{"id":8056,"date":"2016-11-22T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:22:37","slug":"jim-davies-discusses-learning-colloquium-dec-1-12pm-1pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2016\/jim-davies-discusses-learning-colloquium-dec-1-12pm-1pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies discusses: What is Learning?: Colloquium: Dec. 1: 12pm -1pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Date: December 1, 2016 12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m. Dunton Tower 2203<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Speaker: Dr. Jim Davies, Carleton University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Title:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong>Learning: A definition for Cognitive Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Abstract:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>What is learning? In this talk Jim Davies will describe different varieties of learning at different levels of analysis and suggest a definition of learning, informed by cognitive science and findings from other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Bio:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Jim Davies is an associate professor in the Institute of Cognitive\u00a0Science at Carleton University. Director of the Science of Imagination\u00a0Laboratory, he explores processes of visualization in humans and\u00a0machines and specializes in artificial intelligence, imagination, artistic compellent and\u00a0creativity. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve\u00a0problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds.\u00a0In his spare time, he is a published poet, an\u00a0internationally-produced playwright, and a professional painter,\u00a0calligrapher, and swing dancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; color: #616161; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.8em; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Gotham Narrow SSm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B'; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Note:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>You are welcome to bring your lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: December 1, 2016 12:00 \u2013 1:00 p.m. Dunton Tower 2203 Speaker: Dr. Jim Davies, Carleton University Title:\u00a0Learning: A definition for Cognitive Science Abstract:\u00a0What is learning? 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