Sunghye Cho Linguisitc Data Consortium (LDC) UPenn Automated acoustic and lexical analyses of natural speech in patients with Alzheimer’s disease Speech production is a complex behavior, involving activation of multiple regions of the brain; thus, examining speech production provides opportunities to identify disease markers. Since Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) accounts for up to 80% […]
Events
MindCORE is hosting a SCIENCE OUTREACH FAIR Friday Sept. 24, 2021 *RAIN LOCATION: SAIL Room, 111 Stephen A. Levin Building* Please note the date change from 9/17 due to rain 12-1:30PM Leidy-Levin Niche (Courtyard between Leidy & Levin, East side, across from Goddard) Interested in science education & community outreach? Come learn about how […]
GRASP Lab Faculty presentations: Dr. Ani Hsieh – Welcome & Introduction Dr. Michelle Johnson (presented by Frances Sowande) Dr. Rahul Mangharam Dr. Nikolai Matni Dr. Robert Stuart-Smith Dr. Cynthia Sung Dr. James Pikul *This will be a HYBRID event, with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and virtual attendance via Zoom here…
Casey Lew-Williams Department of Psychology Princeton University Infants learn from meaningful structure in their communicative environments During natural communication, caregivers pitch statistics at infants, and infants figure out what to pay attention to across milliseconds and months. In doing so, they make progress in detecting and then running with meaningful, naturally variable structure […]
Martha Farah Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society University of Pennsylvania Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/91344134606?pwd=ZEZjR2Y0anN0aHpEbzVUT2FzU2tPdz09 Charitable cause: NARAL Pro-Choice America Putting neuroscience to work to reduce the harms of poverty Is SES neuroscience the pipedream of neuroscientists who want to feel useful and who underestimate the complexity of poverty and its effects? […]