27 Nov
2025
27 Nov
'25
3:26 p.m.
Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk:
Zsuzsa Kaldy <https://www.umb.edu/directory/zsuzsakaldy/> (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<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>,
passcode: 471712)
Chair: Agnes Kovacs
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP
here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhAH3qG-CM_1AneZBqb5K0GdUN0VKTUw5OEs0RlJGVlBISzAxTDJNTklDNi4u&route=shorturl>
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
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