Ken Nakayama: People Watching (and More)
- Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2014
Topics: Beyond vision: action, navigation, social perception and behavior; correlation of brain size and social group size; Dennett’s three levels for predicting behavior: physical stance, design stance, intentional stance (to understand other minds - values, beliefs, desires); study of social intelligence by identifying complex social interactions that are shared with animals and represented in similar brain structures; examples of social interactions in animals: Battle at Kruger (story with complex social aspects played out by animals), revenge, teasing, play, Meerkat behaviors; Nalini Ambady: few seconds of silent video reveal rich social information; factors underlying facial attractiveness
have an interactive transcript feature enabled, which appears below the video when playing. Viewers can search for keywords in the video or click on any word in the transcript to jump to that point in the video. When searching, a dark bar with white vertical lines appears below the video frame. Each white line is an occurrence of the searched term and can be clicked on to jump to that spot in the video.