Los ICREA

Los catedráticos de investigación de ICREA forman una comunidad dinámica de científicos e investigadores de todas las áreas del conocimiento, que contribuyen al progreso de la humanidad con sus estudios, interpretaciones y cuestionamientos. Entre y descubra sus increíbles descubrimientos y hallazgos:

Taylor, Alexander H

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Taylor, Alexander H
Research Professor at
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

My research is focused on comparing and understanding the similarities and differences between human, animal and machine minds. At the heart of my research program is an experimental framework I term the signature testing approach (Taylor et al. 2022). This uses the information processing errors, biases and other patterns agent exhibits to make inference about the content of different minds. This approach generates powerful intelligence tests that strongly constrain the possible cognition an agent is using and allows for the comparison of both biological and artificial intelligences. I also have a keen interest in understanding the role information processing errors and biases play in human decision-making. My lab currently works with a wide range of study species, including the kea parrot, rats, and adult humans.

Key words
Comparative psychology, evolution of intelligence, intelligence testing, social cognition, causal cognition, statistical inference, planning, reasoning, domain-general thought

ORCID
: 0000-0003-3492-7667

RESEARCHER ID
: Alex H Taylor
Tikhonov, Sergey

Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM)

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Tikhonov, Sergey
Research Professor at
Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

My main research areas are Fourier Analysis and Approximation Theory. Particularly, I study the relationship between "smoothness" of a function and the possibility to approximate or to represent this function by a sum of "simple" functions. The case when "simple" functions have wave structure is of special interest.

Key words
Harmonic Analysis, ApproximationTheory
Tischler, Matthias M.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Tischler, Matthias M.
Research Professor at
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Humanities
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Research interests

My studies are raising the question about the geographical, linguistic, religious, cultural and mental borders of the multi-layered legacy in the centres and peripheries of the Medieval Worlds. I have analyzed the Europe-wide intellectual attraction and radiance of the Parisian abbey of Saint-Victor in the mirror of its exegetical and theological production, focusing on the various European areas. Then, I have broadened my panorama to reconstruct European religious and intellectual identities by conducting extensive research on texts of Christian-Muslim encounters and perceptions in Europe, specializing on early Christian polemics against Islam, the linguistic and religious borders between Christians, Jews and Muslims, processes of religious and cultural passages, entanglement and dis/integration among the members of the three monotheisms in the Carolingian and Iberian Worlds. A new research field I try to establish is methodologically sound Transcultural Studies and Palaeography.

Key words
Carolingian and Intellectual Legacy, Interreligious Dialogue and Memory, Entangled History and Historiography, Transcultural Studies and Palaeography

ORCID
: orcid.org/0000-0002-5236-7168

RESEARCHER ID
: F-3036-2016
Tolsa Domènech, Xavier

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Tolsa Domènech, Xavier
Research Professor at
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Research interests

I work in mathematical analysis. My research deals with harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and elliptic PDE's. Particularly, I am interested in the relationship between analytic notions such as analytic capacity or harmonic measure, and geometric concepts like rectifiability. In a sense, analytic capacity measures how much a set in the plane is visible or invisible for analytic functions. On the other hand, rectifiability tells you if a set is contained in a countable collection of curves with finite length. Around 2002 I proved that analytic capacity is semiadditive. This was an open problem since the early 1960s. Later on I studied related problems in higher dimensions. In particular, in a collaboration with F. Nazarov and A. Volberg I have proved the so called David-Semmes conjecture in the codimension 1 case. This result has important applications to the study of harmonic measure and the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation, which are other main interests.

Key words
Fourier analysis, geometric measure theory, analytic capacity, rectifiability, quasiconformal maps

ORCID
: 0000-0001-7976-5433
Toribio Mateas, Josefa

Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

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Toribio Mateas, Josefa
Research Professor at
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Humanities
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Research interests

My goal in philosophy has long been the same: to explore the nature of the mind within a naturalistic framework. What is most distinctive of my research is my ongoing effort to respect scientific findings about mental phenomena while insisting on the critical importance of the method of analysis and the theoretical tools provided by analytic philosophy. My current research focuses on the analysis of central topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science, with a special emphasis on the philosophy of perception and rationally responsive unconscious mental states such as implicit attitudes.

Key words
Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

ORCID
: 0000-0002-5180-6755

RESEARCHER ID
: AAA-9756-2020
Toro, Juan Manuel

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

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Toro, Juan Manuel
Research Professor at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Research interests

I am interested in studying why language and music have only emerged in humans and not in other animals. I tackle this issue using a variety of experimental techniques and populations that include human adults and infants, and non-human animals. Our studies have demonstrated that some of the building blocks of language learning are found in other animals. For example, we showed that rats extract prosodic information present in speech in a similar way human infants do (a study named one of the five best Ig Nobel prize-winning scientific papers). I am also interested in music, as another ability that might emerge from sensibilities already present in other species. We have shown uniquely-human consonance advantages not shared with other animals, have characterized the biological bases of beat perception and how they set the stage for human rhythmic abilities, and identified how our brains react to the violation of harmonic expectations.

Key words
Comparative Cognition; Language processing; Music cognition; Speech

ORCID
: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5336-5658

RESEARCHER ID
: F-3933-2010