Cognitive Science Colloquium

Cognitive Science Hybrid Colloquium delivered by Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Assistant Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar in the Neurobiology and Behavior Department at Cornell University. From Sensation to Meaning Abstract: How does sensory activity come to represent meaningful features of the world? My lab studies this question in the visual systems of different species, using behavior to ask what information animals extract from sensory signals and how that information becomes useful for perception and action. By comparing animals with different bodies, s