This Is Your Life Seminar: Frank Mollica
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The Speaker
Frank is a Lecturer in Computational Cognitive Science at the Complex Human Data Hub, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Computational Cognitive Science at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and an associate member of the Center for Language Evolution at the University of Edinburgh.
His research uses computational and experimental techniques to investigate how children and adults construct rich conceptual systems that support everyday cognition and how these conceptual systems interface with language. He is also interested in characterizing the cognitive efficiency, diversity, evolution and transmission of these conceptual systems. A second strand of his research uses experimental methods and information theoretic models of language-processing to investigate how we actively build representations of context and how these contexts influence semantic and pragmatic computations.
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The Seminar
Our 'This Is Your Life' Seminar Series is about who we are at the CHDH. Each seminar is a combination of research interests and personal history, with speakers telling their life and career journeys. They discuss what research questions fascinate them, how they started out, what bumps in the road they hit and what experiences shaped them and made them who they are (including doubts, failures, and detours they may have faced). We hope you enjoy the video and learn something interesting.