Cognitive Science & Psychology
Mental representations, cognitive mechanisms and behaviour and what we are to make of them.
Cognitive science and psychology supply much of the conceptual vocabulary by which we characterise human intelligence. Our work brings together researchers across cognitive psychology, experimental psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, behavioural science and the computational modelling of cognition. The emphasis is on mental representations, cognitive mechanisms and behaviour: the structures and processes that, taken together, underlie intelligence and shape how individuals and groups understand, adapt to and act within the world. The questions of principal interest sit between methodologies: between formal modelling and experimental study; between individual and collective; between description and mechanism.
- How do humans represent, learn about and reason about the world?
- What can present 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 is a recurrent theme across our events. The Cognitive Science session of the Annual Conference is dedicated to it; at the AE Global Summit, it appears wherever it bears on application, governance, or the institutions of measurement.
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 an open, application-based pathway for students and early-career researchers who wish to take part in serious, interdisciplinary conversations about intelligence. Ambassadors support our conferences, workshops, and community initiatives; in turn, they help to extend thoughtful dialogue across universities, disciplines and countries. The programme is designed for those who care, in earnest, about ideas, collaboration, and the construction of intellectual community.
Outstanding ambassadors who, over time, demonstrate sustained contribution, leadership and intellectual engagement may, in due course, be invited into the Thinking About Thinking Fellowship, a private, invitation-only programme reserved for long-term contributors to the work.