Seminars

2022

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

  • Seminar: Concepción predictiva del acceso y la representación del conocimiento. (Predictive conception of knowledge acces and representation)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a seminar at the journal club of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

  • Conference: Predicciones corporizadas: adquisición del conocimiento y controversias en torno a su representación. (Embodied predictions: acquisition of knowledge and controversies around its representation)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk on the Ciclo de Conferencias de Lenguaje y Predicción organized by the Laboratorio de Psicolingüística, División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM.

MARCH 31, 2022

  • Discussion panel: Computational cognition

Alejandra Ciria was invited to participate in the discussion panel in the "Workshop Cabinets of Curiosities: Interdisciplinary thoughts on information processing, perception, and learning", organized by Collegium Helveticum, The joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts.

MARCH 14, 2022

  • Discussion panel: Lo bueno, lo malo y lo no tan malo de tener un cerebro predictivo. (The good, the bad, and the not-so-bad of having a predictive brain)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to participate in the discussion panel in the "XX Conmemoración de la Semana del Cerebro" organized by the Coordinación de Psicobiología y Neurociencias, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM.

2021

OCTOBER 29, 2021

  • Seminar: Plataformas de redes sociales y la economía de la atención: comerciando la minimización del error predictivo por nuestra atención. (Social media platforms and the economy of attention: trading predictive error minimization for our attention)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a seminar at the journal club of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.


OCTOBER 16, 2021

  • Talk: Social Media Platforms: Trading with Prediction Error Minimization for your Attention

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the "COGNITIO 2021 - Active inference and collective intelligence", an Online Conference organized by the Institut des Sciences (ISC) Cognitives Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and the Nested Minds Network (NMN).


OCTOBER 7, 2021

  • Panel discussion: Nueva Inteligencia Artificial: Robótica Cognitiva. (New Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Robotics)

Alejandra Ciria was invited as a member of a panel discussion at the "Nuestra Nueva Realidad, Jueves de Ciencia", to talk about the documental "Nueva Inteligencia Artificial: Robótica Cognitiva" directed by Jaime Kuri, in which she participated among several specialists on the topic in 2018. The event was organized by TV UNAM and Fundación UNAM.


SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

  • Seminar: La percepción como un problema de inferencia: evidencia de la corteza visual primaria. (Perception as an inference problem: evidence from the primary visual cortex)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a seminar at the "Curso de actualización en "Neurociencias Cognitivas", organized by the Coordinación de Psicobiología y Neurociencias, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM.


July 12, 2021

  • Talk: Correlated brain indexes of semantic prediction and prediction error*

Alejandra Ciria gave a talk in the "Seminario de Predicción" in which she is a member, organized and sponsored by the proyect "PAPIIT 2021 (IN303221): “Efecto de la restricción oracional y la similitud de palabras en la actividad electroencefalográfica anticipatoria”, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM. (*Authors of the paper: Grisoni, Tomasello, and Pulvermüller, 2021)


MAY 8, 2021

  • Seminar: Procesos Cognitivos: La minimización del error predictivo como ejemplo representativo. (Cognitive Processes: prediction error minimization as a representative example)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a seminar at the XVI Cátedra Mercedes Rodrigo, "Psicología 4.0 La Revolución de una Ciencia en Evolución", organized by ASCOFAPSI, María Cano Fundación Universitaria, and Universidad CES, Colombia.


APRIL 30, 2021

  • Seminar: Propiocepción: percibir en un cuerpo bajo nuestra propia piel. (Proprioception: perceiving in a body under our own skin)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a seminar at the journal club of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.


FEBRUARY 24, 2021

  • Seminar: ¿Qué caracteriza a los procesos cognitivos? La minimización del error predictivo como ejemplo representativo. (What characterizes cognitive processes? Prediction error minimization as a representative example)

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the "1er Ciclo de Conferencais Fronteras en la Cognición" organized by the Facultad de Psicología, Coordinación de Psicobiología y Neurociencias, UNAM, México.

2020

OCTOBER 30, 2020

  • Seminar: Perceptual illusions

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the Primera “Jornada Estatal del Conocimiento Virtual 2020”, organized by the Centro Morelense de Comunicación de la Ciencia.


AUGUST 8, 2020

  • Seminar: Predictive Processing: Prediction Error Dynamics

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the weekly seminar Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy, UNAM, México.


JULY 31, 2020

  • Seminar: The Cognitive Processing Hierarchy

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the journal club of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.


JULY 17, 2020

  • Seminar: Analysis of attentional mechanisms

Bruno Lara and Alejandra Ciria organized this seminar where various papers about attention will be presented by all the members of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.


MAY 6, 2020

  • Talk: Perceptual Optimization Processes- Controversies on sensory attenuation and sensory enhancement

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the journal club of the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, CInC, UAEM, México.


FEBRUARY 10, 2020

  • Talk: Controversies on sensory attenuation and enhancement

Workshop on Prediction Error, Organized by Bruno Lara and Alejandra Ciria at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.


2019

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

  • Talk: Predictive Autonomous Behavior, Internal Models, and Predictive Self-regulation.

Guido Schillaci organized a workshop on “Predictive processes for motor and cognitive development in robots” as part of his Marie Sklodowska Curie project “Predictive Robots” at the BioRobotics Institute at Sant’Anna featuring invited talks from Bruno Lara (UAEM, Mexico) and Alejandra Ciria (UNAM, Mexico).



NOVEMBER, 2019

  • Talk: Prediction Error Dynamics as a Self-regulation Mechanism

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the Seminar at the Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence” (SCIoI) Technical University, Berlin.


NOVEMBER, 2019

  • Talk: Predictive Processing- Open Questions

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the Group Seminar Berlin Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Lab, Technical University, Berlin.


OCTOBER, 2019

  • Poster presentation: Predictive Autonomous Behavior and Predictive Self-regulation

Alejandra Ciria was invited to participate at the “The Active Self” Autumn School, Herrsching, Germany. “The Active Self” is an interdisciplinary network of more than 20 projects investigating the sensorimotor grounding of the human minimal self. Funded by the DFG.


2018

FEBRUARY, 2018

  • Talk: Perception as an Inference Problem

Alejandra Ciria was invited to give a talk at the Science Art & Cognition, International Workshop, Centro Internacional de Ciencias. UAEM-UNAM

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