Check it, a familiar face (see photo).
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If presented with a novel and a familiar object, infants strongly prefer to touch and look at novel objects. However, if these objects are then obscured - in the dark, or by an occluding screen - infants tend to reach more in the direction of the familiar objects.
Last week's Casual Fridays study was inspired by an event in Greta's classroom. She had assumed that most of her students would be familiar with the story of the Fox and the Grapes, which goes as follows:
Play cognitive engineer: if you were designing an intelligent system, you'd probably use the same system to detect novelty as that used to detect familiarity.
is that Chet?
Sirs.
I hardly need point out that Mr. Snicker's behavior, captured here for posterity, is unbecoming of a public gentleman, most especially one who so righteously upbraids others for their unseemly and insufficiently gentlemanly comportment. I had expected better of an esteemed former guest scienceblogger.
I fear I can no longer trust Mr. Snicker's judgment and shall have to turn elsewhere for reliable Austrian economic, feminist commentary on matters of weight.
Most regretfully yours,
chetSkeptic