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In his lecture ’The Pros and Cons of Perceptual Learning’, Professor Robert Goldstone will explain to the audience, using his neat sense of humour, why the research of perception is important in the context of different scientific fields, especially cognitive science. In addition, he will highlight the problematic issues in the viewpoint regarding the foundation of knowledge in human perception.
‘Robert Goldstone is currently one of the five most significant researchers in the worldtypo3/#_msocom_3 and is demonstrating an outstanding performance in interdisciplinary researches in various spheres. I am pleased that Robert Goldstone has agreed to give this open lecture. We would like to demonstrate the Latvian intellectual community why cognitive science research is scientifically potent and fascinating to experts from various fields and all those interested in this topic,’ says Professor Jurģis Šķilters, the director of the UL Centre for the Cognitive Sciences and Semantics and the organizer of the event.
Robert Goldstone is Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, director of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory and director of Cognitive Science Program at the Indiana University. He has studied the interaction between perception and knowledge, acquisition of concepts, computational models of human thinking, psychology of decision making, reasoning and problem solving and visual cognition processes and is the author or co-author of more than 170 highly significant publications. Jurģis Šķilters points out that everyone studying cognitive science comes across Robert Goldstone’s works. Professor’s researches are excellent study material from the point of view of psychology and computer modelling and a significant contribution to psychology and cognitive and computer sciences. He has been bestowed with several honorary titles and awards as well as recognized by the National Academy of Sciences in the USA.
Everybody is invited to Robert Goldstone’s open lecture that will take place on May 15 at 16:00 in the Great Hall of the UL as part of the 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication ‘Perception and Concepts’.
Lecture will be broadcast online in UL portal. *Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary field that examines cognition, consciousness and perception. It combines research methods and findings of multiple disciplines including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer and communication sciences.
Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.
Lecture will be broadcast online in UL portal. *Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary field that examines cognition, consciousness and perception. It combines research methods and findings of multiple disciplines including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer and communication sciences.
Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.
, Robert Goldstone, a professor of the Indiana University, USA, and one of the world’s most prominent researchers in perception, will deliver an open lecture to inspire the listeners to expand the boundaries of their knowledge and understand the importance of perception in human and personal development.){kind=link}