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Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition| old_uid | 18613 |
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| title | Neural Transitions in Learning and Cognition |
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| start_date | 2021/02/25 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Organizer Thomas Pradeu. Séminaire sur Zoom. Se reporter au site Web pour se connecter : https://www.philinbiomed.org/event/eva-jablonka-the-cohn-institute-for-the-history-and-philosophy-of-science-and-ideas-tel-aviv-university-neural-transitions-in-learning-and-cognition/ |
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| summary | A focus on learning as a marker of a cognitive system provides a unifying framework for experimental and theoretical studies of cognition in the living world. Focusing on neural learning, Simona Ginsburg and I identified five major neural transitions, the first two of which involve animals at the base of the phylogenetic tree: (i) the evolutionary transition from learning in non-neural animals to learning in the first neural animals; (ii) the transition to animals showing limited, elemental associative learning, entailing neural centralization and primary brain differentiation; (iii) the transition to animals capable of unlimited associative learning (UAL), which, on our account, constitutes sentience and entails hierarchical brain organization and dedicated memory and value networks, and (iv) the transition to imaginative animals that can plan and learn through selection among virtual events; (v) the transition to human, symbol-based cognition and cultural learning. |
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| responsibles | Pradeu |
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