Connectionists: Analogy in cognition network and seminars

[Matthew Slocombe]

Dear all,

 

Apologies for any cross posting. Some of you may be interested in an online
research network and seminar group that myself and Margarita Pavlova from
the University of Kansas have organised. The aim of the group is to provide
a forum for the discussion of analogical and relational processes in
cognition and learning from multiple disciplinary perspectives (e.g.
cognitive science, AI, development, and education amongst others). We have a
mailing list, a research repository and hold weekly online seminars during
term time - the schedule for the autumn seminar series is below.

 

If of interest, please visit our website
(https://sites.google.com/site/analogylist/home) where you can find more
information about the group along with recordings of previous seminars. 

 

Best wishes,

Matt Slocombe

 

 

=== Analogy List Autumn 2020 Seminar Series ===

Seminars take place over Zoom on Thursdays from *11.00 am - 12.30 pm US
Central Time (Chicago)* unless otherwise stated. Zoom links for each seminar
are sent via the mailing list each week. Details of how to join the mailing
list can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/analogylist/home

"Representing Abstract Semantic Relations in Minds, Brains, and Machines"

Prof. Keith Holyoak (University of California, Los Angeles)

Oct 01, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CT

"Abstraction and Analogy in Natural and Artificial Intelligence"

Prof. Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute)

Oct 08, 11.00 am - 12:30 pm CT

"Priming, Pressure, and Learning by Analogy"  

Dr. Lindsey Richland (University of California Irvine)

Oct 15, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CT

"What Causes Change in the Development of Analogical Reasoning?"

Matthew Slocombe (Birkbeck, University of London)

Oct 22, 11:00 am - 11:45 am CT

"Analogies, Games, and the Learning of Mathematics"

Dr. Jairo Navarrete (O'Higgins University)

Oct 22, 11:45 am - 12:30 pm CT

"A New Spin on the Day/Night Cycle: Relational Scaffolding Enhances
Children's Understanding of Scientific Models"

Dr. Florencia Anggoro (College of the Holy Cross) & Dr. Benjamin Jee
(Worcester State University)

Oct 29, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm CT - please note the earlier start time of 10:30
am CT

"A Connectionist Account of Analogy-Making" 

Dr. Ivan Vankov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Nov 05, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CT

"The Structural Anchoring of Spontaneous Analogies"

Lucas Raynal (Cergy-Pontoise University) & Dr. Katarina Gvozdic (University
of Geneva)

Nov 12, 11:00 am - 11:45 am CT

"The Internal Structure of Semantic Relations: Effects of Relational
Similarity and Typicality"

Dr. Vencislav Popov (University of Zurich)

Nov 12, 11:45 am - 12:30 am CT 

 

"Making Neural Nets Simple Enough to Succeed at Universal Relational
Generalization" 

Prof. Kenneth Kurtz (Binghamton University) 

Nov 17, 11:00 am - 11.45 am CT - please note the change of day to a Tuesday 

 

"Toward a Remedy for Inert Knowledge: Evaluating Different Facets of
Category Status for Promoting Spontaneous Transfer" 

Sean Snoddy (Binghamton University)

Nov 17, 11:45 am - 12:30 pm CT - please note the change of day to a Tuesday

"Infant Relational Learning: Interactions with Visual and Linguistic
Factors"

Dr. Erin Anderson (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Dec 03, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CT

"Preschoolers' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors" 

Rebecca Zhu (University of California, Berkeley)

Dec 10, 11:00 am - 11:45 am CT

"Space for Thinking: Spatial Reference Frames and Abstract Concepts"

Dr. Ariel Starr (University of Washington)

Dec 10, 11:45 am - 12:30 pm CT

 

 

-

Matthew Slocombe

Department of Psychological Sciences  

Birkbeck, University of London

www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/dnl <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/dnl>  

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