koglist June 1995

koglist@maillist.ttk.hu

8 participants
16 discussions

by fiser＠selforg.usc.edu

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

30 years, 10 months

EEG and Memory: PSYC Call for Commentary

by Stevan Harnad

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 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 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/psyc.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6 To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): mget *.1.klimesch When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 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

30 years, 10 months

Evolution of Sociality: PSYC Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/psyc.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6 To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): mget *.1.caporael When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 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

30 years, 10 months

Brain Sex Differences: PSYC Call for Commentary

by Stevan Harnad

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, 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/psyc.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/ To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6 To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): mget *.1.fitch When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 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

30 years, 10 months

konyvek

by George Kampis

Kedves Makogo holgyek/urak, ime nehany friss trofea a kurrens kognitiv piacrol. C. and G. McDonald (ed) 1995: Connectionism. Debates on Psychological Explanation. Basil Blackwell. GBP 15. Valogatas. Benn van az osszes hires cikk, pro es con. Remek! R. Penrose 1994: Shadows of the Mind, OUP. GBP 16.99. Ujabb kvantumfizika konyv ugyanarrol, de az elozo jobb volt. J. Searle 1995: The Construction of Social Reality, Penguin. GBP 20. Huzos cim, mindenkinek egy masik konyvet juttat az eszebe, nem egeszen veletlenul. Eleg sapadt dolognak latom egyelore. R. Dawkins 1995: River out of Eden. Science Masters. GBP 10. A megszokott provokativ darwinizmus, szepen megirva. Nyilvan magyarul is lesz, hiszen a sorozat megjelenik. Miert kognitiv? Csak. udv, kampis gyorgy

30 years, 10 months

EEG Dynamics: BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on: BRAIN DYNAMICS, EEG & NEURAL NETS by JJ Wright & DTJ Liley This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: bbs(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp (or gopher or world-wide-web) according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.wright). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.wright ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.wright To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.wright When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). -------------------------------------------------------------

30 years, 10 months

Evolution of Sex Differences in Math: BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on: SEX DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL ABILITY by David C. Geary This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: bbs(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp (or gopher or world-wide-web) according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.geary). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.geary ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.geary To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.geary When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). -------------------------------------------------------------

30 years, 10 months

Memory: BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on: MEMORY METAPHORS by A. Koriat and M. Goldsmith This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: bbs(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp (or gopher or world-wide-web) according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.koriat). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.koriat ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.koriat To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.koriat When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available 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). -------------------------------------------------------------

30 years, 10 months

Re: konyvek

by Dr. Karmos, George

Kedves Istvan! Nem felejtettem el beszelgetesunket utolso pesti latogatasodkor. Sajnos eddig meg talaltam jo megoldast a konyvek idejuttatasara. 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? Udvozlettel: Gyurka -- ***************************************************************** George Karmos M.D., Ph.D. Mail: P.O.Box 398, Budapest Institute for Psychology of the H-1394 Hungary Hungarian Academy of Sciences Phone: +36-1 153-3244 Fax: +36-1 269-2972 Szondi u. 83-85. e-mail: karmos(a)cogpsyphy.hu Budapest VI., Hungary *****************************************************************

30 years, 11 months

3 Psychology Openings: Southampton University

by Stevan Harnad

The Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, announces: Three Lectureships in: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH METHODS Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified individuals for the following three posts: (1,2) Two Lectureships in Psychology (Grade A/B) Social, Developmental, or Health Psychology Postholders will develop their own research programmes and support departmental teaching in social, developmental, or health psychology. One post is a permanent lectureship while the other is for two years in the first instance, but with the strong possibility of consolidation (subject to Faculty approval). (3) Lectureship (Grade A) in Psychology (3 year fixed term appointment) The postholder will support our teaching in research methods and develop research in any area that complements our current programmes. Salary: [in pounds] #14756-#19326 (A) #20133-#25735 (B). For informal discussion, contact: Prof. Bob Remington (HoD) Phone" 01703-592612 Fax: 01703-594597 Email: RER1(a)soton.ac.uk. The first round of interviews will take place approximately a month from the date of this advertisement (i.e. early/mid July) and applicants should allow adequate time for referees' reports to be obtained. These posts will remain open until filled so there is no formal closing date. Further particulars are available from the Personnel Department (44-[01]-703-592-750) or on the World Wide Web http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/3posts.html Applicants should send a full curriculum vitae and addresses of three referees (Please quote D/455)

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