[Eecs_bsee] ACM event April 13 @ 7 pm ARC 106

[Hunter, Tiffany]

This Wednesday, April 13th at 7:00 PM in ARC 106 ACM will be hosting a talk from Dr. Ronaldo Vigo.



Dr. Ronaldo Vigo, Professor of Mathematical and Computational Cognition and Perception, will be giving a talk entitled "Mathematical and Computational Foundations for a Systematic Science of Cognition: Challenges, Candidate Mathematical Laws, and Prospects for Unification."



In the first part of this talk I shall discuss the nature and utility of mathematical models in the social and physical sciences respectively. I shall do this in order to address a fundamental question: can cognitive phenomena be validly characterized and studied with the same kind of mathematical systematicity found in the physical sciences? In the second part, I will introduce the basics of a new theory of conceptual behavior referred to as Generalized Invariance Structure Theory (GIST; Vigo, 2013, 2014) and its core candidate law of conceptual behavior. In the third part, I will show how GIST has facilitated the derivation of potentially lawful links to other key cognitive phenomena and capacities, such as perception (Vigo, Zhang, and Barcus, 2012), contextual choice behavior (Vigo and Doan, 2014), and visual fixation (Vigo, Zeigler, and Halsey, 2013). Furthermore, GIST has successfully informed clinical psychological research (Vigo, Evans and Owens, 2014), brain research (Cai et al., 2014), data analysis (Vigo and Basawaraj, 2016), and linguistics research (Zhang et al., 2011). I shall briefly discuss these links and propose further steps towards achieving the ultimate goal of a systematic and unified science of cognition.



If the presentation itself isn't enough of a draw to come, we will also have pizza. So show up for a great talk and some pizza.


-- Charlie Murphy

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