Marcel Binz (Advancing Human-Centered AI at Helmholtz Munich) As a research scientist and deputy head of the Institute for Human-Centered AI at Helmholtz Munich, Marcel Binz delves into the complexities of the human mind. His groundbreaking work explores how the human mind doesn't operate within specific domains, advocating for a more holistic approach to understanding human cognition.

Link to the videos of past seminars: https://www.youtube.com/@MbsVectorSpaceLab

Events

Upcoming events

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Past events

Dirk Wulff, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. “Using embeddings to automate jingle—jangle detection and tackle taxonomic incommensurability“

Seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy), 15th July 2024, 2:00PM

Link to the seminar: https://meet.google.com/hyr-habw-vnj

Abstract: Taxonomic incommensurability denotes the difficulty in comparing scientific theories due to incompatible use of concepts and operationalizations. We show that item, scale, and label embeddings—representations of psychometric items, scales, and construct labels in a vector space obtained from language models—can help tackle this problem in psychology. We analyze different data sets (e.g., International Personality Item Pool) spanning thousands of items and hundreds of scales and constructs, to show that embeddings can be used to predict empirical relations between measures, perform automated detection of jingle–jangle fallacies, and suggest more parsimonious taxonomies that eliminate a number of extant psychological constructs. All in all, our work suggests that embeddings offer a useful tool to tackle taxonomic
incommensurability in the sciences.

WoProc 2024 (International Word Processing Conference)

July 4th – July 6th 2024, Belgrade, Serbia

Giulia Loca, Simona Amenta, Marco Marelli, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. “Can we ground nonwords? A first data-driven insight on the potential sensorimotor features of novel words“.

Fabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Simona Amenta, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. “Effects of individual differences on the semantic processing of nonwords: new insights from the English crowdsourcing project“.

Rolando Bonandrini, Lucia Giorgione, Alessia Mazzucchelli, Camilla Defendi, Gianpaolo Basso, Simona Amenta, Simone Sulpizio, Marco Marelli, Marco Tettamanti. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. “An FMRI study on the role of morphology in written novel word processing“.

Iva Šaban, Simona Amenta, Fabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. “EPLEP: English pseudoword lexicon project – A new resource for future studies on pseudoword processing“.

Marcel Binz, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Helmholtz Munich. “Building foundation models of human cognition“

Seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy), 20th June 2024

Link to the seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SknOXBD5gQ&t=441s

Bonandrini, R, Giorgione, L, Basso, G, Amenta, S, Sulpizio, S, Marelli, M, Tettamanti, M, 2024. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone (Italy). “Meaningable gobbledygooks in the brain: an fMRI study on the role of morphology in reading novel words.“