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2024 Mar 26

Psychology Department Colloquium ~ Yejin Choi, PhD, University of Washington

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

WIlliam James Hall - Basement Auditorium, B-1

Yejin Choi, Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Senior Research Director at the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

from  Time's 100 Most Influential in AI - October, 2023

Title: Possible Impossibilities, Impossible Possibilities, and Paradoxes

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Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Dr. Henrich is an Affiliated Faculty member in the Department of Psychology. His primary role is currently as Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology... Read more about Joe Henrich
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2023 Feb 28

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Celeste Kidd, Ph.D. ~ U. of California, Berkeley

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Basement Auditorium, B-1

Celeste Kidd, Ph.D., Assistant Professsor, University of California, Berkeley

 

Talk title: “How to Know”
Abstract:  This talk will discuss Kidd’s research about how people come to know what they know. The world is a sea of information too vast for any one person to acquire entirely. How then do people navigate the information overload, and how do their decisions shape their knowledge and beliefs? In this talk, Kidd will discuss research from her lab about the core cognitive systems people use to guide their learning about the...

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2022 Nov 15

Psychology Dept Colloquium - Asifa Majid, Ph.D. ~ University of Oxford (UK)

3:00pm to 4:15pm

Location: 

NORTHWEST Building - B-101 (Basement Lecture Hall)

Asifa Majid, Ph.D., Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

2022-23 William Bentinck-Smith, Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Topic: "Nature and culture in the domain of perception"

Abstract: infants show evidence of color...

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