ACADEMY COGNITION
ACADEMY COGNITION #21
9th of October 2022, Sunday, 18:00 (GMT+3) Zoom
In the first Academy Cognition of the new season, we listened to Yunus Şahin who is a currently graduate student in Cognitive Science at Boğaziçi University was with us with his presentation titled "From Bacteria to Human Mind: Interactivism". In his speech, he touched upon interactivism approaches and related literature. Many thanks to Yunus for his wonderful talk and to all those who participated and contributed to discussion!
ACADEMY COGNITION #22
6th of November 2022, Sunday, 18:00 - Zoom
In the second Academy Cognition of the new season, we listened to Aysu Yaman who is a currently graduate student in Cognitive Science at Middle East Technical University was with us with her presentation titled "Collective Supra-linguistic Communication". In her speech, she touched upon the relationship of language with communication and different actions.. Many thanks to Aysu for her wonderful talk and to all those who participated and contributed to discussion!
ACADEMY COGNITION #23
4th of December 2022, Sunday, 18:00 (GMT+3), Zoom
At the 23rd event of Academy Cognition, we listened Cihan Başoğlu, a graduate student in Cognitive Sciences at Middle East Technical University. Cihan shared with us his speech titled "The Metaphysics of Natural Language" at this event. Many thanks to Cihan for his wonderful talk and to all those who participated and contributed to discussion!
ACADEMY COGNITION #24
9th of April 2023, Monday, 16:00 (GMT+3), Zoom
Yeditepe University Cognitive Sciences master's student İlkay Arı was with us at the 24th event of Academy Cognition. In this event, İlkay talked about "Emotion, Body and Social Cognition: The Role of Interoception". In her talk, İlkay talked about the neural infrastructure of interoception and experimental studies that reveal its facilitating function in understanding both our own and others' emotions. After his presentation, a discussion and chat session followed. We would like to thank İlkay and all participants for their participation!
ACADEMY COGNITION #25
8th of May 2023, Monday, 18:00 (GMT+3), Zoom
Nevzat Ersoy, a graduate of Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering department, joined with us for the 24th edition of Academy Cognition. Nevzat talked about "Complexity and Cognition" in this event. He talked about the theory of computational complexity, the kolmogorov complexity and complex systems theory, and then he talked about various applications of this theory in the context of computer science and cognition. He concluded his talk with various questions and conversations. We thank Nevzat for his presentation and the participants for their valuable questions!
