Distinguished Speaker Series
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Distinguished Speaker Series 2022
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14 July 2022, 4–5:30pm: Daniel Wolpert (Columbia University), “Contextual Interference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoires”
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24 November 2022, 4–5:30pm: Jan De Houwer (Ghent University) – “Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems”

Distinguished Speaker Series 2021
Six distinguished guests explore the many facets of intelligence in a lively series of digital talks. Click on the single events for more information.
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29 April 2021, 4–5:30pm: Peter Dayan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics), “Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry”
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27 May, 2021, 4–5:30pm: Antje Nuthmann (University of Kiel), “Real-world scene perception and search from foveal to peripheral vision”
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24 June 2021, 4–5:30pm: Kou Murayama (Universität Tübingen), “A reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition: How we can integrate the concepts of curiosity, interest, and intrinsic-extrinsic rewards.
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28 October 2021, 4–5:30pm: Cameron Buckner (University of Houston), “Imagination and the Prospects for Empiricist Artificial Intelligence”
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9 December 2021, 4–5:30pm: Iain Cousin (University of Konstanz) – Postponed. New date TBA
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16 December 2021, 4–5:30pm: Lars Chittka (Queen Mary, University of London), “The mind of a Bee”

Distinguished Speaker Series 2020
Six distinguished speakers walk us through different areas
of collective intelligence, visual science, psychology, and neurology. Click on the single events for more information.
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22 October 2020, 4–5:30pm: Guy Theraulaz (CNRS, Toulouse, France), Ethological analysis and computational modeling of social interactions in schooling fish
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29 October 2020, 4–5:30pm: Giovanni Pezzulo (ISTC-CNR Rome), “Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives”
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26 November 2020, 4–5:30pm: Michele Rucci, (University of Rochester), “Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action”
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3 December 2020, 4–5:30pm: Naomi Leonard (Princeton University), “Opinion Dynamics with Tunable Sensitivity: Consensus, Dissensus, and Cascades”
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17 December 2020, 4–5:30pm: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego), “The Neurobiological Platform for Moral Intuitions“
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25 June 2020, 4–5:30pm: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University): “Curiosity and information demand: how we can study them and why we should care”