Co-sponsored by School of Psychology and Neuroscience seminars series and Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences Speaker: Dr Juliane Bräuer (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) Dogs 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 ...
Special session with co-authors of draft paper: – Zara Anwarzai (Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) – 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) – Hannah Dromiack (Department ...
Speaker: Dr Neil Bramley (University of Edinburgh) Many 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 ...
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) 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. ...
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) 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. ...
Speaker: Malinda Carpenter (School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews) It 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, ...