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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Taylor Webb (Université de Montréal) will give a lecture en
 titled “Emergent symbol processing in transformer language models”.\n	Abstr
 act: Human cognition is characterized by a remarkable ability to recombine
  familiar elements in novel ways\, a capacity that is central to our capab
 ilities in domains ranging from scientific inquiry to the creative arts. T
 his capacity for compositionality has been at the heart of the longstandin
 g debate between neural networks and symbolic models of cognition\, with s
 ome arguing that innate symbolic algorithms are needed to explain this cap
 ability. In this talk\, I will discuss recent work investigating the learn
 ed mechanisms that support cognitive processing in large language models a
 nd vision language models and illustrate how these mechanisms implement an
  emergent form of symbol processing\, suggesting a surprising resolution t
 o this longstanding debate. I will also discuss the prospect for extending
  these studies to investigate the computational basis of symbolic musical 
 cognition.\n\nWhen: February 18th\, 2026\, from 3:00-4:30 p.m.\, followed 
 by a cocktail\n	Where: Université de Montréal\, Pavillon Marie-Victorin\, R
 oom D-427\n\nDetails here and registration here.\n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H2V 2T2\, Université de Montréal\, Pavillon M
 arie-Victorin\, Room D-427
SUMMARY:BRAMS-CRBLM Lecture Series - Taylor Webb
URL:/brain-language-music/channels/event/brams-crblm-l
 ecture-series-taylor-webb-371880
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