Brain and Emergence: From Syntergetic Cort to Causal Structure ABSTRACT: Emergence, also known as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", is a widespread phenomenon in various complex systems. How did the first living cell emerge from the collisions of different molecules in the early Earth's environment? How do large neural language […]
A group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the Department of Cognitive Science, are offering one-on-one mentoring about applying to our PhD program in Cognitive Science. The priority deadline is November 5th but the request form will remain open until November 15th. Find out more.
Rethinking Language-Alignment in the Human Visual System Using Controlled Comparisons of Vision-Language Models and Wordplay ABSTRACT: Recent success predicting ventral visual stream responses to images from large language model (LLM) representations of image captions has sparked renewed interest in the possibility that high-level human visual representations are “aligned” to language. In this talk, we’ll further […]
Applications for Spring 2024 admission to the MA in Cognitive Science program are due October 15th.