Routine Football Hit...
Using sensors in helmets and MRI scans of college football players, Carnegie Mellon University Psychology and CNBC faculty member Brad Mahon and researchers at the University of Ro
This center leverages the strengths of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational neuroscience and those of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature.
Uncertainty, Informa...
Rob Kass, Maurice Falk Professor in the Department of Statistics (CMU) and former interim co-director of the CNBC recently gave a lecture on “Uncertainty, Information and Narrati
Researchers Identify...
Automated, robotic training device developed by Carnegie Mellon undergraduate student advances neuroscience research. We’ve all heard the saying that individuals learn at their o
Events
Sep
19
Thu
Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering – Thursday, September 19, 9:00am – 5:30pm (CMNI co-sposonsor)
Register Here: https://www.cmu.edu/bme/bmeforum/registration.html
Sep
23
Mon
University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology
Presents a Neurobiology Research Seminar:
“Speaking and hearing: What marmosets can teach us about the sensory-motor control of voice and the evolutionary origins of vocal communication”
Steven J. Eliades, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otorhinolaryngology:
Head and Neck Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Monday, September 23rd, 2019
10:00am- 11:00am
Victoria Hall 123
Sep
24
Tue
“Unifying the scientific concept of self-control: Self-control as task hacking”
Juan Pablo Bermudez, U. Externado Colombia
Visiting Fellow at Center for Philosophy of Science
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
12:05 pm, 1117 Cathedral of Learning
Abstract: There are two apparently irreconcilable aspects of the scientific concept of self-control: the moment-to-moment state self-control and the stable trait of self-control. Deploying state self-control requires exerting cognitive effort, whereas the latter is linked with long-term wellbeing benefits but seems unrelated to cognitive effort. Are these two scientific constructs measuring the same thing? Or do they refer to different psychological phenomena? In this talk I propose the task-hacking view of self-control, which seeks to harmonize both aspects of the concept, make sense of the empirical literature, and help move the scientific study of self-control forward.
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