The french magazine Tangente‘s last issue (august 2014) presents a series of articles about the links between psychology and mathematics. We (NG) published a short presentation of the new paradigm in psychology (an uncorrected proof is readable here), as well as a marginalia about Jacques Lacan’s fallacious use of mathematics (read an uncorrected proof here).
Tangente could probably be seen as the french equivalent of Mathematical Intelligencer.
The London Reasoning Workshop provides a regular focus for discussion of research in the Psychology of Reasoning in the UK and in the World.
Program: LRW2014 Programme
Abstracts: LRW 2014 Abstracts
Venue
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
Location: Room B18 (Coffee: B30)
Symposium Organizers
Professor Valerie Thompson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Ms Georgia Holyfield, (Birkbeck College, University of London)
(g.holyfield@bbk.ac.uk).
One of the leading french journal, Le Monde, published a short paper (9th june) on the perception of randomness in its “science” section. Our members Jean-Paul Delahaye and Nicolas Gauvrit have been interviewed.
David Larousserie (the author) was particularly interested in our new “coding theorem method”, yielding a mean to approximate algorithmic complexity for short strings. More information about the coding theorem method can be found in our PlosOne paper or, for a more psychological presentation, in Behavior Research Methods.
On thursday the 5th of June, Masasi and Ikuko Hattori gave a talk in Paris, at the EPHE. They kindly made their slideshows and conferences available on our website (see below).
Masasi Hattori (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan) spoke about:
“Subliminal problem solving: Dual process of cognition and their interaction”.
Ikuko Hattori (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan) spoke about:
For more informations : http://www.eris2014.uha.fr/
We are proudly happy to welcome Professor Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde as new associate member.
Sacha is Professor of Economics at Université Paris 2 (LEMMA) and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod. His research, at the interface between experimental economics and cognitive sciences, bears mainly on two topics : i) the emergence of human collective institution (money, language, politics) and ii) how cognitive microstructure (eg. belief updating, channeling in heterogenous information, temporal anticipation, etc.) are modulated by economic environments.
More information about Sacha can be found on his Google page.
On Friday the 16th of May, David Over and Jean Baratgin gave a talk, at the Wolverhampton University for a A conference in honour of Professor Ken Manktelow.
Their slides is available on our website (see below).
Over & Baratgin Ken’s conference talk,
Symposium organised by PARIS (Jean Baratgin):
“effet de dotation et normes sociales : une approche inter-culturelle”
Program : Effet de dotation ICAP2014 symposium
July 12nd 2014, 8h am, Room 221-222 Palais des Congrès, Porte Maillot
Thursday, 5th of June Bâtiment Le France, 10h-12h, SALLE 123, EPHE, 190-198 avenue de France, 75013 Paris
10h – Masasi Hattori, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
“Subliminal problem solving: Dual process of cognition and their interaction”
Abstract:
Many theorists in psychology have raised the issue of duality of mental processes. Human cognition is widely seen as consisting of two different kinds of processes: automatic, heuristic, intuitive, and unconscious process, and controlled, systematic, analytic, and conscious process. Here we refer them as implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) processes. We, however, still only have little knowledge about the interaction between these two processes. In this talk, first, I introduce some new methods that we have developed so far to probe human implicit processes while they are solving problems. Second, I show some paradoxical phenomena revealed by experiments using the new method and I address some issues. Finally, I propose hypotheses to account for dynamics of implicit and explicit processes suggesting future directions of further research on the interaction between the two different still related processes.
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11h – Ikuko Hattori, Lecturer Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
“Reasoning and Background knowledge”
Abstract:
In deductive reasoning, the premises are assumed to be true. However, human reasoning is affected by its contents and contexts. Then it would be essential to incorporate the relevant background knowledge derived from the long-term memory (LTM) during processing information. We know that everything around us are uncertain in greater or lesser degree. In this talk, I will introduce some experimental results using conditionals and causal reasoning to show how background knowledge influence on our reasoning. The incorporation of knowledge, however, demands cognitive resource and time. The fastness of reasoning is sometimes incompatible with the exactitude. To control an excessive retrieval of LTM should be an important factor for pragmatic intelligence. Secondly, I will talk about a possible heuristic mechanism to suppress unnecessary retrieval during reasoning.
Hello
I wanted to call your attention to the web site: http://eurovoteplus.eu
which we just opened to the public. The site is dedicated to the May European Elections. It is available in 14 different languages. Visitors can test the voting rules of different European countries, participate to the virtual election of pan-european delegates, and give their opinion.
If you have the possibility, do not hesitate to advertize the site in your networks.
All the best,
Jean-François.
