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F E L H I V A S ! ! !
A szegedi Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem, Elettani Intezet es
az ELTE Altalanos Pszichologia Tanszek
Lataskutatas csoportja szimpoziumra invital minden a biologial latas
kutatasa es modellezese irant erdeklodot. A szimpozium a tavalyi elso ilyen
jellegu osszejovetel folytatasakent kerul megrendezesre az alabbi formaban.
I. Cim: Masodik Magyar Latas Szimpozium, Informaciofeldolgozas a
Latorendszerben
II. Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1995 augusztus 29-30 (2 nap), Szeged
Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem Elettani Intezete, Szeged 6720
Dom ter 10
III. Cel:
A szimpoziumnak fo celja, hogy osszehozza azon hazai es kulfoldon dolgozo
kutatokat, neuroanatomusokat, neurofiziologusokat, pszichologusokat
es neuralis halozatokat modellezo elmeleti szakembereket, akik a latas
problemajaval kapcsolatos teruleteken dolgoznak.
IV. Forma:
A szimpozium nyelve magyar. Minden meghivott eloado 15-20 perces
eloadast tart 5-10 perces vitaval, amit a nap es/vagy a szekciok vegen egy
altalanosabb diszkusszio kovet. Ha a letszam es a kozohaj megkoveteli, egy
poster szekcio fogja kiegesziteni ezt a format. Celunk, hogy minel tobb
parbeszedre adjunk lehetoseget
V. Resztvevok,eloadasok:
Az resztvevok nevsora meg nem rogzitett. Szivesen latott mindenki, aki
egyetert a szimpozium
celjaival, es ugy erzi, hogy abba illo eloadast tudna tartani. Nem
elsodleges celunk a nemzetkozi tudomanyos
elet legnagyobb neveit felleptetni. Ugy veljuk, erre mas, sokkal rangosabb
forum jobban megfelel. Foleg olyan fiatalabb-idosebb kutatok
szerepleset szeretnenk elerni, akik egyreszt egyertelmuen a cimben
definialt terulethez kapcsolhatoan munkalkodnak, masreszt munkajukkal
(akar itthon akar kulfoldon) potencialisan hozza tudnak jarulni a tema
hazai meghonosodasahoz. A talalkozo profiljanak megfeleloen az eloadasok
latorendszeri anatomia es fiziologia, vizualis pszichofizika, magasabb
szintu latas pszichologia, matematikai es szamitogepes modellezes
temakorokbol allnak ossze. A latas a szimpozium fo vezervonala, de szivesen
latunk olyan eloadasokat, melyek tagabban, az agy informaciofeldolgozasat
vizsgaljak a latas problemajahoz kapcsoltan.
VI. Jelentkezes:
Aki eloadast szeretne tartani a szimpoziumon, kerjuk, lepjen kapcsolatba az
alabbi szervezok egyikevel:
Fiser Jozsef -- E-mail: fiser(a)selforg.usc.edu
Geier Janos -- geier(a)izabell.elte.hu
Kovacs Gyula -- kogyu(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu
Kovacs Ilona -- ikovacs(a)cyclops.rutgers.edu
Felkerjuk azokat is, akik hallgatokent szeretnenek resztvenni, hogy
jelezzek reszveteli szandekukat a negy szervezo egyikenek. Ily modon
hozavetoleges kepet tudunk alkotni a varhato letszamrol, es nevreszoloan
tudunk mindenkit tajekoztatni a tovabbi fejlemenyekrol.
VII. Dijak, szallas:
Jelen pillanatban nem tervezzuk, hogy reszveteli dijakat kerjunk a
resztvevoktol. A szallas onkoltseges, a helyi szervezok kulonbozo
arkategoriaju lehetosegeket probalnak biztositani az igenyeknek megfeleloen.
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PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Wolfgang Klimesch on EEG & Memory
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
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TARGET ARTICLE AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING COMMENTARY:
Memory processes can be described as brain oscillations and memory
network models (such as the connectivity model (Klimesch, 1994))
can easily be applied to the neuronal level if abstract activation
values are interpreted in terms of frequency values reflecting
oscillatory processes. I would be very interested in eliciting
commentaries on (1) this basic rationale, (2) the statement that in
the cortex oscillations are mandatory for information transmission,
(3) the proposed role of EEG alpha and (4) EEG theta for memory
processes.
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psycoloquy.95.6.06.memory-brain.1.klimesch
ISSN 1055-0143 (55 paragraphs, 75 references, 1279 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Wolfgang Klimesch
MEMORY PROCESSES DESCRIBED AS BRAIN OSCILLATIONS
IN THE EEG-ALPHA AND THETA BANDS
Wolfgang Klimesch
University of Salzburg
Department of Physiological Psychology
Institute of Psychology, Hellbrunnerstr. 34
A-5020 Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Klimesch(a)edvz.sbg.ac.at
ABSTRACT: This target article tries to integrate results in memory
research from diverse disciplines such as psychophysiology,
cognitive psychology, anatomy and neurophysiology. The integrating
link is seen in more recent anatomical findings that provide strong
arguments for the assumption that oscillations provide the basic
form of communication between cortical cell assemblies. The basic
argument is that episodic memory processes, which are part of a
complex working memory system, are reflected by oscillations in the
theta band, whereas long-term memory processes are reflected by
alpha oscillations. It is assumed that alpha and theta oscillations
serve to encode, access, and retrieve cortical codes that are
stored in the form of widely distributed but intensely
interconnected cell assemblies.
KEYWORDS: Alpha, EEG, Hippocampus, Memory, Oscillation, Thalamus,
Theta.
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and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science,
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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
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and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s)
and institutional address(es).
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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
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Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to
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PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Caporael on the EVOLUTION OF SOCIALITY
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
Association.
Instructions for retrieval and for preparing commentaries follow the
abstract. The address for submitting commentaries and articles and for
requesting information is psyc(a)pucc.princteton.edu
The URLs for retrieving articles are:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6
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psycoloquy.95.6.01.group-selection.1.caporael
ISSN 1055-0143 (51 pars, 1 table, 1 note, 44 refs, 999 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Linnda R. Caporael
SOCIALITY: COORDINATING BODIES, MINDS AND GROUPS
Linnda R. Caporael
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
caporl(a)rpi.edu
ABSTRACT: Human interaction, as opposed to aggregation, occurs in
face-to-face groups. "Sociality theory" proposes that such groups
have a nested, hierarchical structure, consisting of a few basic
variations, or "core configurations." These function in the
coordination of human behavior, and are repeatedly assembled,
generation to generation, in human ontogeny, and in daily life. If
face-to-face groups are "the mind's natural environment," then we
should expect human mental systems to correlate with core
configurations. Features of groups that recur across generations
could provide a descriptive paradigm for testable and non-intuitive
evolutionary hypotheses about social and cognitive processes. This
target article sketches three major topics in sociality theory,
roughly corresponding to the interests of biologists,
psychologists, and social scientists. These are (1) a multiple
levels-of-selection view of Darwinism, part group selectionism,
part developmental systems theory; (2) structural and psychological
features of repeatedly assembled, concretely situated face-to-face
coordination; and (3) superordinate, "unsituated" coordination at
the level of large-scale societies. Sociality theory predicts a
tension, perhaps unresolvable, between the social construction of
knowledge, which facilitates coordination within groups, and the
negotiation of the habitat, which requires some correspondence with
contingencies in specific situations. This tension is relevant to
ongoing debates about scientific realism, constructivism, and
relativism in the philosophy and sociology of knowledge.
KEYWORDS: developmental systems theory, group coordination, group
selection, hierarchy, human evolution, social cognition, social
identity, teleofunctionalism
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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.
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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 40,000. 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 science, cognitive science,
neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
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
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field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and
(6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses).
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responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY
archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation).
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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
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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
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with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The
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Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to
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PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Fitch & Denenberg on SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE BRAIN
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
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psycoloquy.95.6.05.sex-brain.1.fitch
ISSN 1055-0143 (56 paragraphs, 93 references, 1159 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Fitch and Denenberg
A ROLE FOR OVARIAN HORMONES IN SEXUAL
DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BRAIN
Roslyn Holly Fitch
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University
197 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
Email: holly(a)axon.rutgers.edu
Victor H. Denenberg
Biobehavioral Sciences Graduate Degree Program
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4154
Email: dberg(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
ABSTRACT: The role of endogenous hormones in differentiating the
sexes is an area of continuing research. The bulk of findings in
this field support the notion that mammalian sexual differentiation
is primarily mediated by androgens of testicular origin and that
the presence of these androgens in early life produces a "male"
brain. In contrast, the female brain is thought to develop via a
hormonal default mechanism, in the absence of androgen. Findings
are reviewed which show that ovarian hormones also play a
significant role in sexual differentiation, and that the process of
ovarian feminization has a considerably later sensitive period than
androgen-mediated masculinization.
KEYWORDS: corpus callosum, development, estrogen, feminization,
ovaries, sensitive period.
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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 40,000. 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 science, cognitive science,
neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
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).
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on:
BRAIN DYNAMICS, EEG & NEURAL NETS by JJ Wright & DTJ Liley
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DYNAMICS OF THE BRAIN AT GLOBAL AND MICROSCOPIC SCALES:
NEURAL NETWORKS AND THE EEG.
J.J. Wright and D.T.J. Liley
Mental Health Research Institute Parkville
Victoria 3052, Australia
jjw(a)cortex.mhri.edu.au
Swinburne Center for Applied Neuroscience
Hawthorne, Victoria 3122
Melbourne, Australia
KEYWORDS: chaos, EEG simulation, electrocorticogram, neocortex,
network symmetry, neurodynamics.
ABSTRACT: There is some complementarity of models for the
origin of the electroencephalogram (EEG), and neural network
models for information storage in brain-like systems.
From the EEG models of Freeman, Nunez, and the author's group,
we argue that the wave-like processes revealed in the EEG
exhibit linear and near-equilibrium dynamics at macroscopic
scale, despite extremely nonlinear, probably chaotic, dynamics
at microscopic scale. Simulations of cortical neuronal
interactions at global and microscopic scales are then
presented. The simulations depend on anatomical and
physiological estimates of synaptic densities, coupling
symmetries, synaptic gain, dendritic time constants and axonal
delays. It is shown that the frequency content, wave
velocities, frequency/wavenumber spectra and response to
cortical activation of the electrocorticogram (ECoG) can be
reproduced by a "lumped" simulation treating small cortical
areas as single functional units. The corresponding cellular
neural network simulation has properties which include those of
attractor neural networks proposed by Amit, and Paresi.
Within the simulations at both scales, sharp transitions occur
between low and high cell firing rates. These transitions may
form a basis for neural interactions across scale.
To maintain overall cortical dynamics in the normal low
firing-rate range, interactions between the cortex and
subcortical systems are required to prevent runaway global
excitation. Thus the interaction of cortex and subcortex via
cortico-striatal and related pathways, may partly regulate
global dynamics by a principle analogous to adiabatic control
of artificial neural networks
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on:
SEX DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL ABILITY by David C. Geary
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SEXUAL SELECTION AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL ABILITIES
David C. Geary
Department of Psychology
210 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
psycorie(a)mizzou1.missouri.edu
KEYWORDS: sexual selection, sex differences, mathematical
ability, spatial ability, sex-role stereotypes, social style
ABSTRACT: The principles of sexual selection were used as an
organizing framework for interpreting cross-national patterns of
sex differences in mathematical abilities. Cross-national
studies suggest that there are no sex differences in
biologically primary mathematical abilities, that is, for those
mathematical abilities that are found pan-culturally, in
nonhuman primates, and show moderate heritability estimates.
Sex differences in several biologically secondary mathematical
domains (i.e., those that emerge primarily in school) are found
throughout the industrialized world. In particular, males
consistently outperform females in the solving of mathematical word
problems and in geometry. Sexual selection and any associated
proximate mechanisms (e.g., sex hormones) appear to influence these
sex differences in mathematical performance indirectly. First,
sexual selection appears to have resulted in the greater
elaboration of the neurocognitive systems that support navigation
in 3-dimensional space in males than in females. Knowledge implicit
in these systems appears to reflect an understanding of basic
Euclidean geometry, and thus appears to be one source of the male
advantage in geometry. Males also co-opt these spatial systems in
problem-solving situations more readily than females, which
provides males with an advantage in word problems and geometry.
Moreover, sex differences in social styles and interests, which
also appear to be related, in part, to sexual selection, result in
sex differences in engagement in mathematics-related activities,
which further increases the male advantage in certain mathematical
domains. A model that integrates these biological influences with
sociocultural influences on the sex differences in mathematical
performance is presented.
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on:
MEMORY METAPHORS by A. Koriat and M. Goldsmith
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____________________________________________________________________
MEMORY METAPHORS AND THE LABORATORY/REAL-LIFE CONTROVERSY:
CORRESPONDENCE VERSUS STOREHOUSE VIEWS OF MEMORY
Asher Koriat and Morris Goldsmith
Department of Psychology
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
rsps301(a)uvm.haifa.ac.il
KEYWORDS: accuracy, assessment, capacity ecological validity,
intentionality, memory, metamemory, metaphors, monitoring,
representation, storehouse, subject control.
ABSTRACT: The study of memory is witnessing a spirited clash
between proponents of traditional laboratory research and those
advocating a more naturalistic approach to the study of
"everyday" memory. The debate has generally centered on the
"what" (content), "where" (context), and "how" (methods) of memory
research. In the present target article, we argue that this
controversy discloses a further, more fundamental breach between
two underlying memory metaphors, each having distinct implications
for memory theory and assessment: Whereas traditional memory
research has been dominated by the storehouse metaphor, leading to
a focus on the quantity of items remaining in store, the recent
wave of everyday memory research discloses a shift towards a
correspondence metaphor, focusing on the accuracy or faithfulness
of memory in representing past events. Our analysis shows the
correspondence metaphor to call for a research approach which
differs from the traditional approach in important respects: in
emphasizing the intentional-representational function of memory, in
addressing the wholistic and graded aspects of memory
correspondence, in taking an output-bound assessment perspective,
and in allowing more room for the operation of subject-controlled
metamemory processes and motivational factors. This analysis can
help tie together some of the what, where, and how aspects of the
everyday-laboratory controversy. More importantly, in explicating
the unique metatheoretical foundation of the accuracy-oriented
approach to memory, our aim is to promote a more effective
exploitation of the correspondence metaphor in both naturalistic
and laboratory research contexts.
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Remelem a kozeljovendoben kapunk valami penzt es akkor lesz fedezet a
postazasra. Addig is, ha van valami otleted kerlek ird meg.
Mikor josz megint Pestre?
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