[CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March

[Daniel Bub]

This Friday's CABS seminar will feature:


Tessa Charlesworth

Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University


Title: Patterns of Long-term change in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Stereotypes

Abstract: The past few years have been a tumultuous period of change and transformation – from elections to social movements to global pandemics and conflict. Over this time, scholars and society have inevitably wondered: how are our minds changing? Are the attitudes (preferences) and stereotypes (beliefs) that we hold about groups (e.g., gender, race, sexuality) changing in recent years? And how does this recent change compare to the longer shadow of historical attitudes? In this two-part talk, I will first present evidence from large-scale social surveys on contemporary changes in implicit and explicit social group attitudes and stereotypes since 2007. In the second part, I will situate these changes within the longer span of 200 years of historical text and the representations of groups since 1800. Together, the work sheds new light on the possibility (and limits) of long-term change in our attitudes and stereotypes of social groups.



Please note that the seminar will be held via Zoom.

Zoom: <https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09> https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09

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A reminder that:


This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time).


On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects


Daniel Bub and Mike Masson


Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word’s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts.

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Subject: Re: [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March

This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time).


On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects


Daniel Bub and Mike Masson


Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word’s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts.

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This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/


<https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/> From  Alan's website:

Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab’s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science.

The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm.

 Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities

Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia

We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye).


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