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
PI Lecture on Zoom The impact of visual actions on human vision More than 10,000 times every waking hour, we use rapid movements of our eyes, head and body to reorient our gaze. These visual actions allow us to see every aspect of the visual world at the highest resolution. It seems likely — in
Abstract: Learning - here defined as knowledge acquisition and behavioral changes caused by experiences - is a central prerequisite for the development of humans, animals, and some artificial agents. Against the backdrop of psychological and educational theories of learning and related empirical studies, the talk addresses the following questions: How is learning influenced by social
Reward-based Learning and Decision Making under Risk Reinforcement learning provides a framework for making agents learn policies through feedback signals (“rewards”), which provide information about whether their actions or action sequences were successful or not. Reinforcement learning also provides a framework for understanding how humans learn and decide given reward information only. Standard reinforcement learning
Abstract: I would like to give a personal perspective of the scientific motivation and framing of SCIoI and relate them to the research of my lab, the Robotics and Biology Laboratory. But at the same time, I would like to critically question and discuss all of these things, in an attempt to move towards a
What's on a mouse's mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs Lars Lewejohann, Freie Universität Berlin, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) Abstract: Mice, as all other living creatures, have adapted to specific living conditions in the course of evolution. From our human
Collective Information Processing - From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems Abstract: Collective systems such animal groups or cellular ensembles represent fascinating examples of self-organization in biology. In contrast to non-living physical systems, self-organized biological collectives are results of long-term evolutionary adaptations to a specific ecological niche, where collective behavior provides evolutionary benefits to
Experimenting with Intelligence Abstract. Within just 7 years, behavioral decision research in psychology underwent a dramatic change. In 1967, Peterson and Beach (1967a) reviewed more than 160 experiments concerned with people’s statistical intuitions. Invoking the metaphor of the mind as an intuitive statistician, they concluded that “probability theory and statistics can be used as the
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