Agenda

We hear from the ECLT network 2021

"Logical processes in an infant mind"

Luca Bonatti 
ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and researcher at ECLT.

10th September 2021, 3 PM

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Abstract

Recent data suggest that preverbal infants possess remarkable capacities to process complex events and modify hypotheses about them facing inconsistent evidence.  I will present data about the behavioral and neural correlates of some of these processes in infants and adults, focusing on elementary logical inferences. I will critically discuss various proposals about the mental representations underlying these capacities.

Short bio

Luca Bonatti has graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy, and received his PhD in Philosophy of Mind at Rutgers, N.J.. He has been a member of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, where he learned the little experimental psychology he knows of, thanks to the help of friends and colleagues. Then he entered the University of Paris 8, France as an associate professor. Professor Bonatti moved to Italy at SISSA, Trieste, then to the University of Nantes, France, as a full professor, and finally to Barcelona, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, as an ICREA professor. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Budapest, Hungary, at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, and at New York University. He is currently also Part-time Professor, University Ca' Foscari, Venice (Italy