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SUMMARY:Dan Posner - Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision in Kampala\, Uganda: An Experimental Approach
DESCRIPTION:Dan Posner: UCLA Department of Political Science
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/dan-posner-ethnic-diversity-and-public-goods-provision-in-kampala-uganda-an-experimental-approach/
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SUMMARY:Steven Gaulin - A Real-World Foraging Task Yields a Female Advantage and Significant Content Effects.
DESCRIPTION:Steven Gaulin: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThough Silverman and Eals division-of-foraging-labor hypothesis cannot explain the cross-species distribution of sex differences in spatial ability\, it does make a novel prediction: women will more accurately remember the location of stationary resources.  Unfortunately\, Silverman and Eals’ own tests of this hypothesis have yielded weak and inconsistent support\, possibly because the tasks used to assess the hypothesized female advantage lack ecological validity. I will present results of a controlled field study carried out at a large farmers market.  Women performed significantly better than men at remembering the location of food items they had tasted\, but not at remembering the location of non-food landmarks.  In addition\, accuracy was significantly correlated with the caloric content of food items\, suggesting specialization of this particular cognitive system.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/steven-gaulin-a-real-world-foraging-task-yields-a-female-advantage-and-significant-content-effects/
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SUMMARY:Rafael Nuñez - Embodied Cognition\, Objectivity\, and Truth: Lessons from Mathematics\nand Spatial Construals of Time in Aymara
DESCRIPTION:Rafael Nuñez: UCSD Department of Cognitive ScienceHow can we “objectively” share abstract entities with others\, in a stable and consistent way? How can we evaluate “Truth” when purely imaginary entities are concerned? Mathematics provides a very intriguing case for studying these questions. Indeed\, mathematics\, on the one hand deals with purely imaginary entities (e.g.\, a Euclidean point has only location\, but no extension! … And there is no such “real” thing in the entire universe!)\, and on the other hand\, it provides extremely stable patterns of true-valued inferences (i.e.\, theorems) that once proved\, stayed proved for ever (e.g.\, the Pythagorean Theorem). In this talk I will analyze these issues by looking at (1) my own work on the Cognitive Science of Mathematics (with George Lakoff) taking examples from set and hyperset theory\, and (2) my field work in the Andes’ highlands studying–with convergent linguistic-gestural-ethnographic methods–a very peculiar form of spatial construal of time in the Aymara culture. I’ll address the question of the role of axiom systems in generating and sustaining truth\, and will show that the nature of truth and objectivity in abstract conceptual systems lie on the intricacies  of the underlying bodily-grounded human cognitive mechanisms (e.g.\, conceptual metaphors\, metonymies\, analogies\, blends) that make them possible.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/rafael-nua%c2%b1ez-embodied-cognition-objectivity-and-truth-lessons-from-mathematicsand-spatial-construals-of-time-in-aymara/
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