- Start Date - 24/05/2017
- End Date - 24/05/2017
- Start Time -
- End Time - 14:00
- Location - Harold Brown Theatre, 123 St. Stephen’s Green
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Dated - 24
Presenter: Dr David Delany, Waterford Institute of Technology
Cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of superior mental performance. At the centre of this revolution are mental models – the conceptual frameworks the brain uses to make sense of the world.
Our ability to learn, problem-solve, and innovate is directly determined by the quality of our mental models. In other words, gains in capability reflect improvements in the quality of our mental models.
The fundamental problem with conventional education is that the critically important process of mental model development is indirect and haphazard.
In this talk Dr Delany will:
Show how we can use a mental model knowledge engineering approach to take control of this process and logically and deliberately construct expert mental models,
Show how this knowledge engineering approach accelerates the transition from novice to expert, and from expert to elite expert,
Show how we can reverse engineer the mental models of experts from their writings, and
Preview a superintelligent future where children are taught from a young age to build deep expert mental models for themselves in fields such as mathematics, physics, and literature.
Dr. David Delany holds a PhD in computational neuroscience (TCD) and has a research focus on the design, coding, and testing of novel clinical brain training interventions for psychiatric disorders and cognitive enhancement. He lectures on cognitive neuroscience and statistics in Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.