This seminar has been cancelled due to illness. Shaul Druckmann Departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University “Relating circuit dynamics to computation: robustness and dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics” A pizza lunch will be served.
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Oliver Niebuhr Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation, Center for Industrial Electronics (CIE) University of Southern Denmark Breath, Body, Brilliance – How Multi-modal Biosignal Analyses Help Define and Refine Perceived Speaker Charisma For a long time, charisma – i.e. the ability to inspire, motivate, and win over other people and get them to […]
Each year the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2024-25 Public Talk series theme is the Brain in Socioeconomic Context. Growing up in poverty puts children at risk for adverse outcomes, from academic failure to emotional distress. This year’s talk series will explore the links between socioeconomic status, brain and life […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Natalia Velez Department of Psychology Princeton University Thinking Collaboratively Since the cognitive revolution, psychologists have developed formal theories of cognition by thinking about the mind as a computer. However, this metaphor is typically applied to individual minds. […]
1st-year graduate students in Linguistics will present mini-talks. Speaker: Emily Pecsok Title: Faultless Disagreement and Semantic Adaptation Abstract: Disagreements are speech acts used by interlocutors to challenge previous assertions. When disagreements express subjective views, they can often be perceived as faultless. However, it is unclear whether accepting a disagreement as faultless causes comprehenders to […]