Students (and postdocs): We encourage you to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact the speaker's host (in advance, if possible).
Host: Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia
Dr. Heiney is a postdoc in the Medina lab. All are invited.
On behalf of Penn's Law & Brain Student Group, we are pleased to invite you to a lecture and reception with Rita Z. Goldstein, Ph.D., Tenured Scientist of Medical Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 15th from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Room 214, Gittis Center, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (3400 Chestnut Street). Dr.
Students (and postdocs): We encourage you to have lunch with a speaker or two during the year. Please contact the speaker's host (in advance, if possible).
Please contact staff coordinator Beth McCarthy (215) 573-4831 or faculty Decision Process Coordinators Katy Milkman (215) 898-5873 (OPIM) or Cassie Mogilner (215) 898-1228 (Marketing) if you have any questions.
A wide range of behaviors can be formalized as instances of probabilistic inferences. This includes odor recognition, navigation, motor control, decision making, visual search, simple arithmetic and causal reasoning, to name just a few. In all cases, the probabilistic inferences involve a type of operation known as marginalization.