Events

ILST Seminar: Halie Olson

February 21, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Halie Olson McGovern Institute for Brain Research MIT   Language in the developing brain   The human brain is unique (at least amongst biological organisms) in its ability to learn, produce, and comprehend language. Language is learned rapidly over the first few years of life, but even before it is fully developed, humans successfully use […]

Vision Seminar: Wilma Bainbridge

February 24, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

This seminar will also stream via Zoom. For the link, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu   Wilma Bainbridge Department of Psychology University of Chicago   Memory is predictable from our visual world   Despite our unique individual differences, there’s a surprising consistency across people in their memories, where we tend to remember and forget the same images. […]

Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu    Jacob Beck York Research Chair, Philosophy of Visual Perception Department of Philosophy York University   Resurrecting a Primary–Secondary Quality Distinction   In the 17th century, thinkers such as Galileo, Boyle, […]