New Faculty Expand Scholarship at Dartmouth

Steven Frankland
Assistant Professor
Winifred Raven House, Lab, 104, Office 106
Spring 2024: COGS xx: Computational Cognitive Science: Foundations and Applications - 6B- Frankland

I study the computational principles and neural systems that allow the human mind to be so flexible in some cases—for example, able to generate and understand an infinite number of possible sentences, able to quickly reason about new situations, and able to plan for uncertain futures—while, at the same time, being so profoundly limited in others—for example, easily forgetting names, dates, and phone numbers. What makes our minds this way? I approach these questions using information-theory, classic neural network formalisms, and cognitive neuroscientific methods, in pursuit of some general principles.