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SUMMARY:Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts - Professor Jose
 p Call\, University of St Andrews
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CONTACT:John Mollon
DESCRIPTION:Since Chrysippus’s time\, scholars have wondered about wheth
 er nonhuman animals are capable of making inferences\, and if so\, whether
  they are grounded on logical reasoning.  Much of the empirical effort in 
 comparative cognition has been devoted to distinguishing inferential from 
 non-inferential processes based on associative or low-level general attent
 ional processes.  Much less research attention has been devoted to investi
 gate the modal nature of inferences in nonhuman animals.  In this talk\, I
  will present a series of object search studies investigating whether prim
 ate inferences are probabilistic or deterministic.  In other words\, do pr
 imates merely consider possibilities or can they also conceive necessities
 ?  I will then connect this emerging body of work with the research on int
 uitive statistics and the prediction of past and future outcomes.\n 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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