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Abstract Using a multimodal approach, one can leverage the spatial resolution of neuroimaging methods with the high temporal resolution and precise anatomical information of intracranial recordings and the causal evidence from direct intracranial …

Abstract Our understanding of numbers, vital to our scientifically and technically advanced culture, has deep biological roots. Research across developmental psychology, anthropology, and animal cognition suggests that our ability to count symbolically …

Abstract How does the brain transform words into meaning? By aligning insights from linguistics, neuroscience, and Large Language Models (LLMs), we observe that AI models and the human brain surprisingly converge on similar representational principles. …

Abstract After a brief synthetic introduction to the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) theoretical framework, I will show how the exploration of conscious state and conscious access in extreme neurological or physiological conditions can be mutually …

Abstract The Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) theory (Baars, 1988; Dehaene et al., 1998) proposes that information must be broadcast across widely distributed networks to enter conscious awareness. But what exactly is the information that is exchanged? I …

Abstract Visual scene understanding requires much more than a list of the objects present in the scene and their locations. To understanding a scene, plan action on it, and predict what will happen next we must extract the relationships between objects …

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Abstract This lecture, based on a forthcoming book entitled Why Britain? A New View of the Industrial Revolution will discuss the various factors that made Britain into the workshop of the world and the cradle of technological progress and economic …

Abstract This lecture, based on a new book entitled Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000-2000 will ask the question why Europe and China reversed positions in economic development and technological capabilities …

Abstract This lecture asks whether Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) have played an important role in economic development and technological progress and to what extent it has held back growth in the past. The answers, it turns out are …

Abstract The god Loki has become famous in recent years through media of which the Norse could never have dreamed, but in his late Iron Age form he is central to their understanding of the irrational. Shifting sex, gender, and even species, he pairs with …

Abstract The Keller Segel particle system describes N plantar Brownians interacting via an attractive force in 1/r, where r denotes the distance between the particles. One of the main difficulties and original features of this system is that the particles …

Abstract Comets are icy bodies that originate in the trans-Neptunian region and evolve into the inner Solar System, where they become active due to the sublimation of water ice triggered by solar heating. We describe dynamical models that trace the …

Abstract Japan's postwar economic growth is often described as a miracle, and for good reason. Having suffered immense destruction during the Second World War-with roughly one quarter of its national wealth and production facilities lost-the country …

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