Events

SBSI seminar: Vaida Rimeikyte

October 30, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Vaida Rimeikyte Postdoc, Jenkins Lab University of Pennsylvania   Neural processing of decision costs and aversive events   The ability to engage in avoidance behaviors is vital to adaptively navigating different environments, especially if these environments are unpredictable or hostile. Despite considerable advances in understanding the neural mechanisms that give rise to avoidance, some component […]

Maya Bar-Hillel Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality The Hebrew University, Safra Campus   Towards a theory of default representations   Rosch (1975) studied the cognitive representations of semantic categories. A chair is a prototypical representative of “furniture.” A 4-legged wooden chair with a back rest but no hand rests is a prototypical representative […]