Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk: Time: 4pm (to 6 pm) Budapest/Vienna time Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Venue: ONLINE Zoom meeting 968 0983 4427<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96809834427?pwd=VUJ6ZnNuN2pTNU5WUTV1c2M4V0d4Zz09> , pw: 975453 Host: Arianna Curioni Speaker: Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska<https://www.iit.it/people/agnieszka-wykowska> (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy)<https://www.emilyliquin.com/> Title: Using robots to understand human cognition Abstract: As robots are believed to soon populate human environments, they have received enthusiastic support in the scientific community. Most research aims at designing robots for assisting humans in daily lives, healthcare, or elderly care. However, there is also a less explored way of using robots - robots as tools to understand human cognition. We take this approach in our lab in examining human socio-cognitive mechanisms in interaction. In this talk, I will present the work from our lab where we have examined whether and how social signals, such as gaze contact, initiated by a humanoid robot, influence attentional orienting, social decision making, or cognitive control. Our results showed, both at the behavioral and neural level, that social gaze modulates attention, efficiency in decision making, as well as adaptation to cognitive conflict. In addition, I will present our research related to the question of whether and under what conditions humans treat robots as social partners and intentional agents. A series of studies addressing vicarious sense of agency as well as joint action demonstrate that robots with a human-like shape evoke similar socio-cognitive mechanimsms similar to those that are evoked by other humans. I will discuss these results in a broader context of using robots at the service of psychological research. Let me know if you would like to schedule an online meeting with the speaker. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: https://tinyurl.com/y2kd2rat Best regards, Fanni ------------------------------------------------ FANNI TAKÁTSY Lab Manager/Research Coordinator, Social Mind Center ------------------------------------------------ [cid:42067b17-4991-4d34-9c89-2f5005166125] CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51. | 1100 Vienna, Austria takatsyf@ceu.edu<mailto:jeneia@ceu.edu> http://socialmind.ceu.edu/ http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu