The 2018-2019 Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) Talk Series focuses on Drugs, the Brain and Society. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our lectures are free to attend, but due to limited seating, please rsvp to: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu. Thursday, April 4 Time to put brain science, not politics, at the centre of drug policy* David […]
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Kajsa Djärv Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Factive verbs: a multi-dimensional approach to the syntax and meaning of assertion and presupposition This talk looks at sentences like (1), which involve finite that-clauses embedded under different classes of verbs. (1) John {said, believes, doubts, resents, discovered} that Mary likes Kraftwerk. Semantically, […]
Chaz Firestone Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University Taking a machine’s perspective How similar is the human mind to the sophisticated machine-learning systems that can behave like it? Biologically inspired neural network models — including ever-more-popular DeepNets — have taken our field by storm, reaching human-level benchmarks in recognizing new […]
Meena Krishnamurthy Department of Philosophy University of Michigan Location: Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402
Judith Hirsch Department of Biological Sciences USC Understanding how inhibitory circuits in the thalamus contribute to vision The thalamus is often viewed as a gatekeeper, relaying sensory signals to the cortex during waking and halting their flow during sleep. While true, this is an impoverished description. Our work explores how circuits in the […]