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Abstract Curiosity underpins the greatest of human achievements, from exploring the reaches of our solar system to discovering the structure of our own minds. Where does this drive come from? Here I suggest that far from being reliant on language and …

Abstract Early education is a time of transformation in the way children come to see ideas in the world in the world, partly by a process of learning to combine visual elements to form gestalts. In this talk, I will expand upon these combinatorial …

Abstract Mathematics is among humanity's most remarkable achievements, yet we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the brain performs even simple arithmetic. In this talk, I will present a series of studies investigating the encoding of …

Abstract During the last two decades, neuroimaging has generated a wealth of knowledge on how number processing inserts itself into the functional neuroanatomy of the human brain. We understand quite well now what are the cortical areas involved, and the …

Abstract What might be the relationship between our fanciest, most-recent cognitive inventions (e.g., Formal Mathematics) and our most evolutionarily ancient abilities to approximate the world (e.g., The Approximate Number System)? I will review the …

Chairman : Patrick Boucheron Abstract French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that …

Chair : Patrick Boucheron Abstract Over the course of the XIX th century, the concept of intelligence took on an increasingly important role in European anthropological and philosophical thought, establishing itself against competitors such as the mind …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract This article traces an artificial history of natural intelligence, arguing that, since the emergence of modern thought during the scientific revolution in Europe, the mind and its capacities have been apprehended as …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Averroës was cursed in European history for his conception of a human intellect radically separate from bodies, eternal and unique for the entire species. It was seen as the ruin of personal thought, the end of the …

Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers—those "professionals of intelligence"—in European cultural baggage …

Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy; it also rests on the …

Chair: Nalini Anantharaman Abstract Artificial intelligence neural networks are trained to estimate answers to questions using statistical computation. The accuracy of these answers, despite the explosion of the set of possibilities, shows that they …

Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract AI has already had multiple impacts on mathematics, from working collaboratively with human mathematicians by suggesting conjectures or performing smarter searches, to producing entire proofs unaided. I'll discuss the …

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Abstract A key notion in linguistics is that of syntactic movement. I will show that this notion and the further theoretical observations and generalizations regarding movement are useful in accounting for language impairments. I will describe syntactic …

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 …

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