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…
Events
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? […]
Andrew Buskell Leverhulme Early Career Researcher Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge University Via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98587974603?pwd=SC9KRXY5ZTdLQlc2ODlwWUI3dFpMUT09 Cultural Groups, Essentialism, and Ontic Risk The comparative study of cultural groups—ethnology—went through turbulent changes over the course of the twentieth century. After shedding an association with ideas of universal progression and social Darwinism, […]
Daoxin Li Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania 3401 Walnut St. Room 401B, or via Zoom Distributional learning of recursive structures Languages differ regarding the depth, structure, and syntactic domains of recursive structures. For example, English allows infinite free embedding of the prenominal possessive ‘-s’ to express ownership, whereas the postnominal possessive ‘of’ […]