The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by<br><br>Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley<br>Date: Wednesday, April 27, 5 PM<br>Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyś u. 14, 3rd floor<br>





<br><u>Causal and probabilistic learning and theory of mind</u><br>Abstract:
 In earlier work, we applied a causal Bayes net approach to instances of
 physical causality, like the &quot;blicket detector&quot;. But children&#39;s 
theories of psychological causality are equally if not more important. I
 will report several studies that investigate the role of causal 
learning in psychological understanding. In one series of studies we 
explore how children use causal learning to segment human action into 
meaningful units. In a second series we explore the relation between 
imitative learning and causal learning. And in a final set of studies we
 explore how causal learning plays a role in the development of 
children&#39;s attributions of actions to either situations or traits.