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by Viertl Bela

32 years, 3 months

Idegtudomanyi Kongresszus

by ERDI＠rmk530.rmki.kfki.hu

Meglehetosen szerencsetlen modon a visegradi kognitiv konferenciaval atfedesben januar 27 - 29 kozott lesz a Magyar Idegtudomanyi Tarsasag Elso Kongresszusa. Noha elso, megis hagyomanya van annak, hogy az ideg- tudomanyban dolgozok januar vegen talalkoznak. Javaslom, hogy a kovet- kezo evben keruljuk el az utkozest. Magam a MIT konferenciat valasztottam, igy aztan nincs mas hatra, mint hasznos eszmecseret es kellemes idotoltest kivanjak nektek, fogok ratok gondolni. (A MIT helye: Pe'cs) udv, udv Erdi Peter

32 years, 3 months

Beyond Modularity: BBS Call for Book Reviewers

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a book that will be accorded multiple book review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal that provides Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Reviewers must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a reviewer for this book, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: harnad(a)clarity.princeton.edu or harnad(a)pucc.bitnet or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771] To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you are selected as a reviewer. Please also indicate whether you already have a copy of the book or will need one if you are selected. The author's article-length precis of the book is available for inspection by anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ BBS Multiple Book Review of: BEYOND MODULARITY: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1992 (234 pp.) Annette Karmiloff-Smith Cognitive Development Unit, Medical Research Council, 4 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BT, U.K. Electronic Mail: annette(a)cdu.ucl.ac.uk KEYWORDS: cognitive development, connectionism, constructivism, developmental stages, Fodor, modularity, nativism, Piaget, representational redescription, species differences. ABSTRACT: Beyond Modularity attempts a synthesis of Fodor's anti-constructivist nativism and Piaget's anti-nativist constructivism. Contra Fodor, I argue that: (1) the study of cognitive development is essential to cognitive science, (2) the module/central processing dichotomy is too rigid, and (3) the mind does not begin with prespecified modules, but that development involves a gradual process of modularization. Contra Piaget, I argue that: (1) development rarely involves stage-like domain-general change, and (2) domain-specific predispositions give development a small but significant kickstart by focusing the infant's attention on proprietary inputs. Development does not stop at efficient learning. A fundamental aspect of human development ("Representational Redescription") is the hypothesized process by which information that is IN a cognitive system becomes progressively explicit knowledge TO that system. Development thus involves two complementary processes of progressive modularization and rendering explicit. Empirical findings on the child as linguist, physicist, mathematician, psychologist and notator are discussed in support of the theoretical framework. Each chapter concentrates first on the initial state of the infant mind/brain and on subsequent domain-specific learning in infancy and early childhood. They then go on to explore data on older children's problem solving and theory building, with particular focus on evolving cognitive flexibility. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on the status of representations underlying different capacities and on the multiple levels at which knowledge is stored and accessible. Finally, consideration is given to the need for more formal developmental models, and the Representational Redescription framework is compared with connectionist simulations of development. The concluding sections consider what is special about human cognition and offer some speculations about the status of representations underlying the structure of behavior in other species. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate reviewer for this book, an electronic precis is retrievable by anonymous ftp from princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.karmsmith). Please let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. Note that only the book, not the Precis, is the object of the reviews. ------------------------------------------------------------- To retrieve a file by ftp from a Unix/Internet site, type either: ftp princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as per instructions (make sure to include the specified @), and then change directories with: cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.karmsmith When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager. A more elaborate version of these instructions for the U.K. is available on request (thanks to Brian Josephson)> These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc. ---------- Where the above procedures are not available (e.g. from Bitnet or other networks), there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet that will do the transfer for you. To one or the other of them, send the following one line message: help for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or bitftp will then execute for you).

32 years, 3 months

EEG Models: Chaotic and Linear: PSYCOLOQUY Call for Commentary

by Stevan Harnad

Note: This is a PSYCOLOQUY Call for Commentators, *not* a BBS Call: You are invited to submit a formal commentary on the target article whose abstract appears below. It has just been published in the refereed electronic journal PSYCOLOQUY. Instructions for retrieving the full article and for preparing a PSYCOLOQUY commentary appear after the abstract. All commentaries are refereed. TARGET ARTICLE AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING COMMENTARY The target article attempts to reconcile attractor neural network (ANN) theory with certain current models for the generation of the EEG as a step toward integrating ANN theory with gross observations of brain function. Emphasis is placed on symmetry of cortical connections at a macroscopic level as compared to symmetry at a microscopic level. We hope to elicit commentary on (1) the methodology of the experiments and simulations on which the work is based, (2) any contradictory experimental findings, (3) quantitative methods in anatomy required for further development, (4) other critiques of ANN applicability to global brain function. psycoloquy.93.4.60.EEG-chaos.1.wright Thursday 23 December 1993 ISSN 1055-0143 (53 parags, 12 equations, 3 figs, 62 refs, 1092 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1993 JJ Wright, RR Kydd & DTJ Liley EEG MODELS: CHAOTIC AND LINEAR J.J. Wright, R.R. Kydd, D.T.J. Liley Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand jwright(a)ccu1.auckland.ac.nz jjw(a)brain.physics.swin.oz.au ABSTRACT: Two complementary EEG models are considered. The first (Freeman 1991) predicts 40+ Hz oscillation and chaotic local dynamics. The second (Wright 1990) predicts propagating EEG waves exhibiting linear superposition, nondispersive transmission, and near-equilibrium dynamics, on the millimetric scale. Anatomical considerations indicate that these models must apply, respectively, to cortical neurons which are very asymmetrically coupled and to symmetric average couplings. Aspects of both are reconciled in a simulation which explains wave velocities, EEG harmonics, the 1/f spectrum of desynchronised EEG, and frequency-wavenumber spectra. Local dynamics can be compared to the attractor model of Amit and Tsodyks (1990) applied in conditions of highly asymmetric coupling. Nonspecific cortical afferents may confer an adiabatic energy landscape to the large-scale dynamics of cortex. KEYWORDS: chaos, EEG simulation, electroencephalogram, linear dynamics, neocortex, network symmetry, neurodynamics, pyramidal cell, wave velocity. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR PSYCOLOQUY COMMENTATORS Accepted PSYCOLOQUY target articles have been judged by 5-8 referees to be appropriate for Open Peer Commentary, the special service provided by PSYCOLOQUY to investigators in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive sciences and philosophy who wish to solicit multiple responses from an international group of fellow specialists within and across these disciplines to a particularly significant and controversial piece of work. If you feel that you can contribute substantive criticism, interpretation, elaboration or pertinent complementary or supplementary material on a PSYCOLOQUY target article, you are invited to submit a formal electronic commentary. Please note that although commentaries are solicited and most will appear, acceptance cannot, of course, be guaranteed. 1. Before preparing your commentary, please read carefully the Instructions for Authors and Commentators and examine recent numbers of PSYCOLOQUY. 2. Commentaries should be limited to 200 lines (1800 words, references included). PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit commentaries for relevance and style. In the interest of speed, commentators will only be sent the edited draft for review when there have been major editorial changes. Where judged necessary by the Editor, commentaries will be formally refereed. 3. Please provide a title for your commentary. As many commentators will address the same general topic, your title should be a distinctive one that reflects the gist of your specific contribution and is suitable for the kind of keyword indexing used in modern bibliographic retrieval systems. Each commentary should have a brief (~50-60 word) abstract 4. All paragraphs should be numbered consecutively. Line length should not exceed 72 characters. The commentary should begin with the title, your name and full institutional address (including zip code) and email address. References must be prepared in accordance with the examples given in the Instructions. Please read the sections of the Instruction for Authors concerning style, preparation and editing. PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 36,000. PSYCOLOQUY publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on which the author wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology and its related fields (biobehavioral, cognitive, neural, social, etc.) All contributions are refereed by members of PSYCOLOQUY's Editorial Board. Target article length should normally not exceed 500 lines [c. 4500 words]. Commentaries and responses should not exceed 200 lines [c. 1800 words]. All target articles, commentaries and responses must have (1) a short abstract (up to 100 words for target articles, shorter for commentaries and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s) and institutional address(es). In addition, for target articles only: (4) 6-8 indexable keywords, (5) a separate statement of the authors' rationale for soliciting commentary (e.g., why would commentary be useful and of interest to the field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and (6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses). All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation). It is strongly recommended that all figures be designed so as to be screen-readable ascii. If this is not possible, the provisional solution is the less desirable hybrid one of submitting them as postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text of the article. PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a 500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the reviewers selected. Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the copyright, and after it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of publication. However, except in very special cases, agreed upon in advance, contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in PSYCOLOQUY, Please submit all material to psyc(a)pucc.bitnet or psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu Anonymous ftp archive is DIRECTORY pub/harnad/Psycoloquy HOST princeton.edu ------------------------------------------------------------- To retrieve the file by ftp from a Unix/Internet site, type either: ftp princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as per instructions (make sure to include the specified @), and then change directories with: cd /pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1993.volume.4 To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get psyc.93.4.60.EEG-chaos.1.wright [or you can abbreviate with: mget *wright When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager. A more elaborate version of these instructions for the U.K. is available on request (thanks to Brian Josephson)> These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc. ---------- Where the above procedures are not available (e.g. from Bitnet or other networks), there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet that will do the transfer for you. To one or the other of them, send the following one line message: help for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or bitftp will then execute for you).

32 years, 3 months

Invitation to Attend: 1994 AISB Workshop & Tutorial Series

by Gergely Csibra

Az alabbi hirdetes tejes szovege (az egyes workshop-ok reszleteivel) az archivumbol lehivhato a send koglist aisb_series.1994 utasitassal (a level szovegeben!) a listserv(a)cogpsyphy.hu cimrol. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: csa33(a)keele.ac.uk (H.S. Nwana) Subject: Invitation to Attend: 1994 AISB Workshop & Tutorial Series Date: 14 Jan 1994 11:36:25 GMT ======================================================================= INVITATION TO ATTEND AISB WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL SERIES University of Leeds, England April 11th - 13th 1994 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) The AISB Committee invites you to attend Workshops and Tutorials in the first AISB Biennial Workshop & Tutorial Series. In odd numbered years AISB holds a scientific conference with an attached workshop and tutorial programme. In the intervening even years AISB is now starting an event which consists just of workshops and tutorials without a main conference. The fact that many workshops are being held concurrently in the same place will provide an opportunity for attendees at one workshop to meet with those from other workshops during breaks and in the evenings. In some instances, it is also possible for attendees to attend more than one event. The workshops and tutorials which are planned are as follows. Note that if you require further information about a particular workshop or tutorial, you should contact the individual workshop / tutorial organiser. If you require further information about the Series, you should contact one of the Series organisers (listed below). WORKSHOPS: ========= Title Dates Contact Evolutionary Computing 2 days Terry Fogarty Mon pm - Weds am tc_fogar(a)pat.uwe.ac.uk Models or Behaviours -- which 1.5 days Ruth Aylett way forward for robotics? Tues pm & Weds R.Aylett(a)iti.salford.ac.uk Computational Linguistics for 1 day Lindsay Evett Speech and Handwriting Recognition Tues lje(a)doc.ntu.ac.uk Automated Reasoning: Bridging the 2 days Alan Frisch Gap between Theory and Practice Mon & Tues frisch(a)minster.york.ac.uk Spatial and Spatio-temporal 1 day John Gooday Reasoning Weds gooday(a)scs.leeds.ac.uk Computational Models of Cognition 1 day Simon Grant and Cognitive Functions Mon simon(a)city.ac.uk TUTORIALS: ========= Practical Introduction to the 1 day Frank Ritter Soar Cognitive Architecture Tues ritter(a)psyc.nott.ac.uk Computing and Cognition as 0.5 day Gerry Wolff Information Compression Mon am gerry(a)sees.bangor.ac.uk POSTGRADUATE: ============ Postgraduate Workshop 2 days Ann Blandford Mon & Tues ann.blandford(a)mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk Series Organisers: ================= Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana | Dr Ann Blandford Department of Computer Science | MRC Applied Psychology Unit University of Keele | 15, Chaucer Road, Keele, Staffordshire | Cambridge ST5 5BG | CB2 2EF UK | UK | Email: | JANET: nwanahs(a)uk.ac.keele.cs | ann.blandford(a)uk.ac.cam.mrc-apu INTERNET: nwanahs(a)cs.keele.ac.uk | ann.blandford(a)mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk | Tel: (+44) (0) 782 583413 | Tel: (+44) (0) 223 355294 Fax: (+44) (0) 782 713082 | Fax: (+44) (0) 223 359062 ============================================================================== Registration fees below include costs of materials and of lunches which fall entirely within the duration of the workshop / tutorial. Costs of other meals and accommodation (in pounds sterling) are as follows: B + B 19.50 lunch 6.35 Dinner 8.75 ==============================================================================

32 years, 3 months

koglist, Visegrad, indicator semantics

by Gergely Csibra

Kogtarsak, 1. Tobben panaszkodnak, hogy sok junk-levelet kapnak (UNSUB, maganlevelek stb.). A panasz jogos, de tovabbra sem ohajtom moderalni a listat (akarja valaki?). Akiket nagyon zavar a sok felesleges level, azoknak ajanlhatom, hogy kuldjenek egy set koglist mail digest parancsot (a level szovegeben!) a listserv(a)cogpsyphy.hu cimre. Ez utan a KOGLIST-re erkezo uzeneteket napi osszesitesben (magyar ido szerint 23.30-kor) egyben kapja meg. Igy csak egy levelben kell atugralnia a felesleges uzezneteket. 2. A visegradi eloadasok *absztraktjait* tervezzuk a KOGLIST-en kozzetenni; erre nehany napon belul sor kerul. Az eloadasokat is elhelyezzuk az archivumunkban, amennyiben azokat a szerzok a rendelkezesunkre bocsatjak. Minden archivalt anyagrol kuldunk ertesitest. 3. Csatlakozom Nadasdy Zoli kerdesehez: mi az, hogy 'indicator semantics'? Csibra Gergely

32 years, 3 months

Re: Leslie level

by ERDI＠rmk530.rmki.kfki.hu

nem vagyok Zoli (sem) ptr

32 years, 3 months

Re: Leslie level

by Gyorgy Gergely

Zoli, sikerult elkuldened a levelet a Leslie-nek? Nem kapok e-mail-t tole, pedig nagyon surgos lenne... Lehet, hogy el van utazva? Nem tudnad megtudni nekem? Fodor belepett, the force is with us. Gyuri

32 years, 3 months

None

by kalocsai＠rana.usc.edu

Ugy ertem, ra tudnatok tenni a cimemet a KOGLIST cimlistara? Koszonettel! Kalocsai Peter ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× × Peter Kalocsai × × University of Southern California × × Hedco Neuroscience Building, Room 09 × × Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 × × Office:(213) 740-6102 Home:(213) 733-2897 Fax:(213) 740-5687 × × E-mail:kalocsai@rana.usc.edu × ××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××

32 years, 3 months

Csatlakozas a cimlistahoz

by kalocsai＠rana.usc.edu

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