All living things must move in space to survive. Our actions in space and with the things in it form the foundation of all thought. The foundation, not the entire edifice. Evidence will be brought from research on the brain, on language, on gesture, and on the ways we think, communicate, and create using the cognitive tools we put in the world to augment our minds. Interactions with those tools, with gesture, and even with language are often internal and not easily decomposed, presenting challenges to current AI.
Barbara Tversky is a cognitive psychologist who has served at Hebrew University, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Maladarens University, EHESS, and Columbia Teachers College. Her research has spanned memory, categorization, spatial thinking and language, event perception and cognition, diagrammatic reasoning, gesture, design, and creativity. She has enjoyed collaborations with linguists, philosophers, computer scientists, domain scientists, designers, and artists. She has served on numerous boards of journals and international associations, and was president of the Association for Psychological Science. She is a fellow of several societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Kampe de Feriet Award.
January 31, 2025, at 2 p.m.
Location of the seminar: n°211, corridor 55-65, 2nd floor (access by tower 55), LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
A Zoom connection link will be posted on the LFI seminars page (see below) on the day of the seminar.
The LFI team seminars of LIP6 are open to all, they are organized in person (with a videoconference broadcast) on the Pierre and Marie Curie campus of Sorbonne University, in Jussieu (access).
This seminar is organized jointly with the French Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (http://ieee-ci.lip6.fr/)