Events

CNI Seminar: Vijay Singh

September 18, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Vijay Singh, CNI postdoc   What the odor is not: Estimation by elimination   Our olfactory system detects a large variety of odors using a receptor repertoire whose size is much smaller than the number of types of behaviorally relevant odorants. Recent results from compressive sensing show that the olfactory system has the capacity to […]

Biology Seminar: Carl Bergstrom

September 20, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building)   Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington   Contest theory reveals advantages of allocating research funding using partial lotteries   Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not the deliverables that the funder seeks, but […]

Liina Pylkkänen Department of Linguistics and Department of Psychology, NYU NYU Abu Dhabi Institute   Decomposing composition: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe within the combinatory network   The neuroscience of meaning composition faces a principled challenge: the integration of words into complex messages is achieved by a cascade of tightly correlated and possibly […]

Adrianna Jenkins Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania   Predicting flexible human social behavior   Although human behavior reflects a concern for others’ welfare, people do not extend this concern uniformly. Instead, the mind adjusts the expression of prosocial tendencies across different social contexts. These adjustments can constitute critically useful flexibility in human social behavior, […]