Yejin Choi, Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Senior Research Director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Celeste Kidd, Ph.D., Assistant Professsor, University of California, Berkeley
Talk title: “How to Know” Abstract: This talk will discuss Kidd’s research about how people come to know what they know. The world is a sea of information too vast for any one person to acquire entirely. How then do people navigate the information overload, and how do their decisions shape their knowledge and beliefs? In this talk, Kidd will discuss research from her lab about the core cognitive systems people use to guide their learning about the...
Brian Scholl, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Cognitive Science Program Director, Perception & Cognition Laboratory Yale University http://perception.yale.edu/
Topic:Seeing and Thinking: Perception Extracts Properties Usually...
Words are bundles of meanings and sounds (or signs). As mature language users, we have sophisticated knowledge about how words work, both on their own and as part of a lexicon. How does that knowledge emerge? In my...
The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment. Yet, for the most part, people successfully...
Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible...
Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world...
Professor (Emeritus) Co-founded the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard Visual Psychophysics in Perceptual Oraganization, Visual Attention, Visual Memory, and Face Perception
Research interests: Phenomenology of visual perception, visuo-motor coordination and its perception, and individual differences