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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">On Wednesday this week at
<b><span style="color:red">3pm</span></b>, Elias Garcia Pelegrin (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">National University of Singapore</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">) will be talking about perception and deception in different
animal species. Please, see below the title and short abstract for his talk.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This meeting will be
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Using sleight of hand to investigate human action perception in diverse taxa.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Deceptive tactics depend on the deceiver being able to trick their victim. Magicians are successful in misleading their victim (or audience) because their actions capitalise on perceptual and attentional predispositions.
Intricate sleight of hand movements (i.e., range of techniques involving hand motions commonly used by both magicians and pickpockets to deceive fellow human observers) can manipulate where the observers’ attention is drawn so they can be tricked into looking
elsewhere or thinking something different from reality. The success of these deceptive movements is contingent on the magicians and pickpockets’ ability to take advantage of these perceptual and attentional predispositions. It is this phenomenon that I refer
to as “cognitive blind-spots” (Garcia-Pelegrin et al., 2020). Using sleight of hand movements to investigate the mind can yield thought-provoking results; highlighting the elaborate deceptive qualities of these intricate movements, and the cognitive blind-spots
that they exploit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Considering the evidence highlighting the power of these techniques in misleading the average human observer, one may wonder to what extent the expectations capitalised by sleight of hand are intrinsically human, and
whether similar perception control tactics can be effectively used in other animal minds. The application of these deceptive motions to investigate the non-human mind can yield great insight into the evolution and inner-workings of the cognitive blind-spots
exploited by these techniques. Are these cognitive blind-spots unique to humans? Do other non-human primates perceive human action like humans? Do other taxa have similar cognitive blind-spots when observing human deceptive movements, and can we explain similarities
and disparities in perceptual predispositions because of cognitive capacity, neural structure, or other physical features? My research has made some advances towards understanding the cognitive blind-spots across species by systematically presenting deceitful
sleight of hand movements to non-human animals and analysing their responses. In this presentation, I will explore these questions by reviewing the most recent studies with members of the corvid family and non-human primates to illustrate how the intersection
between deceptive techniques and science can yield invaluable insight into the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms of both human and non-human animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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