13 Mar
2024
13 Mar
'24
11:18 a.m.
Dear BERGers,
A kind reminder that Kirsten Blakey (University of Stirling) is giving a seminar today
(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.
MSTeams link:
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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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I aim to reply within 3 working days (my working days are between Monday and Friday).
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