Cognitive Sciences Courses and Certifications

MITCBMM

Development of Intelligence - Cognitive Development and Commonsense Reasoning

Explore cognitive development, commonsense reasoning, and early knowledge formation in infants, including object perception, causal understanding, and recognition of agents and intentional actions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models of Consciousness Conferences

Awareness - An Operational Theoretical Approach

Exploring awareness as a form of information using operational probabilistic theory, examining its private nature and potential connection to quantum coherence, with implications for cognitive sciences.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models of Consciousness Conferences

Synergistic Workspace for Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomp

Exploring brain's information processing architecture and its role in consciousness through integrated information decomposition, revealing a synergistic global workspace crucial for conscious experience.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models of Consciousness Conferences

Larissa Albantakis – Why a Little Bit of Causal Structure Is Necessary... Even for Functionalists

Explores why causal structure is essential for theories of consciousness, using thought experiments to argue that functionalist accounts lacking causal analysis are inadequate for identifying conscious individuals.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Models of Consciousness Conferences

Automata-Theoretic Approach to Modelling Consciousness Within Mental Monism

Automata-theoretic approach to modeling consciousness in mental monism, exploring constraints and implications for substrate-free models of the mind's structure and dynamics.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

MITCBMM

Building Machines that Learn and Think Like People

Explore computational neuroscience and AI inspired by human cognition, covering intuitive theories, compositionality, and learning to learn for more human-like artificial intelligence.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

MITCBMM

Perceptual Organization From a Bayesian Point of View

Explore Bayesian approach to perceptual organization, examining how the visual system groups images into distinct units through inverse inference and mixture estimation techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

MITCBMM

Multidisciplinarity in Systems Neuroscience

Explore interdisciplinary approaches in systems neuroscience, focusing on hippocampus function in memory and navigation, and the thalamus's role in information transfer to the neocortex.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

MITCBMM

Large-Scale Organization of Object Knowledge

Explore the organization of object knowledge in the brain, focusing on visual cortex structure and how we categorize everyday items like groceries.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Institute for Advanced Study

Steps Towards More Human-Like Learning in Machines - Josh Tenenbaum

Explore how machines can achieve more human-like learning through probabilistic programming, intuitive psychology, and simulation engines. Discover insights on core knowledge and one-shot learning in AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Institute for Advanced Study

Modularity, Attention and Credit Assignment Computations - Anirudh Goyal

Explore modularity, attention, and credit assignment in computational models, focusing on complex generalization, independent mechanisms, and selective activation for improved learning and problem-solving.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Royal Institution

Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - With Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker explores the importance of effective writing in the digital age, offering evidence-based insights on style, clarity, and communication that challenge traditional writing advice.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

IEEE

Computation in the Brain Tutorial - Part 2

Explore neural computation models, focusing on assembly calculus and its applications in language processing, with insights from leading researchers in computational neuroscience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Singularity University

Future of AI - The Last Frontiers of AI

Explore AI's future frontiers with Hod Lipson: self-aware robots, machine creativity, and the ethical implications of advanced AI technologies shaping our world.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Artem Kirsanov

How Your Brain Organizes Information

Explore cognitive maps and how the brain organizes information for flexible behavior. Learn about hippocampal neurons, non-spatial mapping, graph theory, latent spaces, and factorized representations in neuroscience.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video