MindCORE & CURF present: Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty A “Growing Up in Science” event “Behind the CV” is a conversation-style event series about becoming and being a scientist. UPenn faculty members share their stories, giving us a peek into the unspoken challenges you don’t get to read on a CV. Thursday, November […]
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Simon Eickhoff Institute for Systems Neuroscience Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf From areas and networks to individual predictions The long predominant paradigm in neuroimaging has been to compare (mean) local volume or activity between groups, or to correlate these to behavioral phenotypes. Such approach, however, is intrinsically limited in terms of possible insight into inter-individual […]
Tyler Knowlton Department of Linguistics University of Maryland The psychological treatment of (universal) quantification We often think of quantifiers like “each” and “every” as expressing a relation between two sets. On this view, the meaning of “each/every circle is green” is something like “the circles are a subset of the green things”. This […]
Alexa Tompary Thompson-Schill Lab University of Pennsylvania How memories are combined and transformed over time Click here for more information.
Surya Ganguli Neural Dynamics and Computation Lab Stanford University Emergent elasticity in the neural code for space To navigate a novel environment, we must construct an internal map of space by combining information from two distinct sources: self-motion cues and sensory perception of landmarks. How do known aspects of neural circuit dynamics and synaptic […]