The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
by:
Prof.
*Alan LESLIE* (Rutgers University)
[web
<http://psych.rutgers.edu/faculty-profiles-a-contacts/124-alan-leslie>]
*Title:* *Objects: Where do they come from and where do they go?*
*Date*: Wednesday, 9 March 2016
*Time:* 17:00-18:30
*Location*: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 101
*Abstract:*
The origins of the “object concept” is one the oldest and most central
questions in the study of cognitive development. Traditional accounts
assume that objects emerge from the association of sensory features to form
bundles that are stored in long term memory and used in recognition. Piaget
introduced us to the ubiquitous problem of persistence in the 3-D world of
the infant. A sea-change in our view of infant cognition took place in the
1980’s through the work of Spelke, Baillargeon, and others who introduced
us to the object principles and infant physical reasoning. Slightly more
recently, Scholl and I, together with the Carey group, forged links between
infant object cognition and ideas drawn from the study of object based
attention in adults. This work introduced object indexing, a mechanism of
object-based attention, and the object file, a data structure, combining a
‘sticky’ index with feature binding. It also provided a framework for
understanding how infants can attend to multiple objects simultaneously, a
discovery that Wynn had made a few years before. This talk will summarize
work from my lab and others documenting how infants in the first year bind
sensory features to multiple object indexes in working memory (WM).
Indexing and WM are both thought of as “intermediate level” mechanisms of
object cognition, and WM as where the bottom-up and the top-down come
together. Whereas limits on indexing are established early in the first
year and don’t change thereafter, limits on feature binding are a severe
one object at 6 months and grow to two and then to three objects by 12
months. I end with the notion of “concept binding”.
We are looking forward to see you.
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Barbara Pomiechowska
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budpest, Hungary
Web:
http://www.babakutato.hu/lab-members
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