Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

Alexandra Rosati Cognitive Evolution Group Departments of Psychology and Anthropology University of Michigan   A sense of time in human evolution   What psychological mechanisms do primates use to engage in self-control, and what is the ultimate function of these skills? I will argue that a suite of decision-making capacities, including choices about the timing […]

Alison Gopnik Department of Psychology UC Berkeley   Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit tensions   I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human childhood allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the demands of goal-directed exploitation set in. This cognitive profile is also […]

Steven Roberts Department of Psychology Stanford University   Racism: A Developmental Story   Racism – often conceptualized as disliking or mistreating others because of their race – is a system of advantage based on race. In this talk, I will share my personal and professional experiences within this system, and highlight how the two have […]

Lucia Melloni Department of Neurology NYU Grossman School of Medicine   The 3 Cs: Collaborating to Crack Consciousness   Every day when we fall asleep we lose consciousness, we are not there. And then, every morning, when we wake up, we regain it. What mechanisms give rise to consciousness, and how can we explain consciousness […]

Timothy Bayne Department of Philosophy Monash University   How to Construct A Consciousness Meter   One of the central challenges facing the science of consciousness is that of identifying ways of measuring consciousness. Can we go beyond our pre-theoretical ways of detecting consciousness and develop independently validated measures of consciousness. Some theorists think not, arguing […]