Academic Area
Cognitive Science & Psychology
Understanding how minds perceive, reason, learn, and act.
Thinking About Thinking supports interdisciplinary inquiry into cognitive science and psychology as foundational disciplines for understanding intelligence in humans.
This focus area brings together researchers and practitioners working across cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, behavioural science, and computational modelling of cognition.
Our emphasis is on mental representations, cognitive mechanisms, and behaviour: the structures and processes that underlie intelligence and shape how individuals and groups understand, adapt to, and interact with the world.
Core Questions We Explore
How do humans represent the world, and learn, and reason about it?
What cognitive mechanisms underlie perception, memory, attention, and decision-making?
What can psychological and cognitive models explain—and where do they fall short?
How do individual cognition and collective behaviour interact?
How should insights from cognitive science inform artificial intelligence and human–AI interaction?
Recordings
We publish recordings of talks, panels, and seminars to make serious thinking about artificial intelligence and machine learning accessible beyond the conference hall.
Events
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are core themes across our flagship events.
At our AE Global Summits, we convene researchers, builders, and policymakers to examine Open Problems in AI research, infrastructure, applications, and governance.
At our Conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI we explore the deeper mathematical and computational foundations of learning and intelligence, often in dialogue with neuroscience and cognitive science.
Ambassadors
Year 2025
Ambassadors
