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DESCRIPTION:Scaling up experimental psychology: From experiments to algorit
 hms\n\nBy Tom Griffiths\n\nPrinceton University\, New Jersey\n\nWith High-
 Level Panel of Leaders in Science\, Technology\, On-the-Ground Action\, an
 d Policy\n\nRegister & watch the webinar\n\nThe basic methods of experimen
 tal psychology have remained essentially the same since the field was firs
 t developed\, but the technologies available to researchers have changed s
 ignificantly. I will argue that modern technology — in particular the avai
 lability of large numbers of participants and the ability to use computers
  to make the tasks presented to one participant depend on the responses of
  others — has the potential to change the way we conduct behavioural exper
 iments. I will talk about two ways to scale up experimental psychology: ru
 nning many conditions in parallel to exhaustively sample stimulus spaces r
 ather than relying on sparse theory-driven designs\, and studying effects 
 at the level of groups rather than individuals. I will present case studie
 s of this approach in the setting of decision-making\, and discuss the imp
 lications of the results for how we develop theories about human behaviour
 .\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nTom Griffiths is the Henry R. Luce Professor of 
 Information Technology\, Consciousness and Culture in the Departments of P
 sychology and Computer Science at Princeton University. His research explo
 res connections between human and machine learning\, using ideas from stat
 istics and artificial intelligence to understand how people solve the chal
 lenging computational problems they encounter in everyday life. Tom comple
 ted his PhD in Psychology at Stanford University in 2005\, and taught at B
 rown University and the University of California\, Berkeley before moving 
 to Princeton. He has received awards for his research from organizations r
 anging from the American Psychological Association to the National Academy
  of Sciences\, and is a co-author of the book Algorithms to Live By\, intr
 oducing ideas from computer science and cognitive science to a general aud
 ience.\n\nAbout the series\n\nThe Precision Convergence series is launched
  to catalyze unique synergy between\, on the one hand\, novel partnerships
  across sciences\, sectors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of re
 al-world solutions\, and on the other hand\, a next generation convergence
  of AI with advanced research computing and other data and digital archite
 ctures such as PSC’s Bridges-2\, and supporting data sharing frameworks su
 ch as HuBMAP\, informing in a real time as possible the design\, deploymen
 t and monitoring of solutions for adaptive real-world behaviour and contex
 t.\n\nThe Precision Convergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The McGill 
 Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill Unive
 rsity and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center\, a joint computational res
 earch centre between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pitt
 sburgh.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Tom Griffiths
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/mcche-precision-convergen
 ce-webinar-series-tom-griffiths-340623
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