Cognitive Science & Psychology
Mental representations, cognitive mechanisms and behaviour.
Most of the vocabulary we use to describe human intelligence comes from cognitive science and psychology. We bring together researchers in cognitive and experimental psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, behavioural science and computational modelling of cognition. The focus is mental representations, cognitive mechanisms and behaviour: how individuals and groups understand the world, adapt to it and act in it. The questions we care most about sit between methods, like formal modelling and experiments, individuals and groups, or description and mechanism.
- How do people represent, learn about and reason about the world?
- What can current psychological and cognitive models explain, and where do they fall short?
- What cognitive mechanisms underlie perception, memory, attention and decision-making?
- How do individual cognition and collective behaviour shape one another?
Conferences
Cognitive science comes up across our events. The Annual Conference has a Cognitive Science session. At the AE Global Summit, it comes up in talks on applications, governance and how we measure systems.
Fellowship Seminars:Automated Scientific Discovery of Mind and Behavior with Prof. Sebastian Mußlick
For our first session, Prof. Sebastian Mußlick will present a framework for automated scientific discovery in cognitive science, exploring h…
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Mood as a vehicle of reinforcement learning (Professor Eran Eldar)
Professor Eran Eldar presents "Mood as a vehicle of reinforcement learning" Abstract - The science of learning and decision-making has large…
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Visual Number Sense in Generative AI Models (Dr Ivana Kajic)
Dr Ivana Kajic from Google DeepMind presents her talk "Visual Number Sense in Generative AI Models" Recent years have seen a proliferation o…
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Spotlight- Dynamical systems principles underlie the ubiquity of biological data manifolds
Spotlight talk by Dr Arthur Pellegrino presents "Dynamical systems principles underlie the ubiquity of biological data manifolds" Abstract -…
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Spotlight- Estimating flexible across-area communication with neurally-constrained RNNs
Spotlight talk by Philipp Werthmann presents "Estimating flexible across-area communication with neurally-constrained RNNs" Abstract - Previ…
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Spotlight- Enriched experiences increase symmetrical connectivity and sparsity in association cortex
Spotlight talk by Dr Rajat Saxena presents "Enriched experiences increase symmetrical connectivity and sparsity in association cortex" Abstr…
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The Thinking About Thinking Ambassador Programme is open to applications from students and early-career researchers who want to work on intelligence across fields. Ambassadors help run our conferences, workshops and community projects, and bring their universities and countries into the network.
Ambassadors who contribute and lead over a longer period may be invited into the Thinking About Thinking Fellowship. The Fellowship is invitation-only and is for long-term contributors.