KONFERENCIA FELHI'VA'S
(elo"zetes e'rtesite's)
A Magyar Kogniti'v Tudoma'nyi Alapi'tva'ny most ma'r szoka'sos
e'vi konferenica'ja't
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" A megismere's biolo'giai alapjai"
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ci'mmel rendezzu"k.
A konferencia ideje: 1997 janua'r 27-29.
Helye: Agra'rtudoma'nyi Egyetem, Go"do"llo".
U'gy gondoljuk, te'nyleg a't kellene gondolnunk, mit tud a mai (holnapi) biolo'gia aja'nlani a kognitiv tudoma'nynak.
Elso"sorban a megadott nagy te'mako"rt szem elo"tt tarto'
refera'tumokra sza'mi'tunk, de etto"l elte'r tematika'ju'
elo"ada'sokat is szi'vesen la'tunk.
Anyagiakro'l e's egyebekro"l az o"sz eleje'n to"bbet fogunk tudni.
A konferencia programja'ra vonatkozo' o"tleteket szivesen fogadunk
A konferencia't az MTA KFKI Re'szecske - e's Magfizikai Kutato'inte'zet Biofizikai Oszta'lya szervezi.
E'rdi Pe'ter
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>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:10:57 -0700
>Reply-To: kmgazzaniga(a)ucdavis.edu
>Precedence: none
>From: kmgazzaniga(a)ucdavis.edu (Kate Michel Gazzaniga)
>Subject: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
>
>Dear Members:
>
>The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society will be
>held at the Westin Hotel, Copley Place in Boston. It will be held from
>March 23-March 25, 1997.
>
>We will begin holding the meeting on opposite coasts each year. The 1998
>meeting will be held in San Francisco.
>
>We would also like to remind you that the deadline for Symposium
>Suggestions is July 1, 1996.
>
Kedves Ifjusag,
a pszichologusok mar tudjak, mirol van szo. A tanszekunkon levo
kognmitiv programra szivesen varunk jelentkezoket, mind
pszichologia, mind egyeb - peldak: nyelveszet, filozofia -
szakokrol. Akiket erdekel a program, meg a nagy nyari zaras elott
keressek Pleh Csabat pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu. S szemelyesen pl. 24en 10
es 12 kozott.
Udv Pleh Csaba
IVC - HPS Department Cooperation
The Institute Vienna Circle (Vienna, Austria) and the Department
of History and Philosophy of Science (Eotvos University, Budapest.
Hungary) announces a joint project in the framework of an
Austrian-Hungarian Joint Action Foundation grant.
The project concentrates on ideas and problems of philosophy of
science that range from those of the Vienna Circle to contemporary
materialism, including topics on Mach, Lakatos, Gdel, von
Neumann, and others.
The original text of the project proposal is available in German at
http://hps.elte.hu/ivc. Coordinators: George Kampis (Budapest) and
Fritz Stadler (Vienna).
The project is based on a series of lectures and accompanying
discussions. Lectures will be delivered alternatively in Vienna and
Budapest. As a ~tangible~ output we envision to publish an edited
volume of refereed papers that brings the written versions of some
of these lectures.
Program of presentations in 1996, with dates and speakers (titles of
coming lectures will be announced later):
Budapest April 18. Karl Svozil: Undecidabilty
Everywhere?
Vienna June 4. George Kampis:
Probleme des Reduktionismus im
Kontext von monistischen und
dualistischen Theorien
Budapest Sept. 5. Eckehardt Koehler, Ladislav Kvasz
Vienna Oct. 10. Miklos Redei, Laszlo Szabo
Budapest Nov. 11. Michael Stoeltzner, Thomas Breuer
Vienna Dec. 2. Peter Szegedi, Laszlo Ropolyi
Lectures (with the exception of one lecture already held) are in
English.
Place of the lectures:
in Budapest 1088 Rakoczi u. 5., room # 105.
in Vienna Boltzmanngasse 5.
All interested are welcome.
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT:
A CONSTRUCTIVIST MANIFESTO
by Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski
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 BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
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bbs(a)soton.ac.uk
or write to:
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Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.htmlhttp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbsftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS
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If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
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An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by
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instructions that follow after the abstract.
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THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT:
A CONSTRUCTIVIST MANIFESTO
Steven R. Quartz and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory,
and The Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
10010 North Torrey Pines Rd.
La Jolla, CA 92037
steve(a)salk.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
and Department of Biology,
University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92037.
terry(a)salk.edu
KEYWORDS: neural development; cognitive development;
constructivism; selectionism; mathematical learning theory;
evolution; learnability.
ABSTRACT: How do minds emerge from developing brains? According to
"neural constructivism," the representational features of cortex
are built from the dynamic interaction between neural growth
mechanisms and environmentally derived neural activity. Contrary to
popular selectionist models that emphasize regressive mechanisms,
the neurobiological evidence suggests that this growth is a
progressive increase in the representational properties of cortex.
The interaction between the environment and neural growth results
in a flexible type of learning: "constructive learning" minimizes
the need for prespecification in accordance with recent
neurobiological evidence that the developing cerebral cortex is
largely free of domain-specific structure. Instead, the
representational properties of cortex are built by the nature of
the problem domain confronting it. This uniquely powerful and
general learning strategy undermines the central assumption of
classical learnability theory, that the learning properties of a
system can be deduced from a fixed computational architecture.
Neural constructivism suggests that the evolutionary emergence of
neocortex in mammals is a progression toward more flexible
representational structures, in contrast to the popular view of
cortical evolution as an increase in innate, specialized circuits.
Human cortical postnatal development is also more extensive and
protracted than generally supposed, suggesting that cortex has
evolved so as to maximize the capacity of environmental structure
to shape its structure and function through constructive learning.
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you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
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