E.A.R.S. (Electronic Auditory Research Seminars) – a monthly auditory seminar series focused on central auditory processing Maria Loconsole (University of Padova): “Tortoises (Testudo hermanni) spontaneously associate visual and acoustic information” Crossmodal correspondences refer to a spontaneous tendency to associate information coming from different sensory modalities. For instance, we consider a high-pitch sound as […]
Events
Join us for mini-talks by our first-year graduate students. Abigail Laver – “Does having a semantic seed aid in artificial language learning?” After acquiring a few words through word-to-world mapping, infants and young children may be able to observe the distributional patterns of these known words and then make inferences about the […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Catherine Sheard Interdisciplinary Fellow University of Aberdeen Phylogenetic trees and cultural evolution Understanding the broad-scale variation in human cultural diversity is one approach to uncovering our origins and predicting where we may be headed in the […]
Interested in applying for professor jobs? Join us for a moderated panel of four tenured faculty in MindCORE on the do’s and don’ts of applying for these jobs. Panelists: Marlyse Baptista (LING) Joshua Plotkin (BIO) Sharon Thompson-Schill (PSYC) Mark Yatskar (CIS)