[CogSci] [WEBINAR] 24 January: Frances EGAN

[Fabrizio Calzavarini]

Neural Mechanisms Online(website)
24 January 2020
Webinar
15-17 Greenwhich Mean Time (check your local time here)
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Frances EGAN(Rutgers University)
The role of Representation in Computational Cognitive Models

Much of cognitive neuroscience construes cognitive capacities as involving representation in some way. Computational theories of vision, for example, typically posit structures that represent edges in the world. Neurons are often said to represent elements of their receptive fields. Despite the widespread use of representational talk in computational theorizing there is surprisingly little consensus about how such claims are to be understood. Is representational talk to be taken literally? Is it just a useful fiction? In this talk I sketch an account of the nature and function of representation in computational cognitive models that rejects both of these views. I call it a deflationary account.


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10 January, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Manolo MARTINEZ
(Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain)

****24 January, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Frances EGAN
(Full Professor, Rutgers University, USA)

****7 February, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Ruth MILLIKAN
(Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut, USA)

****21 February, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Marcin MIŁKOWSKI
(Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

****6 March, 3-5 pm (GMT)
William RAMSEY
(Full Professor, University of Nevada, USA)

****20 March, 3-5 pm (GMT)
Zina WARD
(PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

****10 April, 2-4 pm (GMT)
Adina ROSKIES
(Full Professor, Dartmouth College, USA)

****24 April, 2-4 pm (GMT)
Brendan RITCHIE
(Post Doc, KU Leuven, Belgium)

****8 May,  2-4 pm (GMT)
Russ POLDRACK
(Full Professor, Standford University, USA)

****22 May,  2-4 pm (GMT)
Rosa CAO
(Assistant Professor, Standford University, USA)

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