BI 048 Liz Spelke: What Makes Us Special?

September 25, 2019 01:24:37
BI 048 Liz Spelke: What Makes Us Special?
Brain Inspired
BI 048 Liz Spelke: What Makes Us Special?

Sep 25 2019 | 01:24:37

/

Show Notes

Liz and I discuss her work on cognitive development, specially in infants, and what it can tell us about what makes human cognition different from other animals, what core cognitive abilities we’re born with, and how those abilities may form the foundation for much of our other cognitive abilities to develop. We also talk about natural language as the potential key faculty that synthesizes our early core abilities into the many higher cognitive functions that make us unique as a species, the potential for AI to capitalize on what we know about cognition in infants, plus plenty more.

Show notes:

Other Episodes

Episode 0

May 17, 2022 01:34:12
Episode Cover

BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology

Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Check out my short video series about what's missing in AI and...

Listen

Episode 0

November 15, 2018 01:06:03
Episode Cover

BI 018 Dean Buonomano: Time in Brains and AI

Show notes: Follow Dean on Twitter: @deanbuonoVisit his lab website at UCLA.The review we discuss: The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse...

Listen

Episode 0

August 18, 2019 01:15:33
Episode Cover

BI 044 Talia Konkle: Turning Vision On Its Side

Support the Show Talia and I discuss her work on how our visual system is organized topographically, and divides into three main categories: big...

Listen