Ueli Rutishauser Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology Probing human memory at the single-neuron level Memories are central to cognition and define each of us as an individual. We are utilizing extracellular recordings in humans undergoing neurosurgical procedures and computational […]
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Megan Peters Assistant Professor of Neuroscience UC Riverside / UC Irvine Computational Approaches to Studying Qualia Few people tackle the neural or computational basis of qualitative experience (Frith 2019). Why? One major reason is that science and philosophy have both struggled to propose how we might even begin to start studying it. I […]
Lila Davachi Department of Psychology Columbia University Title TBA Refreshments will be served after the seminar. Click here for more information.
Takahiro Doi Burge Lab University of Pennsylvania Suboptimal visual averaging reveals compulsory nonlinear mechanisms in human vision How humans integrate ambiguous and conflicting signals has been a focus of perception and decision-making research for decades. Identifying the source of suboptimality can reveal the information integration strategy used by the nervous system to solve […]
Delphine Dahan Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Coordinating meaning and understanding as a collaborative process People use language to accomplish things together. To succeed, they must coordinate their actions at multiple levels, including what the speaker means when producing their utterance and what their addressee takes them to mean. According to Clark […]