[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on Sep 15 (Zoom) -- Moshe Bar -- Overarching States of Mind -- AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

Reminder.. this is tomorrow at noon!

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 1:21 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Moshe Bar (Bar-Ilan University) will be giving an online seminar on "Overarching
> States of Mind" from *12:00 - 01:00 PM* on Sep 15.
>
> *Zoom Link*:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/97696348550?pwd=cWdiSUZST2wyd0lza3QxQllNY2d3UT09
>
> CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.
>
> Following are the details of the talk:
>
> *Title: *Overarching States of Mind
>
> *Abstract: *Implicitly, we think of our brain and mind as fixed: always
> with the same inclinations, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. But the
> human mind is dynamic and seamlessly changing between different states
> depending on circumstances. We propose that these states of mind are
> holistic in that they exert all-encompassing and coordinated effects
> simultaneously on our perception, cognition, thought, affect, and action.
> Given the apparent breadth of their reach, being able to explain how states
> of mind operate is essential. We provide a framework for the concept of
> states of mind (SoM). From this framework, we derive several unique
> hypotheses and propose an underlying mechanism whereby SoM is determined by
> the balance between top-down and bottom-up cortical processing. This novel
> framework opens new directions for understanding the human mind and bears
> widespread implications for mental health.
>
>
> *Bio*: Moshe Bar is a neuroscientist, director of the Gonda
> Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. He is the
> head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Gonda
> Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center. Prof. Bar assumed the position of
> the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center director following 17
> years in the US, where he had served as an associate professor at Harvard
> University and Massachusetts General Hospital and had led the Cognitive
> Neuroscience Laboratory at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical
> Imaging.
>
> Prof. Bar has made significant contributions to the field of cognition;
> ideas and findings that have challenged dominant paradigms in areas of
> exceptional diversity: from the flow of information in the cortex during
> visual recognition to the importance of mental simulations for planning and
> foresight in the brain, and from the effect of form on aesthetic
> preferences to a clinical theory on mood and depression. Prof. Bar uses
> methods from cognitive psychology, psychophysics, human brain imaging,
> computational neuroscience, and psychiatry to explore predictions and
> contextual processing in the brain, and their role in facilitating visual
> recognition.
>
> To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/
>
>
> --
> Aayush Bansal
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
>
>

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Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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