Patrick Shafto (Psychology, Lousville) at 10.00 am on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 Title: Computational modeling of pedagogical reasoning Abstract: Much of human learning goes on in social situations. Among these situations, pedagogical situations stand out as potentially the most important. In pedagogical situations, a person (a teacher) chooses data for the purpose of helping another person learn a concept. I will present a computational model of pedagogical data sampling, which formalizes the problem as complementary inferences on the parts of both the teacher and learner. I will present a series of experiments that test the model's predictions about reasoning with adults and children. I will conclude by sketching a larger picture, in which pedagogical sampling is a special case of reasoning about intentionally sampled data, and outline directions of future research in this context. Venue: CEU Cognitive Development Center Hattyuhaz 1015 Budapest Hattyu u 14. Level 3 (one level up from the entrance level) Everyone is welcome to attend.