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Felipe offering a lecture at the Minsitry of Culture in Lima, Perú. In the background an image of a megalithic landscape in Galicia.

Felipe offering a lecture at the Minsitry of Culture in Lima, Perú. In the background an image of a megalithic landscape in Galicia.

The set-up for the experiments at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the San Marcos University. There are two sets: one for screen and one for actual artefacts.

The set-up for the experiments at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the San Marcos University. There are two sets: one for screen and one for actual artefacts.

A part of our team is now in Lima (Peru) for an intense formative and experimental couple of weeks. Besides a workshop and lectures, they will implement two experiments that we will later replicate in Santiago. Our first big trip abroad!

15.02.2024 11:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Felipe Criado (INCIPIT-CSIC, online), Jaime Almansa (INCIPIT-CSIC) y Marga Sánchez Romero (UGR), dialogan sobre arqueología en la introducción del tercer TAG ibérico

Felipe Criado (INCIPIT-CSIC, online), Jaime Almansa (INCIPIT-CSIC) y Marga Sánchez Romero (UGR), dialogan sobre arqueología en la introducción del tercer TAG ibérico

Luis M. Martínez (IN-CSIC-UMH) hace un truco de magia a Alberto Polo (URJC) en la parte final de su charla sobre neurociencia.

Luis M. Martínez (IN-CSIC-UMH) hace un truco de magia a Alberto Polo (URJC) en la parte final de su charla sobre neurociencia.

Ayer abríamos nuestro tercer TAG en el teatro Juan Bravo de Segovia con diálogo arqueológico y un poco de neurociencia con magia. ¡Estamos de vuelta!

09.02.2024 06:31 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Table with old ceramics. On the left a black box where the ceramics will be presented

Table with old ceramics. On the left a black box where the ceramics will be presented

A man looking at a monitor where pictures of ceramics are displayed.

A man looking at a monitor where pictures of ceramics are displayed.

The Kiel Team from the @xscape-project.bsky.social is now in Aarhus in the Moesgård Museum to perform a new set of eye tracking experiments!

29.01.2024 11:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Next week, our PI Felipe Criado will be speaking at the cicle 'The invisible house' from the Association of Architects of Galicia. More info: portal.coag.es/es/delegacio...

31.01.2024 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative AIs. In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat “alien”) resources and how to incorporate them in our educational practices. We focus on methodologies that encourage exploration and embodied interactions with ‘prepared’ material environments, such as the carefully organised settings of Montessori education. Using the Active Inference Framework, we approach our questions by thinking about human learning as epistemic foraging and prediction error minimization. We end by arguing that generative AIs should figure naturally as new elements in prepared learning environments by facilitating sequences of precise prediction error enabling trajectories of self-correction. In these ways we anticipate new synergies between disembodied and embodied forms of intelligence.

Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative AIs. In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat “alien”) resources and how to incorporate them in our educational practices. We focus on methodologies that encourage exploration and embodied interactions with ‘prepared’ material environments, such as the carefully organised settings of Montessori education. Using the Active Inference Framework, we approach our questions by thinking about human learning as epistemic foraging and prediction error minimization. We end by arguing that generative AIs should figure naturally as new elements in prepared learning environments by facilitating sequences of precise prediction error enabling trajectories of self-correction. In these ways we anticipate new synergies between disembodied and embodied forms of intelligence.

Following with the news from our Sussex team, a new article has been accepted! "Active Inference Goes to School" - Laura will be in a podcast next week presenting it, and you can read the pre-print and some notes here:

balazskegl.substack.com/p/active-inf...

29.01.2024 10:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SOLD OUT - Discourse: How the brain shapes reality | Royal Institution This event is sold out in-person.

Our PI Andy Clark is giving this Friday a The Royal Institution discourse on how the brain shapes reality. It is sold our in person, but you can still join online!
www.rigb.org/whats-on/sol...

24.01.2024 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mindreading materialities. Where theory and method meet

Mindreading materialities. Where theory and method meet

From material landscapes to cognitive landscapes

From material landscapes to cognitive landscapes

Take a walk on the right side. Archaeology of gesture and bodily movement.

Take a walk on the right side. Archaeology of gesture and bodily movement.

This year we are hosting three sessions at the #eaa2024 and will have some more surprises. Have a look at our calls and come join us in Rome!
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @incipitcsic.bsky.social @material-minds.bsky.social

19.01.2024 14:16 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Full logo of the project with the ERC one, plus the partners, CSIC (INCIPIT+IN), Sussex University and Kiel University. On top, a drawing of a pottery shows a heat map of the gaze in the decoration.

Full logo of the project with the ERC one, plus the partners, CSIC (INCIPIT+IN), Sussex University and Kiel University. On top, a drawing of a pottery shows a heat map of the gaze in the decoration.

"Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search (XSCAPE)", is the title of our Synergy Grant (ERC-2020-SyG 951631), focusing on materiality, mainly archaeological, and human cognition.

07.12.2023 15:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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