BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UBC Department of Psychology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://psych.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:UBC Department of Psychology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20181208T1803Z-1544292230.5281-EO-16589-2@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T075610Z CREATED:20180816T215250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200402T213744Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180927T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180927T140000 SUMMARY: Colloquium with Dr. Lisa Feigenson (Michael Chandler Lecture Serie s) DESCRIPTION: FEATURING Dr. Lisa Feigenson\, Johns Hopkins University TITLE Constraints and flexibility in early quantification: Insights from infancy ABSTRACT Quantification (e.g.\, knowing how many objects are in a scene) re quires selecting a relevant entity and storing it in working memory for fur ther processing. Critically\, multiple kinds of entities can be selected a nd stored. In this talk I offer evidence […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Lisa Feigenson\, Johns Hopkins University
Constraints and flexibility in early quantification: Insights from infancy
Quantification (e.g.\, knowing how many object s are in a scene) requires selecting a relevant entity and storing it in wo rking memory for further processing. Critically\, multiple kinds of entiti es can be selected and stored. In this talk I offer evidence that even the youngest humans can represent at least three different levels of entities in working memory. They can represent an individual object (e.g.\, “that b ird”). They can represent a collection of items (e.g.\, “that flock of bird s”). And they can represent a set of discrete items (e.g.\, “the set conta ining Bird A\, Bird B\, and Bird C”). Each of these types of representatio ns permits a different type of quantificational processing\, empowering som e computations and blocking others. Hence\, which quantity-relevant comput ations may be performed in any given situation depends on which level of re presentation is stored. This framework for thinking about interactions bet ween attention\, working memory\, and quantification applies throughout dev elopment\, starting in infancy.
Lisa Fei genson is co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Ch ild Development. Her research seeks to understand the cognitive primitives that are available throughout the lifespan\, as well as changes in children ’s thinking with maturation and experience. She uses primarily behavioral m ethods to study cognitive abilities in infants\, children\, and adults.
Michael Chandler is Professor Emeritus\, working at UBC’s Department of Psychology. Dr. Chandler received his Bachelor of Art s in 1960 from Grinnell College\, Iowa and his Ph.D. in 1966 from the Unive rsity of California\, Berkeley where he worked with Drs. Sheldon Korchin an d Theodore Sarbin. He then went on to complete two postdoctoral fellowships \; one at the Menninger Foundation in Kansas and the other at the Institut des Sciences de L’Education\, Universite de Geneve\, in Switzerland with Dr . Jean Piaget. Dr. Chandler is a world-renowned schol ar whose accolades and contributions to the field are too numerous to menti on in full. He is often recognized for revolutionizing the way scholars con ceptualize and study the development of social cognition or ‘theory of mind ’ as well as his pioneering research on identity development. His ongoing p rogram of research features an exploration of the role culture plays in con structing the course of identity development\, shaping young people’s emerg ing sense of ownership of their personal and cultural past\, and their comm itment to their own and their community’s future well being. These efforts\ , along with more than 150 published books\, articles and book chapters\, h ave earned Dr. Chandler the Izaak Walton Killam Memor ial Senior Research Prize\, led to his being awarded the Killam Teaching Pr ize\, and resulted in his twice being named a Peter Wall Institute for Adva nced Studies Distinguished Scholar in Residence. His research and scholarly efforts have also resulted in his being appointed as Canada’s only Disting uished Investigator of both the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIH R) and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Resear ch (MSFHR). Dr. Chandler’s research with children at risk began more than 35 years ago with an article (co-authored with A. Same roff) that was selected by the Society for Research in Child Development fo r inclusion in a book entitled Twenty Studies That Revolutionized Child Psy chology. Professor Chandler‘s program of research de aling with identity development and suicide in Aboriginal youth was singled out for publication as a book and as an invited Monograph of the Society f or Research in Child Development (recently translated into French)\, and is the only program of Canadian research featured in WHO’s recently released report on the social determinants of health.
Annually the Depar tment of Psychology hosts a Colloquia Series throughout the academic year.
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