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Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2015
Video channel for the Center of Cognitive Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Here we post recordings of talks and other events.
Here we post recordings of talks and other events.
RuCCS Dr. Roman Feiman - In Person Talk - Tuesday, April 23, 2024
You may have never heard the sentence, There are no pineapples on the moon, but you have no trouble understanding what it means, judging that it’s probably true, and inferring that if there are no pineapples on the moon, that means there are no dried pineapples there, no pineapples during an eclipse, and no one eating a pineapple on the lunar surface. You can do this because you know the component parts of that sentence and how to combine them in specific ways to think a specific thought, even if you've never thought it before. How does this ability work in adults, and how does it develop in children? While some words - like pineapple and moon - provide the parts to be combined, logical words like no give instructions for how to combine them. This makes the acquisition of these words and the development of their meanings an especially useful window into how compositional language and thought emerge.
Does learning words like no and not allow children to combine meanings in new ways - to negate them for the first time - or do these words merely label an operation that already existed in infant thought? Does each logical word (no, not) specify a unique way to combine content, or is there a narrower set of primitive operators (like the negation operation from first-order logic), which multiple words correspond to? I will report on experiments with different populations that can help address these questions: data from toddlers who are just on the cusp of learning these words, from older internationally adopted children learning English for the first time, and from adults whose language input is manipulated to simulate children's comprehension at different ages. I'll argue that all of this evidence converges on the same conclusion: that both a concept of negation and the basic form of compositional thought are available for children to think with before they learn how they are expressed in a language.
Does learning words like no and not allow children to combine meanings in new ways - to negate them for the first time - or do these words merely label an operation that already existed in infant thought? Does each logical word (no, not) specify a unique way to combine content, or is there a narrower set of primitive operators (like the negation operation from first-order logic), which multiple words correspond to? I will report on experiments with different populations that can help address these questions: data from toddlers who are just on the cusp of learning these words, from older internationally adopted children learning English for the first time, and from adults whose language input is manipulated to simulate children's comprehension at different ages. I'll argue that all of this evidence converges on the same conclusion: that both a concept of negation and the basic form of compositional thought are available for children to think with before they learn how they are expressed in a language.
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RuCCS - Meet Me at the Elevator - Hybrid talk - Tuesday 12, 2023
มุมมอง 406 หลายเดือนก่อน
Shannon Bryant (Ph.D., Linguistics, Harvard) Language as a window into our inner worlds Learn more about Shannon and her research here: sites.google.com/view/shannonbryant/ Chuanxiuyue (Carol) He (Ph.D., Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) Spatial thinking and navigation: Unraveling individual differences in cognition through naturalistic complex tasks Preston Lennon (Ph.D., Philosophy, The...
RuCCS Dr. Joshua Hartshorne - In Person Talk - Tuesday 28, 2023
มุมมอง 698 หลายเดือนก่อน
Abstract: Starting with Alan Turing, scientists have long speculated that any artificial system with human-level language understanding would necessarily have human-level intelligence, that language is "AI-complete". Does the linguistic success of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT mean that they are intelligent, or that Turing and others were wrong? I focus on a deceptively simple as...
RuCCS Dr. Vanessa Vieities - In Person Talk - April 4, 2023
มุมมอง 25ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: By elementary school, children in the US have mastered basic numeracy skills such as counting, but there are individual differences in how proficiently children understand the link between counting and quantity. According to previous research, children’s understanding of relational concepts is one potential source of these individual differences. While it is likely that developmental ...
RuCCS: Dr. Shannon Bryant - In Person Talk - March 28, 2023
มุมมอง 61ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: In English, as in many languages, both reflexive pronouns (e.g., herself) and personal pronouns (e.g., her) can be used to refer to someone who was previously mentioned in a sentence. This raises an interesting question for language researchers: how do speakers choose which form to use? Ample work in theoretical linguistics has shown that the choice between pronoun forms depends at le...
RuCCS: Dr. David Zald - In-Person Talk, March 3, 2023
มุมมอง 174ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Decisions about whether to exert effort are ubiquitous. Decisions to work on a paper or go exercise or run an errand all involve considerations of goals and rewards relative to the costs of the effort? Maladaptive decision making about effort characterizes several forms of psychopathology and can cause problems for otherwise psychiatrically healthy individuals as well. This talk outli...
RuCCS Dr. Preston Lennon - In-Person Talk, February 28, 2023
มุมมอง 49ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: The phenomenal view of thought says that thoughts are episodes in the stream of consciousness: they have phenomenal character, and this phenomenal character partially determines their content (Horgan and Tienson 2002, Pitt 2009, Strawson 2010, Siewert 2011). In this talk, I entertain and respond to an objection to the phenomenal view, namely, that it is chauvinistic. A theory of mind ...
RuCCS: Dr. Mike Regnewetter - In-Person Talk, February 21, 2023
มุมมอง 31ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Behavioral science faces the formidable task of having to determine simultaneously what is deterministic (constant and same), while also determining what is probabilistic (uncertain and variable). Should scholars treat heterogeneity of behavior as a nuisance or as substance? These questions arise both between and within individuals. This presentation will introduce a mathematical mode...
RuCCS: Dr. Stephen Broomell - In-Person Talk - February 14, 2023
มุมมอง 31ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: In the study of judgment and choice under uncertainty, I have found that there are many contexts where observations provide far less information than is realized because of veiled violations of assumptions. I have clarified this disconnect by recasting such observations as measurements, identifying what assumptions are likely to hold, and highlighting the problematic role of violated ...
RuCCS: Dr. Shuyan Wang - In-Person Talk - December 6, 2022
มุมมอง 32ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Relatively late mastery of scalar implicatures has been suggested to correlate with children’s immature processing capacities, such as their limited working memory (e.g., Chierchia et al. 2001; Pouscoulous et al. 2007; Reinhart 2004; Syrett et al. 2007). Yet, no studies have systematically evaluated the processing-based account. This project aims to fill this gap and examine the proce...
RuCCS: Dr. Joseph Sommer - In-Person Talk - November 29, 2022
มุมมอง 73ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: How does human belief work? In contrast to the normative assumption that people update their beliefs via Bayes’ rule, psychologists have documented belief phenomena which appear difficult to explain via a Bayesian updating. Moreover, people often arrive at disparate beliefs in domains from politics to science, which may seem difficult to account for on the assumption that beliefs trac...
RuCCS: Dr. Tim Buschman - In-Person Talk - November 08, 2022
มุมมอง 197ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Working memory is our ability to hold things ‘in mind’, acting as a flexible substrate on which thoughts can be placed and manipulated. Despite its importance to cognition, working memory is surprisingly fragile: working memory representations degrade over time and are susceptible to interference from other stimuli. In this talk, I will discuss two ways in which neural dynamics may he...
RuCCS: Dr. Jason Friedman - In-person talk - September 20, 2022
มุมมอง 31ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Simple two-alternative choices in humans (e.g., are these dots moving left or right) are often modeled using the drift-diffusion model, where evidence is accumulated in a noisy process until a bound is reached. This bound then determines which choice will be made. Often button press (reaction time) responses are used to fit these models, as the button press is assumed to occur at the ...
Hybrid Event- Paul Robinson and Marta Mielicki (Rutgers University) - March 29, 2022
มุมมอง 1532 ปีที่แล้ว
Paul Robinson - The Evolution of Reason Abstract: Over the past two decades a growing number of cognitive scientists have argued that human reason evolved as a social competence due to the threat of deception, to help individuals persuade others and justify themselves. I propose that examination of the role of reason in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies suggests an alternative model accordi...
RuCCS: Dr. Patrick Shafto - Learning in Open Worlds - March 22, 2022
มุมมอง 582 ปีที่แล้ว
Abstract: Cognitive science is dominated by models of closed world experiments that have unclear relations and few if any provable properties. I will discuss a new mathematical approach that enables systematization of models and provable properties in the context of challenges posed by open world learning. Along the way, I will highlight connections to and implications for pure mathematics, mac...
Hybrid Event - Ryan Rhodes (Rutgers University) - April 12, 2022
มุมมอง 992 ปีที่แล้ว
Hybrid Event - Ryan Rhodes (Rutgers University) - April 12, 2022
Hybrid Event - Carolyn Jane Lutken (Rutgers University) - April 05, 2022
มุมมอง 632 ปีที่แล้ว
Hybrid Event - Carolyn Jane Lutken (Rutgers University) - April 05, 2022
Hybrid Event - Austin Baker (Rutgers University) - April 05, 2022
มุมมอง 652 ปีที่แล้ว
Hybrid Event - Austin Baker (Rutgers University) - April 05, 2022
Hybrid Event - Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy (Rutgers University) - April 12, 2022
มุมมอง 342 ปีที่แล้ว
Hybrid Event - Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy (Rutgers University) - April 12, 2022
13th Annual PERSCI Forum (05-04-21) - Dr. Thomas L. Griffiths
มุมมอง 1393 ปีที่แล้ว
13th Annual PERSCI Forum (05-04-21) - Dr. Thomas L. Griffiths
Interdisciplinary Thinkpiece Panel I with Michele Gilman, Katina Michael, and Tae Wan Kim
มุมมอง 993 ปีที่แล้ว
Interdisciplinary Thinkpiece Panel I with Michele Gilman, Katina Michael, and Tae Wan Kim
Keynote Conversation on AI Ethics: Meredith Whittaker
มุมมอง 1.7K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Keynote Conversation on AI Ethics: Meredith Whittaker
Hi Paul, checking in on your progress I'll send comments after I watch it all
Its interesting he brings up selective sweep there because it doesnt absolve the issue his father initially raised, it points it out.
I clicked here to listen these kinds words from Zenon to Fodor what a philosopher and thinker
Thank you for posting.
i read around many critics. it is easily noticeable that Fodor's writing style was pretty much convoluted. it is duty of next generation to spread and deepen Fodor's contribution to science, to make it more accessible without losing its grip i have much appreciated the conference, Pianelli-Palmarini is very clear all throughout the questions at the end
I too, only clicked to know how to pronounce Pylyshyn
Hahaha
Pile-Lie-Shine?
Nice!, I wish i could say how much jerry impacted my life but it seems like i cant put it into words. Fart. Jerry would say this everyday to me the first time we met, safe to say he was incredible!
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We need a book of "Jerry jokes" please
Jackendoff is a good cognitivist and linguist.
Excellent content but it is a shame that this material was not included in the book "What Darwin Got Wrong" which, frankly, tries too hard to be clever and does a poor job of crystallizing and validating its key message.
the other guy talked too much
Stop interrupting Jackendoff. I totally agree.
Honestly I only clicked to hear the pronunciation of Zenon. She pronounced it just like I do.
Honestly I only clicked to hear the pronounciation of Pylyshyn but that was very sweet
This man speaks nonsence. The understanding of man having a nonphuysical spirit is throughout the Bible, both old and new Testaments. He is preaching Egyptian and Greek gnosticism, and telling a lie about the scriptures. To see just how wrong he is about it, do a search in the Bible for the words "spirit" and "soul" and read the passages. You will discover that the Bible tells us of a non-physical spirit a great many times. For example, passages that speak of possessions prove him wrong. Now, if someone claims the spirit is a field around the brain like the magnetic field, they are still wrong. If mind were such a perposterous thing, then being close to a powerful magnet or putting headphones on or a cell phone to your head should cause insanity, death, or other profound effects upon the mind.
If atheism were true, humans would be soulless bags if matter with no innate value. Therefore, atheism is not only absurd, obviously false, and cannot provide for the existence of anything including morality, but is in fact a dangerous necromancy that has caused the death of hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century - a mountain of bodies and a river of blood - all because atheists refuse out of pride to acknowledge God. Atheism is a sickness that has done too much harm already. It should be internationally illegal to tell anyone they are a souless bag of matter. This is abuse of the highest order. Atheism is the least intellectual idea ever produced by a human, and requires a person to be in denial of a large percentage of the accrued knowledge of mankind. Atheists believe the universe exploded from a spaceless point, produced astonishing order, ultimately producing rock soup which came alive which then organized itself into Beethoven and space probes. They believe soulless bags of matter write novels too. Logical, rational, scientific stuff if I ever heard it. Those atheists are so smart! If the mind is entirely caused by matter, free will cannot exist. If free will does not exist, then there is no such thing as an opinion. Therefore the atheist assertion, "There is no evidence for the existence of God." is is just chemical reaction, not an opinion, and cannot be either true or false. If atheistic materialism were true, then immaterial things like propositions, such the proposition that materialism is true, can't be true. Atheism is logically incoherent and self-refuting. If atheistic materialism were true, then the atheist proposition, "There is no evidence for the existence of God." is is just chemical reaction, neither true nor false. Atheism is logically incoherent and self-refuting. When asked how chemistry (of the brain) is able to produce opinion, assertions, queries, or make observations, atheists cannot provide an answer. They go silent. "If the mind is entirely caused by matter, free will cannot exist. Matter is governed by fixed laws, and if our thoughts are entirely the product of brain chemistry, then our thoughts are determined by brain chemistry. But chemistry doesn’t have "truth" or "falsehood," or any other values for that matter. It just is. Enzymatic catalysis isn’t true or false, it just is. In fact, the view that "materialism is true" is meaningless… if materialism is true. If materialism is true, then the thought "materialism is true" is just a chemical reaction, neither true nor false. While there are some philosophers who assert that free will can exist in a deterministic aterialistic world (they’re called "compatibilists"), and some have argued that quantum indeterminacy may leave room for free will, the most parsimonious explanation for free will is that there is an immaterial component of the mind that is undetermined by matter."- Dr. Michael Egnor, award winning neurosurgon "Atheists are people who demand of themselves to believe that only atheists, a small minority of the people in the world, are right about the existence of non-physical things, such as their own spirit, because they refuse to accept the inference that their own sentience is evidence of their spirit and that the cause of their spirit is God." -- NephilimFree "It really is that absurd. For materialists, the metaphor of memory for computer storage of electronic representations has become metaphysics, which (sadly) is a bit of an improvement on actual materialist metaphysics, which is utterly incoherent. The proper response to this pitiful error is a bit of common sense, explained slowly." - Dr. Michael Egnor, award winning neurosurgon "Materialists have taken note of the growing efforts by non-materialist neuroscientists to point out the deep problems with the inference that the brain is entirely the cause of the mind. Materialist neuroscience, like materialist evolutionary biology, is a vacuous orthodoxy, and its proponents resent threats to their dogma. Darwinian explanations for functional biological complexity are nonsense, but some familiarity with the relevant science is necessary to understand that it is nonsense. Materialist explanations for the mind are transparent nonsense." - Dr. Michael Egnor, award-winning neurosurgeon "The plain fact is that the materialist picture of the body and brain as the producers, rather than the vehicles, of human consciousness is doomed. In its place a new view of mind and body will emerge, and in fact is emerging already. This view is scientific and spiritual in equal measure and will value what the greatest scientists of history themselves always valued above all: truth." - Dr. Alexander, University of Virginia Medical School, former faculty member at Harvard Medical School "There are not many options - essentially just two. Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second." - John Lennox, PhD mathemetician Oxford University, theologian "Materialism is an atheistic philosophy that says that all of reality is reducible to matter and its interactions. It has gained ground because many people think that it’s supported by science. They think that physics has shown the material world to be a closed system of cause and effect, sealed off from the influence of any non-physical realities - if any there be. Since our minds and thoughts obviously do affect the physical world, it would follow that they are themselves merely physical phenomena. No room for a spiritual soul or free will: for materialists we are just “machines made of meat.” - Stephen M. Barr, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Delaware web.physics.udel.edu/about/directory/faculty/stephen-barr
It is wrong to think there is nothing in the natural world to correspond with number 7, with the concept of 7 days a week. Actually, there is. It is the quarter of the lunar month which is the very beginning of the human calendar.
the point is the number 7 is arbitrary, it's an invention to describe things, we have the number 7 in several languages, you can use any one of those languages, the word in that language means "7" because we all agree on a definition of that usage, you can use any word at all to describe "there are 1+1+1+1+1+1+1 things. i could say "look, there's a fish" and mean i see seven trees. your lunar month is an abitrary description of the physical activity of the moon moving about, the moon moving about is constantly changing, distance from earth, speed, position realtive to the galaxy, "lunar month" is a changing number, our interpretation is arbitray, we agree on one definition so we can all understand what a month is, but "a month" just doesn't exist, bring me a bucket of days....where can i find a month hiding?