Program

Tuesday, July 11 (on site only)

Probabilistic Language of Thought by Fausto Carcassi

9:00-10:20Introduction: On the very idea of an LoT
10:40-12:30Technical background
12:30-13:30Lunch
13h30-15h00The LOTlib3 library
15:20-16h30Case studies
16:30-17:00Summary

Wednesday, July 12

9:30-11:00Steven PiantadosiThe Language of Thought as a modern psychological theory
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:50Fausto CarcassiStructure learning in the probabilistic Language of Thought and Active Inference
Nina KazaninaNeural implementation for Language of Thought
12:50-14:00Lunch break
14:00-15.30Isabelle DautricheCompositionality in non-linguistic thought and in early language acquisition
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-18:00Rachel DudleyUnderstanding of negation in infancy
Jean-Remy Hochmann Incomplete Language of Thought in infancy
Sophie MoracchiniSemantic priming in a non-verbal learning task

Thursday, July 13

09h30-10h20Jake Quilty-DunnThe Best Game in Town, Perception
10h20-11h10Eric MandelbaumThe Best Game in Town, Logic
11h10-11h40Coffee break
11h40-12h30Nicolas PorotThe Best Game in Town, Infants and Animals
12h30-13h00General discussion
13h00-14h00Lunch break
14h00-15h30Véronique Izard Abstraction at birth
Mathias Sablé-MeyerUsing a Language of Thought formalism to account for the mental representation of geometric shapes in humans
15h30-16h00Coffee break
16h00-17h00Round table – Closure of the workshop