Five important new changes in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS)
addresses, policies and procedures (1-5) plus
Three announcements about positions and activities at my new
institution (Southampton University) (6-8).
Summaries first, then the details:
(1) New address for submitting BBS target articles
(2) New address for submitting BBS commentaries
(3) All commentaries now require asbtracts
(4) All articles.commentaries now require email version and/or disk
(5) Target articles now electronically retrievable in multiple ways
(6) Applications invited for Psychology Professorship at U. Southampton.
(7) Applications invited for grad students and postdocs to work with me
(8) Come and give a talk at our new Cognitive Sciences Centre
(1) NEW BBS ADDRESS (Editorial): Effective immediately, ALL SUBMITTED TARGET
ARTICLES AND ALL CORRESPONDENCE PERTAINING TO EDITING AND REFEREEING
should henceforth be addressed to BBS's new Editorial Office:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
phone: 44 703 594-583
fax: 44 703 593-281
email: bbs(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
All BBS email should go to the email address above; only messages intended
for Stevan Harnad personally should be sent to harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk --
I now get over 80 emails a day so please, whatever can be answered by
the Managing Editor, send to bbs rather than harnad!
(2) SECOND NEW BBS ADDRESS: Effective immediately, ALL SUBMITTED
COMMENTARIES (double-spaced, in triplicate, with email version and/or
disk) AND ALL CORRESPONDENCE PERTAINING TO COPY-EDITING AND PROOFS
should henceforth be addressed to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cambridge University Press
Journals Department
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011-4211
USA
phone: 800-431-1580 (ext. 369, Ed Miller)
212-924-3900 (ext. 369, Ed Miller)
fax: 212-645-5960
email: bbs(a)cup.org (or emiller(a)cup.org)
To expedite mailing, all commentaries will be received and logged in New
York and then forwarded to the Editor in Southampton for review.
(3) Effective immediately, every BBS commentary and author's response
must have have an ABSTRACT (~60 words).
(4) Effective immediately, IN ADDITION to the requisite number of hard
copies, all BBS contributions (articles, commentaries, and responses) will
also have to be submitted in electronic form -- by email (preferably) to
bbs(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk or on a computer disk accompanying the hard copies.
BBS is moving toward more and more electronic processing at all stages.
The result will be much faster, more efficient and fairer procedures.
(5) Electronic versions of the preprints of all BBS target articles can
be retrieved by ftp, archie, gopher or World-Wide-Web from:
ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals
This way prospective commentators can let us know that they would like
to be invited to comment on target articles about to circulated for
commentary, and can search the archive for past articles on which they
may wish to contribute Continuing Commentary.
(6) Applications are invited for a full Professorship in Psychology at
the University of Southampton. I am especially interested to hear from
Experimental/Clinical Neuropsychologists with active research
programmes: Please contact me to discuss it informally:
harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
(7) Expressions of interest are also invited from prospective graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows interested in coming to work with me
in the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory and the Cognitive Sciences
Centre at Southampton University. Our research focus is decribed below.
Please write to: harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk
(8) Let me know if you will be in the London area and would like to
give a talk about your work at our new Cognitive Sciences Centre (CSC),
of which I am Director, with the collaboration of Professor Michael
Sedgewick (Clinical Neurological Sciences), Professors Tony Hey and
Chris Harris (Electronics and Computer Science), Dr. John Bradshaw
(Anthro-Zoology Institute), Professor Wendy Hall (Multimedia Centre)
and Professor Bob Remington (ex officio, Head of the Psychology
Department).
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Research Focus of the Laboratory
CATEGORISATION AND COGNITION: Our capacity to categorise is at the
heart of all of our cognitive capacity. People can sort and label the
objects and events they see and hear with a proficiency that still far
exceeds that of our most powerful machines. How do we manage to do it?
The answer will not only tell us more about ourselves but it will allow
us to apply our findings to enhancing our proficiency, both in the
learning of categories and in our use of machines to extend our
capacities.
CATEGORY LEARNING is the most general form of cognition. Animals learn
categories when they learn what is and is not safe to eat, where it is
safe to forage, who is friend and who is foe. Children learn the same
kinds of categories, but they eventually go on to the much more powerful
and uniquely human strategy of learning categories by name, rather then
by performing some instrumental response on them, such as eating or
fleeing. Whether they categorise by instrumental response or by name,
however, children must still have direct experience with the objects
they are categorising, and some sort of corrective feedback from the
consequences of MIScategorising them. Eventually, however, categories
can be learned from strings of symbols alone, with most of those
symbols being themselves the names of categories. This is the most
remarkable of our cognitive capacities, language, but language and
cognition cannot be understood unless we analyse how they are grounded
in categorisation capacity (Harnad 1990). This is theme of our
research programme.
BEHAVIORAL, COMPUTATIONAL AND NEURAL APPROACHES: There are three
empirical ways to investigate the functional basis of our
categorisation capacity. The first way is to (i) analyse our
categorisation performance itself experimentally, particularly how we
LEARN to categorise. The second way is to (ii) model our categorisation
capacity with computers that must learn the same categories that we do,
on the basis of the same input and corrective feedback that we get. The
third way is to (iii) monitor brain function while we are learning
categories, to determine what neural properties change during the
course of learning, and to relate them to the performance changes
during learning, as well as to the internal functioning of the machine
models performing the same task. These three converging lines of
investigation are the ones to be pursued in the Cognitive Psychology
Laboratory.
Details and papers are available from the URLs below:
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Stevan Harnad
Professor of Psychology
Director, Cognitive Sciences Centre
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk harnad(a)princeton.edu
phone: +44 703 592582
fax: +44 703 594597
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From: sullivan(a)ohsu.edu (Michael Sullivan,MAC-D,PSU)
Subject: CSAIL announcement
COGNITIVE SCIENCE ASSOCIATION FOR
INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING
Hood River, Oregon
July 13 - 17, 1995
Dear Colleague:
We would like to invite you to the second annual conference of the
Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning (CSAIL). The
conference is modeled after the Interdisciplinary Conference in Jackson Hole,
BASICS in Banff, and LOVE in Niagara Falls. Last year we had an outstanding
conference.
We invite papers on topics in cognitive science. Talks will be 30
minute and held in the morning and evening allowing plenty of time for leisure
activities. Note that the presentation time may be modified slightly to
allow everyone who wants to present their research, time to do so. If
necessary, we may add a poster session(s). Acceptance of presentations will be
on a first come, first serve basis. If you would like to present, please send
150 word abstract to Bill Prinzmetal at the address below. The deadline for
talk proposals is May 27th, 1995. The conference registration fee is $100.00.
The registration fee pays for the rental of the conference room and
audio-visual equipment, and daily catering of snacks and refreshments.
Details about the conference, lodging, transportation, and leisure
activities in Hood River and the surrounding areas can be obtained by writing
Bill Prinzmetal at the following address:
Bill Prinzmetal
Department of Psychology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
e_mail: wprinz(a)garnet.berkeley.edu
If you are interested in attending the conference, please register and
make your airline and hotel reservations as soon as possible. The conference
will be held at the Hood River Hotel. You may make your hotel reservation by
calling 1-800-386-1859. Identify yourself as being with the CSAIL conference.
We have posted this preliminary announcement in various places. If you
know of anyone who might be interested, please pass this announcement along to
them. We look forward to having a second great conference and hope that you
can attend.
Sincerely,
Bill Prinzmetal, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Sullivan, Wheeler Cognitive Lab and Aging and Alzheimer's Research
Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.
Pierre Jolicoeur, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada.
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This year's CLS will take place in Bristol from April 7-9, 1995 (yes, the
same dates exactly as the Stanford meeting). The abstract deadline was mid
November 1994, and the theme for this year's meeting is Current Research
in the Acquisition of Signed and Spoken Languages. For more information
please contact the organisers at:
Centre for Deaf Studies
University of Bristol
22 Berkeley Square
Bristol BS8 1HP
United Kingdom
Guest speaker: Prof. Steve Pinker (MIT) on the language instinct,
natural language and learnability.
tel 02720303030 ext B7081
fax 02720257875
text phone 02720251370
email jim.kyle(a)ssa.bristol.ac.uk
Thanks to the four of you who sent in this information. --Brian
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SZEMINARIUM
Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken (1088 Bp., Rakoczi
ut 5.), a
"Tudomanyfilozofiai Teazo"
kereteben
Szecsenyi Tibor
(az ELTE BTK Szimbolikus Logika es
Tudomanymetodologia Tanszek egy. docense)
"A metatudomany hatarai es Godel inkomplettsegi tetelei"
cimu eloadasara kerul sor.
Idopontja: 1995 jan. 26., csutortok, 17 ora. Helye: Rakoczi ut 5., II. em. 229.
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ELOADASKIVONAT
Az eloadas celja a 20. szazadi elmeletfelfogasok (szintaktikai, szemantikai
es strukturalista) rovid bemutatasa, es a rajuk tamaszkodo fobb
tudomanyelmeleti es tudomanyfilozofiai kerdesfeltevesek es valaszok elemzese.
Ennek reszekent megvizsgaljuk a Church-fele eldonthetetlensegi tetel es Godel
inkomplettsegi teteleinek hagyomanyos ertelmezeset.
Az eloadas vitatemaja a hatarteteleknek az elmeletek nyelvi reprezentaciojanak
modszerere alapozott uj interpretacioja.
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Az eloadas idotartama 50-60 perc, amelyet rovid szunet
utan kb. 30-60 perc vita kovet.
Udvozlettel,
a szervezok: Kampis Gyorgy (kampis(a)ludens.elte.hu)
Szabo Laszlo (leszabo(a)ludens.elte.hu)
Szecsenyi Tibor (szecska(a)ludens.elte.hu)
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From: rapaport(a)cs.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: MONIST interactive issue; call for papers
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:54:44 GMT
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MONIST INTERACTIVE ISSUE
The Monist. Volume 80, Number 3, July 1997.
Advisory Editors: Steven Harnad (Southampton) and J. C. Nyiri
(Budapest)
Philosophy, like other intellectual disciplines, has been both
constituted and constrained by the media available for the
production and exchange of ideas. It is the inventions of writing
and print which have made scholarly inquiry possible. And as for
philosophy, some of its seemingly perennial problems in fact arose
as a consequence of the fact that living (spoken) language had to
be transformed into language fixed on paper. Writing created the
isolated thinker, while also allowing the time to think and to
organize thoughts into lapidary form; but it could not be
interactive in the way that real-time conversation was, and
certainly not among multiple interlocutors. Electronic networks
now offer new conceptual challenges and a new framework for
philosophizing. This issue of The Monist will itself serve as an experiment
in new interactive methods of philosophical composition.
HOW THE DISCUSSION/PUBLICATION PROCESS WILL RUN ITS COURSE:
The issue will be made up of 8 "papers", each destined to be about
7500 words long. Each paper will consist of interactive commentary
(launched by a suitable target or series of targets). The "raw"
discussion will be electronic, moderated (i.e., filtered through
one moderator, but not edited by him) and archived. When the
interaction has run its course, it will be edited down, revised as
necessary, to form a coherent chunk of about 7500 words which
would appear in the usual (paper) format, with a reference to the
archive of the original "raw" discussion.
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION might include:
"The Concept of Knowledge in the Context of Electronic Networking"
"Originality, Plagiarism and Interactivity"
"What Is Computation?"
A SITE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED, where the records of the exchange will
be archived. This is the MONist nETwork site. The URL for MONET is
as follows:
gopher://wings.buffalo.edu.:70/11/academic/department/philosophy/
For the time being, you may simply send copies of your
messages/suggestions/submissions to nyiri(a)ludens.elte.hu. Those wishing
to volunteer to serve as moderators should contact Nyiri as soon as possible.
Kedves Kollegak,
ez csak egy emlekezteto. Kovacs Ilona: Origins of modularity in
vision science
kurzusa januar 1oen, 14hkor kezdodik, Izabell utca 46, III. emelet
3o1.
Csibra Gergely Naiv fizika kurzusa pedig
16an hetfon ugyanott, 16htol.
Akik kertek gyujtemnyet, atvehetik Kurgyis Jozsefnel,
Izabell 46, III. emelet 311. kurgyis(a)izabell.elte.hu
Mindenkinek BUEK.
Ja, es aki jon Visegradra, program az emailen.
Talalkozas pentek, 13an 9kor az uduloben vagy tizkor az erdeszetnel.
Udv Pleh Csaba
