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Each year in May since 1982, the Departments of Psychology at the
University of Calgary and the University of Alberta have jointly hosted a
conference known as BASICS (Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science).
This year I would like to announce that the conference will be held on the
weekend of May 6-7 and welcome a number of other Western Canadian
universities to the list of sponsors: The University of Victoria, the
University of Manitoba, the University of Lethbridge, the University of
British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University. This notice is being sent
to you with the hope that you will plan on attending.
This year's theme is entitled "Learning and Attention: Brain and
Behavioural Approaches" and we have an outstanding list of speakers:
Michael Posner (University of Oregon); Steven Luck (University of Iowa);
Patrick Cavanaugh (Harvard University); Steven Yantis (Johns Hopkins
University); Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School) and Lynn Robertson (UC
Davis). The conference will begin Saturday morning (May 6) and finish
Sunday afternoon. The talks are more like colloquia and allow a scientist
ample time to lay out a course of research, rather than simply to discuss
the results of one or two experiments. An extensive question period and
break follows each 60 minute talk and provides sufficient time for detailed
questions and discussion.
BASICS is moving back to our "old" location and will be held at the
Banff Park Lodge (222 Lynx St., Banff, Alberta). The Banff Park Lodge is
located in the heart of the Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff and is very
accessible to local restaurants and shopping. I have reserved a block of
rooms at the Lodge under the conference name at the special rate of
$98.40/night for a single ($50.80 per person for a double) plus appropriate
taxes. The registration fee is $60 for faculty and $25 for students. We
expect to begin the conference on Saturday morning (May 6) at 8:45 AM and
end Sunday at 12:30 PM. The program distributed at the conference will
provide all additional information.
This year we will hold a conference banquet on Saturday night.
This event was well attended last year, as it provides a way for everyone
to socialize over dinner. I strongly urge all to register for the banquet
on the accompanying form. The cost of the banquet is $32 per person and
must be paid in advance when registering.
If you plan to attend and want a registration form, please write to
me at the address below, phone me at 403/220-5572, or E-mail me at
shapiro(a)acs.ucalgary.ca for the electronic version. Please phone the Banff
Park Lodge (TOLL FREE: 800/661-9266; Fax: 403/762-3553; Alberta residents:
403/762-4433) for room reservations and be sure to mention BASICS. I can
accept registrations and the Lodge will accept reservations no later than
April 5. Those wishing to make accommodation arrangements at other hotels
will find many to choose from within the town of Banff.
Looking forward to seeing you at the conference!
Kimron Shapiro
Department of Psychology
The University of Calgary
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by:
John Barresi & Chris Moore
on:
INTENTIONAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING
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INTENTIONAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING
John Barresi and Chris Moore
Department of Psychology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4J1, Canada.
jbarresi(a)ac.dal.ca
moorec(a)ac.dal.ca
ABSTRACT Organisms engage in various activities that are directed
at objects, whether real or imagined. Such activities cab be called
"intentional relations." We present a four-level framework for
social understanding which organizes the ways in which social
organisms represent their own intentional relations those of other
agents. The information available to an organism about its own
intentional relations (or first person information) is
qualitatively different from the information available to that
organism about other agents' intentional relations (or third person
information). Through the integration of these two sources of
information, it is possible to generate representations of
intentional relations that are uniformly applicable to the
activities of both self and other. The four levels of the framework
differ in the extent to which such integration occurs and in the
degree to which imagination is involved in generating these
representations. Most animals are at the lowest level, at which
integration of first and third person sources of information does
not occur. Among nonhuman species, only great apes exhibit social
understanding at intermediate levels, at which integration of these
sources of information provides uniform representations of
intentional relations. Only humans attain the highest level, at
which it is possible to represent intentional relations to mental
objects. We propose that with the development of the imagination,
children progress through three stages, equivalent to the later
three levels of the framework. The abnormalities in social
understanding of autistic individuals may result from a failure to
develop integrated representations of intentional relations.
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Csibra Gergely irja:
>Ha a temafelvezetok valami vazlatot irasban is elkeszitenek, azt
>szivesen latnam (es valoszinuleg mas idegenbe szakadtak is) a
>koglist-en. Meg hozza is szolnek.
>
>
En is szivesen vennem ha valami irott anyag errol az osszejovetelrol a
listara kerulne.
Laborfalvi Benke Tibor
Vancouver, Kanada
Ha a temafelvezetok valami vazlatot irasban is elkeszitenek, azt
szivesen latnam (es valoszinuleg mas idegenbe szakadtak is) a
koglist-en. Meg hozza is szolnek.
Csibra Gergely
A
Magyar Pszicholo'giai Ta'rsasa'g A'ltala'nos
Pszicholo'giai Szekcio'ja
e's az
ELTE A'ltala'nos Pszicholo'giai Tansze'ke
1995. ma'rcius 7-e'n, kedden 14-to"l 16 o'ra'ig
informa'lis vitau:le'st tart
KARL POPPER E'S A PSZICHOLO'GIA
te'ma'ban.
A te'ma't va'rhato'an felvezetik:
Garai La'szlo', Gergely Gyo:rgy, Ple'h Csaba e's Szummer Csaba.
Az u:le's helye: Izabella u. 46. III.emelet 301-es szoba.
Az u:le'sre mindenkit szeretettel va'runk.
SZEMINARIUM
Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken
(1088 Bp., Rakoczi ut 5.), a
"Tudomanyfilozofiai Teazo"
kereteben
Ropolyi Laszlo
(az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia
Tanszek egy. adjunktusa)
"Hermeneutika mint tudomanyfilozofia"
cimu eloadasara kerul sor.
Idopontja: 1995 feb. 16., csutortok, 17 ora.
Helye: Rakoczi ut 5., II. em. 229.
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ELOADASKIVONAT
A tudomanyfilozofiat - elsosorban letrejottenek
ideologiai korulmenyei kovetkezteben - gyakran tekintik
logikai illetve analitikus, pozitivista filozofiai alapokon
allo diszciplinanak. Az utobbi nehany evtizedben azonban
sok, ettol lenyegesen eltero megkozelitesmoddal
talalkozhattunk. Ezek egyike a hermeneutikara probal
tamaszkodni.
A filozofiai hermeneutika az a filozofiai aramlat,
melyet manapsag leginkabb Heidegger es Gadamer munkassagaval
hozhatunk kapcsolatba. Tevekenyseguknek lenyeges szerepe van
abban, hogy felmerulhetett - a korabban szovegek
ertelmezesenek muveszetekent illetve szellemtudomanyok
modszertanakent kifejlesztett vilagszemlelet - "mukodtetese"
termeszettudomanyok eseteben is.
A hermeneutika tudomanyfilozofiai mondanivaloja
kulonosen fontos lehet, ha egy gondolatrendszerben
szeretnenk kezelni alapvetoen eltero "vilagokat". Ebbol a
szempontbol "vilagalkoto"-nak tekinthetjuk a tudos
kozossegek altal elfogadott paradigmakat, egy tudos
szemelyes eletkorulmenyeit ugyanugy, mint az egyes - eleg
tagan ertelmezett - elfogadott tudomanyos elmeleteket is.
Az eloadas szeretne peldakkal illusztralni a
hermeneutika mint tudomanyfilozofia mukodesmodjat.
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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)
Az alabbiakban tovabbitom a Helsinki Egyetem Pszichologiai Tanszek
Kozlekedespszichologiai Csoport vezetoje (Dr. Heikki Summala) levelet,
melyben doktori hallgatot (esetleg post-doc kutatot) keres legalabb egy evre.
Ha valakit erdekel, forduljon kozvetlenul az allasleiras vegen talalhato
e-mail cimen (telefonon vagy levelben) Dr. Summalahoz. Ha a helyszinrol
tovabbi hatterinformaciokra lenne szukseg, igyekszem e-mailen valaszolni.
Udvozlettel
Winkler Istvan (Winkler(a)cogpsyphy.hu)
> Dear Istvan:
>
> This is to ask for your help. I am searching for a doctoral student (or a
> post-doc) in the field of MMI of the car driver, or possibly in a somewhat
> broader context of driver behavior and safety, in my university-funded
> project on measurement of driver skills and abilities (also including
> screening of esp. attentional problems in brain-injured and elderly people
> which comes close to your experimental settings in the lab).
>
> Actually I have a 12-months grant of 66.000 FIM available for a foreign
> researcher. The grant comes from the exchange program by Center for
> International MObility (CIMO). It was orginally for a Chinese doctoral
> student graduated in ergonomics from the University of Technology at
> Loughborough last September, but unfortunately he decided to return to
> China due to family reasons. CIMO decided however to allow this grant to
> my unit for some other foreign researcher and, now, I have to find a good
> candidate.
>
> A grant of about 6000 FIM/month is not much, and in spite of many inquiries
> from those in the IAAP/Traffic network members I have no good candidate
> now. I do contact you for obvious reasons: you know this Department and
> this fund might be more competitive for some young Hungarian than for
> people from higher economy countries. (Is this still correct?)
>
> So I ask you to check whether you know good people with psychology,
> ergonomics, or even engineering background who could be interested in
> driver behavior and safety issues, and to deliver this information to
> interested people. There are several possibilities to start a doctoral
> thesis (e.g. the project on the use of peripheral vision, see the enclosed
> abstract). There are good chances to get further funding for good people
> in this field, and the Finnish Graduate School in Psychology also started
> just now, providing 4-yrs grants for "contract-free" basic research for
> doctoral students--my unit is one of those accepted for that program.
>
> The main focus in our research is in the hard field methods, both
> unobtrusive and obtrusive (with an instrumented car), although laboratory
> methods - experimental and partial simulations - are being developed
> gradually, too. Just now, Mitsubishi Motors Co has donated us a new car,
> with an advanced distance measurement (and warning) system installed in it,
> to be instrumented for our research purposes. Nokia (which is the second
> in the world with their mobile telephones and the first one with OEM audio
> equipment for the car manufacturers) will provide us the prototype of their
> new integrated control unit for the MMI and feasibility tests. In this new
> car, we plan to start some physiological measurements, too, both for
> research on fatigue/attention and stress or work load.
>
> At the other end, we are measuring and testing driver skills and abilities
> among brain injured and low vision people. (We try to raise long-term
> service in this field.) Our brand-new results expectedly show that
> traditional neurological tests do not predict divided-attention problems on
> the road and, therefore, new computer-controlled tests are urgently needed
> for screening.
>
> Best regards
>
> Heikki
>
>
> Encl.
>
>
> RESEARCH GRANT AVAILABLE
>
> A research grant of 12 months is provisionally available in the traffic
> reseach unit of the Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki for a
> doctoral or post-doc researcher in the field of MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE OF
> THE CAR DRIVER, and ATTENTION PROBLEMS IN CAR DRIVING, including both basic
> and applied research problems. For an example of projects in progress, see
> the enclosed abstract (the report is available on request). Please contact
> me for further information.
>
>
> Heikki Summala
>
> Encl.
>
> Summala, H., Nieminen, T. & and Punto, M. Effects of the in-car task's
> cognitive load and eccentricity on lane-keeping: drivers learn the use of
> peripheral vision. University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology,
> Traffic Research Unit, Reports 28:1994.
>
> Abstract
>
> Much research on driver attention, including evaluations of in-car
> equipment, at least implicitly assumes that attention is where the gaze
> is. Research on the dynamics of visual attention, however, suggests that
> drivers may both use peripheral vision and learn its use, depending on the
> (primary and secondary) task demands and eccentricity. To investigate
> effects of task load and position on lane keeping, 27 subjects, 11 novices
> and 16 experienced drivers, were asked to drive along a straight stretch of
> road using only peripheral vision for lane-keeping while doing another task
> foveally. The task varied in position, forcing different eccentricities
> for lane keeping, and in mental load at two difficulty levels in two
> different tasks. In the visual attention tasks, the position had a clearly
> different effect on lane-keeping performance among novices and the
> experienced in terms of the distance covered before crossing a lane
> boundary. Novices' performance deteriorated with the foveal task at near
> periphery at the speedometer level, deviating 23 deg from the normal line
> of sight, whereas the performance of experienced drivers only dropped when
> the foveal task was down in the middle console, at 38 deg eccentricity.
> The result supports the hypothesis, based on eye-movement registrations,
> that novices need foveal vision at first for lane-keeping but, with
> increasing practice, learn to manage with more peripheral vision. A
> prominent change appears to happen between the first 5,000 and 50,000 km of
> driving. In the arithmetic tasks however, no consistent
> experience-dependent task position effects occurred. Different results
> obtained for different tasks imply that when evaluating in-car facilities,
> the task characteristics and the respective resources needed should be
> carefully taken into account.
>
>
>
>
>
> Heikki Summala, PhD Heikki.Summala(a)helsinki.fi (email)
> Professor of Traffic Psychology
> Department of Psychology +358 0 191-3450 (tel)
> P.O. Box 11 (Ritarikatu 5) +358 0 191-3443 (fax)
> 00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
> Finland
2nd International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, July 3-16, 1995
First Announcement and Call forPapers
The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses
in Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel
discussions, student sessions, and intensive informal
discussions. Participants will include university teachers
and researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students.
International Advisory Board
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Ma, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Inst. of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Courses
Computer Models of Emergent Cognition - Robert French
(Indiana University, USA)
Hemispheric Mechanisms in Cognition - Eran Zaidel (UCLA, USA)
Cross-Linguistic Studies of Language Processing -
Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA)
Aphasia Research - Nina Dronkers (UC at Davis, USA)
Selected Topics in Cognitive Linguistics - Elena Andonova (NBU, Bulgaria
Spatial Attention - Carlo Umilta' (University of Padova, Italy)
Parallel Pathways of Visual Information Processing - Angel Vassilev (NBU
Color Vision - Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)
Integration of Language and Vision - Geoff Simmons (Hamburg
University, Germany)
Emotion and Cognition - Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy)
Philosophy of Mind - Lilia Gurova (NBU, Bulgaria)
Analogical Reasoning: Psychological Data and Computational Models -
Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria)
Participants are not restricted on the number of courses they can
register for. There will be no parallel running courses.
Participant Symposia
Participants are invited to submit papers which will be
presented (30 min) at the participant symposia. Authors
should send full papers (8 single spaced pages) in
triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, or plain
ASCII) by March 31. Selected papers will be published in the
School's Proceedings after the School itself. Only papers
presented at the School will be eligible for publishing.
Panel Discussions
Language Processing: Rules or Constraints?
Vision and Attention
Integrated Cognition
Student Session
At the student session proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D.
Theses will be discussed as well as public defense of such
theses. Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited
to present their work.
Local Organizers
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society
Timetable
Application Form: now
Deadline for paper submission: March 31
Notification for acceptance: April 30
Early registration: May 15
Arrival day and on site registration July 2
Summer School July 3-14
Excursion July 15
Departure day July 16
Paper submission to:
Boicho Kokinov
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
fax: (+3592) 73-14-95
e-mail: kokinov(a)bgearn.bitnet
Send your Application Form to:
e-mail: cogsci95(a)adm.nbu.bg
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International Summer School in Cognitive Science
Sofia, July 3-14, 1995
Application Form
Last Name:
First Name:
Status: Professor / Academic Researcher / Applied
Researcher / Graduate Student / Undergraduate Student
Affiliation:
University:
Department:
Country:
Mailing address:
e-mail address:
fax:
I would like to attend the following courses:
I intend to submit a paper: (title)
A he'tfo" esti kogniti'v szemina'riumok (A megismere's vita'i)
elo"zetes tematika'ja, 1994-95-o:s tane'v, tavaszi fe'le'v
He'tf , 18-19h30, Izabella 46, 301,pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Ebben a fe'le'vben az uto'bbi ne'ha'ny e'v okkal vagy oktalanul nagy port kavart monogra'fia'iro'l besze'lu:nk.
Mindegyikhez megpro'ba'lok aze'rt mindenki a'ltal olvasando' anyagokbo'l olvaso'ko:nyvet is ke'szi'teni. Az
o'ra'kon azonban va'llalt felvezet refera'tumok lesznek.
A ma'rcius 20-a'n kezdo"do" he'ten lesz itt Herna'd Istva'n. Re'szletes programja't ke'so"bb ku:ldo:m, de
va'rhato' ha'rom te'ma'ja:
Gender differences
Mind in animals and children
Brain function studies in normal people
Tematika e's ido"beoszta's
februa'r 13:
Clark, A.: Assocative engines. MIT Press, 1993. Ple'h Csaba
februa'r 20:
Jackendoff, R.: Patterns in the mind. MIT Press, 1994. Bocz Andra's
februa'r 27:
Dennett, D.: Consciusness explained. Little Brown, 1991. Komlo'si La'szlo'
ma'rcius 6:
Kosslyn: Image and the brain. MIT Press, 1994. Se'ra La'szlo'
ma'rcius 13:
Searle, J.: The rediscovery of the mind. MIT Press, 1992. Racsma'ny Miha'ly
ma'rcius 20: Herna'd Istva'n
a'prilis 10:
Olson,D.: The world on paper. Cambridge, 1994. Re'ger Zita
a'prilis 24:
Pinker, S.: The language instinct. 1994. Ge'czi Istva'n
Ma'jus 8:
Julesz, B.: Dialogues on perception. MIT Press, 1994. Dragana Nikolajevic e's
Vinkler Zsuzsa
Ma'jus 15: Gervai Judit: Gender differences
