Connectionists: Karen E. Adolph speaking on December 8 in Developing Minds global online lecture series

[Jochen Triesch]

Dear colleagues,

On December 8, the Developing Minds global online lecture series will feature Karen E. Adolph from NYU:
"Development of intelligent behavior: Lessons from Infants“

The live event will take place via zoom at:
09:00 am EST (Eastern Standard Time)
14:00 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)
15:00 CET (Central European Time)
23:00 JST (Japan Standard Time)

To participate please register here:
https://sites.google.com/view/developing-minds-series/home

Abstract:
The average 18-month-old toddler can run circles around the world’s most sophisticated robots. Why is that? Because real intelligence is not about computational power. It is about flexible, adaptive, generative behavior in a changing body with changing skills in a changing world. Here, I offer several lessons about the development of intelligent behavior—and how to study it—that might prove useful for researchers in developmental science, psychology, cognitive science, robotics, and artificial intelligence. I conclude with a proposal to use video as data, demonstration, and documentation and a plea to share videos to increase scientific transparency, ensure reproducibility, and speed progress in understanding behavior, intelligence, and their development.

Bio:
KAREN E. ADOLPH is the Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, and Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University. She uses observable motor behaviors and a variety of technologies (video, motion tracking, instrumented floor, head-mounted eye tracking, EEG, etc.) to study developmental processes. Adolph directs the Databrary video library and the PLAY project, and she developed and maintains the Datavyu video-coding tool.She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science and Past-President of the International Congress on Infant Studies. She received the Kurt Koffka Medal for “worldwide outstanding work on infants’ perception/action development,” a Cattell Sabbatical Award, the APF Fantz Memorial Award, the APA Boyd McCandless Award, the ICIS Young Investigator Award, FIRST and MERIT awards from NICHD, and five teaching awards from NYU. She has published 190+ articles and chapters. Her research on perceptual-motor learning and development has been continually funded by NIH since 1991.

The talk will also be recored and the recording made available via the web page:
https://sites.google.com/view/developing-minds-series/home

Best regards,
Jochen Triesch

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Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch
Johanna Quandt Chair for Theoretical Life Sciences
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and
Goethe University Frankfurt
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