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Colloquium Series: Dr. Sara Aronowitz
October 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
| Location: | RB 3220 |
| Cost: | Free |
We are pleased to invite you to our third colloquium of the Academic Year!
Throughout the fall and winter terms, the Department of Philosophy hosts a series of lectures delivered by guest speakers/visiting and current professors. This colloquium lecture will take place in RB 3220 .
Dr. Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto)
Talk title: Towards a Bounded Rationality of Reversal Learning
Friday, October 18th, 2024
1:30pm EST
Abstract:
Extinction training in rodents is one of the best understood kinds of learning, in which animals must figure out that a learned association is no longer relevant. This paradigm belongs to a broader category of what is called reversal learning. At the human level, reversal learning can be mundane – as when I have to figure out a new route to work when my usual one is blocked by construction- or life-changing – as when someone leaves a religion or becomes disillusioned with a career. This talk aims to establish that reversal learning in bounded agents is a distinct form of learning, and to bring out several ways in which the need to engage in reversal learning might shape our cognitive economy.