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: