Animal minds: from computation to evolution

  • Animal minds: from computation to evolution

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    Organised by Professor Nicola Clayton FRS, Dr Uri Grodzinski and Dr Alex Thornton

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    The meeting was centred around recent discoveries of striking similarities in cognitive abilities between humans and other animals have fuelled attempts to understand the minds of other species and their relation to our own. This interdisciplinary meeting will bring together disparate fields to develop a theoretical infrastructure for cognition research, as well as to generate testable predictions as to the evolutionary basis and computational ucture of cognitive mechanisms. 

    Download the programme here (PDF).

    This meeting was followed by a related Satellite meeting at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre entitled Theories of minds: the theoretical bases of comparative cognition from 18 - 19 January 2012.

    The proceedings of this meeting are scheduled to be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions B. 

    Biographies and audio recordings are available below.

  • Organisers

    Dr Alex Thornton, University of Cambridge, UKIndividual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

    Professor Nicola Clayton FRSOrganiser

    • Professor Nicola Clayton FRS

    Dr Uri Grodzinski Organiser

    • Dr Uri Grodzinski

  • Session 1

    Professor Lars Chittka, Queen Mary, University of London, UKWhat is comparable in comparative cognition?

    Professor Arnon Lotem, Tel-Aviv University, IsraelCo-evolution of learning and data acquisition mechanisms: a model for cognitive evolution

    Professor Cecilia Heyes, University of Oxford, UKSimple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning

    Professor Anthony Dickinson FRS, University of Cambridge, UKAssociative learning and animal cognition

  • Session 2

    Professor Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London, UKSerial and parallel processes in animal cognition

    Professor Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UKDo insects have internal models?

    Dr Jackie Chappell, University of Birmingham, UKBiological and artificial cognitive architectures: perception and physical cognition

    Session 2 Panel Discussion

  • Session 3

    Professor Alex Kacelnik FRS, University of Oxford, UKWhat does the modularity metaphor do for us?

    Professor Sara Shettleworth, University of Toronto, CanadaModularity, comparative cognition, and human uniqueness

    Dr Sang Ah Lee, Harvard University, USACore knowledge and cognitive development: insights from comparative cognition

    • Dr Sang Ah Lee, Harvard University, USA

    Session 3 Panel Discussion

  • Session 4

    Professor Andy Sih, University of California, Davis, USAIndividual variation in sensory/cognitive ecology, behavioural type and response to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC)

    Dr Alex Thornton, University of Cambridge, UKIndividual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

    Dr Amanda Seed, University of St Andrews, UKThe two-fold challenge of individual differences in problem-solving performance: distilling commonalities and harnessing variation

    Session 4 Panel Discussion and Overview

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