Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk:
Nicolò
Cesana-Arlotti<https://psychology.yale.edu/people/nicolo-cesana-arlotti&…
(Yale University)
Foundations of logical thought in human infants
Humans' disposition for rational learning, planning, and decision-making is
unparalleled in the natural world. Foundational views in the cognitive sciences hold that
to learn, think and talk as we do, we rely upon a "language of thought" – a
capacity for framing ideas in abstract logical structures and for drawing the inferences
they support. Yet, we know little about the foundations of logical thought in the ontogeny
of the mind: are learning, education, or the mastery of language required for logical
cognition? In this talk, I will present my attempt to answer this question. First, I
discuss a developmental primitive of logical reasoning: infants make inferences by
contrasting and eliminating alternatives. Through a series of studies, I will examine the
nature of this preverbal logical capacity and its function in knowledge acquisition. Next,
I will present newer work investigating the breadth of infants' and children's
uncharted logical resources: (i) the presence of other fundamental logical
representations, (ii) their abstractness and domain-generality, and (iii) the capacity to
integrate distinct logical operations. My goal will be to share with you works that aim to
shed light on the developmental foundations upon which thought is built and made possible.
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D001-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496
5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>,
passcode: 471712)
Chair: Ernő Téglás
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP
here<https://forms.office.com/e/qiXF2wt68v> to get access to the lecture hall.
Let me know via
Doodle<https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/b275WGjd> if and
when you would like to schedule a meeting with Nico.
Best,
Barbu
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