Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk.
Speaker: Thibaud Gruber<https://www.unige.ch/cisa/center/members/gruber-thibaud/> <https://www.unige.ch/cisa/center/members/gruber-thibaud/>
Title: An affective, behavioral and cognitive story of the evolution of communication and culture in humans and other great apes
The studies of the evolution of language and culture are intertwined. Often, the same mechanisms – including the usual suspects such as imitation – are argued to be at the heart of the evolution of both. In addition, in the last decades, research on social learning in non-humans vs humans has largely focused on behavioral and cognitive processes, while research on non-human vs human communication has often opposed cognitive processes to emotional ones. These two approaches sometimes fall in the pitfall of looking for the one characteristic that makes us unique amongst other animals. In this talk, I want to focus on the commonalities between animal and human social learning, with the goal to braid together literature from social learning, affective development, and the evolution of communication. All three domains can be unified in an ABC model of social learning, which aims to provide a combined Affective, Behavioral and Cognitive approach to the acquisition of knowledge in a broad sense. Affect, for example through motivation or emotions, indeed colors our quest for knowledge and for knowledge transmission. I will rediscuss classic examples of the animal literature such as the vervet alarm call system or the acquisition of tool use in chimpanzees. The ABC framework also allows introducing continuity between so-called simple and complex cognitive processes, which makes it a more realistic pathway for their attribution to animals or non-verbal infants. As such it opens new avenues of research to resolve the debates on the evolution of communication and culture, particularly in our lineage.
Thibaud Gruber is a primatologist and a comparative psychologist whose has been working over 15 years on the topics of the evolution of culture and communication in great apes and humans. After a Master in Cognitive Sciences at the ENS, Paris, he pursued a PhD in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, UK in 2011. He then obtained his Habilitation in Cognitive Sciences at the ENS, Paris, in 2018. He has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Zürich, Neuchâtel and Geneva, funded by the Fyssen Foundation, the Marie Curie initiative of the European Commission, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2020, thanks to an Eccellenza Fellowship from the SNSF, he has set up his own lab, the eccePAN lab (Ecology, Cognition, Communication, Emotion), at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, at the University of Geneva, with a joint position at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences.
Time: 16:00, Thursday, 28 November 2024
Location: Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Room : QS D-002 Tiered
Zoom: Meeting ID: 984 1754 5209<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98417545209?pwd=909i0Oc5aydidvanERaSfHkbKzEZmh.1> Passcode: 041432
Hosts: Thomas Ganzetti and Günther Knoblich
Best regards,
Andi
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Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Speaker: Francesco Guala<https://sites.unimi.it/guala/> (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Time: 4pm (to 6 pm) CET
Date: THURSDAY, 14th November 2024
Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97497562931?pwd=QyM6f1EIAyxLEa7MjQOmdWOubziToZ.1
Meeting ID: 974 9756 2931
Passcode: 382039
Chair: Thomas Wolf
Title: BELIEF-LESS COORDINATION
Abstract: Meta-representation does not always facilitate social interaction.
I illustrate this claim focusing on the case of coordination in Hi-lo games, and conjecture that people coordinate using a mode of reasoning that does not require the representation of others’ beliefs. I compare this sort of belief-less reasoning with theories that appeal to limited meta-representation, and present evidence indicating that people employ both – with meta-representation being used less frequently in coordinative than in competitive tasks.
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Fanni
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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Pascal Mamassian<https://lsp.dec.ens.fr/en/member/647/pascal-mamassian>, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99828555100?pwd=S2Y4VnRMTEFHMitWeWk4bnB0SGdXQT09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99828555100?pwd%3DS2…>
Meeting ID: 998 2855 5100
Passcode: 393080
Chair: Jozsef Fiser
Title: Measurements of perceived time of visual events
Abstract: Visual perception is not instantaneous. It takes a few milliseconds for light to be transduced in photoreceptors and tens of milliseconds more for neuronal spikes to occur at successive levels of the visual hierarchy. These delays necessarily impact our abiity to perceive time. I will present examples of human time perception from two classes of tasks, duration estimation and perceived time of an event. In duration estimation, we have shown that observers are able to estimate the duration of an interval even when the onset of that interval is not explictly provided. In perceived time, we have shown that the perceived time of an event is influenced by other events in their temporal proximity, and that this perceived time varies across the visual field. A better understanding of our sensitivity to and biases in the perception of time is important to fully appreciate how well we understand our sensory environment.
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Best,
Reka
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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by:
Nikhil Chaudhary<https://www.nikhilchaudhary.co.uk/>, Evolutionary Anthropologist based at the University of Cambridge
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 (mind the unusual day please)
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D318 (QS Vienna) and Zoom:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd=VCt1WGZnd1F0MkZleGYvaDRpWEg3Zz09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd%3DVC…>
Meeting ID: 944 8673 1045
Passcode: 328579
Chair: Christophe Heintz and Angarika Deb
Title: Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health
Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our species' history. Therefore, research with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies can offer insight into the evolution of our psychology and physiology. Drawing on my fieldwork with BaYaka hunter-gatherers from Congo, I will discuss the selection pressures that have shaped human social cognition and behaviour. I will focus on the communal living arrangements, egalitarian social organisation, and extensive cooperation, particularly in the domain of childrearing, which are normative across contemporary hunter-gatherer populations. I will also discuss how deviations from these features of sociality, which are commonplace in high-income industrialised societies, may increase our vulnerability to mental health disorders due to evolutionary mismatch-when an organism faces conditions that differ from those that some trait of the organism is adapted to, resulting in pathology or maladaptation.
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Reka
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Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224
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P R O G R A M
The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224)
and online. Meeting link: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps
4 April (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
Andrej Jandrić
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
The Best System Account versus the Package Deal Account of the Laws of
Nature
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Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224
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P R O G R A M
The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224)
and online. Meeting link: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps
21 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
AND
28 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
Kristóf Kanalas
Department of Mathematics, Masaryk University, Brno
Coherent and accessible categories
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faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute
lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224
_____________________________________________
P R O G R A M
The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224)
and online. Meeting link: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps
21 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
AND
28 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
Kristóf Kanalas
Department of Mathematics, Masaryk University, Brno
Coherent and accessible categories
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Abstract is available from the seminar website: http://lps.elte.hu/lps
The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute
lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk.
Ian Apperly<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/apperly-ian> (University of Birmingham)
Title: Devising measures of “mindreading” that are psychometrically robust and theoretically informative.
Abstract: Children’s mindreading (or mentalizing or “theory of mind”) is commonly understood as a series of conceptual changes, and shows good psychometric properties. It can be measured reliably, it shows longitudinal stability, it is distinct from other social and cognitive measures, and it predicts later outcomes, such as friendship quality. The current state of the art in adults is very different. In a recent systematic review we found many proposed “measures” but little evidence that they were reliable or valid. Moreover, it is not even clear how mindreading could vary between adults, over and above effects of domain-general processing or motivation. We believe these problems are related.
We propose that neurotypical adults share the same basic mindreading concepts, but differ in their capacity to use these concepts to make inferences that are plausible and appropriate for a variety of people and situations. Informed by this idea we have crowd-sourced 9 biographical social narratives from a demographically diverse set of people, who also define the mindreading question about what a target individual in the story was thinking or feeling. We are currently analysing data from 2.5k participants aged 13-30. Our first findings suggest that the stories show a good range of performance, load onto a single latent “mindreading” factor, and that this measure shows good psychometric properties. In my talk I will share new results, and will also contextualise this new work alongside other recent findings on how and why mindreading varies in adults.
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712)
Chair: Ágnes Kovács
Best,
Anna
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Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224
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P R O G R A M
The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224)
and online. Meeting link: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps
21 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
AND
28 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE
Kristóf Kanalas
Department of Mathematics, Masaryk University, Brno
Coherent and accessible categories
______________________________
Abstract is available from the seminar website: http://lps.elte.hu/lps
The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute
lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk.
Ian Apperly<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/apperly-ian> (University of Birmingham)
Title: Devising measures of “mindreading” that are psychometrically robust and theoretically informative.
Abstract: Children’s mindreading (or mentalizing or “theory of mind”) is commonly understood as a series of conceptual changes, and shows good psychometric properties. It can be measured reliably, it shows longitudinal stability, it is distinct from other social and cognitive measures, and it predicts later outcomes, such as friendship quality. The current state of the art in adults is very different. In a recent systematic review we found many proposed “measures” but little evidence that they were reliable or valid. Moreover, it is not even clear how mindreading could vary between adults, over and above effects of domain-general processing or motivation. We believe these problems are related.
We propose that neurotypical adults share the same basic mindreading concepts, but differ in their capacity to use these concepts to make inferences that are plausible and appropriate for a variety of people and situations. Informed by this idea we have crowd-sourced 9 biographical social narratives from a demographically diverse set of people, who also define the mindreading question about what a target individual in the story was thinking or feeling. We are currently analysing data from 2.5k participants aged 13-30. Our first findings suggest that the stories show a good range of performance, load onto a single latent “mindreading” factor, and that this measure shows good psychometric properties. In my talk I will share new results, and will also contextualise this new work alongside other recent findings on how and why mindreading varies in adults.
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712)
Chair: Ágnes Kovács
Best,
Anna
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