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קולוקויום חברתי קוגניטיבי - מפגש 3: Investigating the complexity of cognition - Yoed Kennet | המחלקה לפסיכולוגיה

קולוקויום חברתי קוגניטיבי - מפגש 3: Investigating the complexity of cognition - Yoed Kennet

תאריך: 
ה', 28/10/202112:30-14:00
מיקום: 
חדר 2102 מדעי החברה
מרצה: 
Yoed Kennet (Technion)

Abstract: Cognition involves a lot of complexity. A multidisciplinary field that has developed in the past two decades to computationally investigate complex systems is network science. Network science is based on mathematical graph theory, providing quantitative methods to investigate complex systems, and the processes that operate in these systems, as networks. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly based on a network perspective, the application of network science methodologies to quantitatively study cognition has so far been limited in scope. The application of network science in cognitive science provides a powerful quantitative approach to represent cognitive systems (such as memory and language); enables a deeper understanding of cognition by capturing how the structure and processes operating on a network structure interact to produce behavioral phenomena; and provides a quantitative framework to model the dynamics of cognitive systems. To demonstrate the potential of applying network science in cognitive science, I will present a series of studies that investigate how differences in semantic memory relate to different facets of creativity in low and high creative individuals. They include computionally representing and investigating their structure of semantic memory (both at the group and individual level), simulating uncontrolled search processes over their semantic memory, examining the relations of semantic memory structure to creative achievement and fluid intelligence, and relating flexibility of thought to the robustness of their semantic networks to attack.