Events

Anjan Chatterjee Department of Neurology   Hidden brain responses to the aesthetics of people and places   Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall 260, 3730 Walnut St.   Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from four of […]

ILST Seminar Series: Matt Hall

November 8, 2019
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Matt Hall Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders Temple University   Language Access, Language Proficiency, and Cognitive Development in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children   The vast majority of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have limited access to linguistic input during infancy and toddlerhood.  In addition, they typically experience delayed or incomplete mastery of […]

Timothy Lillicrap Google DeepMind   Reward functions and the nature of explanation for intelligent neural systems   The field of reinforcement learning has made astonishing progress by incorporating deep function approximators and adapting existing algorithms to work with them. Human-level performance has been obtained in a wide range of domains such as Atari, Go, Chess, […]

CNI seminar: Neel Dhruv

November 12, 2019
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Neel Dhruv Senior Editor Nature Neuroscience   Publishing at Nature Neuroscience   Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is an important component of disseminating research findings. However, many researchers have questions about the mechanisms of the process. These should be transparent so that researchers can make the most well-informed decisions about how and where to publish their […]