@mattslocombe @cognition
Hi, and thanks for organizing this! If you don't mind some questions?

1. What's the intended background? I'm a mere computer scientist. I've read some of the literature but still have a long ways to go.

2. This ties to a grad seminar I wanted to do. Can I just have one of us sign up and share the Zoom w/ the whole group, so we can watch it as a group?

3. What's the format? One hour talk, half hour q&a? Webinar? Etc.

@shriramk Thanks for the interest in the seminar! Regarding your questions:

1. The audience (and speakers) come from a range of cogsci backgrounds, and the speakers generally pitch their presentations with this in mind. Something that might be useful is a basic understanding of analogy and its role in inference and abstraction from cogsci (e.g., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12278) as most of the audience work in the area so the speakers tend breeze over such preliminaries in their introductions.

@shriramk

2. I don’t see a problem with that. The seminar can also be accessed without registering via our World Wide Neuro page here https://www.world-wide.org/Neuro/Analogical-Minds/. We will update this with spring series shortly.

3. Usually a 40-60-minute research presentation with the remaining time for discussion with the audience.