Session
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Date
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Topic
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Seminar
Readings
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Moderated
by
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Supplementary
Resources
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1.
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Sept 21
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Introduction
& basic
terminology
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(none)
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-
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2.
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Sept 28
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Semiotics
and enactive approach
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Maša
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3.
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Oct 5
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Meaning
in animal world:
evolutionary view
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Arina |
- Gärdenfors, P.: Cued
and
detached representations in animal cognition", Behavioural
Processes 36,
1996,
pp.
263-273.
- Gärdenfors, P.: "Language
and the evolution of cognition", in Penser
l'esprit: Des
sciences de la cognition à une philosophie cognitive, ed. by V. Rialle and D.
Fisette,
Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1996, pp. 151-172.
- Gärdenfors,
P.: Cooperation
and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication. In D. Kimbrough
Oller
and Ulrike Griebel, editors, Evolution of Communication Systems: A
Comparative Approach, (2004), pages 237-256. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Gärdenfors, P.: “The
role of intersubjectivity in animal and human cooperation”,
Biological Theory 3:1, pp. 1-12, 2008.
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4.
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Oct 12
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Biologically
motivated semantics
of distinguishing criteria
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- J. Šefránek (2008): Knowledge
Representation for Animal
Reasoning. In: Honkela, T., Pöllä, M., Paukkeri, M.,
Simula, O. (eds.): Proceedings
of AKRR '08, the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,
Espoo, Finland, pp. 65-72.
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Klara, Tina |
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5.
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Oct 19
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Cognitive
semantics of Lakoff
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Tim, Barbara |
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6.
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Oct 26
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Conceptual
spaces
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- P. Gärdenfors (2011): “Semantics
based on conceptual spaces”, pp. 1-11 in the Proceedings of
4th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (LNAI 6521), ed. by
M. Banerjee and A. Seth, Springer, Berlin.
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Grega, Pia |
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7.
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Nov 2
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Meaning
and Brain
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Ana Lara |
- L.W. Barsalou (2015). Situated
conceptualization: Theory and application. In Y.
Coello & M. H. Fischer (Eds.),Foundations of embodied
cognition. East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
- Barsalou, L.W. (2008). Grounded
cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617-645.
- Barsalou, L.: Perceptual
Symbol Systems, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 1999, pp.
577-609 .
- F. Pulvermüller: Words
in the brain's language. Behav Brain Sci, Vol. 22, No. 2.
(April
1999).
- Quiroga et al.: Invariant
visual representation by single neurons in the human brain.
Nature, Vol 435 |23 June 2005| doi:10.1038/nature03687
- Kriegeskorte et al.: Matching
Categorical Object Representations in Inferior Temporal Cortex of Man
and Monkey. Neuron (2008), doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2008.10.043
- Mitchell et al.: Predicting
Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns.
Science, 320, 2008.
- Pereira et al.: Generating
text from functional brain images. Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience 5, 2011.
- Nishimoto et al.: Reconstructing
Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies.
Current Biology 21, 1641–1646, October 11, 2011.youtube
video
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8.
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Nov 9
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Toward
grammar |
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Jaš |
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Nov 16
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no lecture! |
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9.
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Nov 23
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Meaning
in Artificial Systems I.
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Tiziana, Larissa
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- Zaadnoordijk, L., Besold, T.R. & Cusack, R. Lessons from infant
learning for unsupervised machine learning. Nat Mach Intell
4, 510–520 (2022).
- Smith, L. B. and Slone, L. K.: A Developmental
Approach to Machine Learning? Front. Psychol., 05 December
2017.
- Oudeyer P. Y., Kaplan F. (2007). What
is intrinsic motivation? A typology of computational approaches.
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 1, p. 1-14.
- Oudeyer P-Y, Kaplan , F. and Hafner, V. (2007) Intrinsic
Motivation Systems
for Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, 11(2), pp. 265-286.
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10. |
Nov 30 |
Meaning
in Artificial Systems II. |
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Jasper |
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11.
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Dec 7
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Peer
activity
[Team 1] - max 90 min |
Peer activity: [Team 2] max 90 min
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- |
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12. |
Dec 14 |
Peer activity [Team 3] max 90 min |
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-
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- |
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TBA or by
individual appointment
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Final
integration
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