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SUMMARY:Conveying Affective State: Context Specific Vocalizations of Bottlenose Dolphins
DESCRIPTION:The Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences (GRCDI) are delighted to host a hybrid delivery presentation by Dr Tom Jenks (School of Biology\, University of St Andrews). \nThis event is also available to join online using the link below: \nhttps://teams.microsoft.com/meet/361456697667193?p=8nJaCJzmv56aksmGpc \nAbstract\nResearch into animal emotion has proceeded cautiously\, driven by a desire to avoid overextending claims about what animals may experience. It is now generally accepted that animals experience negative emotional states\, perhaps because these are easier for us to recognise\, but there is still little information on positive emotions. Yet positive emotional states can confer important fitness benefits and are likely to be overtly expressed in social taxa.\nIn this presentation\, I explore our research into the vocal communication of Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and their use of context dependant vocal signals. Vocal communication in bottlenose dolphins has been studied primarily through the lens of individual recognition and group cohesion\, particularly via whistles. Far less is known about how dolphins communicate other forms of information\, including signals related to internal affective state\, especially through burst-pulsed sounds.\nBurst-pulsed calls have been linked to aggression\, food-related contexts\, and positive reinforcement\, raising the possibility that they may encode information relevant to emotional valence. However\, their classification has traditionally relied on aural descriptions\, limiting consistency and comparability. I will present a novel approach for objectively classifying burst-pulsed sounds\, allowing us to investigate their contextual use and explore their potential as a non-invasive measure of affective state and welfare. \nSpeaker Bio\nDr Tom Jenks is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews focusing on the vocal learning and cognitive capabilities in bottlenose dolphins\, understanding the vocalisations they produce\, how much control they have over their production\, and when they produce them. After his PhD Tom moved to work with bats\, training them in behavioural paradigms to test their vocal learning production capabilities and exploring the learned and innate vocalisations contained within their repertoires. Now\, Tom is back working with dolphins researching at the intersection of vocal production\, cognition\, and emotion. \nAll welcome!
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/conveying-affective-state-context-specific-vocalizations-of-bottlenose-dolphins/
LOCATION:Psychology Seminar Room 1\, School of Psychology and Neuroscience\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260330T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260330T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T123136Z
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SUMMARY:"What enables human language? A biocultural framework" Discussion Hour with Prof Inbal Arnon
DESCRIPTION:The GRCDI is pleased to welcome back Professor Inbal Arnon for a discussion of her 2025 paper “What enables human language? A biocultural framework”\, published in Science. \nProf. Arnon will provide a short introduction to the paper at the beginning of the session\, but the intention is for the focus to remain primarily on a discussion lead by attendees. \nPlease take the time to read the paper prior to the event\, in order to maximise the possibility for discussion during the event. The paper can be found at the following link: \nhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq8303 \nProf. Arnon is a developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist (PhD\, Stanford\, 2011). She is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University\, and currently a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on how children learn language\, why they do so better than adults\, and how studying language learning can help us understand how human language evolved to begin with. Prof. Arnon has worked extensively on first language learning\, developing a novel framework for understanding why children are better language learners than adults\, with applied implications for human and machine learning (The Starting Big Approach\, see Arnon\, 2021 for a review).
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/what-enables-human-language-a-biocultural-framework-discussion-hour-with-prof-inbal-arnon/
LOCATION:Swallowgate Craigard CRA:26
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20260403T123743Z
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SUMMARY:GRCDI Observatory Visit
DESCRIPTION:Join the GRCDI team for an exclusive tour of St Andrews University’s historic James Gregory Telescope and a discussion of the current research being performed to gain an understanding of intelligence beyond our planet.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-observatory-visit/
LOCATION:St Andrews Observatory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260128T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260128T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20251204T125737Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nAll known languages are made up of statistically coherent sequences – words – whose frequency distribution follows a power law known as a Zipfian distribution. Despite the ubiquity of these features across languages their origins are poorly understood. In this talk\, I will argue that they arise because they facilitate learning and therefore emerge through the process of cultural transmission of language. I will present a set of results on the learnability sources and consequences of such distributions in human language\, looking at infants\, children\, and adults. I will then summarise results from an iterated learning study in which non-linguistic sequences evolve as they are transmitted from generation to generation of participants. We draw on insights from infant speech segmentation to develop analytic pipelines for analysing the sequences and observe the emergence of Zipf’s law over generations. This work makes a prediction that we should find Zipfian distribution of statistically coherent sequences wherever systems culturally evolve\, including in other species. In the second part of the talk I will turn to the culturally evolving song of humpback whales and apply the same analytic technique to 8 years of whale recordings. Together with Ellen Garland and Simon Kirby\, we show\, for the first time in another species\, that these characteristic statistical properties are indeed present in whale song. By doing so\, we demonstrate a deep commonality between two species separated by tens of millions of years of evolution but united by both having culture. Throughout\, I will highlight open questions at the intersection of developmental psychology\, language evolution\, and comparative cognition\, and point to ways in which cross-species and cross-method collaborations could promote our understanding of the origin of complex communication. \nScientific Bio\nProf. Arnon is a developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist (PhD\, Stanford\, 2011). She is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University\, and currently a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on how children learn language\, why they do so better than adults\, and how studying language learning can help us understand how human language evolved to begin with. Prof. Arnon has worked extensively on first language learning\, developing a novel framework for understanding why children are better language learners than adults\, with applied implications for human and machine learning (The Starting Big Approach\, see Arnon\, 2021 for a review). Her current projects ask how learning and learnability pressures shape language structure and language evolution\, using findings from child language learning to inform research on language evolution and animal communication. Doing so creates new ways of explaining how children learn language\, why languages look the way they do\, and how similar they are to other communication systems in nature.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/1321/
LOCATION:Butts Wynd BWD:09\, Butts Wynd\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251210T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251210T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
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SUMMARY:Discussion session: Can we compute intelligence?
DESCRIPTION:Part of the AI Seminar Series\, hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series kicks off in October 2025 with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science (Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le). The series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/discussion-session-can-we-compute-intelligence/
LOCATION:Castle House: 30 – Barbara Murray Lecture Room\, School of English\, The Scores\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20251103T120203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T103244Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Cognitive challenges in human cumulative cultural evolution
DESCRIPTION:The Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences (GRCDI) will host a  research seminar on Cognitive challenges in human cumulative cultural evolution by Prof Christine A Caldwell (University of Stirling). \nAbstract:\nHuman evolutionary success has been attributed to the capacity to accumulate knowledge and skills over generations via cultural transmission\, but explanations for the distinctiveness of human culture remain heavily debated. Some accounts posit that human transmission processes implicate cognitive capacities not available to other species\, sometimes proposing these capacities to be specialised adaptations. I will present a series of studies carried out within my research group\, investigating relationships between cognitive development and behaviours associated with both acquiring and passing on social information. In most of our experimental work we have endeavoured to capture the kinds of challenges likely to be present in real world cases of cumulative cultural evolution in humans. We find that there are indeed significant cognitive challenges associated with effective accumulation of knowledge via social learning\, illustrated by striking differences in performance between children from different age groups\, with competency continuing to build relatively late into childhood. This late development supports the view that human cultural transmission may implicate advanced cognitive abilities unavailable to other species. However\, the cognitive resources required may not be specific to cultural transmission\, likely including general-purpose cognitive abilities as well as broader socio-cognitive skills used in other contexts such as communication and cooperation. \nSpeaker bio:\nChristine Caldwell is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Stirling. Her research focusses on human and animal learning and cognition\, with particular interests in social learning and cultural evolution. Christine’s research combines methods and techniques from experimental psychology with theoretical frameworks from the field of cultural evolution. Her past research has included developing experimental methods for testing hypotheses about human cumulative cultural evolution. She is particularly interested in the distinctiveness of human culture\, and the distinctiveness of human cognition\, and how these impact upon one another. To address these questions\, she has carried out research with a wide range of different study populations\, including human adults and children\, and nonhuman primates. \n\nThe event is open to all and will be accessible both in-person and online. Tea\, coffee and cakes will be available for our in-person participants from 13:30. \nAs part of our commitment to make events run by the GRCDI accessible to our global members\, this event will also be open to join online. Please register for event indicating whether you will attend in-person or online. More details of how to access the stream and participate will be shared closer to the event.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/seminar-cognitive-challenges-in-human-cumulative-cultural-evolution/
LOCATION:Castle House: 30 – Barbara Murray Lecture Room\, School of English\, The Scores\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250916T134225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T130953Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Deep learning and transformers (Dr Kasim Terzić)
DESCRIPTION:Part of the AI Seminar Series\, hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series kicks off in October 2025 with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science (Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le). The series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lecture-deep-learning-and-transformers-dr-kasim-terzic/
LOCATION:SMC: T205\, St Mary's College\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T160000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20251103T121854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T121854Z
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SUMMARY:COST Action AFFECT-EVO Discussion Hour
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, November 18th\, the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences (GRCDI) will host a presentation and discussion on the progress of COST Action AFFECT-EVO and the challenges faced so far\, led by Dr Tom Smulders from Newcastle University. \nThis event is open to all\, and will be of particular interest to those looking to work with animals or who are interested in improving welfare through an understanding of non-human animal’s affective states. \nThe event will run from 2:00pm to 4:00pm in BWD:09 with tea and coffee available beforehand from 1:30pm. \nAs part of our commitment to make events run by the GRCDI accessible to our global members\, this event will also be open to join and participate online. More details of how to access the stream and participate will be shared closer to the event. \n— \nAFFECT-EVO brings together an interdisciplinary network of scholars in philosophy\, psychology\, humanities\, social\, computational\, and natural sciences\, with relevant stakeholders from industry\, advocacy organizations\, and governments. \nThis network applies an evolutionary framework to identify gaps in our knowledge about affective states in non-human animals\, in order to guide future research and provide a basis for developing strategies to reliably generalize knowledge about affective states across species. \nBy doing this\, they aim to develop better methods to assess affective states to improve animal welfare\, and develop better treatments for both animal and human affective disorders. \nThey also explore how the public and policy makers engage with the concept of affective states in animals and how this interacts with the implementation of new laws and policies that affect animals. \n— \nTom Smulders is Reader in Evolutionary Neuroscience at Newcastle University. His research career has focused mostly on the avian hippocampal formation (HF) and its evolution. He originally studied the avian HF in a comparative cognition context\, trying to understand the evolution and function of the avian hippocampus in the context of memory for cache locations in Parids and Corvids. More recently\, his work has looked at the avian HF and its function in the regulation of the stress response\, and at hippocampal plasticity as a marker of chronic stress in the context of animal welfare. Tom was previously the coordinator of the Marie S. Curie Action European Training Network ChickenStress\, and is now the Chair of COST Action AFFECT-EVO\, which aims to look at affective states from a phylogenetic perspective.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cost-action-affect-evo-discussion-hour/
LOCATION:Butts Wynd BWD:09\, Butts Wynd\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250916T134131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T130747Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Reinforcement learning (Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nReinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning paradigm in which an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment to maximise cumulative reward. In recent years\, RL has emerged as one of the most exciting and impactful areas of Artificial Intelligence. Its significance was underscored by the 2024 Turing Award awarded to Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto\, whose pioneering work established the foundations of the field. Today\, RL underpins a wide range of applications\, including robotics\, games\, recommender systems\, healthcare\, resource management\, and even the training of large language models. \nIn this talk\, we will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of reinforcement learning. We will then illustrate how these concepts are realised in practice via a number of example applications. \nSpeaker bios: \nNguyen Dang is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning and optimisation\, with a particular focus on automated algorithm design\, using machine learning to automate the development of optimisation methods. She was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in 2020\, and her work has received multiple best paper awards at leading conferences in evolutionary computation and optimisation. \nPhong Le is a Reader in the School of Computer Science. His background spans both academia and industry\, with expertise in natural language processing and machine learning. He is passionate about translating cutting-edge research into real-world applications\, and he maintains a deep curiosity about fundamental scientific mysteries\, particularly the emergence of human language. \nPart of the AI Seminar Series\, hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series kicks off in October 2025 with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science (Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le). The series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lecture-reinforcement-learning-dr-nguyen-dang-and-dr-phong-le/
LOCATION:SMC: T205\, St Mary's College\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250916T134049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T144825Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Symbolic reasoning (Dr Ruth Hoffmann)
DESCRIPTION:Talk presented by Dr Ruth Hoffmann\, followed by a group discussion. \nAbstract:\nSymbolic Reasoning (or Symbolic AI) consists of the logical modelling and an exhaustive search for definite solutions to problems. Whether that is finding the solution of a sudoku\, finding an optimal route for delivery vehicles or creating kidney matching chains\, symbolic AI and logic are the building blocks of this type of reasoning. We will be exploring the foundations of (Symbolic) AI\, logic and search\, and what type of intelligence it might represent. \nSpeaker bio:\nDr Ruth Hoffmann is a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science\, where she is also the Head of the AI Research Theme. She obtained her PhD at St Andrews and has spent some time at the University of Glasgow before returning to St Andrews. She has a background in Discrete Mathematics and Computational Combinatorics. Her research broadly focuses on efficiently finding (smaller) patterns inside bigger (target) structures. Currently\, she is teaching the Symbolic AI module she developed. \nRuth is leading an UKRI project on improving search algorithms in one field\, while taking inspiration from another search. She is a reviewer for numerous top AI\, and Constraints venues\, and a co-chair for a coding workshop for GAP (a computational algebra tool). \nThe AI Seminar Series is hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series for GRCDI members kicks off with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science: Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le. There will be time for discussion following each lecture. \nThe series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lecture-symbolic-reasoning-dr-ruth-hoffmann/
LOCATION:SMC: T205\, St Mary's College\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250916T133835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T131037Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Overview and history of AI (Dr Kasim Terzić)
DESCRIPTION:Part of the AI Seminar Series\, hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series kicks off in October 2025 with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science (Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le). The series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lecture-overview-and-history-of-ai-dr-kasim-terzic/
LOCATION:SMC: T205\, St Mary's College\, St Andrews\, KY16 9JT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T150000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250916T133748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T080629Z
UID:10000026-1759325400-1759330800@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Discussion session: What is intelligence (to you)?
DESCRIPTION:Part of the AI Seminar Series\, hosted by the GRCDI and led by Centre member Dr Kasim Terzić from the School of Computer Science. This in-person series kicks off in October 2025 with a group discussion session\, followed by four lectures delivered by colleagues from the School of Computer Science (Dr Kasim Terzić\, Dr Ruth Hoffmann and a joint lecture by Dr Nguyen Dang and Dr Phong Le). The series will culminate in December with a further discussion session where participants can reflect on and discuss a question central to research on artificial intelligence: whether intelligence can be computed.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/discussion-session-what-is-intelligence-to-you/
LOCATION:Psychology Seminar Room 1\, School of Psychology and Neuroscience\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250721
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T131206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T131206Z
UID:10000025-1752796800-1753055999@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:DI Summit 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us 18 – 20 July for the for the Diverse Intelligences Summit 2025\, hosted by the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences at the University of St Andrews. The event aims to bring together people from diverse disciplines and academic orientations including animal cognition\, artificial intelligence/machine learning\, collective behaviour and developmental psychology\, among others. \nArchived information about the summit schedule and speakers can be found here: DI Summit 2025 – Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/di-summit-2025/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250618T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T131030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T131030Z
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SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: On collective representations
DESCRIPTION:These sessions were prompted by the idea\, discussed during previous seminar sessions\, that a group might use a collective representation to interact with the environment. For example\, in a colony of ants\, the pheromone trail itself\, as a dynamic pattern that grows and shrinks according to the interaction of the colony with the environment\, might be considered as a representation of the foraging environment. No single ant may have this representation (or any part of it) in its mind\, but for the group as a whole it functions as a representation of where food is in the environment at any given moment. In these sessions we will explore the possible existence of collective representations in various systems\, as viewed from different disciplines\, including philosophy\, psychology and biology. Following a short presentation of these views\, we will discuss examples of collective behaviour which might or might not be based on such collective representations\, as well as their essential features.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-on-collective-representations-4/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250601
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130907Z
UID:10000023-1748390400-1748735999@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ARCANI – Design working group meeting
DESCRIPTION:ARCANI is a network-of-networks dedicated to Accelerating Research Collaboration on Artificial and Natural Intelligences. The project brings together 7 networks around the world to advance research on biological and artificial intelligences.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/arcani-design-working-group-meeting/
LOCATION:The Burn\, Edzell\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250521T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130753Z
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SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: Collective Intelligence\, Culture and Cumulative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Whiten (School of Psychology and Neuroscience\, University of St Andrews) \nIn this talk I’ll bring together some recent reviews and empirical studies by me and my collaborators that explore links between collective intelligence\, culture and cumulative culture. My starting point is a theme issue of Phil Trans B for which I was an editor in 2021/2 (1)\, and in particular an insight from Dora Biro that culture can be considered an instance of collective intelligence spread over time\, as individual contributions are sequentially incorporated into the collective that is culture and further shared with others. I describe one of our chimpanzee experiments in which the critical innovation was itself collectively achieved through the contributions of two interacting individuals (2)\, leading to the conclusion that collective knowledge can act as both a cause and a consequence of cumulative cultural change. Focusing then on cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)\, I outline a recent study developing a ‘genetic time machine’ to explore evidence for CCE in wild chimpanzees over past millennia (3). I highlight how this dovetails with evidence that ‘partial connectivity’ in social networks of humans has been found to facilitate cumulative culture in both lab experiments and studies of foraging societies (1). I will end with a quick overview of another theme issue of Phil Trans B I’m editing with members of the School of Collective Intelligence at UM6P in Morocco: ‘The evolution of collective intelligence: across species\, in human development and history\, and in contemporary human society’. \n\nWhiten\, A.\, Biro\, D.\, Bredeche\, N.\, Garland E. C. & Kirby\, S. (2022) The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals\, humans and machines.. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B\, 377\,2020.0306.\nWhiten\, A.\, Harrison\, R. A.\, McGuigan\, N.\, Vale\, G. L. & Watson\, S. K. (2022) Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B\, 377\,2020.0321.\nGunasekaram\, C. et al. (2024). Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee material culture. Science 386\, 920-925.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-collective-intelligence-culture-and-cumulative-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T140000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
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SUMMARY:Discussion Hour with Dr Christophe Heintz
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Christophe Heintz (Central European University\, Vienna\, Austria and Visiting Scholar at the GRCDI\, University of St Andrews) \nIn place of an abstract\, Christophe would like to discuss the following themes: \n\nFurther debates based on the talk I shall give on May 6th: “Diverse pathways to satisfying informative intentions”\, in particular concerning:\ni- recognising humans’ diverse ways to satisfy their informative intentions\, opening the question about why one way rather than another is selected at any given time.\nii- what mind-reading capacities can be ascribed to non-human great apes: recursive mind-reading\, why not?\niii- the selection pressures for the emergence of human ostensive communication:\n– they are first and foremost about ostension—producing and processing evidence of communicative intentions—not so much about language.\n– they come from a partner choice ecology in which there are multiple win-win opportunities.\n\n\nCan there me non-mentalistic ostension?\nSeveral papers\, including Sperber and Wilson recent one:\nRethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary\, comparative\, and developmental perspective\nAlthough the idea has some appeal\, I do not think it is the case: ostension is best characterised as providing evidence for one’s communicative intention.\n\n\nCommitment: what it is\, and how it is involved in ostensive communication.\n\nSpeaker bio:\nChristophe Heintz is working on the role of adaptive cognition in shaping cultural evolution and cooperation. He is a cognitive psychologist at Central European University (CEU)\, Vienna. His webpage can be found here: http://christophe.heintz.free.fr/ \nRegistration\nLunch will be provided\, and your registration will allow us to manage catering and room capacity. Please email the GRCDI Coordinators (Laura and Sarah) via grcdi@st-andrews.ac.uk by 9 May 2025\, indicating any dietary requirements.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/discussion-hour-with-dr-christophe-heintz/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250507T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250507T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130523Z
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SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: Toward an extended theory of collective mind: Turing machines\, colonies\, dancers\, multiple selves and hybrid minds
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kenneth Mavor (School of Psychology and Neuroscience\, University of St Andrews) \nIt is 100 years since the social psychologist William McDougall (1920) wrote “The Group Mind”.  Innovative\, but perhaps too meta-physical for the audience at the time\, Psychology largely responded by asserting that all (human) collective phenomena were simple aggregates of individual psychology.  However\, we now recognise many collective forms of extended cognition that go beyond individual abstract brains and recognise embodiment and also entrainment\, synchrony and emergent behaviour of hive minds. In this talk I start with the simple yet powerful idea of a Turing machine\, and then explore a continuum of forms of extended cognition\, and the related idea of a continuum of “mind”; from ant colonies to human cultures.  I try to consider what an expanded understanding of “collective mind” might mean for hybrid forms of cognitive entanglement and AI.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-toward-an-extended-theory-of-collective-mind-turing-machines-colonies-dancers-multiple-selves-and-hybrid-minds/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250506T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250506T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130439Z
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SUMMARY:Diverse pathways to satisfying informative intentions
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Christophe Heintz (Central European University\, Vienna\, Austria and Visiting Scholar at the GRCDI\, University of St Andrews) \nThis presentation examines the diverse strategies for satisfying informative intentions\, arguing that ostensive communication represents just one approach within a broader spectrum of intentional behaviours. Evidence suggests that both humans and non-human great apes routinely satisfy informative intentions without ostension\, that is\, without providing evidence of their communicative intention. Humans frequently provide non-ostensive evidence about environmental states\, as when shopkeepers position products within visual fields\, or about their own intentions\, as when moving on one side of the pavement when crossing someone. Similarly\, non-human great apes display behaviours indicating intentions\, such as specific gestures to solicit grooming\, without displaying evidence of their communicative intent. \nI present findings supporting the hypothesis that great apes possess genuine informative intentions\, including intentions to let others know their desires. However\, the systematic display of evidence about communicative intentions appears uniquely human. The presentation includes an analysis of the adaptive value of ostensive behaviour and proposes an account for its evolutionary emergence. \nSpeaker bio\nChristophe Heintz is working on the role of adaptive cognition in shaping cultural evolution and cooperation. He is a cognitive psychologist at Central European University (CEU)\, Vienna.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/diverse-pathways-to-satisfying-informative-intentions/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130351Z
UID:10000018-1745416800-1745422200@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: Collective Representation in Economics: Concept and Examples
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tugce Cuhadaroglu (St Andrews Business School\, Department of Economics) \nAbstract:\nWhat does the notion of collective representation mean to an economist? In this talk\, I’ll explore how economists from different fields think about this concept—where their views overlap\, and where they diverge. I’ll also draw some lines between collective representation and related ideas like collective behavior and collective intelligence\, using examples to make those differences clear. Along the way\, I’ll take a closer look at some key examples we’ve discussed\, like social norms and social welfare functions\, to show how collective representations shape economic thinking and decision-making.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-collective-representation-in-economics-concept-and-examples/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130119Z
UID:10000015-1741788000-1741793400@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: On collective representations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: discussion led by Amanda Seed (School of Psychology and Neuroscience)\, Derek Ball (Department of Philosophy)\, Josep Call (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico) \nThese sessions were prompted by the idea\, discussed during previous seminar sessions\, that a group might use a collective representation to interact with the environment. For example\, in a colony of ants\, the pheromone trail itself\, as a dynamic pattern that grows and shrinks according to the interaction of the colony with the environment\, might be considered as a representation of the foraging environment. No single ant may have this representation (or any part of it) in its mind\, but for the group as a whole it functions as a representation of where food is in the environment at any given moment. In these sessions we will explore the possible existence of collective representations in various systems\, as viewed from different disciplines\, including philosophy\, psychology and biology. Following a short presentation of these views\, we will discuss examples of collective behaviour which might or might not be based on such collective representations\, as well as their essential features. \nReadings:\nMillikan\, R. G. 2000. Naturalizing intentionality. In: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy 9:83-90.\nGordon\, D. M. 2023. Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics\, modularity\, and agency. Evolution & Development\, 25(6)\, 430-438.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-on-collective-representations/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250228T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250228T110000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250228T140004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T131450Z
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SUMMARY:DeepSeek Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences hosted a ‘DeepSeek Roundtable Discussion’ on Friday 28 February 2025\, 10:00-11:00am. This informal discussion included participants from the School of Computer Science and the School of Psychology and Neuroscience; the discussion was open to all staff and students at the University of St Andrews.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/deepseek-roundtable-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T125856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T125856Z
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SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: A discussion about key distinctions to make when speaking about collective behaviour/intelligence/representations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Malinda Carpenter (School of Psychology and Neuroscience\, University of St Andrews) \nIt seems to me that many very different concepts have been conflated under the same term ‘collective behaviour’ (or ‘collective intelligence’ or ‘collective representations’).  In this session\, I would like to start a discussion in which we take a step back and consider\, in a more theoretical\, systematic\, top-down way\, some key distinctions that could be helpful to make – perhaps coming up with some new terms in the process. \nThe suggested reading\, Siposova and Carpenter (2019)\, is a paper that resulted from similar discussions about the related topics of joint attention\, common knowledge\, and joint action.  Different scholars within the same fields\, and across different fields (e.g. psychology\, philosophy\, computer science) often use those terms differently\, and that creates confusion and arguably hinders further progress.  No need to have read the whole thing (or to read it at all) to participate in the discussion.  The most relevant parts are sections 1\, 2 (including 2.1-2.5)\, and 6.2.  If it ends up being helpful\, we can also talk about the early development of these and related skills in human infants.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-a-discussion-about-key-distinctions-to-make-when-speaking-about-collective-behaviour-intelligence-representations/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250212T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130204Z
UID:10000016-1739368800-1739374200@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: On collective representations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: discussion led by Amanda Seed (School of Psychology and Neuroscience)\, Derek Ball (Department of Philosophy)\, Josep Call (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico) \nThese sessions were prompted by the idea\, discussed during previous seminar sessions\, that a group might use a collective representation to interact with the environment. For example\, in a colony of ants\, the pheromone trail itself\, as a dynamic pattern that grows and shrinks according to the interaction of the colony with the environment\, might be considered as a representation of the foraging environment. No single ant may have this representation (or any part of it) in its mind\, but for the group as a whole it functions as a representation of where food is in the environment at any given moment. In these sessions we will explore the possible existence of collective representations in various systems\, as viewed from different disciplines\, including philosophy\, psychology and biology. Following a short presentation of these views\, we will discuss examples of collective behaviour which might or might not be based on such collective representations\, as well as their essential features. \nReadings:\nMillikan\, R. G. 2000. Naturalizing intentionality. In: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy 9:83-90.\nGordon\, D. M. 2023. Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics\, modularity\, and agency. Evolution & Development\, 25(6)\, 430-438.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-on-collective-representations-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250129T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250129T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T130239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T130239Z
UID:10000017-1738159200-1738164600@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CBI Seminar: On collective representations
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: discussion led by Amanda Seed (School of Psychology and Neuroscience)\, Derek Ball (Department of Philosophy)\, Josep Call (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico) \nThese sessions were prompted by the idea\, discussed during previous seminar sessions\, that a group might use a collective representation to interact with the environment. For example\, in a colony of ants\, the pheromone trail itself\, as a dynamic pattern that grows and shrinks according to the interaction of the colony with the environment\, might be considered as a representation of the foraging environment. No single ant may have this representation (or any part of it) in its mind\, but for the group as a whole it functions as a representation of where food is in the environment at any given moment. In these sessions we will explore the possible existence of collective representations in various systems\, as viewed from different disciplines\, including philosophy\, psychology and biology. Following a short presentation of these views\, we will discuss examples of collective behaviour which might or might not be based on such collective representations\, as well as their essential features. \nReadings:\nMillikan\, R. G. 2000. Naturalizing intentionality. In: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy 9:83-90.\nGordon\, D. M. 2023. Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics\, modularity\, and agency. Evolution & Development\, 25(6)\, 430-438.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cbi-seminar-on-collective-representations-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T125705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T125705Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion Hour: Capturing and modelling children and adults’ active experimentation in physical micro-environments
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Neil Bramley (University of Edinburgh) \n\n\n\nMany aspects of our physical world are hidden. For example\, it is hard to estimate how heavy an object is from visual observation alone. This project uses physics simulated environments to examine how children and adults actively “experiment” within the physical world to discover latent properties. To do this\, I develop a novel modelling framework for quantitative analysis of the information produced by continuous physical interactions. I will describe three experiments that present participants with moving objects in “microworlds” that operate according to continuous spatiotemporal dynamics mimicking everyday physics (i.e.\, forces of gravity\, friction\, etc.). Participants are asked to interact with objects in the microworlds\, using a mouse or touch screen to identify their masses\, or the forces of attraction/ repulsion that governed their movement. Using my modelling framework\, I show that learners who freely interacted with the physical environment were able to produce evidence that selectively revealed the physical property consistent with their inquiry goal. As a result\, their inferences are more accurate than for passive observers and yoked participants who watch video replays of an active learner’s interactions. I demonstrate that 4-10 year-olds are as goal-sensitive and information-efficient as adults when they interact with these environments (in contrast with their poor performance in more formal information search tasks). Finally\, I characterize participants’ actions into a range of micro-experiment strategies and speculate about how these might be learned or generalized from past experience. Try a demo: https://eco.ppls.ed.ac.uk/~nbramley/physics-world/task.html \nRelevant papers:\n– Bramley\, N. R.\, Gerstenberg\, T.\, Tenenbaum\, J. B.\, & Gureckis\, T. M. (2018). Intuitive experimentation in the physical world. Cognitive psychology\, 105\, 9-38. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002851730347X\n– Bramley\, N. R.\, & Ruggeri\, A. (2022). Children’s active physical learning is as effective and goal-targeted as adults’. Developmental Psychology\, 58(12)\, 2310. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-00704-001.pdf \nSpeaker bio:\nNeil Bramley is a Reader in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. His lab studies how people represent the actual world and think about its alternatives\, plus how they use these abilities to plan\, imagine\, explain\, blame and solve problems. He generally uses interactive experiments and games combined with computational modelling to investigate these issues.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/discussion-hour-capturing-and-modelling-children-and-adults-active-experimentation-in-physical-micro-environments/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241204T170000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T124729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T124729Z
UID:10000006-1733326200-1733331600@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Collective information processing (Collective behaviour and intelligence Seminar Series)
DESCRIPTION:Special session with co-authors of draft paper:\n– Zara Anwarzai (Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program at Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada)\n– Cody Moser (Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences\, University of California\, Merced\, CA\, USA and School of Collective Intelligence\, Mohammed VI Polytechnic Institute\, Rabat\, Morocco)\n– Hannah Dromiack (Department of Physics and BEYOND Center for Fundamental Questions in Science\, Arizona State University\, Tempe\, AZ\, USA)\n– Ketika Garg (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, California Institute of Technology\, CA\, USA)\n– Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez (Research Institute on Applied Mathematics and Systems\, National Autonomous University of Mexico\, Mexico City\, Mexico and Global Research Centre on Diverse Intelligences\, University of St. Andrews\, Scotland\, UK) \nThe goal of the Collective Behaviour and Intelligence seminar series is to explore the phenomena of collective behaviour and intelligence\, the mechanisms underlying them and their consequences\, through reading and discussion of classic and current literature. These phenomena are of interest to a wide variety of disciplines and include many different systems at various scales of organisation. To cast a wide net and engage participants from different disciplines\, we will review theoretical\, modelling and empirical studies on various systems\, using animal collective behaviour as a point of departure but also exploring human societies and their collective dynamics\, as well as other systems where collective behaviour can be found.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/collective-information-processing-collective-behaviour-and-intelligence-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241129T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20240825T125554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T131618Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond WEIRD dogs – cultural differences in dog-human interactions
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminars series and Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences \nSpeaker: Dr Juliane Bräuer (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) \nDogs show an extraordinaire capacity to understand\, communicate\, and cooperate with us. However\, what we know about the social-cognitive skills of dogs comes from observations and experiments performed in WEIRD societies. Around the world though\, dogs are kept for various functions\, they are perceived and treated differently\, suggesting cross-cultural diversity in the strength of dog-human relationships. In our project about Cultural Differences in Dog Human Interactions we take to distinctive approaches to address this issue\, hypothesizing that dog-human relationships will be closer in societies where dog functions require intense cooperation between dogs and humans. \nIn the first study\, we collected data on the function and perception of dogs in 124 globally distributed societies using the eHRAF cross-cultural database and investigated how function and relationship are related. In the second study\, we investigated how dogs’ cognitive skills and dog-human interactions vary cross-culturally comparing dog-owner interactions in Germany and in four non-western cultures. We developed a test battery with short tests on the following aspects of dog-owner interaction: education\, communication\, visual perspective-taking\, social referencing and physical cognition. I will present data from this ongoing study. \nThe results of this project do not only contribute to a better understanding of the dog-human relationship\, but also of the relationship between cultural evolution and domestication\, i.e. how cultural and evolutionary processes influence each other.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/beyond-weird-dogs-cultural-differences-in-dog-human-interactions/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T124909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T124909Z
UID:10000007-1732111200-1732116600@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Emergence of group cognition (Collective behaviour and intelligence seminar series)
DESCRIPTION:Group discussion of:\n– Theiner\, G.\, Allen\, C.\, and Goldstone\, R. L. (2010). Recognizing group cognition. Cognitive Systems Research\, 11(4)\, 378-395\nAnd reaction papers:\n– Ludwig\, K. (2015). Is distributed cognition group level cognition?. Journal of Social Ontology\, 1(2)\, 189-224\n– Palermos\, S. O. (2016). The dynamics of group cognition. Minds and Machines\, 26(4)\, 409-440 \n  \nThe goal of the Collective Behaviour and Intelligence seminar series is to explore the phenomena of collective behaviour and intelligence\, the mechanisms underlying them and their consequences\, through reading and discussion of classic and current literature. These phenomena are of interest to a wide variety of disciplines and include many different systems at various scales of organisation. To cast a wide net and engage participants from different disciplines\, we will review theoretical\, modelling and empirical studies on various systems\, using animal collective behaviour as a point of departure but also exploring human societies and their collective dynamics\, as well as other systems where collective behaviour can be found.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/emergence-of-group-cognition-collective-behaviour-and-intelligence-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T120000
DTSTAMP:20260605T205614
CREATED:20250825T124346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T124346Z
UID:10000005-1730975400-1730980800@diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Discussion Hour: Inferential reasoning in philosophy and comparative psychology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr Giacomo Melis (University of Stirling) \nI discuss the relation between some characterisations of inferential reasoning in philosophy and comparative psychology. I point out some analogies and differences\, I suggest that each camp may have something to learn by engaging with the other\, and I outline two broad ways in which this may happen. On the one hand\, the empirical study of reasoning may offer philosophers evidence relevant to investigate the nature of rationality and the varieties of its manifestations. On the other hand\, the philosophical distinction between logic and reasoning may help comparative psychologists to fine-tune the empirical criteria for deductive reasoning in non-verbal and preverbal subjects.
URL:http://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/discussion-hour-inferential-reasoning-in-philosophy-and-comparative-psychology/
LOCATION:Old Burgh School\, Abbey Walk\, Room 108\, Lumsden\, Seminar Room 1\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
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