SYNAPSES: From Neurons to AI is KCECH's fall lecture series focused on dynamic Penn faculty engaged in research in fields related to neuroscience, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The series opening lecturer is Professor Charles Yang, director of the program in cognitive science and holding appointments in the Departments of Lingusitics, Computer Science and Philsophy. Professor Yang's interdsciplinary research focuses on language acquisition, variation, and change, natural language processing (NLP), and is broadly interested in the study of the mind including, more recently, numerical and conceptual development in children.