Past Events

Title: Learning from "failures" when behavioral research crosses cultures

Faculty Host: Coren Apicella

URL for more information: 

http://hruschka.faculty.asu.edu/

Title: The development of language as a social category

Faculty Host: Robert Kurzban

URL for more information:

https://www.dsclabcornell.com/

Title: Anomalies, forecasts, and decision research during the big data revolution

Faculty Host: Sudeep Bhatia

URL for more information:

https://web.iem.technion.ac.il/en/people/userprofile/erev.html

Title: "The Invisible Gorilla: From the Classroom to the Real World, and Back Again"

Faculty Host: Barbara Mellers

URL for more information:

http://www.chabris.com/

Title: "Making It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning."

Faculty Host: Michael Kahana

URL for more information:

http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/roediger.html

Title: Dissecting prefrontal circuits that mediate resilience

Faculty Host: Martin Seligman

URL for more information:

http://psych.colorado.edu/~mwlab/

You are invited to a pair of workshops inspired by the Lancet report, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, led by Penn faculty including report co-author Jere Behrman (Economics) and Dr. Sebastian Lipina (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina) with participating faculty and students from throughout Penn.

Workshop II:

Can neuroscience help efforts to alleviate global child poverty?

We will review the current state of child development programs and measures globally, and assess the relevance of poverty...

You are invited to a pair of workshops inspired by the Lancet report, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, led by Penn faculty including report co-author Jere Behrman (Economics) and Dr. Sebastian Lipina (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina) with participating faculty and students from throughout Penn.

Workshop I: What is known about poverty and brain development?

We will briefly lay out the “state of the art” in poverty neuroscience, examine its relevance to social policy and practice, and engage the expertise and...

Join for a dialog on art and science featuring:

Aaron Posner, Award-winning director, playwright, co-founder of the Arden Theater

Michael Posner, Pioneering cognitive neuroscientist, National Medal of Science recipient

Lunch will be served.

RSVP for location details at info@neuroethics.upenn.edu

Speaker: Liz Suhay (American University)

Title: The Politics of Genetic Explanations for Social Inequality

For more information, please visit http://neuroethics.upenn.edu