The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Philippe G. Schyns (University of Glasgow)
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 17:00-18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34.,
Room G15
Title: Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication
Abstract: Disembodied automated systems cannot reach human-like
performance when dealing with the decoding of human non-verbal
communicative signals. Automated systems, in fact, rarely exploit human
brain/body solutions. All attempts that do not take this fact into
account are bound to be unreliable in variable environments, to fail in
generalizing to new examples and to be unable to scale up to solve more
complex problems. For this very reason, I will first report basic
neurophysiological studies dedicated to the description of the basic
mechanisms of inter-individual sensorimotor communication. I will then
move to the discussion of current attempts to quantify sensorimotor
information flow among interacting participant and finally propose a
roadmap to build better computational tools to decode human sensorimotor
communication.- See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events/2014-12-03/departmental-colloquium-al…
Title: Information Processing Decoded from Behavioral and Brain
Responses
Abstract: If the brain is a machine that processes information, then
its cognitive activity can be interpreted as a set of information
processing states linking stimulus to response (i.e. as a mechanism or
an algorithm). The cornerstone of this research agenda is the existence
of a method to translate the measurable states of behavioral and brain
activity into the information processing states of a cognitive theory.
Here, I contend that reverse correlation methods can provide this
translation. I will illustrate, using examples from visual cognition,
how this novel framework can be applied to start understanding the
information processing algorithms of the brain in cognitive
neuroscience.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !
Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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