Events

BE Seminar: Rosalind Picard

September 13, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Rosalind Picard, MIT   What Can We Discover About Emotions and the Brain from Noninvasive Measures?   Years ago, our team at MIT created sensors and machine learning algorithms to detect changes in human emotion.As we shrunk the sensors, made them wearable, and started to collect data24/7, wediscovered several surprises. For example, 100 years of […]

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania   A Mouse Pain Scale: Assessment of Pain Sensation in Mice Using Sub-second Behavioral Mapping and Statistical Modeling   Rodents are the main model systems for pain research, but determining their pain state is very challenging. To improve upon the use of the paw withdrawal reflex to […]

ILST Reception!

September 17, 2018
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Please join co-Directors John Trueswell and Charles Yang in celebrating the launch of MindCORE’s new initiative in Integrative Language Science and Technology (ILST). Food and beverages will be served.   Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B   ILST is a research and training program that brings together members of the Penn community who are committed to […]

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 […]