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Cognitive science is the study of intelligence in humans, other animals, and in artificial systems. It includes the study of representations and processes involved in the acquisition, development, storage and use of information in areas such as language, perception, learning, memory, decision making, attention, knowledge, reasoning, consciousness, and the control of action. Traditional disciplines
10/13/2021
Ada Lovelace Day Lecture – From rats to robots: closing the sensorimotor loop Concordia Universityhttps://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/events/main/2021/10/14/ada-lovelace-day-lecture-from-rats-to-robots-closing-the-sensorimotor-loop.html
09/28/2021
Ada Lovelace Day talk by Mitra Hartmann
Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University
On ZOOM, Thursday Oct 14 at 6PM.
Register to get link
https://sites.google.com/view/adalovelaceday2021/home
From rats to robots: closing the sensorimotor loop
Ada Lovelace Day 2021 From rats to robots: closing the sensorimotor loop A talk by Mitra Hartmann, Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University Abstract: Ada Lovelace is best known for her notes on the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage. The engine is a machine that uses movement to
Talk November 5th at 2:45pm in H-527
Tim Kenyon from the University of Waterloo (Philosophy) is invited by the Cercle de Recherche de l’Institut des Sciences Cognitives (CRISCo) for a workshop titled Social cognition in social epistemology. It will be held at Concordia on November 5th at 2:45pm in H-527. More info here: http://murmitoyen.com/638802.
Social cognition in social epistemology – Mur Mitoyen Événements culturels, scientfiques et citoyens: conférences, événements littéraires, cinéma, musique, arts visuels, arts de la scène et autres.
NEWS: We welcome Guillaume Beaulac in Philosophy to the Executive Committee. Dana Isac's book on imperatives appeared this fall. We hope to have a few events listed soon for Fall 2015, including a couple of talks by philosophers and a local workshop. Stay tuned.
Speaker, Erika Hoff, Florida Atlantic University
Title: Bilingual Environments and Bilingual Developments: Studies of Children in South Florida
Date: Friday October 17th, 10:00 AM
Location: Loyola PY 123.02
The Concordia Linguistics Students Association (LSA) and the Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science will host Dr. Mabel Chong (PhD McGill, 2008) for an introductory-level discussion of the neuroscience aspects of Poeppel’s (2012) paper on the “the relation between the primitives of cognition [language,speech,vision, etc.] and neurobiology” at 1:30 PM on October 3 in H527 (1455 de Maisonneuve W). Undergraduates in all fields (psychology, linguistics, biology, philosophy etc.) are particularly encouraged to attend.
Reference:
Poeppel, D. (2012). The maps problem and the mapping problem: two challenges for a cognitive neuroscience of speech and language. Cognitive neuropsychology, 29(1-2), 34-55.
10/02/2014
Liz Spelke (Harvard) will speak on innate aspects of social cognition on Oct 16 at 8PM in Concordia's Oscar Peterson Hall.
http://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/science-college/2014/10/16/core-social-cognition.html
Core social cognition Dr. Elizabeth Spelke describes some new findings and calls for a multi-species, multi-leveled search for the core mechanisms by which humans navigate the social world.