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 t-Kennedy\, Montréal )
SUMMARY:Séminaire au DIC: «The Evolution of the Construction-Ready Brain
 » par Michael Arbib
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Séminaire ayant lieu dans le cadre du doctorat en informatique
  cognitive\, en collaboration avec le centre de recherche CRIA et l'ISC 
    \n\n\n \n\n\nMichael ARBIB\n\n\nJeudi le 6 février 2025 à 10h30\n
 \n\nLocal: PK-5115   (Il est possible d'y assister en virtuel en vous i
 nscrivant ici)   \n\n\n \n\n\nTITRE :   The Evolution of the Constru
 ction-Ready Brain\n\n\n \n\n\nRÉSUMÉ\n\n\nHumans\, like animals\, have 
 perceptions\, actions\, and thoughts that they cannot put into words. The 
 challenge is to understand how humans gained the ability to put so much in
 to words\, describing not only what is but also what is not and what could
  possibly be\, and in this way came to construct a diversity of physical a
 nd symbolic worlds (Arbib et al.\, 2023\, 2024). Building on modeling brai
 n mechanisms for sensorimotor interaction with the world\, we have explore
 d both “how the brain got language” (Arbib\, 2012) and what happens 
 “when brains meet buildings” (Arbib\, 2021). The little explored relat
 ion between these two studies is rooted in the notion of “construction
 ” as used in a physical sense in architecture and in a symbolic sense as
  the tool for assembling utterances hierarchically. This talk offers hypot
 heses that address the question of how biological evolution yielded humans
  with the “construction-ready brains” and bodies that made us capable 
 of the cultural evolution that created the diversity of our mental and phy
 sical constructs that we know today. The framework for all this is EvoDevo
 Socio – the idea that biological evolution yields biological mechanisms 
 for both development and adult function of members of a species\, but that
  social interaction is an important part of that environment\, and that in
  humans cultural evolution has played the crucial role in changing the soc
 ial\, physical and increasingly symbolic and technological environments in
  which most humans now develop. The bridge between the two forms of constr
 uction is provided by the rooting of pantomime in manual action.\n\n\n \n
 \n\nBIOGRAPHIE\n\n\nMichael A. Arbib\, University Professor Emeritus and P
 rofessor Emeritus of Computer Science\, Biomedical Engineering\, Biologica
 l Sciences\, and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC)
 . He is currently also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UCSD. Arbib
 ’s research bridges neuroscience\, computer science\, and cognitive scie
 nce\, with a focus on the coordination of perception and action in frogs\,
  rats\, monkeys and humans. He applies schema theory and neural network an
 alysis to study brain function\, robotics\, and machine vision. Known for 
 the Mirror System Hypothesis\, he explores language evolution through neur
 al mechanisms for action understanding. More recently\, he has explored th
 e neuroscience of the experience of buildings\, the design of buildings\, 
 and what it might mean for buildings to have “brains.\n\n\n \n\n\nRÉF
 ÉRENCES\n\n\nArbib\, M. A. (1964). Brains\, machines\, and mathematics. M
 cGraw-Hill.\n\n\nArbib\, M. A.\, &amp\; Caplan\, D. (1979). Neurolinguisti
 cs must be Computational. Behavioral and Brain Sciences\, 2\, 449-483. [My
  thanks to Stevan Harnad for founding this important journal.]\n\n\nArbib\
 , M. A. (Ed.). (2003). The handbook of brain theory and neural networks\, 
 Second Edition. MIT press.\n\n\nArbib\, M. A. (2005). From monkey-like act
 ion recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neuroling
 uistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences\, 28(2)\, 105-124.\n\n\nArbib\, M. 
 A. (2012). How the brain got language: The mirror system hypothesis. Oxfor
 d University Press\n\n\nArbib\, M.A. (2021). When Brains Meet Buildings: A
  Conversation Between Neuroscience and Architecture\, Oxford University Pr
 ess.\n\n\nArbib\, M. A. (2023). Pantomime within and Beyond the Evolution 
 of Language. pp. 16-57. In: Żywiczyński\, P.\, Wacewicz\, S.\, Boruta-Ż
 ywiczyńska\, M.\, &amp\; Blomberg\, J. (Eds.) Perspectives on Pantomime: 
 Evolution\, Development\, Interaction. Benjamins.\n\n\nArbib\, M. A.\, Fra
 gaszy\, D. M.\, Healy\, S. D.\, &amp\; Stout\, D. (2023). Tooling and cons
 truction: From nut-cracking and stone-tool making to bird nests and langua
 ge. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences\, 5\, 100121\n\n\nArbib\, M.A.
 \, Barham\, L.\, Braun\, R.\, Calder\, B.\, Fox\, M.\, Healy\, S.\, Memmot
 t\, P.\, Smith\, M.\, Stiphany\, K.\, and Watkins\, T. (2024) How Humans C
 ame to Construct Their Worlds. A CARTA Symposium. Abstracts and videos of 
 the talks are at https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/how-humans-came-con
 struct-their-worlds.\n\nMot-clés : LLMs\, LATECE UQAM INFORMATIQUE\, LATE
 CE\, CRIA\, neurosciences cognitives\, Neurosciences\, Institut des scienc
 es cognitives\, apprentissage automatique\, Apprentissage du langage\, sci
 ences du langage\, apprentissage machine\, apprentissage profond\, langage
  automatique\, langage cognitif\, Cognition\, intelligence artificielle\, 
 IA\, intelligence artificielle\, ChatGPT\, IA\, intelligence artificielle\
 , chatGPT\, enseignement supérieur\, IA\; intelligence artificielle\; soc
 iété\, doctorat en psychologie\, département de psychologie\, Faculté 
 des sciences humaines\, Faculté des sciences de l'UQAM\, Faculté des sci
 ences\, Département d'informatique\, doctorat en informatique cognitive\,
  doctorat en informatique\n\nPrix : Gratuit\n\n
CATEGORIES:Séminaire,Conférence
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