Thinking about possibilities: Towards a unified cognitive framework

思考可能性：走向统一的认知框架

• 批准号: FT230100010
• 负责人: Dr Jonathan Redshaw
• 金额: $ 59.02万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT230100010
• 关键词: Thinking; about; possibilities; Towards; unified

Thoughts about possibilities are fundamental to what makes us human. We routinely imagine what might happen in the future and reflect on how the past could have turned out differently. This psychology project aims to establish the circumstances in which children and non-human primates think about alternative possibilities, and to explain how they do it. The project expects to provide new knowledge of cognitive development and evolution, and to distinguish between simple and complex processes for thinking about possibilities. Expected benefits include progress towards a unified cognitive framework that may ultimately be leveraged to help people better reason about possibilities and bring them to fruition.

对可能性的思考是我们成为人类的基础。我们经常想象未来会发生什么，并思考过去的结果可能会有所不同。这个心理学项目旨在建立儿童和非人类灵长类动物思考替代可能性的环境，并解释他们是如何做到这一点的。该项目期望提供认知发展和进化的新知识，并区分简单和复杂的可能性思考过程。预期的好处包括在统一认知框架方面取得进展，该框架最终可能有助于人们更好地推理可能性并使其实现。