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Dr. Sheldon Chow<\/a> of Mount Allison University will be giving a colloquium talk on Friday, February 14th, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in room 2017<\/strong> of Dunton Tower (the FASS lounge).<\/p>\n

Effective Cognition on the Cheap<\/strong><\/p>\n

Humans tend to reason effectively despite cognitive limitations and constraints. To explain such human cognitive success, a number of philosophers herald heuristics as short-cut procedures that enable economical and satisfactory (though fallible) cognition. In particular, a clutch of philosophers display exuberance for Gigerenzer’s “fast and frugal” heuristics, which have been demonstrated to sometimes lead to more accurate judgments than complex processes. In this talk, I reassess such exuberance for Gigerenzer-style heuristics, focusing on his Recognition Heuristic. I show that many psychologists aren’t as exuberant for Gigerenzer-style heuristics as certain philosophers are, and for good reason: Analysis of psychological data suggests that more information is processed in the given tasks than Gigerenzer maintains; the cognitive processes aren’t “frugal”. This insight lends motivation for me to sketch a model of cognitive architecture in which generous amounts of information are utilized in cognition, even for simple tasks. Important epistemological implications become evident when I explain that, despite the use of generous amounts of information in cognition, the model still allows effective cognition on the cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[39],"event-audience":[],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"\nDr. Sheldon Chow - ICS Colloquium - Events - Department of Cognitive Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Sheldon Chow of Mount Allison University will be giving a colloquium talk on Friday, February 14th, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in room 2017 of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/cu-events\/dr-sheldon-chow-ics-colloquium\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/cu-events\/dr-sheldon-chow-ics-colloquium\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/cu-events\/dr-sheldon-chow-ics-colloquium\/\",\"name\":\"Dr. Sheldon Chow - 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