Summer Institute 2018 - Information Search: Foundations, Psychology, ... - Björn Meder

INFORMATION SEARCH: FOUNDATIONS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
From children actively learning about the world to the control of eye movements in visual perception to a doctor running tests for medical diagnosis, humans are effective information foragers—they are informavores. Any comprehensive account of cognition and behavior must therefore explain not only how humans learn from observed data, but also how they actively seek for information. The aim of this talk is to introduce different computational models of the value of information and demonstrate how they can to help to understand the behavioral and computational principles underlying human search and active learning under uncertainty. Specific issues I will discuss are the description-experience gap in information search, the relationships between simple heuristics for search and more complex statistical models of the value of information, and developmental trajectories in search behavior.

BJÖRN MEDER
Björn is currently a research scientist at the Max Planck Research Group iSearch (Information Search, Ecological and Active Learning Research with Children), at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Previously, he held positions at the University of Göttingen and the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the MPIB.

SUMMER INSTITUTE
The 2018 Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality took place on June 19 – 27, 2018, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.