Dear All, The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Science seminar series will by given by: Natasha Kirkham (University of London) Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015, 5 PM NEW Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, 1st floor, room 101. Title: "Development occurs in the middle of things": Using the richness of the input to support robust representations. There is robust and reliable evidence that infants are sensitive to regularities in the visual domain, which enables them to extract information for further processing (e.g., Fiser & Aslin, 2002; Kirkham et al., 2002) and to predict upcoming events (e.g., Kirkham et al, 2007; Sobel & Kirkham, 2006; 2007). While these studies, which have presented the babies with sparse (often unimodal) stimuli, offer real insight into how the developing system works in situations without distraction or noise, it leaves open the question as to what happens in a noisier, more ?real-world? environment. Across five eyetracking studies with infants from 4- to 10-months, we show that attention to regularities in the environment shifts across the first year of life: Irrelevant information becomes easier to ignore as the baby gets older, and good performance is highly dependent on the relative weightings of multiple cues, predictiveness, salience, and reliability, (Kirkham et al., 2012; Richardson & Kirkham, 2004; Tummeltshammer & Kirkham, 2013; Tummeltshammer, Mareschal & Kirkham, 2014: Tummeltshammer, Wu, Sobel, & Kirkham, 2014; Wu & Kirkham, 2010). PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early to ensure you get a seat. The talk will begin promptly at 5. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events ______________________________________________ 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