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Fachbereichskolloquium Psychologie

„Computational models of perception and action: From visual attention to heuristics”

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Prof. Dr. Constantin Rothkopf, Technische Universität Darmstadt

„Computational models of perception and action: From visual attention to heuristics”

Understanding the relationship between brain, mind, and behavior likely will require computational, algorithmic, and implementational descriptions. The promise of computa-tional models of human cognition is to explain and predict human behavior in terms of in-formation processing. Over the last decades, a sizeable number of studies have been successful in providing such explanations for a variety of perceptual, cognitive, and decision tasks by carefully analyzing the uncertainties that humans have to deal with in an ambigu-ous world.

This talk will present recent results from behavioral experiments with human participants and computational models that are aimed at understanding the relationship between how we use our visual system to learn about our surroundings and how we use that information to guide our actions. Experimental paradigms range from psychophysical investigations of eye movements to visuomotor scenarios that have commonly been interpreted as hallmarks of fast and frugal heuristics. Central aspects will be formal models of learning, quantify-ing inherent uncertainties with probabilistic methods, and the balancing of internal behav-ioral costs and external task costs.