Events

CNI Seminar: Donald Wilson

October 23, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Donald Wilson Department of Neuroscience and Physiology NYU   Smell in context: The role of top-down feedback and dynamic networks in olfaction   Sensory cortices process afferent input in the context of activity from a wide variety of other inter-cortical inputs. These top-down inputs provide information about expectation, recent history and multisensory associations that modulate […]

David Barner Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego   Linguistic origins of uniquely human abstract concepts   Humans have a unique ability to organize experience via formal systems for measuring time, space, and number. Many such concepts – like minute, meter, or liter – rely on arbitrary divisions of phenomena using a system […]