Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that Cate McColl, a PhD student of Dr. Jonathan Redshaw from the University of Queensland, who also gave a talk at BCCCD last week, will be giving a talk at our CogSci Colloquium.
Title: Thinking about thinking about uncertainty: the development of metacognition in probabilistic tasks.
Abstract: Experiences of uncertainty are a core tenet of cognition, present in babies and non-human animals in basic forms. However, the explicit awareness of uncertainty in humans reflects a distinct metacognitive process that can elucidate many facets of cognition. Across three studies, we explore how metacognition develops in probabilistic contexts using a novel confidence measure. First, we examine how young children (3–6 years) begin to explicitly report uncertainty in their predictions of probable and improbable outcomes, and explore a possible dissociation with implicit uncertainty monitoring. Second, we examine how children (6–9 years) and adults report confidence in contexts with multiple alternatives, with findings suggesting that both task-relevant and task-irrelevant information may influence such confidence. Finally, we examine children’s (6–11 years) confidence in contexts where some relevant information is known while other relevant information is unknown, and employ computational modelling techniques to clarify the processes children use to simulate what they do not know.
Time: 12:15 pm (Thursday, Jan 22nd )
Venue : room 2.111 Waldweg 26
If you would like to meet with her individually after her talk on Thursday or on Friday morning, please let me know by tomorrow.
Best regards,
Saba Amirhaftehran
PhD student
Department of Cognitive Developmental Psychology
