Deon Benton

Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College, directs the Causality, Mind, and Computational Modeling Lab, investigates causal learning in infants and children with a focus on mechanisms and processes that support such learning, uses behavioral research and computational modeling to examine this topic

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Aug 1, 2021 • 48min

06 - Deon Benton: What a Computational Model Can Tell Us About Babies' Inner (Moral) Life?

Deon Benton, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College, discusses his recent research using a connectionist model to study infants' understanding of morality. The podcast explores measures of babies' moral evaluation, the concept of domain in developmental psychology, the relationship between language and morality in babies, the value of computational modeling, and surprising findings in babies' second order correlation learning.

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