We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact Jessica Marcus: jmarcus@upenn.edu. Bikash Pattnaik Department of Pediatrics Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences University of Wisconsin – Madison Title and abstract forthcoming
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Kate Hong Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Primary somatosensory cortex and superior colliculus in tactile perceptual decision-making For even the simplest forms of tactile perception, the function of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is still debated. We previously reported that S1 inactivation only transiently, and partially impairs whisker-mediated tactile detection in […]
Come hear from current graduate students in mind & brain sciences about research, pay, how long degree programs take, what the work is like, and more! Panelists: Callista Dyer (Psychology) Eren Kadafar (MD/PhD program) Hector Vazquez Martinez (Linguistics) Jordan Matelsky (Bioengineering)
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Jesse Snedeker Department of Psychology Harvard University Bottom-up syntax and top-down lexical processing in children: a theoretical challenge Twenty-five years ago, I started working with John Trueswell on how children resolve syntactic ambiguity. The findings were cumulative, […]
Roman Feiman Department of Linguistics Brown University Towards a theory of thought: How compositional semantics can inform psychology When we speak, we express thoughts. When other people understand what we say, they have reverse-engineered what we were thinking. Psychologists have long been interested in what thoughts are, while linguists have been interested in […]