The Primordial Blessing of Abstraction and the Curse of a Compositional Mind
Human children are arguably the most effective learners on the planet. In five short years, they develop a commonsense understanding of whatever physical, cultural, and social environment they find themselves in, building systems of knowledge that are unique in the living world. How might they do this? In this talk, I look to interdisciplinary studies of infants and young children for possible answers.
Elizabeth Spelke was trained as a perceptual and developmental psychologist by Eleanor J. Gibson and as a cognitive psychologist by Ulric Neisser. Using lab- (and now Zoom-) based behavioral methods, she studies the nature and development of knowledge of objects and their mechanical interactions, of agents and their actions and intentions, of the navigable spatial layout and its structure, of number and arithmetic, and of people and their social engagements and relationships. Finally, she collaborates with academics in diverse fields including animal behavior, systems and cognitive neuroscience, computational cognitive science, linguistics, and economics, in hopes of understanding the surprises that research on young children brings.
The spring 2022 Shulman Lectures have been organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar “Metaphysics Meets Cognitive Science” taught by Brian Scholl (Psychology) and L. A. Paul (Philosophy).
Видео The Primordial Blessing of Abstraction and the Curse of a Compositional Mind канала Yale University
Elizabeth Spelke was trained as a perceptual and developmental psychologist by Eleanor J. Gibson and as a cognitive psychologist by Ulric Neisser. Using lab- (and now Zoom-) based behavioral methods, she studies the nature and development of knowledge of objects and their mechanical interactions, of agents and their actions and intentions, of the navigable spatial layout and its structure, of number and arithmetic, and of people and their social engagements and relationships. Finally, she collaborates with academics in diverse fields including animal behavior, systems and cognitive neuroscience, computational cognitive science, linguistics, and economics, in hopes of understanding the surprises that research on young children brings.
The spring 2022 Shulman Lectures have been organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar “Metaphysics Meets Cognitive Science” taught by Brian Scholl (Psychology) and L. A. Paul (Philosophy).
Видео The Primordial Blessing of Abstraction and the Curse of a Compositional Mind канала Yale University
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