Empirical and computational studies of situated decision dynamics : from split-second to life-long, from neurons to social groups

Keywords :

• situated cognition
• metascience
• process tracking
• anticipation
• decision-making

This manuscript is an attempt at providing a cognitive sciences perspective on academic research activities, including its metascience and ethical components, as well as on the complementarity of empirical and computational studies of cognition, both for natural and artificial systems. It merely reflects the life trajectory of its author, but describes a few tools and principles to track and understand the dynamics, interactive components, and biases of human activities. A first part focuses on tools used to monitor and report academic research activity, proposing that most knowledge should be presented as a web of interactive components, whose form and level of detail should depend on the target audience and project maturity, an endeavor not facilitated by norms on how to report and publish research progress. Norms are further developed in the second part, which focuses on the many theoretical perspectives on cognition, as well as on the place of interdisciplinarity and ethics in their development. The final part of manuscript summarizes the many forms of models that are often unknowingly manipulated in empirical and computational research. Details are provided on methods used to empirically study the dynamics of cognitive behaviors, as well as principles used in associated formal models, adopting a dynamic, interactive and situated perspective (from split-second perceptual decisions to long-term social trajectories).

Zoom : https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/97541861891?pwd=dtFkWqUk6MqSykTVNHt006JpPiqGWu.1

President:

Pr. Adeline Leclercq-Samson (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Reporters:

• Pr. Giovanni Pezzulo (ISTC-CNR, Rome )
• Pr. Yulia Sandamirskaya (ZHAW, Zurich )
• Pr. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced )

Examinators:

• Dr. Sylvain Argentieri (Sorbonne Université, Paris )
• Dr. Julien Diard (CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes )