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A Kognitív Péntek előadás-sorozat keretében Somogyi Eszter tart előadást  Generalising beliefs to human and non-human agents címmel.

Az esemény házigazdája: Király Ildikó.

Időpont: 2013. április 29. (hétfő) 15.30h

Helyszín: ELTE PPK Pszichológiai Intézet, Budapest, Izabella u. 46., 216-os terem

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Generalising beliefs to human and non-human agents

How do young infants perceive robotic agents?

Recent findings suggest that infants understand others’ preferential choice and can use the perspectives and beliefs of others to interpret their actions. The standard interpretation in the field is that infants understand preferential choice as a dispositional state of the agent. It is possible, however, that these social situations trigger the acquisition of more general, not necessarily an integrated person-specific knowledge.

The studies presented in the lecture focus on determining agent behaviours that trigger learning on behalf of the infant. We propose that independently of an agent’s nature, human or non-human, it is the agent’s behaviour that will trigger learning about the objects involved in the agents’ actions. For instance, a robot that shows its ability to communicate or shows other behaviours, like choice making or perceptual processing may very well share a human’s perspective even in very young infants’ eyes.