Cognitive Science Colloquium accompanying discussion series

Fall 2008

All meetings take place on Thursdays, 3.30-5.30 pm in Life Sciences 1103, and are open to all faculty and students.

September 4 — discussion of Gallistel [1] "The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: implications for the law of effect" Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 2001. & [2] "Computational versus associative models of simple conditioning" Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2001.

September 18 — discussion of Fessler, [1] "Steps towards an evolutionary psychology of a culture-dependent species" in P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and Stich (eds.), The Innate Mind: volume 2: Culture and Cognition. OUP, 2007.

October 2 — discussion of Seyfarth

October 16 — discussion of Scholl

October 30 — discussion of Gopnik, [1] "A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets" Psychological Science 2004. & [2] "Mechanisms of theory-formation in young children" Trends in Cognitive Science 2004.

November 13 — discussion of Beilock, [1] "Embodied preference judgments: can likeability be driven by the motor system?" Psychological Science 2007.

December 4 — discussion of Landau