Concordia Center for Cognitive Science

10/13/2021

https://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/events/main/2021/10/14/ada-lovelace-day-lecture-from-rats-to-robots-closing-the-sensorimotor-loop.html

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09/28/2021

Ada Lovelace Day talk by Mitra Hartmann

Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University

On ZOOM, Thursday Oct 14 at 6PM.

Register to get link
https://sites.google.com/view/adalovelaceday2021/home

From rats to robots: closing the sensorimotor loop

From rats to robots: closing the sensorimotor loop A talk by Mitra Hartmann, Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University Abstract: Ada Lovelace is best known for her notes on the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage. The engine is a machine that uses movement to

11/04/2015

Talk November 5th at 2:45pm in H-527

Tim Kenyon from the University of Waterloo (Philosophy) is invited by the Cercle de Recherche de l’Institut des Sciences Cognitives (CRISCo) for a workshop titled Social cognition in social epistemology. It will be held at Concordia on November 5th at 2:45pm in H-527. More info here: http://murmitoyen.com/638802.

Événements culturels, scientfiques et citoyens: conférences, événements littéraires, cinéma, musique, arts visuels, arts de la scène et autres.

10/07/2015

NEWS: We welcome Guillaume Beaulac in Philosophy to the Executive Committee. Dana Isac's book on imperatives appeared this fall. We hope to have a few events listed soon for Fall 2015, including a couple of talks by philosophers and a local workshop. Stay tuned.

10/03/2014

Speaker, Erika Hoff, Florida Atlantic University
Title: Bilingual Environments and Bilingual Developments: Studies of Children in South Florida
Date: Friday October 17th, 10:00 AM
Location: Loyola PY 123.02

10/02/2014

The Concordia Linguistics Students Association (LSA) and the Concordia Centre for Cognitive Science will host Dr. Mabel Chong (PhD McGill, 2008) for an introductory-level discussion of the neuroscience aspects of Poeppel’s (2012) paper on the “the relation between the primitives of cognition [language,speech,vision, etc.] and neurobiology” at 1:30 PM on October 3 in H527 (1455 de Maisonneuve W). Undergraduates in all fields (psychology, linguistics, biology, philosophy etc.) are particularly encouraged to attend.

Reference:
Poeppel, D. (2012). The maps problem and the mapping problem: two challenges for a cognitive neuroscience of speech and language. Cognitive neuropsychology, 29(1-2), 34-55.

10/02/2014

Liz Spelke (Harvard) will speak on innate aspects of social cognition on Oct 16 at 8PM in Concordia's Oscar Peterson Hall.

http://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/science-college/2014/10/16/core-social-cognition.html

Dr. Elizabeth Spelke describes some new findings and calls for a multi-species, multi-leveled search for the core mechanisms by which humans navigate the social world.