Open lectures by Prof. Marco Zorzi

Computational modelling of cognition: methods and challenges
May 19, 2025 | 11:00 AM | Faculty of Physics UW, Pasteura 5, room 0.03a

The lecture will cover basic methodological issues in computational modeling of cognition. Starting from a taxonomy of cognitive models and the aims of computational modeling, the discussion will focus on evaluation criteria and their application to connectionist (neural network) models.

From pixels to numbers: Numerosity perception in humans and machines
May 21, 2025 | 05:00 PM | Faculty of Physics UW, Pasteura 5, room 0.06

How is visual numerosity computed from images? How is numerical information encoded and how it relates to non-numerical visual magnitudes? Why does numerosity discrimination improve during development but it lags behind in dyscalculia? This talk will address these issues using computational simulations with deep neural networks.

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