Events

Michael Platt Departments of Marketing, Psychology, Neuroscience   How marketing exploits our social brains   Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from four of Penn’s schools, presenting their research into the social implications of neuroscience. […]

SCEW Seminar: Rafael Ventura

March 6, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Rafael Ventura SCEW Postdoctoral Fellow   Signaling Games   Lewis (1969) introduced signaling games to show how communication emerges when rational agents imbue simple actions with conventional meaning. Since then, signaling games have given rise to a rich field of study. In this talk, I first provide a brief introduction to signaling games. I then […]

Cynthia Lukyanenko Department of Linguistics George Mason University   English subject-verb agreement: variability, representation and processing in acquisition   How do children represent and process morphosyntactic dependencies, and what can this tell us about acquisition? In this talk, I discuss two projects exploring children’s representation and real-time comprehension of English subject-verb number agreement. One set […]