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Childhood Is Evolution’s Way of Performing Simulated Annealing: A life history perspective on explore-exploit tensions

Published on Jul 28, 20152233 Views

There is a fundamental tension in cognitive development. Young children have severe limitations in planning, decision-making, executive function and attentional focus, roughly those abilities that inv

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Childhood Is Evolution’s Way of Performing Simulated Annealing: A life history perspective on explore-exploit tensions.00:00
Why Childhood?: Longer Childhood, Bigger Brain, Smarter Animal01:09
Human Brain06:41
The Theory Theory 2.008:21
Unanswered Questions10:01
Inferring Abstract Laws11:14
Which objects are blickets? - 111:38
What if you also saw these events?13:12
Which objects are blickets? - 214:09
Which objects are blickets? - 314:30
Children and Adults15:07
Functional Form Procedure: “OR” and “AND” Test Trial16:04
Functional Form Procedure: “OR” and “AND” Conditions16:13
Demo16:34
"OR” Intervention Results18:51
“AND” Intervention Results:18:56
Intervention Choices for 6- and 7-year-olds: “AND” Condition19:37
When Younger Learners Do Better Than Older Ones19:56
Disadvantages of Frontal Control22:31
Why the developmental differences?23:26
Two Possibilities23:30
Different Accumulated Knowledge23:41
Different types of search and sampling24:15
Sampling in Cognitive Development25:00
Exploitation vs. Exploration26:26
Experimentation, Exploration and Explanation30:34
Simulated Annealing33:01
Conclusion33:03
Collaborators and Support33:05
“BASELINE” Intervention Results34:22