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SUMMARY:Alison Gopnik - Life history and learning: Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit tensions
DESCRIPTION:Alison Gopnik: University of California BerkeleyI 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 found in other animals and is associated with early behaviours such as neophilia and play.  I relate this developmental pattern to computational ideas about explore-exploit trade-offs\, search and sampling\, and to neuroscience findings. I also present several very new studies from our lab and others suggesting that young human learners are highly exploratory\, both in terms of their search for external information and their search through hypothesis spaces. In fact\, they are sometimes more exploratory than older learners and adults.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/alison-gopnik-life-history-and-learning-childhood-as-a-solution-to-explore-exploit-tensions/
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SUMMARY:Gordon Burghardt - The Origins\, Evolution\, and Functions of Play
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Burghardt: University of TennesseeOur understanding of the evolution\, phylogeny\, and functions of playfulness in animals is surprisingly minimal\, largely because the function of play in both human and nonhuman animals remains controversial.  Consequently\, biologists have typically ignored play.  After all\, something frivolous and fun cannot be too important as compared to feeding\, mating\, fighting\, and rearing young.  In recent years\, however\, much research has advanced our understanding of play. This includes identifying play and its diversity\, the neuroscience of play\, the ontogeny and functions of play\, and theoretical and modeling contributions.  This talk will explore some of this recent work and where play research may be heading.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/gordon-burghardt-the-origins-evolution-and-functions-of-play/
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