Fw: Talk by Steven Piantadosi

[Zuidema, Jelle]

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From: Jakub Szymanik <J.K.Sz...@uva.nl>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 6:45:45 PM
To: Zuidema, Jelle
Subject: Talk by Steven Piantadosi

 

Dear all,

next week Steven Piantadosi will give a talk "Statistics over algorithms as a model of human learning" (see below for the abstract). This is a joint meeting of CoSaQ and Cognition@ILLC seminar.  We will meet on November 26 at 12:00 in PCH 3.19.


Best wishes,
Jakub

Abstract I'll present an overview of my research that is aimed at understanding how human learners solve complex, structured learning problems. Recent theories of human learning have hypothesized that people can infer the algorithm or computation giving rise to the data they can observe. This approach shows promise in explaining human behavior across a variety of domains, including language learning and conceptual development. It also allows the field to address even more basic questions about what types of knowledge might be "built in" for humans, and how children develop the rich systems of knowledge found in adults. The ideas used in this work have the potential to inform the discovery of structure, algorithmic processes, scientific laws, and causal relations by using techniques inspired by the remarkable statistical inferences carried out by human learners. I'll specifically talk both about computational models of number learning and rule-based concept learning, as well
as experimental work aimed at testing the underlying components of those models.

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