Join us for the inaugural CoCo conference on November 15!
The CoCo conference features multidisciplinary talks from over 25 faculty members working on topics ranging from sensation, perception, and motor systems to decision-making and emotion. Join us to meet researchers working on Computational Cognition.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Registration Opens |
| 8:00 – 8:30 AM | Breakfast and Coffee |
| 8:30 – 8:45 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 8:45 – 9:45 AM | Talk Session 1: Decision Making |
| Doby Rahnev (Georgia Tech) The computations underlying confidence judgments | |
| Mark Himmelstein (Georgia Tech) What makes a good forecaster and how can we measure it? | |
| Rick Thomas (Georgia Tech) Computational Modeling of Pre-Decision Processes in Judgment and Decision Making | |
| Bob Wilson (Georgia Tech) Beyond computational behaviorism | |
| Michael Treadway (Emory) Mood and Motivation | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 – 11:00 AM | Talk Session 2: Language and Communication |
| Anna (Anya) Ivanova (Georgia Tech) Language, thought, and world knowledge in humans and AI | |
| Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech) Human-Centered AI and Storytelling | |
| Lelia Glass (Georgia Tech) It causes problems: Why cause favors negative-sentiment complements. | |
| Chris MacLellan (Georgia Tech) Computational Models of Skill and Concept Learning | |
| Özgecan Koçak (Emory) Decoding Culture | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:30 PM | Talk Session 3: Sensory Processing |
| Chris Rodgers (Emory) Active sensing and coordinated motor control in mice | |
| Tansu Celikel (Georgia Tech) Computations for the sense of touch | |
| Jared Medina (Emory) Multisensory Integration and the Body | |
| Woon Ju Park (Georgia Tech) What drives computations in the sensory cortex? | |
| Apurva Ratan Murty (Georgia Tech) Executable NeuroAI systems for vision neuroscience | |
| Hannah Choi (Georgia Tech) Unraveling visual processing through functional networks | |
| 12:30 – 1:45 PM | Lunch (Extra seating: Room 132) |
| 1:45 – 2:45 PM | Talk Session 4: Learning and Memory |
| Chris Rozell (Georgia Tech) Circuit deficits in treatment resistant depression and repair with deep brain stimulation | |
| Sankar Alagapan (Georgia Tech) Neural substrates of physical effort | |
| Philip Kragel (Emory) Modeling amygdala contributions to human emotion | |
| Audrey Sederberg (Georgia Tech) From neurons to cognition: critical signatures in the hippocampus and beyond | |
| Joe Manns (Emory) Computations of the mammalian hippocampus: Why episodic memory is overrated | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Talk Session 5: Cognitive Interfaces |
| Peter Hitchcock (Emory) Is Meta-control the next Extinction Learning? | |
| Sashank Varma (Georgia Tech) Catastrophic forgetting and continual learning in minds and machines | |
| Pat Langley (Georgia Tech) Cognitive Architectures for Embodied Agents | |
| Cindy Xiong Bearfield (Georgia Tech) Designs to Support Better Visual Data Communication | |
| Animesh Garg (Georgia Tech) Imitation as basis for AI robotics | |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 4:30 PM | A (Casual) Social – CODA Building [Google Maps] |
Conference location: Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), 85 5th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
