The deadline is extended till August 31.
10 scholarships are available to successful candidates for the
Graduate Program in Cognitive Science at NBU for candidates from
Eastern and Central Europe. The scholarschips have been provided by the
Soros Foundation.
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
Department of Cognitive Science
Admission to the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science is open
till August 31. (Applications will also be accepted after this date
if any vacan positions remain).
It offers the following degrees: Post-Graduate Diploma, M.Sc.,
Ph.D.
FEATURES
Teaching in English both in the regular courses at NBU and
in the intensive courses at the Annual International Summer
Schools.
Strong interdisciplinary program covering Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence, Neurosciences, Linguistics, Philosophy,
Mathematics, Methods.
Theoretical and experimental research in integration of the
symbolic and connectionist approaches, emergent hybrid cognitive
architectures, models of memory and reasoning, analogy, vision,
imagery, agnosia, language and speech processing, aphasia.
Advisors: at least two advisors with different backgrounds,
possibly one external international advisor.
International dissertation committee.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA), Amedeo Cappelli (CNR, Italy),
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy), Daniel Dennett (Tufts
University, USA), Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen,
Holland), Christian Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany), Dedre
Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Christopher Habel
(Hamburg University, Germany), Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana
University, USA), Joachim Hohnsbein (University of Dortmund,
Germany), Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA), Mark Keane (Trinity
College, Ireland), Alan Lesgold (University of Pittsburg, USA),
Willem Levelt (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics,
Holland), Ennio De Renzi (University of Modena, Italy), David
Rumelhart (Stanford University, USA), Richard Shiffrin (Indiana
University, USA), Paul Smolensky (University of Colorado, USA),
Chris Thornton (University of Sussex, England ), Carlo Umilta'
(University of Padova, Italy)
ADDMISSION REQUIREMENTS
B.Sc. degree in psychology, computer science, linguistics,
philosophy, neurosciences, or related fields.
Good command of English.
Address:
Cognitive Science Department,
New Bulgarian University,
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria,
tel.: (+3592) 55-80-65
fax: (+3592) 54-08-02
e-mail: cogs(a)adm.nbu.bg or kokinov(a)bgearn.acad.bg
10 scholarships are available to successful candidates for the
Graduate Program in Cognitive Science at NBU for candidates from
Eastern and Central Europe. The scholarschips have been provided by the
Soros Foundation.
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
Department of Cognitive Science
Admission to the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science is open
till July 30.
It offers the following degrees: Post-Graduate Diploma, M.Sc.,
Ph.D.
FEATURES
Teaching in English both in the regular courses at NBU and
in the intensive courses at the Annual International Summer
Schools.
Strong interdisciplinary program covering Psychology,
Artificial Intelligence, Neurosciences, Linguistics, Philosophy,
Mathematics, Methods.
Theoretical and experimental research in integration of the
symbolic and connectionist approaches, emergent hybrid cognitive
architectures, models of memory and reasoning, analogy, vision,
imagery, agnosia, language and speech processing, aphasia.
Advisors: at least two advisors with different backgrounds,
possibly one external international advisor.
International dissertation committee.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA), Amedeo Cappelli (CNR, Italy),
Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR, Italy), Daniel Dennett (Tufts
University, USA), Charles De Weert (University of Nijmegen,
Holland), Christian Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany), Dedre
Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Christopher Habel
(Hamburg University, Germany), Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana
University, USA), Joachim Hohnsbein (University of Dortmund,
Germany), Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA), Mark Keane (Trinity
College, Ireland), Alan Lesgold (University of Pittsburg, USA),
Willem Levelt (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics,
Holland), Ennio De Renzi (University of Modena, Italy), David
Rumelhart (Stanford University, USA), Richard Shiffrin (Indiana
University, USA), Paul Smolensky (University of Colorado, USA),
Chris Thornton (University of Sussex, England ), Carlo Umilta'
(University of Padova, Italy)
ADDMISSION REQUIREMENTS
B.Sc. degree in psychology, computer science, linguistics,
philosophy, neurosciences, or related fields.
Good command of English.
Address:
Cognitive Science Department,
New Bulgarian University,
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria,
tel.: (+3592) 55-80-65
fax: (+3592) 54-08-02
e-mail: cogs(a)adm.nbu.bg or kokinov(a)bgearn.acad.bg
11th Annual Meeting
of the
Language Origins Society
July 28 - August 1, 1995
Pecs, Hungary
PROGRAM
July 28:
09.30 - 10.30: Registration
10.30: Opening
10.45 - 12.00: Keynote lecture: Vilmos Csanyi (Hungary): Conceptual
thoughts before language: an ethological analysis of the early
period of human evolution.
12.30: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Duane Quiatt and Richard G. Milo (USA):
Glottogenesis and anatomically modern Homo sapiens: the argument
for cultural selection.
14.45 - 15.30: Zsolt Sovari (Hungary): Theoretical considerations
on the adaptivity of animal communication systems.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Esteban Rivas (The Netherlands): A current review of
language research with great apes.
16.45 - 17.30: Maria Ujhelyi and Paul Buk (Hungary): Some thoughts
about the origins of grammar.
18.30: Reception
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July 29:
09.00 - 09.45: Robin Allott (England): The Pinker Language
Instinct: Surely some mistakes?
09.45 - 10.30: Jozsef Andor (Hungary): On the relevance of the
language instinct in a lexical perspective.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Andras Bocz (Hungary): Parameters and/or
Constraints: on the nature of linguistic knowledge.
11.45 - 12.30: Christer Johansson (Sweden): Evolution of language
structure and learnability.
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Sightseeing walk of Pecs
18.00: Visit to a champaign cellar with champaign tasting
July 30: Excursion day:
An all-day excursion in a coach to famous sights and places around
Pecs, including lunch and also a dinner with wine tasting in a wine
cellar.
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July 31:
09.00 - 09.45: Bernard Bichakjian (The Netherlands): Language
evolution and lateralization.
09.45 - 10.30: Jurgen Tesak (Germany): Language breakdown in adults
and language origins.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Walburga von Raffler-Engel (USA): A different
approach to foetal communication: From response to request.
11.45 - 12.30: Peter Molnar (Hungary): The first dialogue:
Unexpected inborn capacities might help in explaining language
origins.
13.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Leonard Rolfe (England): Articulations and the
origin of speech.
14.45 - 15.30: Susan Duncan (The Netherlands): Rhythm and human
language.
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Andras Sebestyen Szollosy (Hungary): Approach to the
origin of language.
17.00: Business Meeting
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August 1:
09.00 - 09.45: Achim Oberst (Canada): Martin Heidegger on the
origin of language in Being and Time.
09.45 - 10.30: Gabor Gyori (Hungary): The evolution of language and
languages: a study of origins.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Eric de Grolier (France): Some methodological
problems in linguistic taxonomy and reconstructions.
11.45 - 12.30: Gabor Takacs (Hungary): The Egyptian anatomical
lexicon in an Afroasiatic pespective: New correspondences.
13.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Robert Davy Green (Tahiti, French Polynesia): The
Indo-European tribal or ethnic name.
14.45 - 15.30: Vaclav Blazek (Czech Republic): Current progress in
a global classification of the world's languages.
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Iren Hegedus (Hungary): The role of the Nostratic
hypothesis in paleolinguistic research.
16.45 - 17.30: Gabor Takacs (Hungary): Egyptian material in the
Nostratic lexicon: Addenda et corrigenda.
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M A S O D I K 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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