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Dear members of the ILCB community,
Indeed, “associations are all we need” (see below) together with good ideas and nice people. Right from the start, ILCB’s mission has been to foster such novel associations between ideas, disciplines and people… inspired by great people like Geoff Hinton who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on computational modelling (AI) of cognition. Congratulations! |
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I would like to thank those of you who could attend the ILCB welcome-back garden party two weeks ago. We very much enjoyed the three talks of our newly arrived IMERA residents! I believe this is the first time that so many kids from different countries are staying at the IMERA residence. Thanks for sharing their photo on one of the talks. It brings hope that a peaceful world is possible despite appearance of the opposite.
If you are interested, do not forget to register for our Multimodality in Social Interactions workshop and for the GDR Babylabs workshop next week. Finally, for those of you intrigued by the “spirit of words”, I can recommend a very nice book that was just published by one ILCB member.
Best wishes,
Johannes |
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Associations Are All We Need |
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Do we have and do need more than associations to account for mental activities? A radical associationism proposal should be able to merge the fields of associative, statistical and Hebbian learning. This would unify these theoretical and empirical approaches, schematically represented above. Dates correspond to key publications that have changed the trajectory of theorising in psychology, for example Chomsky, 1959; Hebb, 1949; Pavlov, 1927; Rumelhart et al., 1986; Saffran et al., 1996; Skinner, 1938; Thorndike, 1905.
For a thorough consideration of this hypothesis,
see the target article and diverse responses:
Arnaud Rey (2024).
Associations Are All We Need.
L’Année Psychologique / Topics in Psychology N° 142 (2): 165–98 -- @HAL
Arnaud will be teaching at the 2025 Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, in Eugene, OR (USA), from July 7 to August 8, 2025. Yet another reason for you to register for "the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, [...] held since 1928".
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"Collective phenomena frequently occur in physical systems, such as domains in magnetic systems and vortices in fluid flow. Hopfield asked whether emergent collective phenomena in large collections of neurons could give rise to 'computational' abilities." "With ANNs [artificial neural networks] the boundaries of physics are extended to host phenomena of life as well as computation."
From the scientific background document
proclaiming the attribution of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton
“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable
machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
See also
Hinton, Geoffrey E. (2007). Learning multiple layers of representation.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11 (10), 428 - 434 |
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ILCB IMERA chairs 2025-26 |
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Applications open, deadline October 21st, 2024, at 1:00 PM (French time) |
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As part of the Interdisciplinary Explorations program, Iméra offers a chair in collaboration with the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) |
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An all-out interdisciplinary foresight in Cognitive Sciences, in 24 hours.
The national initiative CogGames - Prospectives en Cognition - is organising an open and friendly event in Bordeaux on November 18 and 19, 2024 around questions and workshops whose themes have been identified by a collective survey earlier this year.
Come and share your ideas, convictions and vision of the cognitives sciences to come, with colleagues from all disciplines and backgrounds! |
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Please always check the events page on the ILCB website for the latest update. |
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Babylabs' national gathering (GDR: "Groupe de Recherche") |
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Oct 17-18th, 2024 @ -- Coord. by Isabelle Dautriche, Caroline Coindre, Marianne Jover, Céline Scola |
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Carlos Gussenhoven, Radboud University, Nijmegen |
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Oct 21st, 2024 16h30-18h00 @ LPL -- "The Rise and Fall of the Franconian Tone" |
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ILCB Lunch Talk by Klaus ZUBERBÜHLER, Université de Neuchâtel |
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Nov 29th 2024 @ 12 --
"Revisiting the origins of meaning" |
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Multimodality in Social Interactions 2.0 |
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Dec 2nd & 3rd 2024 @ --
"2-day workshop on various theoretical and methodological problems confronted in the field of multimodal communication and social interactions in humans and non-humans." |
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Abdellah FOURTASSI'S Habilitation Defense |
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Jan 17h, 2024 @ -- |
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