Matt SlocombeJan 3, 2023

📢 📢 Delighted to announce that the Analogical Minds Seminar is returning next week with a new series of talks on analogical processes in cognition and learning.

Over the spring term, we’ll be covering topics such as reasoning, language, development, conceptual blending, mathematics, design, and science education. Click on the image below for the full spring programme.

Registration and further info: http://www.analogicalminds.com

All welcome!

@cognition #psychology #development #education #AI

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Analogical Minds Seminar Analogical Minds is a weekly online seminar dedicated to exploring the role of analogy, metaphor, and relational processes in cognition and learning. Our speakers discuss research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including cognitive and developmental

Show threadShriram KrishnamurthiJan 4, 2023

@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.

Show threadMatt SlocombeJan 4, 2023

@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.

Show threadMatt SlocombeJan 4, 2023

@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.

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Show threadShriram KrishnamurthiJan 5, 2023

@mattslocombe Amazing. Thank you for the answers and also for link to background reading.

(I have read some of Gentner's work in the past, but not this specific paper. Since abstraction is *my* core interest, it's *especially* appealing!)

Off to pitch this to my group. I hope they let me make this half my grad seminar! Super excited.

Show threadShriram Krishnamurthi

@mattslocombe
Sorry to bother you with one more question. It looks to me like you've been archiving all the talk videos — is that right? Is that expected to continue (modulo tech disasters, etc.)?

I ask because the seminar time is slightly sub-optimal for us AND our semester starts a bit later, but if the videos are going to be available, we can just watch them at a time more suitable to us.

(And that way we could also maybe mix-and-match with some of your prior "hits". (-:)

Thanks!

Jan 5, 2023 at 12:21amWeb
Show threadMatt SlocombeJan 5, 2023

@shriramk

If you have read some of Gentner's papers then you definitely have the required background!

That would be very cool if you use some of the talks for your seminar 🙂

Yes, the majority of the talks are recorded and are published within a day or so after the seminar.

Show threadMatt SlocombeJan 5, 2023
@shriramk
Something to mention is that the recordings on the public YouTube channel do not include the Q&A. We edit this out in an effort to make the discussion more relaxed and encourage students to join in. However, we circulate the full seminar with the Q&A via the mailing lists, so that's a good reason to register!
Show threadShriram KrishnamurthiJan 5, 2023

@mattslocombe
Ah, got it! I have *already* registered for the mailing list (-:. And the Q&A policy makes a ton of sense.

I'm super excited. I got lucky finding this on Mastodon! What an amazing world we live in.

Show threadMatt SlocombeJan 5, 2023

@shriramk

Excellent : ) Hope you can make some of the seminars. There's lots of analogy research that makes contact with abstraction - would be great have your input at the seminars!