UEL College of Applied Health & Communities Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room: Arthur Edwards Building, Room 1.01
A neurocomputational phylogenetics of symbolic thought: From basic affordances to formal incompleteness
Professor John E. Hummel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Abstract
Professor Hummel is interested primarily in the representation and processing of relations. Along with language, the ability to perceive, represent and reason about relations is the major factor distinguishing human thinking from the cognitive abilities of all other animals: It is what makes us the dominant species on the planet.
Biography
You will find John’s name in most Cognitive Psychology textbooks – he developed (with Irving Biederman) an influential computational model on object recognition. More on his research: https://psychology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/jehummel
| John E Hummel | Psychology at Illinois psychology.illinois.edu My students and I are interested primarily in the representation and processing of relations. Along with language, the ability to perceive, represent and reason about relations is the major factor distinguishing human thinking from the cognitive abilities of all other animals: It is what makes us the dominant species on the planet. |
Session Chair: Professor Volker Thoma, School of Psychology
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