{"pk":29810,"title":"Modeling pupillary surprise response in elementary school children withtheory-based Bayesian models","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Affective components are frequently overlooked in computational modelling, despite the notable role of emotions in learn-ing. Towards the goal of measuring affect in learning, we developed a theory-based Bayesian model that predicts surprisebased on a learners prior beliefs and the evidence observed, and then compared the model to a physiological measure com-monly suggested to capture surprise: pupil dilation. Critically, we also investigate whether this correlation is strong whenparticipants predict the events. Comparing our model predictions to the first four test trial responses from 93 participants(mean age: 8.00 years) revealed a significant, positive correlation when making predictions (r(9)=.55, p=0.04), a negativecorrelation when only evaluating (r(9)=-.50, p=0.07), and significant difference between groups (z=2.34, p¡0.01). Nextsteps will allow us to build on this result by developing a modified Bayesian model, that takes physiological surprise as acomponent in predicting the participants learning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0j25n3zn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"","last_name":"Colantonio II","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Igor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bascandziev","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""},{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Theobald","name_suffix":"","institution":"Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)","department":""},{"first_name":"Garvin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brod","name_suffix":"","institution":"Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF)","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bonawitz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rutgers University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29810/galley/19664/download/"}]}