NRL’s Reasoning Lunch series of talks are held on Thursday mornings (EST) with members of the Reasoning Lab and the Human and Machine Intelligence Section at NRL.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-22 | Sandeep Prasada | Hunter College, CUNY | TBA |
| 2021-07-1 | Yacin Hamami, Marie Almaric, John Mumma | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Harvard University, CSU San Bernardino | Counterexample search in diagram-based geometric reasoning |
| 2021-05-27 | Karen Huang | Georgetown University | Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good |
| 2021-05-20 | Estefania Gazzo | University of Geissen | Reasoning with conditionals: Deduction, probabilities, or both? |
| 2021-04-29 | Hannah Dames | University of Zurich | Can reasoners learn from mistakes — and adapt their behavior accordingly? A hierarchical modeling approach |
| 2021-04-01 | Kay Alfred | Dartmouth | Deductive reasoning: The structure of mental models and reasoning in everyday life |
| 2021-03-25 | Nick Ichien | University of California, Los Angeles | Two approaches to visual analogy: Deep learning versus compositional models |
| 2021-03-11 | Sarah Bibyk | Air For Research Laboratory | Variation and adaptation in the packaging of information in conversation with and without a synthetic teammate |
| 2021-03-04 | Andrew Lovett | Naval Research Laboratory | Similarity judgments and high-level reasoning |
| 2021-02-25 | Zach Davis | Stanford University | Learning and controlling dynamic systems |
| 2021-01-21 | Sam Johnson | University of Warwick | Do beliefs come in degrees? |
| 2021-01-07 | Kristan Marchak | University of Alberta | Where does the olinguito live? Children’s and adults’ use of overhypotheses in reasoning about animals |
| 2020-11-12 | Daniel Karczewski | University of Bialystok | Generics-as-default hypothesis: Two pieces of evidence from Polish |
| 2020-11-05 | Manvir Singh | Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse | The social and psychological origins of religious super-attractors |
| 2020-10-22 | Nia Peters | Air Force Research Laboratory | Context-aware interruption dissemination within human-machine teaming |
| 2020-10-08 | Paula Rubio-Fernandez | University of Oslo | Saying too much can be efficient: Evidence from language production / comprehension studies |
| 2020-09-24 | Erin M. Anderson | Indiana University | Timing matters: Infants’ prediction updating for solids and substances |
| 2020-08-06 | Doug Markant | University of North Carolina Charlotte | Constructing relational knowledge from experience: Active control in transitive inference |
| 2020-07-16 | Gordon Briggs and Hillary Harner | Naval Research Laboratory | Visual grouping and pragmatic constraints in the generation of quantified descriptions |
| 2020-07-02 | Polly O’Rourke | ARLIS, University of Maryland | Accelerating language learning via transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation |
| 2020-06-16 | Rogelio Cardona-Rivera | University of Utah | Modeling narrative intelligence to support adaptive virtual environments |
| 2020-06-11 | Jeff Zemla | Syracuse University | Causal mechanisms increase preference for complex explanations |
| 2020-05-28 | Julia Wertheim | University of Freiburg | Neurocognitive correlates of human reasoning |
| 2020-05-08 | Yoed Kenett | The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology | Investigating the complexity of creative thinking |
| 2020-04-30 | Ben Wright | Naval Research Laboratory | Deceptive reasoning |
| 2020-04-15 | Isabel Orenes | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia | ‘No’ effect of negation in counterfactual conditionals: Evidence from eye-tracking studies |