139th KUASS／the 14th Colloquium of Ecological Future Making of Childrearing（Nov. 14）

The Data We Have, The Data We Need

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Event Info

Presenter
  • Dr. Federico Rossano
Commentator
  • Discussant: Dr. Shinya Yamamoto (Professor, Institute for the Future of Humanity and Society, Kyoto University)
Date & Venue
  • November 14. 2025（Friday）
  • 14:00-16:00
  • Hybrid Meeting On Site + Zoom (Online): Small-sized meeting room II, 3F Inamori Foundation Memorial Fall, Kyoto University
Language
  • English
Contact
  • Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

    Tel：075-753-7803
  • caas@jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Summary

Our cognitive models suffer from issues in replicability and predictive power because our picture of what intelligence is for humans and the animal kingdom is biased and incomplete. We need new data, different data, to build our models. Yet venturing outside the lab to study cognition in the wild remains rare and when done it often relies on less than optimal tools to measure such diversity, where diversity is self-reported rather than observed or measured. Towards providing a more solid base for our empirical models, we have collected extensive data on social interaction and social cognition cross-ages, cross-cultures and cross-species, because of an interest in bringing evolution, diversity, individual differences and change to the forefront of Cognitive Science. Along the way we started the largest citizen science study on animal communication (10,000 dogs and 700 cats tracked longitudinally in 47 countries), tested with the same paradigm children in urban vs. rural settings, conducted behavioral studies on several animal species (from great apes to macaques to baboons to dogs, cats, rats and goats), created the largest longitudinal video dataset of baby apes and developed novel tools to measure behavior by combining computer vision, robotics and cognitive science. In this talk I will report among others, on primate data collected in the Republic of Congo, the DRC and Kenya and share some of the things we have learned along the way: from the importance of taking seriously individual differences, life history and relationships to how to minimize the chances of being chased by lions before you complete your study.

Project website: https://www.cci.jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/efm/en/

instructor

Dr. Federico Rossano

Commentator

Discussant: Dr. Shinya Yamamoto (Professor, Institute for the Future of Humanity and Society, Kyoto University)

Date & Venue

November 14. 2025（Friday）
14:00-16:00
Hybrid Meeting On Site + Zoom (Online): Small-sized meeting room II, 3F Inamori Foundation Memorial Fall, Kyoto University

Language

English

Eligibility

Everyone is welcomed to attend.

Registration

For attendance online, please register from below prior to the meeting.
https://forms.gle/3BpBYwdHetJTXeRU7

Profile

Dr. Federico Rossano

(Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science、University of California, San Diego / Specially Appointed Associate Professor, ASAFAS, Kyoto University)

Co-hosted by

Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University/ Institute for The Future of Human Society/ Research unit for coevolution and coexistence, Kyoto University

Contact

Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Tel：075-753-7803
caas@jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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