The 2018-2019 Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) Talk Series focuses on Drugs, the Brain and Society. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our lectures are free to attend, but due to limited seating, please rsvp to: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu. Thursday, February 7 4:30pm Addiction is a brain disease and it still matters* Alan I. Leshner, CEO Emeritus, American Association […]
Events
Lauren Sallan Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies TED Fellow University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Please join us for this seminar from visiting postdoc candidate from University of Toronto, Nick Diamond. The Kahana Lab will be hosting this event, and lunch will be provided. Location: 357 Levin Building Detail and organization in memory for real-world experiences Episodic memory is defined by (1) re-experiencing specific details from […]
John Krakauer Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Exploring the cognitive-motor interface: motor skill, movement imitation, and procedural memory The notion of motor skill will be discussed, along with experimental results addressing it. Then I will discuss the basis for ability to imitate and […]
Ollie Sayeed Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Why most languages aren’t chaotic evil Grammarians in the classical tradition (e.g. Priscian 500 CE) thought of grammar as a set of analogical relationships between whole words organized into paradigms. More recent work in the framework of Word and Paradigm Morphology (e.g. Blevins 2016) has […]