The concept of intelligence in cognitive science has been highly elusive. One pragmatic approach to understanding intelligence is to use classical intelligence tests, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). In such tests, performance is assessed in a number of specific subtask items, and the performance across these items is then integrated to an

Henry Shevlin is a research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Cambridge). He did his PhD at CUNY Graduate Center in New York with a thesis on "Consciousness, Perception and Short-Term Memory". Link to CV here ABSTRACT: The science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades, both in the

Winter School Keynote Lecture: Oliver Brock (Cluster Science of Intelligence, TU Berlin) Cluster Speaker Prof. Dr. Oliver Brock will deliver the keynote lecture at this year's Winter School Ethics and Neuroscience. The 9th Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The event is

Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: Generalization and adaptation of learned skills to novel situations is a core requirement for intelligent autonomous robots. Although contextual reinforcement learning provides a principled framework for learning and generalization of behaviors across related tasks, it generally relies on uninformed sampling of environments from an unknown, uncontrolled context distribution, thus missing the