On Wednesday, 2/19/25, Dr. Andres Grosmark will be here at UConn for our seminar series from UConn Health. His talk will be titled “Hippocampal consolidation mechanisms actively sculpt multi-day memories.”

Programme (in EST)

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Introduction

09:10 - 10:15 Keynote: Elisabeth Pacherie (institut Jean Nicod; Institute for the Study of Cognition at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
“Motoric Representational Format”

10:20 - 10:50 Emma Otterski
“(In)directly perceiving others’ emotions and the object analogy”

10:55 - 11:25 Iwan Williams (Monash University)
” Proto-asserters?: The case of chatbot speech meets the case of toddler speech “

11:30 - 12:05 Frederik T. Junker (University of Copenhagen)
“From Daydreams to Decisions”

12:10 - 12:40 Georgina Brighouse (University of Liverpool)
“Rethinking aphantasia: A genuine lack of capacity but not a disorder or disability

12:40 - 1:20 Lunch

1:20 - 1:50 Mica Rapstine (University of Michigan)
“Moral Epiphany and Insight in Problem Solving”

1:55 - 2:25 Joachim Nicolodi (University of Cambridge)
“Consciousness in the Creative Process and the Problem for AI”

2:30 - 3:00 Mona Fazeli (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Does Metareasoning Contribute to Epistemic Rationality?”

3:05 - 3:35 Juan Murillo Vargas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?”

3:40 - 4:35 Keynote: Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)
“Large Language Models as models of human reasoning”

On Wednesday, 2/26/25, Dr. Marco Gallio will be here at UConn for our seminar series from Northwestern University. His talk will be titled “Temperature sensing in Drosophila: from molecular receptors and neural circuits to the evolution of behavior”