Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin-Madison Acquiring and predicting structure via statistical learning Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level Levin Building)
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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 […]
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, […]