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This conference brings together researchers from all relevant disciplines to pursue the common goal of understanding what makes human thinking different from the cognitive abilities of other species. Is there a single ‘magic feature’ that has allowed humans to surpass other animals in learning and creative potential? Or are our abilities the product of many small advances? What could the ‘magic feature’ and the small advances be?

The conference has been made possible by the Carol L. Zicklin Endowment to Brooklyn College and the Stockholm University Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution. It is open to the public, but space is limited. Please email Malene Schjoenning to book a place and to receive information and directions.

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Speakers:

Eric Baum, Azure Sky Research: Humans are Smarter Because Language Allows Us to Develop Mental Programs Collaboratively

Magnus Enquist, Stockholm University. Intelligence is not enough: Why cultural evolution matters.

Stefano Ghirlanda, Brooklyn College: What do animals know about the order of events?

Paul W. Glimcher, New York University: How We Decide: The Neural Basis of Human Decision-Making.

Richard A. Granger, Dartmouth College: The human algorithm: What brain computations are uniquely human?

Jerry A. Hogan, University of Toronto: Some thoughts about thinking: What is thinking?

Louis Lefebvre, McGill University. Innovation and cultural evolution.

Johan Lind, Stockholm University. What can animals do? Really.

Robert Lurz, Brooklyn College: Is Mind Reading Uniquely Human?

Lisa Son, Barnard College, The Evolution of Metacognition

Richard S. Sutton, University of Alberta: Learning about sensorimotor data.

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