[BERG] BERG seminar this week

[Gema Martin-Ordas]

Dear all,

On Wednesday this week at 4pm, Prof. Bennett Schwartz (Florida International University, USA) will be talking about metacognition. Please, see below the title and short abstract for his talk.

As I mentioned before, this meeting will be online (below is the teams link). However, I have booked the Psychology common room for all our meetings, so I will be there with my computer setting up the talk. You’re welcome to join me there.

Title:  Comparative approaches and the natural ecology of metacognition

Abstract: Most cognitive scientists assume that our core cognitive abilities evolved through natural selection.  However, we lack the ability to assess causality concerning the natural selection processes that shaped human cognition. As such, I advocate a comparative approach to understand the potential natural selection of cognition.  In this talk, I consider metacognition, the experience and knowledge of one’s own cognitive system.  I compare the methods used in humans and non-human primates with respect to both the cognitive mechanisms underlying metacognition and the accuracy of metacognition at predicting performance on an object-level task.  I advocate for an approach to metacognition that makes hypotheses based on natural ecology and then applies those hypotheses to a wide range of species.


Best,
Gema

Schedule for future meetings:

Date

Time

Speaker

Topic

Location

21/09/2022

4pm

Jeff Martin (McGill University, Canada)

Canadian crows and planning

Online

28/09/2022

4pm

Jade Hooper (University of Stirling)

TBC

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

05/10/2022

4pm

Michael Beran (Georgia State University, USA)

Metacognition in primates

Online

12/10/2022

4pm

Claire Hemingway (Texas University, USA)

Bees and bats cognition

Online

19/10/2022

4pm

Kristine Gandia (University of Stirling)

TBC

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

02/11/2022

3-5pm

Joint meeting—BERG & BES

TBC

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

09/11/2022

4pm

Francesca de Petrillo (Newcastle University, UK)

Decision-making in primates

Online

16/11/2022

4pm

Stephen Ferrigno (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Origins of human thought

Online

23/11/2022

4pm

Sarah Weir (University of Stirling)

TBC

Online

30/11/2022

4pm

Sabrina Brando (University of Stirling)

Individual, leadership, and organisational aspects of human wellbeing in zoos and aquariums

F2F (Common Room, Psych)

07/12/2022

4pm

Gloria Sabbatini (Istc-CNR Unit of Cognitive Primatology & Primate Center, Italy)

Tool use in primates

Online

14/12/2022

3pm

Elias Garcia Pelegrin (University of Cambridge, UK)

Crows and understanding of magic tricks

Online




Link to the online meetings:


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