1 Mar
2010
1 Mar
'10
2:27 p.m.
Patrick Shafto (Psychology, Lousville)
at 10.00 am on Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Title:
Computational modeling of pedagogical reasoning
Abstract:
Much of human learning goes on in social situations. Among these
situations, pedagogical situations stand out as potentially the most
important. In pedagogical situations, a person (a teacher) chooses
data for the purpose of helping another person learn a concept. I will
present a computational model of pedagogical data sampling, which
formalizes the problem as complementary inferences on the parts of
both the teacher and learner. I will present a series of experiments
that test the model's predictions about reasoning with adults and
children. I will conclude by sketching a larger picture, in which
pedagogical sampling is a special case of reasoning about
intentionally sampled data, and outline directions of future research
in this context.
Venue:
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz
1015 Budapest
Hattyu u 14.
Level 3 (one level up from the entrance level)
Everyone is welcome to attend.