Measuring Chaos: Using Machine Learning to Satisfy Our Need to Know

How do we measure chaos and why would we want to? Dani Bassett leverages the power of machine learning to better understand chaotic systems, opening doors for new information analyses in both theoretical modeling and real-world scenarios.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Why our brains are so good at seeing causality (and what AI requires to catch up)

Why is the human brain so good at interpreting causation? What can neuroscience teach us about causality that can help AI and vice versa? What’s at stake? To answer these pressing questions, CIFAR asked Konrad Kording for his thoughts.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

What Makes News Get Shared Widely? The Answer Is in Your Head.

Why do some social media posts get shared widely, while others go unnoticed? A new study from Emily Falk's Communication Neuroscience Lab suggests that targeting self-and-social areas of the brain encourages information sharing online.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Dani Bassett Receives 2022-23 Heilmeier Award

Dani Bassett has been named the recipient of the 2022-23 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “groundbreaking contributions to modeling and control of brain networks in the contexts of learning, disease and aging.”

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Physics and Astronomy
Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Defining neural ‘representation’

Neuroscientists frequently say that neural activity ‘represents’ certain phenomena. PIK Professor Konrad Kording and postdoc Ben Baker led a study that took a philosophical approach to tease out what the term means.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Exploring what it means to be curious

In a new book ‘Curious Minds: The Power of Connection,’ Dani Bassett and twin sibling Perry Zurn weave together history, linguistics, network science, neuroscience, and philosophy to unpack the concept of curiosity.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Neuroscience
Physics and Astronomy
Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Konrad Kording Appointed Co-Director the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains Program

Konrad Kording was appointed the Co-Director of the CIFAR Program in Learning in Machines & Brains. The program brings together international scientists to examine “how artificial neural networks could be inspired by the human brain, and developing the powerful technique of deep learning.”

Bioengineering
Computer and Information Science
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Parental praise associated with longer toddler toothbrushing, a barometer of persistence

Using a first-of-its-kind video-based study, Penn and Yale developmental psychologists, including Warren Center affiliate Dani Bassett, found that how parents talk to their 3-year-old during toothbrushing matters to the child’s behavior.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

University professorship for Konrad Kording

Konrad Kording, who holds joint appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will become the Nathan Francis Mossell University Professor.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Unraveling Bias in the Brain

How can we unravel the conflicting biases in our brain to work towards a more just and peaceful world? In this talk, Emily Falk honors Dr. Emile Bruneau's work at Penn, describing the opportunity to look closer into our unconscious biases, question them, and face discomfort to make a change in our communities and beyond.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain