Andreas Roepstorff visited CSL Paris
Andreas Roepstorff , anthropologist at Aarhus University and Director of the Interacting Minds Center, visited CSL Paris and had extensive interactions with the Creativity team about the topic of “Modeling collective imagination: opinion dynamics 2.0”.
Christine Cuskley visited CSL Paris
Christine Cuskley, (https://ccuskley.github.io/) Evolutionary linguist, cognitive scientist, at the centre for language evolution of the university of Edinburgh, visited CSL Paris and had extensive interactions with the Creativity team about the topic of language dynamics and the Creastoria game for collective storytelling.
New paper on “Copystree. Gaming artificial phylogenies”
A new paper just appeared on Language Dynamics and Change (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22105832-00801003) about Copystree, an online experiment to create artificial phylogenies. The reconstruction of phylogenies of cultural artifacts represents an open problem that mixes theoretical and computational challenges. Existing benchmarks rely on simulated phylogenies, where hypotheses on the underlying evolutionary mechanisms are unavoidable, or on real […]
Young Researchers of Complex System Society Bridge Grant
The creativity team has been awarded with the Bridge Grant funded by the Young Researcher in Complex System Science. The grant served to ignite the “Urban semantic: understanding mobility patterns using word embeddings” research project that aims at the characterization of the functional roles that different areas of a city have in time. The challenge […]