The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Bahador Bahrani (UCL)
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15
A social interpretation of metacognition
A long history of research is dedicated to how decision, reaction time and confidence are connected to one another in the context of perceptual/motor tasks. More recently, the same ideas have been extended to economic decision making. I will discuss the possibility that confidence in a decision is not just a consequence of perceptual evidence and economic gain/loss but in fact a means for social interaction among decision making agents. The fact that we often resolve disagreements by comparing how confident we are in our opinions demonstrates this point clearly. In my talk I will explore the social nature of decision confidence and discuss a few empirical and theoretical approaches we have taken to understand the cognitive and computational basis of collective decision making.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !