Anne Churchland Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Movement-related activity dominates cortex during sensory-guided decision making
Events
Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a seminar – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Paul Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. He will be discussing scientific racism in the study of the […]
Luciano Marraffini Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas: acquired immunity in prokaryotes Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Location: Room 357 Levin Building Enrique Fatas School of Business and Economics Loughborough University Democracy fights in darkness It is an empirical regularity that democratic countries go to war with each other less than pairs of dictatorships (the so called dyadic interaction). The question is whether this relation is causal: do democracies […]
Catherine Hartley Department of Psychology NYU Developmental tuning of action selection Computational reinforcement learning models provide a framework for understanding how individuals can evaluate which actions are beneficial and which are best avoided. To date, these models have primarily been leveraged to understand learning and decision-making in adults. In this talk, I will […]