Distinguished Speaker Series 2022

• 14 July 2022, 4–5:30pm: Daniel Wolpert (Columbia University), “Contextual Interference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoires”

• 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.

• 29 April 2021, 4–5:30pm: Peter Dayan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics), “Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry”

• 27 May, 2021, 4–5:30pm: Antje Nuthmann (University of Kiel), “Real-world scene perception and search from foveal to peripheral vision”

• 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.

• 28 October 2021, 4–5:30pm: Cameron Buckner (University of Houston), “Imagination and the Prospects for Empiricist Artificial Intelligence”

• 9 December 2021, 4–5:30pm: Iain Cousin (University of Konstanz) – Postponed. New date TBA

• 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.

• 22 October 2020, 4–5:30pm: Guy Theraulaz (CNRS, Toulouse, France), Ethological analysis and computational modeling of social interactions in schooling fish

• 29 October 2020, 4–5:30pm: Giovanni Pezzulo (ISTC-CNR Rome), “Human sensorimotor communication during human joint action: experimental and computational perspectives”

• 26 November 2020, 4–5:30pm: Michele Rucci, (University of Rochester), “Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action”

• 3 December 2020, 4–5:30pm: Naomi Leonard (Princeton University), “Opinion Dynamics with Tunable Sensitivity: Consensus, Dissensus, and Cascades”

• 17 December 2020, 4–5:30pm: Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego), “The Neurobiological Platform for Moral Intuitions“

• 25 June 2020, 4–5:30pm: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University): “Curiosity and information demand: how we can study them and why we should care”