UoH holds online lecture under ‘CogTalk’

The main focus of the lecture was on the interactivity of the mind - how our actions and responses are a result of not just our own minds but the environment and other external factors around us.

Hyderabad: Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) hosted an online lecture by Prof Michael Spivey, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, on the topic “Who You Are: Embodied and Extended Cognition” as part of an online distinguished speaker series initiated under ‘CogTalk’.

It is an interdisciplinary platform for lectures/interactive sessions by distinguished speakers related to mind and brain sciences. The objective is to engage students, researchers, faculty in cognitive science and spread awareness of research areas which are asking innovative questions and using truly interdisciplinary ideas/methods to answer these questions.

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The main focus of the lecture was on the interactivity of the mind – how our actions and responses are a result of not just our own minds but the environment and other external factors around us. Drawing evidence from a wide variety of research areas – from linguistics, action-perception links, moral decision making among others – Prof Spivey showed how there is overwhelming evidence for an embodied view of cognition.

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