Hello everyone,
The next Cognitive Science department colloquium will be on Tuesday, 28
November (note different day!) at 4pm in C323 (note different room!)
Speaker:Joan Ongchoco, UBC Vancouver
The continuous vs. the discrete in mental life: Studies in
perception, attention, and decision-making
The raw material of perception is a continuous wash of light and
sound. But what we perceive are often discrete individuals -- *objects*
(due to segmentation in space) and *events* (due to segmentation in
time). I will present five case studies that collectively explore how
discrete object and event representations have a powerful impact on many
forms of perception and cognition -- and in particular, how they
interact with other processes including attention, imagery, enumeration,
time perception, and decision-making. Throughout this work, I will show
how these interactions are relatively spontaneous and inescapable
aspects of how the mind works. In the first two case studies, I will
introduce the phenomenon of "scaffolded attention", and will show how
attention effectively creates discrete object representations even in
the absence of all sensory cues -- in a sort of "everyday
hallucination". In the next two case studies, I will show how dynamic
event segmentation has important consequences for the perception of
other seemingly foundational properties, including number and time. And
in the final case study, I will move from seeing to thinking, and show
how visual event structure may have surprisingly direct connections for
higher-level thought and decision-making. Together, these studies show
how discrete object and event representations have profound consequences
for our mental lives.
Date: TUESDAY, 28 November (Note different day!)
Time: 4pm-5:30pm
Location:QSC-323 (Note different room!)
Zoom link:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94614125194?pwd=bUpJdWRZM3JPRGJVWEFaZ2dEbGVIQT09
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Meeting ID: 946 1412 5194
Passcode: 899075
Chair: Jonathan Kominsky
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in
Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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Dr. Jonathan F. Kominsky
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
PI: Causal Cognition Lab
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