Daniel Langleben is a professor of Psychiatry at the VA Medical Center and a member of the Center for Studies […]