Weekly Discussion Topics, 21 Aug

This week intern Amelia Harlow will discuss her summer research and how the facts she cites provide context to the challenges of urban blight.

Following Amelia’s presentation, we will continue the discussion led last week by Othalia Larue.

Cognitive decoupling, or inner simulation, is the process by which we distance ourselves from our current representation of the world by creating a possible world simulation on which one can reflect upon and test out hypotheses. Through the presentation of two models of human performance at the Wason card selection task, I’ll address two aspects of cognitive decoupling: (1) what potential (intuitive) selection mechanisms affect the representational content of cognitive decoupling and (2) what metacognitive trigger mechanisms are involved in our decision to engage in cognitive decoupling and how exhaustive the simulation process will be.

And the two papers/models I will discuss are:

Larue, O., Hough, A., & Juvina, I. (2018). A Cognitive Model of Switching Between Reflective and Reactive Decision Making in The Wason Task. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 55-60).

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdGhhbGlhbGFydWV8Z3g6ZjE4ZjUwNjM3NjFjOTYy

Larue, O., Poirier, P., & Nkambou, R. (2013). Hypothetical-thinking based on cognitive decoupling and thinking dispositions in a dual cognitive agent. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 6, 67-75.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvdGhhbGlhbGFydWV8Z3g6NTk5NGQyZmFhZmUyZWZmYg