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[Paul Smaldino]

Hi all,

Tomorrow CIS is hosting a workshop on mental simulation. Some of you may be
interested. All are welcome. Details below.

-Paul

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Paul Smaldino, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Information Sciences
Faculty Member, Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Group
University of California, Merced
http://www.smaldino.com


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From: Tim Shea <tim.m.shea at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: QSB Mailing List
To: Paul Smaldino <paul.smaldino at gmail.com>


You are invited to join us for these two talks will be held *Tuesday,
October 2nd*, in the *Crescent Arch Room* as part of the 2018 Mental
Simulation Workshop.



*10:00 - 11:00 amDeveloping interventions to change simulations that
motivate eatingLawrence Barsalou, University of Glasgow*
In response to appetitive cues for food, people often consume impulsively,
even when not hungry. Although sound nutrition knowledge and healthy eating
intentions may exist, the desire to consume unhealthy food can still
dominate. What is the nature of the cognition that produces such strong
desire, together with unhealthy eating behavior that may follow?...


*3:30 - 4:30 pmHow mental simulation and analytic thinking collaborate in
spatial thinking*
*Mary Hegarty, UC Santa Barbara*
Mental simulation can be dissociated from reasoning based on descriptive
knowledge in that it depends on different abilities and memory stores, is
expressed more easily in gesture than in language, exhibits analog
properties, and can result in correct inferences in situations where people
do not have correct descriptive knowledge...

Read the full abstracts on our website
<http://chelseagordon.me/simulation_workshop.html>.

Best,
Tim Shea
Simulation Workshop Committee
Chelsea Gordon, Ayme Tomson, Tim Shea, Colin Holbrook, and Teenie Matlock
Cognitive and Information Sciences
University of California, Merced
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