Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center invites you to the
following talk:
Patric
Bach<https://www.actionprediction.org/> (University of Aberdeen)
Perceptual simulation as basis for understanding others
Recent proposals argue that people’s understanding of other people’s behaviours relies on
a top-down guided process that is able to “paint” one’s knowledge of the other person –
their goals, beliefs, and perspective onto the environment – onto ones’ own perceptual
system. I will report data from two experimental paradigms that support this view. These
studies show, first, that people’s understanding of others’ behaviour is guided by
perceptual anticipations of their forthcoming actions. These anticipations can be made
visible as subtle distortions of a perceived action’s path towards those expectations.
Second, they show that perceptual expectations of another’s sensory input also underlie
people’s ability to take others’ perspective, providing a view how the world looks to them
that can support own decision making. Together, these findings argue for a framework in
which perceptual anticipations play a key role in social cognition and provide one with
insights into others knowledge of the world and their future behaviour.
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna)
Zoom:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93610300237?pwd=aDJXaml1S2I5cVZBMGxRekxiNzhNQT09 (Meeting
ID: 936 1030 0237, Passcode: 919687)
Chair: Natalie Sebanz
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get
access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi and Fanni
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