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Numerical cognition

Numerical cognition is a subdiscipline of cognitive science that studies the cognitive, developmental and neural bases of numbers and mathematics. As with many cognitive science endeavors, this is a highly interdisciplinary topic, and includes researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience and cognitive linguistics. This discipline, although it may interact with questions in the philosophy of mathematics, is primarily concerned with empirical questions. Topics included in the domain of numerical cognition include: * How do non-human animals process numerosity? * How do infants acquire an understanding of numbers (and how much is inborn)? * How do humans associate linguistic symbols with numerical quantities? * How do these capacities underlie our ability to perform complex calculations? * What are the neural bases of these abilities, both in humans and in non-humans? * What metaphorical capacities and processes allow us to extend our numerical understanding into complex domains such as the concept of infinity, the infinitesimal or the concept of the limit in calculus? * Heuristics in numerical cognition (Wikipedia).

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12 Reasoning

Recorded: Spring 2014 Lecturer: Dr. Erin M. Buchanan Materials: created for Memory and Cognition (PSY 422) using Smith and Kosslyn (2006) Lecture materials and assignments available at statisticsofdoom.com. https://statisticsofdoom.com/page/other-courses/

From playlist PSY 422 Memory and Cognition with Dr. B

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The mother of all representer theorems for inverse problems & machine learning - Michael Unser

This workshop - organised under the auspices of the Isaac Newton Institute on “Approximation, sampling and compression in data science” — brings together leading researchers in the general fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science and engineering. About the event The workshop ai

From playlist Mathematics of data: Structured representations for sensing, approximation and learning

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Overview of Numerical Computation

This talk will be an introduction to and summary of many of the numerical computation capabilities built into Mathematica, including arbitrary precision arithmetic, numerical linear algebra, optimization, integration, and differential equations.

From playlist Wolfram Technology Conference 2013

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SketchySVD - Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology

This workshop - organised under the auspices of the Isaac Newton Institute on “Approximation, sampling and compression in data science” — brings together leading researchers in the general fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science and engineering. About the event The workshop ai

From playlist Mathematics of data: Structured representations for sensing, approximation and learning

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On the (unreasonable) effectiveness of compressive imaging – Ben Adcock, Simon Fraser University

This workshop - organised under the auspices of the Isaac Newton Institute on “Approximation, sampling and compression in data science” — brings together leading researchers in the general fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science and engineering. About the event The workshop ai

From playlist Mathematics of data: Structured representations for sensing, approximation and learning

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Recorded: Spring 2014 Lecturer: Dr. Erin M. Buchanan Materials: created for Memory and Cognition (PSY 422) using Smith and Kosslyn (2006) Lecture materials and assignments available at statisticsofdoom.com. https://statisticsofdoom.com/page/other-courses/

From playlist PSY 422 Memory and Cognition with Dr. B

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The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis

Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In this episode, I visit Tetsuro Matsuzawa to learn about his influential cognitive tradeoff hypothesis. Available with YouTube Premium - https://www.youtube.com/premium/originals. To see if

From playlist Mind Field : Season 3

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The New Naturalism II: Evolutionary Riddles

Dwight H. Terry Lectureship October 19, 2006 The New Naturalism II: Evolutionary Riddles Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University

From playlist Terry Lectures

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What Kind of Computation Is Cognition?

Recent successes in artificial intelligence have been largely driven by neural networks and other sophisticated machine learning tools for pattern recognition and function approximation. But human intelligence is much more than finding patterns or approximating functions. And no machine sy

From playlist Whitney Humanities Center

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Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control - J. Cohen - 11/08/18

T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture "Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control: Shared vs. Separated Representations and Interactive vs. Independent Parallelism" Jonathan Cohen, Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim T

From playlist Talks and Seminars

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Experts in Emotion 17.2b -- Ian Gotlib on Depression and Emotion in Adolescents

Experts in Emotion Series; Director: June Gruber, Yale University In this episode, you will learn about Depression and Emotion in Adolescents with Dr. Ian Gotlib from Stanford University. Dr. Gotlib will share what first got him interested in this topic and highlight a few core themes in

From playlist Experts in Emotion Series with June Gruber

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Metacognition and speaking | Introduction | Part 1

In this video, I provide an overview of metacognition and discuss its role in speaking.

From playlist Metacognition

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The Whole of AQA A Level Psychology | Revision for Exams

A-Level Psychology Courses, FREE revision guide & workbooks https://primrosekitten.org/a-level-psychology/ To sign up to the mailing list for discount codes and updates https://mailchi.mp/161c4e43b8bf/primrosekitten Study planners https://www.primrosekitten.com/collections/study-planners

From playlist AQA A-Level Psychology | Revision Playlist

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Remembering and the Brain: Can Brain Scans Detect Memories?

(October 23, 2009) Stanford Professor of psychology and neuroscience, Anthony Wagner PhD, discusses how the brain supports memory for everyday events, and will evaluate whether "mind reading" with brain imaging can detect when a person remembers the past and how this might be used as evide

From playlist Reunion Homecoming

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Online Experiments with Wolfram Technologies

To learn more about Wolfram Technology Conference, please visit: https://www.wolfram.com/events/technology-conference/ Speaker: Brian Rivera Wolfram developers and colleagues discussed the latest in innovative technologies for cloud computing, interactive deployment, mobile devices, and

From playlist Wolfram Technology Conference 2018

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DDPS | Computational Scientific Discovery: Heuristic Search for Communicable Laws and Models

Description: Scientific discovery was long viewed as a uniquely human creative activity, but digital computers have now reproduced many facets of this process. In this talk, I examine previous research on this problem, which posits that discovery involves heuristic search through a space o

From playlist Data-driven Physical Simulations (DDPS) Seminar Series

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Mioara Joldes: Validated symbolic-numerci algorithms and practical applications in aerospace

In various fields, ranging from aerospace engineering or robotics to computer-assisted mathematical proofs, fast and precise computations are essential. Validated (sometimes called rigorous as well) computing is a relatively recent field, developed in the last 20 years, which uses numerica

From playlist Probability and Statistics

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