All talks are scheduled for JULY 29th, 2020.
Theme 1: Cognitive mechanisms of social learning
| Speaker | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Ho | Computational models of teaching with evaluative feedback and by demonstration | 09:00 EDT |
| Patrick Shafto | Sequential Cooperative Bayesian Inference | 09:20 EDT |
| Hyowon Gweon | Learning from others, helping others learn: Inferential social learning & teaching in early childhood | 09:40 EDT |
| Charley Wu | Attentional trade-offs between individual and social learning in a virtual foraging environment | 10:00 EDT |
| Coffee break | 10:20 - 10:55 EDT |
Theme 2: Emergent properties of collectives
| Speaker | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Goldstone | The Emergence of Group Coordination | 11:00 EDT |
| Seth Frey | Using large social datasets from games, sports, and online communities to link macro-scale system outcomes to social reasoning and interaction mechanisms of individuals | 11:20 EDT |
| Lunch Break | 11:40 - 12:55 EDT | |
| Andy Perfors | Trust and the emergence of “echo chambers” in populations of Bayesian agents | 13:00 EDT |
| Sholei Croom | Integrating structural power and historical contingency into computational frameworks of social behavior | 13:20 EDT |
| Coffee Break | 13:40 - 13:55 EDT |
Theme 3: Cognition and culture
| Speaker | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Natalia Vélez | Multigenerational innovation and division of labor in online communities | 14:00 EDT |
| Kara Weisman | The development of conceptual representations of mental life in five cultural contexts | 14:20 EDT |
| Dorsa Amir | The ontogeny of social decision-making across diverse cultural contexts | 14:40 EDT |
| Cristine Legare | Cultural transmission and the development of social learning | 15:00 EDT |
| Coffee break | 15:20 - 15:40 EDT |