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SUMMARY:Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and
  animal causal learning - Professor Tom Beckers\, Associate Professor\, De
 partment of Learning &amp\; Experimental Psychopathology\, University of L
 euven
DTSTART:20130125T163000Z
DTEND:20130125T180000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:A host of findings suggest that causal learning in adult human
 s relies on\nsophisticated inferential processes that require working memo
 ry and\nreasoning abilities. Such findings are in apparent contrast with t
 he\nseemingly automatic and associative nature of causal learning in anima
 ls\nand young children. I will review a number of studies in rats and youn
 g\nchildren that suggest that highly similar cognitive processes may gover
 n\ncausal learning in mammals of different species and age after all.\n\nB
 iography\n\nTom Beckers is associate professor of research at KU Leuven\, 
 Faculty of\nPsychology and Educational Sciences\, and adjunct faculty memb
 er at the\nDepartment of Clinical Psychology of the University of Amsterda
 m. Before\,\nhe has been visiting assistant professor at Binghamton Univer
 sity\,\nvisiting research fellow at UCLA\, and assistant professor at the\
 nUniversity of Amsterdam. His research concerns fundamental processes of\n
 learning and conditioning in infant and adult humans and in rodents\, usin
 g\nbehavioural\, neurobiological\, and computational techniques. He also h
 as a\nstrong interest in the role of learning and conditioning in\npsychop
 athology (particularly fear\, addiction and ADHD). His research is\nfunded
  by FWO\, NWO\, ESRC\, Belgian Federal Government and KU Leuven. He is\nas
 sociate editor for Experimental Psychology and Frontiers in Cognition.\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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