Reminder:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Simon Kirby
University of Edinburgh
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~simon
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments
Daniel C. Richardson
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London
During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience
member to take part in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation
games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game
simultaneously using their smart phones or tablets. We can collect
responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a
laboratory cubicle.
Audience members will explore the behaviour and decision making of
groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and
take difficult decisions. Our eventual goal is to address a range of
theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer
modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If
so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of
other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning
across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or
in competition, with a room full of people?
- See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d…
Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments�
Daniel C. Richardson
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London
�
During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience
member to take part� in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation
games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game
simultaneously using their� smart� phones or tablets. We can collect
responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a
laboratory cubicle.
Audience members will explore the behaviour and� decision making of�
groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and
take difficult decisions.� Our� eventual� goal is to� address a range of
theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer
modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If
so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of
other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning
across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or
in competition, with a room full of people?�
- See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d…
The Cultural Origins of Structure
Language is striking in its systematic structure at all levels of
description. By exhibiting combinatoriality and compositionality, each
utterance in a language does not stand alone, but rather exhibits a
network of dependencies on the other utterances in that language. Where
does this structure come from? Why is language systematic, and where
else might we expect to find this kind of systematicity in nature?
In this talk, I will propose a simple hypothesis that systematic
structure is the inevitable result of a suite of behaviours being
transmitted by iterated learning. Iterated learning is a mechanism of
cultural evolution in which behaviours persist by being learned through
observation of that behaviour in another individual who acquired it in
the same way. I will survey a wide range of lab studies of iterated
learning, in which the cultural evolution ofsets of behaviours is
experimentally recreated. These studies include everything from
artificial language learning tasks and sign language experiments, to
more abstract behaviours like slide whistle imitation and sequence
learning, and have recently even been extended to other species. I will
conclude by suggesting that these cultural evolution experiments provide
clear predictions about where we should expect to see structure in
behaviour, and what form that structure might take.
See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-20/departmental-colloquium-d…
We're looking forward to see you there! (Oktober 6 street 7, room 101)
Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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