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Nicola Clayton – March 31, 2023
Ways of Thinking: From Crows to Children and Back Again
Cynthia Dwork – April 8, 2022
Fairness, Randomness, and the Crystal Ball
Mahzarin Banaji – April 16, 2021
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Matthew Botvinick – March 6, 2020
Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications
Cori Bargmann – April 19, 2019
Organizing behavior across timescales
Leslie Valiant – April 6, 2018
What needs to be added to machine learning?
Ned Block – March 31, 2017
A joint in nature between cognition and perception without modularity of mind
Edvard Moser – February 25, 2016
Grid cells and entorhinal network dynamics
This lecture was also part of the MINS “Year of Cognition” Talk Series.
Randolph Blake – March 27, 2015
Probing Visual Perception Outside of Conscious Awareness
Susan Carey – March 28, 2014
The Origin of Concepts: Natural Number
David Pesetsky – April 5, 2013
Language and Music: same structures, different building blocks
Joshua Tenenbaum – March 23, 2012
Modeling common-sense reasoning with probabilistic programs
Patricia Smith Churchland – March 25, 2011
How the Mind Makes Morals
Patricia Kuhl – April 16, 2010
Cracking the Speech Code: Language and the Infant Brain
Alvaro Pascual-Leone – March 20, 2009
Modifying Descision Making
Christof Koch – March 28, 2008
The Biology of Consciousness
William Bialek – April 20, 2007
Searching for simple models
Elissa L. Newport – March 17, 2006
How children shape languages: Language acquisition and the emergence of signed and spoken languages
Colin Camerer – February 25, 2005
Behavioral Game Theory
Ray Jackendoff – February 20, 2004
Toward a Cognitive Science of Culture and Society
Geoffrey Hinton – March 7, 2003
Learning Representations by Unlearning Beliefs
Stanislas Dehaene – March 7, 2002
Cerebral Bases of the Number Sense in the Parietal Lobe
Martin Nowak – February 9, 2001
Evolution of Language: From Animal Communication to Universal Grammar
Elizabeth Spelke – January 21, 2000
Core Knowledge and Cognitive Development