On 2017. Jul 14., at 13:20, Katalin Illes <IllesK@ceu.edu> wrote:

Dear All,

Please sign up for dinner with Julian Jara-Ettinger on next Wednesday. 

Have a nice weekend,

Kati

Katalin Illes

Coordinator

Cognitive Development Center 

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Central European University

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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

H-1051 Budapest,Oktober 6 u. 7. 

tel: (36-1) 328-3674

mail: IllesK@ceu.edu

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On 2017. Jul 13., at 10:21, Katarina Begus <katarina.begus@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk (please note the change in location!): 

Julian Jara-Ettinger (MIT)

Date: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30

Host: Gergo Csibra

Location - CHANGED:  Nador 15,  Room 103.

The inner life of goals: costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology

By kindergarten, our knowledge of agents has unfolded into a powerful intuitive theory that enables us to thrive in our social world. In this talk I will propose that children build their commonsense psychology around a basic assumption that agents choose goals and actions by quantifying, comparing, and maximizing utilities. This naïve utility calculus captures much of the rich social reasoning we engage in from early childhood. I explore this theory in a series of experiments looking at children's ability to infer costs and rewards given partial information, their reasoning about knowledgeable versus ignorant agents, their ability to interpret ambiguous utterances, and their reasoning about the moral status of agents. Moreover, a formal model of this theory, embedded in a Bayesian framework, predicts with quantitative accuracy how humans make cost and reward attributions. The theory also offers insights into a range of other phenomena in commonsense psychology that, on the surface, do not appear to involve utility maximization.

See more at: http://web.mit.edu/jjara/www/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events

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Katarina Begus

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Cognitive Development Center

Central European University

Budapest, Hungary

+36 1 327 3000 / 2777

https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus

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