Cognitive science

The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference connects cognitive science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence through computational explanations of complex behaviour. Its scope includes mechanistic interpretability, representation learning and alignment, biological and artificial intelligence, neural dynamics, and models of perception, cognition and action. The primarily single-track format combines keynotes, research talks and posters with some parallel community sessions. Generative Adversarial Collaborations examine competing theories; keynote-and-tutorial sessions connect

…Drawing on cognitive science, he and Sean Carroll examine what behavioral similarities can tell us about underlying mechanisms and how to assess the relationship between artificial and human intelligence.

…Cognitive scientists use algorithms to explain mental processes. For example, they use tree-search algorithms to explain planning, reinforcement learning algorithms to explain exploration, and Bayesian algorithms to explain categorization. The standard approach is to search for parts in the brain corresponding to the steps of the algorithm. But we haven’t been able to find many such parts. This has led some to deny that algorithms are useful to systems neuroscience, and to interpret neural systems usi

…to inhibitory; how much does neuroscience overlap with or have functional or explanatory distinctness from psychology, or other disciplines within the original umbrella of the Cognitive Science project? These questions drive our work in methods for cognition