Yaoguang Jiang Platt Lab University of Pennsylvania The neural mechanisms of strategic competition: a cross-species comparison Competitive social interactions, as in chess or poker, often involve multiple moves and countermoves deployed tactically within a broader strategic plan. Such maneuvers are supported by mentalizing or theory-of-mind (ToM)—reasoning about the beliefs, strategic tendencies, and goals […]
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Noa Herz Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania “Hippocampal mechanisms of false recall”
This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please join us in the SAIL Room for a pizza lunch and group session, or, to attend remotely please contact us for the Zoom link: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Mariam Aly Department of Psychology Columbia University How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention Attention modulates what […]
Gesoel Mendes Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Movement in syntax: a view from the Mayan languages Natural languages show “movement effects”, where a syntactic constituent seems to be understood in more than one position, for example as the object of a verb like ‘see’ and as the question word at the beginning […]
Konrad Kording Departments of Bioengineering and Neuroscience\ University of Pennsylvania Credit assignment: brains and deep learning I will review the problem of credit assignment in brains, deep learning and the field of deep learning. In doing so I will give an overview of the problems in credit assignment as they occur in any […]