Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by:
Jeffrey Gray
on:
CONSCIOUSNESS AND NEUROPSYCOLOGY
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THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CONJECTURE
Jeffrey A. Gray
Department of Psychology
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill
London SE5 8AF, England
jgray(a)ux.psych.lon.ac.uk
ABSTRACT: Drawing on previous models of anxiety, intermediate
memory, the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and goal-directed
behaviour, a neuropsychological hypothesis is proposed for the
generation of the contents of consciousness. It is suggested that
these correspond to the outputs of a comparator that, on a
moment-by-moment basis, compares the current state of the
organism's perceptual world with a predicted state. An outline is
given of the information-processing functions of the comparator
system and of the neural systems which mediate them. The
hypothesis appears to be able to account for a number of key
features of the contents of consciousness. However, it is argued
that neither this nor any existing comparable hypothesis is yet
able to explain why the brain should generate conscious experience
of any kind at all.
KEYWORDS: Conciousness, contents of consciousness, comparator,
septohippocampal system, anxiety, schizophrenia.
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Professor Wolfgang Dressler
Vienna University will be the guest of the Cognitive program of Altalanos Pszichologiai
Tanszek at ELTE.
He will be staying in Izabella 46 and his local host wiil be Zsuzsa Vinkler
(vinkler(a)izabell.elte.hu). Please contact her with any querries.
His professional program is the following. Please post it and circulate.
November 3rd: Thursday
10 - 11h30 AM. Kiefer Ferenc Morphopragmatics class. Szinhaz utca
(Nyelvtudomanyi Intezet)
2 P.M. Izabella 46, 403:
The naturalist approach in linguistics
Examples from morphology and discourse
6 P.M. talk with the phasia people in your appartment in Izabella
street.
November 4th, Friday
11. A.M. Inflection classes and their acquisition
Szinhaz utca (Nyelvtudomanyi Intezet)
PhD students should be able to arrange meetings with Professor Dressler on his
talks.
All are wellcome Pleh Csaba
Az Altalanos Pszichologiai Tanszek
K E D D I S Z E M I N A R I U M ainak
N O V E M B E Ri programja
november 1.
GEIER Janos: Az IRIS Indigo (LILA) grafikus munkaallomas
felhasznalasi lehetosegeinek bemutatasa
november 8.
GERGELY Gyorgy: Az eszme'lkede's lelektana - Gergely es
Watson
november 15.
SZOKOLSZKY Agnes: O:kologiai pszichologia
november 22.
PLEH Csaba, VINKLER Zsuzsa et al.: Elofeszites a mentalis
lexikonban es az alaktani feldolgozas
november 29.
BOCZ Andras: Konnekcionizmus es nyelvi feldolgozas
Az eloadasok idopontja tovabbra is kedd, 12.00 - 13.00,
helye
a 403. terem (Izabella u. 46). Es tovabbra is minden
erdeklodot szeretettel var az ELTE Altalanos
Pszichologiai Tanszek.
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Az IUHPS/DLMPS hazai bizottsaga es az MFT hazai tudomanyfilozofiai tagozata
szeretettel mehgivja Ont a
TUDASSZOCIOLOGIA EROS PROGRAMJAROL
cimu kerekasztal beszelgetesre.
helye: Budapesti Muszaki Egyetem, Oktatoi Klub (Foepulet, I. em. 66)
idopont: oktober 27 (csutortok) 18 ora
Forrai Gabor
Margitay Tihamer
vedes: Kampis Gyorgy
Kedves Kollegak,
minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk. udv Kampis.
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MEGH'IV'O
A TUDOM'ANYOS MIN"OS'IT"O BIZOTTS'AG
megh'ivja "Ont
KAMPIS GYORGY
"ONM'ODOS'IT'O RENDSZEREK"
c'im"u doktori 'ertekez'es'enek 1994. november 3.-'an 9:00 'orakor a
Magyar Kult'ura Alap'itv'any (Kult'urinnov) Budav'ar Term'eben
(Bp. I., Szenth'aromsag t'er 6.) tartand'o nyilv'anos vit'aj'ara.
Az 'ertekez'es opponensei:
'Erdi P'eter, a k'emiai tudom'any doktora (MTA RMKI)
Pl'eh Csaba, a pszichol'ogiai tudom'any kandid'atusa
(ELTE \'Alt. Pszich. Tsz.)
V'amos Tibor, akad'emikus, a m"uszaki tudom'any doktora
(MTA SZTAKI)
Az 'ertekez'es megtekinthet"o az MTA K"onyvt'ar'aban
(Bp. V., Arany J. u. 1).
A nyilv'anos vit'aban minden jelenl'evo r'eszt vehet 'es el"ozetesen
'ir'asban is 'eszrev'etelt tehet.
A TUDOM'ANYOS MIN"OS'IT"O BIZOTTS'AG
M E G H I V O
Az ELTE Altalanos Pszichologiai Tanszeke
"KEDDI SZEMINARIUM"-ainak kereteben 1994. oktober 25-en,
kedden 12.00 - 13.00 -ig, az Izabella u. 46. IV. em. 403-as
teremben
FARKAS MA'RIA
Az implicit emlekezet vizsgalata agyserulteknel
cimmel tart eloadast, amelyre ezuton is minden erdeklodot
szeretettel meghivunk.
ELTE Altalanos Pszichologiai Tanszek.
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From: Koen Lamberts <koen(a)vis.psg.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Postdoc position (UK) - Categorization
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:58:20 GMT
Postdoctoral position in Cognitive Psychology
University of Birmingham (UK)
An ESRC-funded full-time research position is available for three years
from 1st January, 1995. The appointed post-holder will carry out
experimental and theoretical research on the time course of cognitive
processes in categorization, in collaboration with Koen Lamberts and Glyn
Humphreys. Candidates would need a strong research background in cognitive
psychology or cognitive science. Experience in experimental design and
analysis, formal model construction and model evaluation is essential. For
further information, please contact
Koen Lamberts
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
or send e-mail to koen(a)vis.psg.bham.ac.uk.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 18:32:43 EDT
From: payette(a)ca.uqam.atoci.uranus
Subject: Re: Colloque de Lyon
The Seventh Colloquium of the Jacques Cartier Center
Lyon, France.
THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES: FROM COMPUTATIONAL MODELS
TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994
under the aegis of:
the Pole Rhones-Alpes of the Cognitive Sciences,
Programme Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Cognisciences,CNRS
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Universite de Montreal
Universite Joseph Fourier
Universite Claude Bernard
Scientific committee:
Denis Fisette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec)
Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon)
Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, Quebec)
Daniel Payette (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec)
Vincent Rialle (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble)
Coordination in North America: Daniel Payette and Denis Fisette
Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Dpt de Philosophie, Dpt Psychology; C.P.
8888,Succ A, Montreal (Quebec) H3C-3P8, Canada;
E.mail : payette(a)uranus.atoci.uqam.ca;
tel (+514) 987 8418; Fax: (+514) 9876721
Coordination in Europe: Vincent Rialle
Universite J. Fourier, Labo.TIMC-IMAG, Faculte de Medecine, 38706 LaTronche
Cedex E.mail: Vincent.Rialle(a)imag.fr;
Tel. (+33) 76 63 71 87; Fax. (+33) 76 51 8667
DATES: Wednesday, November 30th to Friday, December 2nd 1994
CONFERENCE SITE:
Amphitheatre CHARLES BERAUDIER. Conseil Regional RHONE-ALPES,78 route de
Paris, 69751 CHARBONNIERES-les-BAINS. France
*Talks will only be given by invited speakers. (Simultaneous
French-English and English-French will be provided).
THEME OF COLLOQUIUM
The modeling of mental processes in the various human cognitive
activities has generated increasing interest in the scientific world
today. Cognitive models, cognitive simulations, auto-organization,
adaptation, emergence, genetic selection, Darwinian mentalism and
enaction are active research topics in neurological and psychological
theory.
The cognitive sciences offer a continuum of research extending from the
engineering sciences to the philosophy of mind, including the
neurosciences, cognitive psychology, linguistics, semantics, semiotics
and artificial intelligence. Three subconferences will organize
themselves around the following major complementary themes: (i)
Modeling (cognitive and brain functions), (ii) Philosophy of Mind and
Epistemology, and (iii) Applications (AI, technical and computational
engineering).
(i) Modeling is a point of intersection for all these specialties
because it includes the modeling of functions and dysfunctions of the
central nervous system, the neurocomputer sciences, the modeling of
psychocognitive and mental processes, the emergence of intentional
structure on the basis of biological structure, enaction, genetic
algorithms, neural networks, artificial "life," etc.
(ii) The philosophical and epistemological subcomponent poses questions
like the following: Can we elaborate mathematical models of the mind
and use them to describe and explain human behavior? Are we aiming
toward a mathematical model of the mind? Can we capture the formal
principles of the development and emergence of cognition? Can we
technologically recreate thought? Is the computational symbolic
paradigm, which has imposed itself for the last decades, still a
powerful conceptual tool or is it proving too reductionistic and if so,
how? What is the epistemological status of, for example, the
alternative proposed by the parallel distributed model to the
computational models of classical cognitivism? Wich relations can be
established between the modeling activity of the cognitive and
neurosciences and human experience?
(iii) The applications subconference will consider practical domains in
which scientific results have been applied in the treatment of
language, the automated cognitive analyses of textual documents (an
intersection of linguistics, semantics, semiotics and artificial
intelligence), aids to decision making, applications in sensory
information processing, etc.
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, 30 November 1994
8h15 - 8h30
Allocution d'accueil du Conseil Regional
8h30 - 9h
Guy Tiberghien (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble)
Introduction
SESSION 1 :NEURO AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELING
9h - 9h-30
Jean Francois Le Ny (Universite Paris-Sud, psychologie cognitive)
Pourquoi les modeles cognitifs devraient-ils etre calculatoires ?
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Marc Jeannerod (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, neurosciences)
The Representational Brain
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
10h45 - 11h15
Zenon Pylyshyn (Rutgers University, USA, psychologie cognitive)
What's in the Mind? A Computational Approach to a Ancient Question.
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Stevan Harnad (Princeton University, psychologie cognitive)
Modeles, mobiles et mentalite
12h00 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Michel Imbert (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, neurosciences)
De l'etude du cerveau a la comprehension de l'esprit
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
Guy Tiberghien (Univers Pierre Mendes-France,Grenoble,psychologie
cognitive)
Connexionnisme: stade supreme du behaviorisme ?
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Jacques Demongeot (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, neurosciences)
Memoire d'evocation dans les reseaux de neurones
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Bennet Murdock (Universite de Toronto, psychologie cognitive)
THE ROLE OF FORMAL MODELS IN MEMORY RESEARCH
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Robert Proulx (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, neuro-psychologie)
Plausibilite biologique de certains systemes de categorisation adaptative a
base de reseaux de neurones
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
TUESDAY, December 1
Session 2 : EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND and COGNITION
9h - 9h30
Elisabeth Pacherie (Universite de Provence, CNRS & CREA, Paris)
Cognitive Domains and Modularity
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Pierre Livet (Universite de Provence & CREA, Paris, philosophie)
Categorisation et connexionnisme
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
Normand Lacharite (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, epistemologie)
10h45 - 11h15
Conflits de modeles en theorie de la representation
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Peter Gardenfors (Lund University, Suede, philosophie)
Language and the Evolution of Mind
12h15 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Andy Clark (Washington University, philosophie)
Wild Cognition: Putting Representation in its Place
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
Kevin Mulligan (Universite de Geneve, Suisse, philosophie)
Constance perceptuelle et contenu spatial
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Ronald De Sousa (Universite de Toronto, epistemologie)
La rationalite: un concept normatif ou descriptif ?
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Daniel Laurier (Universite de Montreal, philosophie)
Rationalite et naturalisme
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Joelle Proust (CNRS & CREA, Paris, philosophie)
Un modele naturaliste de l'intentionnalite
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
FRIDAY, December 2
Session 3: IA MODELING, LANGUAGE and COGNITIVE SEMANTIC
Paul Jorion (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, psychologie cognitive)
9h - 9h30
Modelisation du reseau mnesique : une utilisation minimaliste de l'IA
9h30 - 9h45 Discussion
9h-45 - 10h15
Bernard Amy (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, connexionnisme)
Neural Networks in AI
10h15 - 10h30 Discussion
10h30 - 10h45 PAUSE
10h45 - 11h15
Paul Bourgine (CEMAGREF, Paris-Antony, IA-modelisation)
Co-evolution et emergence du soi
11h15 - 11h30 Discussion
11h30 - 12h00
Paul Pietroski (Universite McGill, Canada, philosophie)
What can linguistics teach us about belief
12h00 - 12h15 Discussion
MEAL
14h00 - 14h30
Le paradigme hermeneutique et la mediation semiotique
Francois Rastier (Institut National de la Langue Francaise, CNRS,
linguistique computationnelle)
14h30 - 14h45 Discussion
14h45 - 15h15
L'impact des perspectives cognitives dans le traitement de l'information
Jean-Guy Meunier (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, semiotique)
15h15 - 15h30 Discussion
15h30 - 15h45 PAUSE
15h45 - 16h15
Guy Denhiere (Universite Paris VIII, psychologie cognitive)
Isabelle Tapiero (Universite Lyon II, psychologie cognitive)
La signification comme structure emergente : de l'acces au lexique a la
comprehension de textes
16h15 - 16h30 Discussion
16h30 - 17h00
Paul Freedman (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montreal, IA)
La vision artificielle: le traitement intelligent de documents
17h00 - 17h15 Discussion
17h15 - 17h45
Denis Vernant (Universite Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble, philosophie)
L'intelligence de la machine et sa capacite dialogique
17h45 - 18h00 Discussion
18h00: END OF COLLOQUIUM
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From: sipsc01(a)mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Hans Schleichert)
Subject: Job open
To: scanlist(a)cogpsyphy.hu (NeuroScan User Discussion Group)
Date sent: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 18:51:16 +0100 (MET)
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The job includes: Research in the area of chronical pain and classical
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The job is full time of you have an academic degree (M.D., Ph.D.) or
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The job is limited to 14 months, starting on 01 Nov 1994, but there is a
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From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date sent: Thu, 13 Oct 94 19:50:21 BST
To: pg(a)ucs.uucp, staff(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Computer Models of Affective States
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 16:21:50 +0000 (WET-DST)
From: KAISER(a)ch.unige.uni2a
Subject: Program of GEW'95
Call for Applications
GENEVA EMOTION WEEK '95
April 8 to April 13, 1995
University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Emotion Research Group at the University of Geneva announces the
third GENEVA EMOTION WEEK (GEW '95), consisting of a colloquium focusing
on a major topic in the psychology of emotion, and of a series of
workshops designed to introduce participants to advanced research
methods in the field of emotion.
The colloquium consists of extensive presentations of theoretical and
methodological approaches as well as recent empirical work by a group of
invited speakers and faculty members of the University of Geneva. Ample
time is allotted for discussion. The colloquium lasts 3 days. The theme
chosen for the GEW '95 is:
Artificial Emotions
The intention of GEW'95 is to bring together researchers in diverse
disciplines, including AI, neurosciences, philosophy, and psychology,
who share an interest in architectures and mechanisms underlying
emotion, motivation, and intelligence. The focus is on architectural
requirements for an autonomous agent, combining the various sub-
functions and sub-mechanisms normally studied separately in AI and
Psychology. GEW'95 is organized in collaboration with the Cognition
and Affect Group under the direction of Prof. Aaron Sloman at the
Cognitive Science Research Center, University of Birmingham.
This group organized the first Workshop on Architectures for
Understanding Motivation and Emotions (WAUME93) at Birmingham
and is pleased that WAUME95 is to be merged with GEW'95.
Speakers and Topics of the colloquium:
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Prof. Joseph Le Doux, New York University:
- Neural Computation of Emotional Meaning by the Brain.
Prof. Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton:
- Measuring and Modelling Performance Capacities and
Qualitative States.
Prof. Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham:
- Architectures for Emotional Agents.
Prof. Klaus Scherer, University of Geneva:
- Computer Modeling of Appraisal Processes.
Discussant: Prof. Nico Frijda, Univ. Amsterdam
The workshops will be dedicated to practical work, e.g. simulation
models, tools, problems, etc. The workshops listed below will be held by
the organizers and the invited speakers. In addition, 2 or 3 workshop
proposals from participants for workshops lasting between 1.5 and
3 hours will be selected on a competitive basis. At the end of each
workshop day there will be a session (3 x 2h) for posters,
demonstrations, videos, and individual discussions.
The topics of the invited workshops, each lasting approx. 3 hours are:
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Dr. Jorge Armony, Center for Neuroscience, New York:
- An Anatomically Constrained Connectionist Model of Fear Conditioning.
Prof. Stevan Harnad, Southampton:
- Turing Testing and the Causal Status of Affect.
Prof. Aaron Sloman, Cognition and Affect Group, Birmingham:
- Exploring Motivated Agent Design.
Dr. Prem Kalra, Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Miralab, Geneva:
- Simulating Facial Expressions and Phonemes for Virtual Humans.
Dr. Thomas Wehrle, Prof. Klaus Scherer, Emotion Research Group, Geneva:
- Computational Models: Open Issues.
- A Psychological Modeling Environment for Autonomous Agents.
Prospective participants are researchers or doctoral students
working in AI, neurosciences, philosophy, or psychology.
Admission for the limited number of places is decided on the basis
of prior application. People interested in participating are asked to
fill in the enclosed application form as soon as possible and before
January 31, 1995
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APPLICATION FORM (please append a short Curriculum Vitae)
GENEVA EMOTION WEEK (GEW'95): April 8 to 13, 1995
Name:....................................................................
First Name:..............................................................
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Affiliation:.............................................................
Address:.................................................................
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Highest academic degree received
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A limited number of workshops (each lasting approx. 1.5 hours) are
selected competitively. Workshop proposals should include the workshop
title, a description of the background in the research area, a brief
resume of the organizer(s), references to published work and relevant
experience. Proposals must be received by December 31, 1994.
The preferred maximum number of attendees is 36. In order to enable
us to plan arrangements for the workshop it will be useful to know
soon whether there will be a significantly larger number of well
qualified applicants. If you think there is a real chance that
you will be applying, please send in a note as soon as possible to
the address below, saying so and indicating whether you are likely
to submit a workshop proposal or not.
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The colloquium will start on Saturday, April 8, 1995 at 14:00 and end on
Monday, April 10, 1995 at 12:00.
The workshops will start on Monday, April 10, 1995 at 14:00 and end on
Thursday, April 13, 1995 at 12:00.
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Arrival Date*:................... Departure Date*:........................
Full colloquium/workshop fee with all lunches including accommodation
for April 8 to April 13, 1995 (5 nights)*:
Category A:..... Hotel de l'Etoile (Sw.frs. 1'200.--)
Category B:..... Cite Universitaire (Sw.frs. 600.--)
Fee for colloquium only including accommodation
for April 8 to April 10, 1995 (2 nights)*:
Category C:..... Hotel de l'Etoile (Sw.frs. 300.--)
Category D:..... Cite Universitaire (Sw.frs. 200.--)
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*Participants who want to come earlier or leave later have to organize
their accommodation for these days themselves.
Full colloquium/workshop fees:
A) Researchers holding an academic position: Sw.frs. 1'200
(including hotel accommodation)
B) Doctoral students and assistants: Sw.frs. 600.--
(including students' hostel accommodation)
Colloquium only:
C) Researchers holding an academic position Sw.frs. 300.--
(including hotel accommodation)
D) Doctoral students and assistants: Sw.frs. 200.--
(including students' hostel accommodation)
Upon acceptance of your participation, you will receive a
confirmation letter and payment instructions. Organizers
of an accepted workshop (one person per workshop) will be
informed before January, 31, 1995 and pay a reduced fee
of Sw.frs. 1'050.-- (Sw.frs. 400.-- for doctoral students).
Please return to: Dr. Susanne Kaiser - University of
Geneva, FPSE, Section de Psychologie
9, route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge
Fax: +41/22/300 1482; E-mail: kaiser(a)uni2a.unige.ch
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Gabor Ujvari | Institute for Psychology, Budapest, HUNGARY
ujvari(a)cogpsyphy.hu | Tel.: (36) 1 153-3244 Fax: (36) 1 269-2972
