Affect in the dark: navigating the complex landscape of social cognition in blindness

Research on the consequence of blindness has primarily focused on how visual experience influences basic sensory abilities, mainly overlooking the intricate world of social cognition. However, social cognition abilities are crucial as they enable individuals to navigate complex interactions, understand others’ perspectives, regulate emotions, and establish meaningful connections, all essential for successful adaptation and integration into society. Emotional and social signals are frequently ...

Il ruolo delle imprese estere nello sviluppo dell’intelligenza artificiale

Il VII Rapporto dell’Osservatorio Imprese Estere esplora il ruolo sempre più rilevante delle imprese a controllo estero in Italia, evidenziando come queste contribuiscano alla trasformazione del sistema economico nazionale. Il documento, curato da Roberto Monducci e Anna Ruocco, offre una visione integrata e aggiornata del contributo economico, innovativo e territoriale delle imprese estere, tracciando un quadro completo del loro impatto sul tessuto produttivo italiano.

Living with antiquities: a journey across Italy - Part II

On the role of time in learning

By and large the process of learning concepts that are embedded in time is regarded as quite a mature research topic. Hidden Markov models, recurrent neural networks are, amongst others, successful approaches to learning from temporal data. In this paper, we claim that the dominant approach minimizing appropriate risk functions defined over time by classic stochastic gradient might miss the deep interpretation of time given in other fields like physics. We show that a recent reformulation of ...