Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the third NEURO-Connect seminar, which will take place on November 12th at 12:15 at Campus Biotech.
The NEURO-Connect seminars replace the previous Brain & Cognition seminars and aim at presenting different areas of the neuroscience community in Campus Biotech, ranging from cognition and emotion to neurobiology and neuroengineering, with the support of all institutions active on the site, including the UNIGE (NEUFO, CISA, FPSE), NCCR Evolving Language, EPFL (Neuro-X), HUG, CIBM and Wyss Center, and with the support of the Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva. The NEURO-CONNECT seminars will take place twice a month, and the program of the coming trimester is attached here.
The next session will be hosted by CISA (UNIGE). The speaker will be Prof. William Cunningham (University of Toronto), with the talk “ Unmotivated bias”. Please see abstract and other details below.
Private meetings with Prof. Cunningham can be organized, and early career researchers (ECR, e.g., doctoral and postdoctoral) are encouraged to join the invited speaker for a networking lunch offered by the FCBG (15 spots, first-come, first-served). To indicate your wish to meet one-to-one with Prof. Cunningham, or to register for the ECR lunch after the talk, please fill-in the following survey before WEDNESDAY 6th NOVEMBER 2024: https://formulaire.unige.ch/cisa/survey/index.php/415992?lang=en. This delay is needed to be able to properly organize the schedule and to order the correct number of meals in time. We thank you for your cooperation.
Doctoral students can receive credits for their attendance, please don’t forget to have your attendance sheet signed.
For any questions on this event, you can contact the session organizers at education-cisa@unige.ch.
Looking forward to seeing you at NEURO-Connect,
The organizing team
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NEURO-CONNECT seminars
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
12:15
Campus Biotech, H8.01.D
Prof. William Cunningham (University of Toronto)
Unmotivated bias
In this talk, I will explore how social affective biases arise even in the absence of motivational factors as an emergent outcome of the basic structure of social learning. In several studies, we found that initial negative interactions with some members of a group can cause subsequent avoidance of the entire group, and that this avoidance perpetuates stereotypes. Additional cognitive modeling discovered that approach and avoidance behavior based on biased beliefs not only influences the evaluative (positive or negative) impressions of group members, but also shapes the depth of the cognitive representations available to learn about individuals. In other words, people have richer cognitive representations of members of groups that are not avoided, akin to individualized vs group level categories. I will end presenting a series of multi-agent reinforcement learning simulations that demonstrate the emergence of these social-structural feedback loops in the development and maintenance of affective biases.
Zoom : https://unige.zoom.us/j/63318365808?pwd=MBjbJ4gOmYekedouaJPolxlCm7ksja.1
Meeting ID: 633 1836 5808
Passcode: 101831
More: https://agenda.unige.ch/events/view/40861
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