See you tomorrow at 4pm !

De : Talks <talks-bounces@cogsci.ceu.edu> de la part de Mariem Diane <Diane_Mariem@phd.ceu.edu>
Date : jeudi, 27 novembre 2025 à 15:26
À : talks@cogsci.ceu.edu <talks@cogsci.ceu.edu>
Cc : Zsuzsa Kaldy <zsuzsa.kaldy@umb.edu>
Objet : [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Zsuzsa Kaldy (UMass Boston), 4pm on Wednesday Dec. 3rd

Dear all,

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk:

Zsuzsa Kaldy  (University of Massachusetts Boston)

An ethological approach to working memory: The cost-based balancing of sampling and remembering

Abstract:

Typical visual working memory tasks involve many trials of rapid presentations of simple stimuli to be remembered across short delays. This is rarely how memory is used in the real world: we are almost always able to resample information by making an action just-in-time (eye or head movements) or preemptively (cognitive offloading). Deciding how often to resample versus how much to store in memory depends on the costs of each option. In five preregistered experiments with 4-8-year-old children using a naturalistic and gamified task (N = 298), I will show that the cost-based balancing of sampling versus remembering emerges around 5 years of age, and follows a similar (but not identical) pattern as in adults. These results demonstrate how attention and visual working memory interact in naturalistic goal-driven behavior. 

Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET

Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784, passcode: 471712)

Chair: Agnes Kovacs

*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP MailScanner has detected definite fraud in the website at "forms.cloud.microsoft". Do not trust this website: here to get access to the lecture hall.

If you want to schedule a meeting with Zsuzsa on Wednesday, please write to me before Tuesday, 12pm.

Best,

Mariem