Past Events

Abstract: Starting with Alan Turing, scientists have long speculated that any artificial system with human-level language understanding would necessarily have human-level intelligence, that language is "AI-complete". Does the linguistic success

What is Rutgers Day? Taking place on Saturday, April 29th,10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., on the Busch Campus in Piscataway. Rutgers Day is a free, annual event open to the

Each student will give a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation of their work followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. 1:45 pm Arrival of Honors students 2:00 pm Opening Remarks: Dr. Mimi

ABSTRACT: In English, as in many languages, both reflexive pronouns (e.g., herself) and personal pronouns (e.g., her) can be used to refer to someone who was previously mentioned in a

Abstract: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by atypical interests, body movements, social interactions, and communication (APA, 2013). Some people with ASD have difficulty using prosody to convey

Abstract: Decisions about whether to exert effort are ubiquitous. Decisions to work on a paper or go exercise or run an errand all involve considerations of goals and rewards relative

Abstract: The phenomenal view of thought says that thoughts are episodes in the stream of consciousness: they have phenomenal character, and this phenomenal character partially determines their content (Horgan and

Synopsis: Conceptual, mathematical, and statistical framework to model heterogeneity of behavior and better understand the scope of psychological theory. Workshop participants will learn to move beyond a psychology of averages

Abstract : Addiction is classically conceptualized as a habit/compulsion disorder acting via the dopaminergic system and model-free reinforcement learning computations. This account fails to capture goal-directed aspects of addiction, including

Abstract: Behavioral science faces the formidable task of having to determine simultaneously what is deterministic (constant and same), while also determining what is probabilistic (uncertain and variable). Should scholars treat

Abstract : In the study of judgment and choice under uncertainty, I have found that there are many contexts where observations provide far less information than is realized because of

Abstract : Relatively late mastery of scalar implicatures has been suggested to correlate with children’s immature processing capacities, such as their limited working memory (e.g., Chierchia et al. 2001; Pouscoulous

Abstrac t: How does human belief work? In contrast to the normative assumption that people update their beliefs via Bayes’ rule, psychologists have documented belief phenomena which appear difficult to

Abstract : Working memory is our ability to hold things ‘in mind’, acting as a flexible substrate on which thoughts can be placed and manipulated. Despite its importance to cognition,

Professor Thomas Papathomas In-Person Event, Invitation only

What is Rutgers Day? Taking place on Saturday, April 30th,10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Rutgers Day is a free, annual event open to the public and your chance to get

More details to follow!

Each student will give a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation of their work followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. An abbreviated schedule of events is outlined below: 3:15 pm Arrival of

Carolyn Jane Lutken

Marta Mielicki

Dr. Patrick Shafto Abstract : Cognitive science is dominated by models of closed world experiments that have unclear relations and few if any provable properties. I will discuss a new