I argue that the evolution of human life history, with its distinctively long, protected human childhood and high level of investment in the young, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the demands of goal-directed exploitation set in. I relate this...

Can we build models of language acquisition from raw acoustic data in an unsupervised manner? Can deep convolutional neural networks learn to generate speech using linguistically meaningful representations? In this talk, I will argue that language acquisition can be modeled with Generative...

Six studies (N=2400) show that majority group members misperceive diversity policies as unbeneficial to their ingroup, even when policies benefit them. Majority group members (i.e., White Americans) perceived non-zero-sum university admission policies—policies that increase the acceptance of...

Human beings can transmit vast knowledge by leveraging a rather unique mechanism of information transfer: language. Human language allows us to communicate which plants are poisonous and that wearing a mask protects ourselves and others, without ever tasting any plants or personally contracting...

As Berkeley commemorates 150 Years of Women, we celebrate two exemplary psychology Ph.D. alumnae who are working for the public good at a time of misinformation and shocking disparities. Laura Helmuth, Editor in Chief, Scientific American, and Sybil Madison, Deputy Mayor, Education and Human...

Institutional, structural, and interpersonal discrimination limits, among other freedoms, the economic opportunities of Black Americans. This made it difficult for Black Americans to accumulate wealth and pass wealth onto subsequent generations. As a result of these historical and persistent...

Cognition, Brain, and Behavior student group at Berkeley meeting

Cognition, Brain, and Behavior student group at Berkeley meeting