Events

CNI Seminar: Agrita Dubey

February 4, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Agrita Dubey Pesaran Lab University of Pennsylvania   Multiregional mechanisms of flexible control of behavior   Sensory distractions often impede our ability to complete tasks and achieve our goals. Cognitive control—the ability to guide behavior and mental processes in alignment with goals—enables us to suppress distractions while focusing on relevant targets. A hallmark of cognitive […]

The Department of Neurosurgery will be hosting Daniel L. Adams, Ph.D. from Neuralink. Dan will be giving a research seminar on The Neuralink Implant as a Visual Prosthesis next Tuesday, February 4th, at 4pm in the John Morgan Reunion Auditorium.   Speaker: Daniel L. Adams, Principal Investigator at Neuralink   Title: The Neuralink Implant as a Visual Prosthesis   […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Carlos Santana Department of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania   Brown bear, brown bear, what do you tree? Discordance in linguistic phylogenetics   What do language trees mean? Easy answer: they’re models of linguistic evolutionary history   In this talk I […]

ILST Seminar: Liam Dugan

February 7, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Liam Dugan Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania   Stylistic Signatures of LLMs and How to Detect Them   Many believe that text output by Large Language Models (LLMs) passes the “Turing Test” (i.e. that it is indistinguishable from human-written text). However recent work has shown that automatic classifiers and human experts […]