Early Career Colloquium: Ben Baker

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Six Dimensions of Dance Cognition. ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of work in philosophy, cognitive science, and neuroscience that tries to better understand the mind by examining it in the context of dance. Such work is often premised on the idea that dance demonstrates important, general, and underappreciated features of human thought. However, existing […]

Early Career Colloquium: Apoorva Shivaram

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Development of relational reasoning: When do children pass the Relational Match-to-Sample task? ABSTRACT: Relational ability—the ability to compare situations or ideas and discover common relations – is a key process in higher-order cognition that underlies transfer in learning and creative problem solving. For this reason, it has generated intense interest both among developmentalists and in […]