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Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series

Please join us for a talk given by Tatiana Lau, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Zoom - https://bit.ly/3eOen8y
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars
Discovering social groups via latent structural learning
Abstract: ​Social groups exist in every society. One crucial process to the functioning of social groups is social categorization—being able to recognize in- and out-group members (i.e., “us” and “them”). Past work suggests that we can do this via dyadic similarity—specific, static, salient features we share directly with others (e.g., race). Yet, in our increasingly diverse societies where explicit cues such as skin tone may not be consistently reliable signals of group membership, how can we identify in- and out-group members? I present studies suggesting that, in contrast to dyadic similarity accounts, a domain-general model of latent structure learning may be a more comprehensive explanation of social categorization. I also examine the neural correlates of both models and discuss more recent work that applies this novel account to larger observational datasets.
 
About Us:
The Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience seminar series was launched by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience here at Dartmouth College.
 
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Courtney Rogers
courtney.rogers@dartmouth.edu
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