[BERG] BERG seminar this Wednesday

[Pawel Fedurek]

Dear BERGers,

This is a reminder that Kirsten Blakey (University of Stirling) will be giving a seminar this Wednesday (16:00, common room/hybrid) entitled "Assessing capacities for reflective belief revision in 2-year-olds, dogs, and pigs". Please see the abstract below.

Abstract

Some philosophers argue that reflection, the ability to assess one’s reasons for beliefs and actions, is the defining feature of rational thinking. However, they also tie reflective thinking to linguistic abilities, excluding human infants and non-human animals. To assess capacities for basic reflective thinking, without linguistic requirements, we investigated whether 2-year-old children, dogs, or pigs could identify information coming from an unreliable informant as misleading. In an object-search task, one informant’s actions reliably indicated the location of a reward, while another informants actions were unreliable, indicating the reward location in 50% of trials. The informants used three different actions to hide rewards to put subjects in the position to make generalisations about the reliability of the evidence provided by each informant. Neither 2-year-olds nor animals responded differently to the reliable and unreliable informants. However, while children became less likely to follow the indications of either informant in later trials, animals continued to follow both at a similar rate. This could suggest that children were responding differently to the evidence in the task compared to the dogs and pigs.


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Spring Semester speakers:


Date

Time

Speaker

Format

13/03/2024

16:00

Kirsten Blakey (Stirling)

Talk F2F/hybrid

20/03/2024

16:00

Impact research catch up

F2F

27/03/2024

16:00

Sylvain Lamoine (Cambridge)

Online

03/04/2024

16:00

Review of BERG research strategy (core BERG)

F2F

10/04/2024

16:00





17/04/2024

16:00

Victor Shirimizu (Strathclyde)

F2F (Room 4B96)

24/04/2024

16:00

Lifespan Equipment Demonstration



01/05/2024

16:00

Victoria Lee (SRUC)

F2F/hybrid

08/05/2024

10:00

James Brooks (Kyoto)

Online

15/05/2024







22/05/2024

16:00

Elodie Freymann

online





Dr Pawel Fedurek (he/his)

Lecturer in Psychology

Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)



Division of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences

University of Stirling

Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland, UK



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