Archive for December, 2007

Seminar #30: Naturalism and affective science: From traditional to dynamical discrete emotions

December 9, 2007

Don’t miss the last Life and Mind seminar of 2007!
On Wednesday 12th at 16:30, Room PEV1 2A1
Giovanna Colombetti from the University of Exeter will be speaking on
Naturalism and affective science: From traditional to dynamical discrete emotions

The naturalistic approach to emotion is typically associated with Discrete Emotion Theory, or the view that at least some emotions [...]

Seminar #29: The ‘distributed’ view of language: what kind of language capabilities does a robot need?

December 3, 2007

On Wednesday 5th, 14:30 – 15:30, Room PEV1 2A03
Rob Clowes, from COGS, Sussex will be talking about:
The ‘distributed’ view of language: what kind of language capabilities does a robot need?
Traditionally, cognitive science has considered language as a tool for communication between fully-fledged cognitive systems, and the essence and structure of language to be dependent on [...]