Dear All,
This is a kind reminder about or tomorrow talk:
Subject: [CEU Cogsci Talks] Charley Wu (University of Tuebingen), Wednesday September 25, 4 pm: ``Pillars of intelligence: Generalization, compositionality,
and cumulative culture``
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Charley Wu, from the
Human and Machine Cognition Lab, University Tuebingen,
Date:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: 4
pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001
(QS Vienna) and
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94014814948?pwd=3giYFwejEKffEMdodLLMfYOonrArqe.1
Meeting ID: 940 1481 4948
Passcode: 615064
Chair: Gergely
Csibra
Title: Pillars of intelligence: Generalization, compositionality, and cumulative culture
In this talk, I will present my research on generalization, compositionality, and cultural evolution, offering new insights into how humans learn, adapt, and transmit
knowledge across both individual and societal scales. The first part of the talk will explore my work on generalization, integrating developmental and social learning perspectives. Through a Bayesian framework, I show how humans generalize from limited experience,
with applications across diverse contexts such as spatial, conceptual, and social environments. This framework also provides empirical support for Alison Gopnik’s “cooling off” hypothesis and sheds light on the adaptive mechanisms of social learning in immersive
environments. In the second part, I will shift focus to compositionality and cultural evolution—two domains traditionally studied with disjoint methods. I will introduce my ERC-funded project, which offers a mathematical framework for compositional compression
as a solution to unite these domains. This framework enables a deeper understanding of how humans encode, recombine, and transmit knowledge, providing key insights into individual learning, interpersonal collaboration, and the rapid progression of cultural
knowledge over time.
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna
must RSVP here to get access to the lecture hall.
Best,
Reka
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Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department of Cognitive Science CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
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