Calendar

Lecture

The Statistician Brain: the Bayesian revolution in cognitive sciences

Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m

First lecture: January 10

Last lecture: February 21

January 10

Bayesian mechanisms of induction 

January 17
Introduction to Bayesian reasoning and its applications

January 24
Visual illusions: optimal inferences?

January 31
Constraints combination and selection of a unique percept

February 7
Bayesian decision-making

February 14
The neuronal implementation of Bayesian mechanisms

February 21
The brain seen as a predictive system

Seminar

Core knowledge and learning in infants

Tuesdays, at 11:00 a.m.

First seminar: January 10

Last seminar: February 21

January 10
Early acquisition of syntax
Anne Christophe, CNRS (Paris)

January 17
The first stages of first and second-language acquisition
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington (Seattle)

January 24
Olfactory cognition in newborns and infants
Benoist Schaal, CNRS (Dijon)

January 31
Babies in society: perception of faces and biological motion
Francesca Simion, University of Padova (Italy)

February 7
Mathematical intuition : from baby to adult
Véronique Izard, CNRS (Paris)

February 14
Statistical learning and infant language acquisition
Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin (United States)

February 21
Causality and inference in infants
Laura Schulz, MIT (United States)
 

Abroad lectures