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 […]
Events
Virginia Man-Yee Lee, University of Pennsylvania “Transmission of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative disorders: A common mechanism of disease progression” Location: BRB II/III Auditorium
Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Joe Thornton, University of Chicago Real and potential histories in protein sequence space: chance, contingency, and the mechanisms of molecular specificity
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 […]
Anne Christophe Ecole normale supérieure, Paris Title and abstract forthcoming Location: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B