Eyasu Tamene Gallaudet University Join in person: Room 401B, 3401 Walnut St. Join via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97106379648 Overview of African Sign Languages The purpose of this presentation is two: introduce basic facts about African sign languages and their Deaf communities plus sensitize researchers and scholars to focus their research on documentation of African sign […]
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Teaching with Data As scientists, we spend an inordinate amount of time interpreting, studying and designing figures. But how (and why) should we teach these skills to undergraduate students? Come join a discussion with Dr. Mike Kane, an instructor for the undergraduate Neuroscience program at Penn, who has made it a priority to improve […]
Julie Haas Department of Biological Sciences Lehigh University BRB 251 and via Zoom Electrical Synapses: Plasticity and Cortical Attention to the Sensory Surround Electrical synapses are the main form of communication within the thalamic reticular nucleus, which focuses an attentional spotlight for the cortex. I will show our experimental evidence that these synapses […]
Dr. Hiroyuki Kato (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Cortical area-specific roles in spectro-temporal integration” In our daily life, even in the face of multiple sound sources, our brain binds together frequency components that belong to the same source and recognizes individual sound objects. This “feature binding” relies on the precise synchrony of each component’s onset […]
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Institutes of Health The 9th Annual GVR Khodadad Lecture: The neuroscience of altruism, selfishness and wellbeing Each year the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2021-2022 theme is Wellbeing and the Brain. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our […]