Judit Gervain Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception CNRS & Université Paris Descartes Early auditory and speech perception lays the foundations of language development Newborns and young infants have sophisticated auditory abilities. Some of these are broad and universal, others already reflect prenatal experience with the native language. The talk will present a series […]
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Terry Davidson Professor of Psychology American University Location: Levin Auditorium (425 S. University Ave.)
Rosie Cowell Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Computational Memory and Perception Lab University of Massachusetts Amherst Banishing Ghosts of Process from the Neural Machinery of Human Memory: A Representational Hierarchical Account of Cognition In cognitive neuroscience, mental processes or cognitive functions have often served as labels for characterizing the functional division of […]
Have you ever wondered what your professor’s life was like as a student? What they struggled with, or how they ended up where they are now? “Growing Up in Science” is an event series about becoming and being a scientist. Faculty share their stories with a focus on the unspoken challenges of a life in […]
Location: Room 357 Levin Building Kris Smith Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Partner choice and the evolution of human cooperation: Evidence from hunter-gatherers Humans cooperate to an unparalleled scope and degree in the animal kingdom. How did this propensity to cooperate with strangers evolve? One hypothesis is that our ability to […]