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CFP: 2nd CALL: Cognitive Science towards Applications (French Speaking) (fwd)

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:27:58 +0100 From: Scicoia <scicoia(a)univ-lille3.fr> To: Recipient.List.Suppressed:;@univ-lille3.fr Subject: CFP: 2nd CALL: Cognitive Science towards Applications (French Speaking) Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 20:56:06 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU Hello I would appreciate it if you could advertise the following conference. As the conference is french speaking, the text is in french. Thanks Damien, for Scicoia (Cognitive Scientists Association) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 et 3 JUILLET 1997 Villeneuve d'Ascq Journees Francophones SCIENCES DE LA COGNITION VERS LES APPLICATIONS Organise par SciCoia Parraine par l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive et le Reseau Cogniscience Nord APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS couple a un numero special de la revue In Cognito * PRESENTATION Scicoia, association de chercheurs en sciences cognitives du Nord, domiciliee a l'Universite de Lille 3, a pour but de developper la recherche en Sciences de la Cognition que ce soit d'un point de vue fondamental ou applique. Dans cet esprit, Scicoia favorise les rencontres entre le monde de la recherche et celui de l'industrie, et encourage les problematiques communes aux deux univers. La necessite d'integrer, dans les champs disciplinaires des Sciences Cognitives, des preoccupations concretes du versant applique de la recherche sans pour autant sacrifier l'interet fondamental de la recherche cognitive ont conduit Scicoia a deux journees de travail sur le theme "Sciences de la Cognition vers les Applications". Ces premieres journees francophones ont pour objectif de : - proposer des exposes relatifs aux avancees scientifiques en matiere de Sciences de la Cognition dans les domaines allant de l'informatique et l'automatique a la sociologie des organisations en passant par la psychologie, la didactique,... - promouvoir les contributions orientees vers des propositions methodologiques, des resultats experimentaux, des theories et modeles,... exportables du laboratoire vers l'entreprise, l'industrie, les organisations... * THEMATIQUE Nous souhaiterions que les differentes disciplines traditionnelles des Sciences de la Cognition soient representees : l'informatique, les neurosciences, la psychologie, les sciences du langage, la philosophie, la sociologie, la didactique, etc. Les domaines d'application privilegies sont : - les sciences de l'ingenieur, - les sciences de gestion, - les metiers de la sante, - l'ingenierie pedagogique, - etc. Certaines problematiques sont encouragees, par exemple, celles relatives a : - les technologies de l'information, - la gestion, - la conception, - la prise de decision, - l'etude des organisations, - etc. Ces listes de disciplines, de problematiques et de domaines d'applications n'etant, bien sur, pas exhaustives, toutes les propositions seront prises en consideration. * ORGANISATION Il est souhaite, pour ces premieres journees de Scicoia, de privilegier fortement les echanges et les debats. Pour cela, il est prevu de reserver des temps relativement longs aux questions et aux debats de maniere a permettre a chacun d'intervenir. Nous proposons trois types de presentation : des posters, des ateliers et des communications. + Les posters seront presentes au cours de sessions speciales "posters", avec eventuellement des presentations orales breves (cinq minutes maximum). + Les ateliers seront articules autour d'une presentation orale courte (de dix a trente minutes) suivie d'une discussion debat de deux heures environ. Un atelier peut-etre anime par plusieurs intervenants. + Les communications orales feront trente minutes au maximum, sachant que les temps conseilles sont de vingt minutes d'expose et dix minutes de discussion. * FORMATS DE SOUMISSION Pour ces presentations, nous proposons les trois formats suivants : - des propositions d'atelier : une page et demie ; - poster : deux a trois pages ; - communications orales : 4000 mots maximum et de moins de huit pages. La concision des propositions de communication sera une qualite tres appreciee. Les textes proposes seront rediges en police times, corps 12 (polices symbol et courrier autorisees), interlignes de 18 points (1,5 lignes), marges de 2 cm, format A4. La soumission electronique est toleree mais non souhaitee. Dans tous les cas elle se fera au format RTF. Dans tous les cas, quatre copies (agrafees, recto seul, sur papier A4) seront envoyees a Scicoia a l'adresse indiquee ci-dessous. Les auteurs preciseront la forme souhaitee (communication orale, affichee ou atelier) et mentionneront la categorie a laquelle ils appartiennent (jeune chercheur ou etudiant, chercheur, industriel). Par ailleurs, ils mentionneront s'ils sont prets a transformer le type de leur communication, si besoin. Les travaux seront evalues sur leur qualite scientifique fondamentale, leur originalite et leur ouverture vers les methodes des disciplines et des metiers appliques. Les actes regroupant les diverses presentations seront disponibles des le jour de la manifestation. Par ailleurs, les communications retenues feront l'objet d'un numero special dans la revue In Cognito. * DATES ET LIEU Les dates a respecter sont les suivantes: - 02 Avril 1997 : Reception des propositions de communication et ateliers. - 17 Avril 1997 : Reception des propositions de posters. - 15 Mai 1997 : notification de l'acceptation du texte - 01 Juin 1997 : reception des textes definitifs - 2 et 3 Juillet 1997: Deroulement de la manifestation Le lieu de la manifestation est: Salle de Conference du Laboratoire TRIGONE C.U.E.E.P. - Batiment B6 Universite des Sciences et Technologies 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX FRANCE * ADRESSE ET COORDONNEES Les envois doivent etre adresses a: Scicoia - appel a communication UFR de psychologie - Universite de Lille 3 BP 149, F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX Les coordonnees electroniques de Scicoia sont : mailto:scicoia@univ-lille3.fr http://www.univ-lille3.fr/www/scicoia/ tel: (33) 3 20 41 64 42 demander Catherine Demarey ou Damien Raczy * COMITE DE PROGRAMME Yannick Courbois (Labacolil, USHL, Villeneuve d'Ascq) Gilles Bisson (Leibniz, CNRS, Grenoble) Patricia Plenacoste (Trigone, USTL, Villeneuve d'Ascq) Olivier Blanpain (LAHM, Universite d'Artois, Bethune) Jean Yves Antoine (VALORIA, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Vannes) * NUMERO SPECIAL DE LA REVUE IN COGNITO Les meilleures communications des journees feront l'objet d'une publication dans la revue In Cognito, moyennant eventuellement quelques modifications mineures de maniere a tenir compte des specificites de la revue. * PARRAINAGES Association pour la Recherche Cognitive, Reseau Cogniscience Nord GANYMEDE Laboratoire de l'Universite d'Artois - LAHM Laboratoires de l'Universite de Lille I: - Neurosciences du Comportement - Trigone Laboratoires de l'Universite de Lille III: - UFR de psychologie - Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive * INSCRIPTION Les frais d'inscription couvrent l'acces aux manifestations, les collations intermediaires, les actes (un par personne). Les repas et l'hebergement resteront a la charge des participants. Sur demande, une liste d'hotels peut etre fournie. ---------------------- COUPER ICI (debut) ---------------------- Nom: Prenom: Organisme-Laboratoire-Entreprise: Activite: Adresse: Code Postal: Ville: Tel: Fax: e-mail: Je participe aux journees "Sciences de la Cognition vers les Applications" en qualite de (ne cocher qu'une seule option): [ ] jeune chercheur etudiant ou docteur depuis moins de deux ans (250FF) [ ] chercheur (350FF) [ ] industriel (350FF) [ ] autre (500FF) Prix preferentiel de 200F: les membres de Scicoia, de In Cognito et de l'Association pour le recherche Cognitive beneficient d'un droit d'entree preferentiel de 200F, ainsi que les personnes ayant des revenus inferieurs a 5000F/mois et les demandeurs d'emploi. [ ] acte suplementaire (100FF). [ ] adhesion a SciCoia (50FF) Je regle la somme de : FF Je joins : [ ] un cheque [ ] un bon de commande Les bons de commande et les cheques sont a rediger a l'ordre de "Association Scicoia". Les bons de commande sont a envoyer a: Scicoia - inscriptions UFR de psychologie - Universite de Lille 3 BP 149, F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX Date Signature ---------------------- COUPER ICI (fin) ---------------------- * AUTRES RENSEIGNEMENTS Pour tout renseignement complementaire, vous pouvez vous adresser a: Catherine Demarey e-mail : demarey(a)univ-lille3.fr tel : (33) 3 20 41 64 42 Damien Raczy e-mail : raczy(a)univ-lille3.fr (Damien Raczy) tel : (33) 4 76 43 43 90 (Damien Raczy) Scicoia tel : (33) 3 20 41 64 42 UFR de psychologie mailto:scicoia@univ-lille3.fr Universite de Lille 3 http://www.univ-lille3.fr/www/scicoia/ BP 149, F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX

29 years, 2 months

Allas nevelesi tanacsadoban

by Winkler Istvan

Aki hallja adja at: Bekasmegyeri Nevelesi Tanacsado klinikai (gyerek) szakpszichologust keres azonnali belepesi lehetoseggel. Erdeklodni a 2-403-609 telefonszamon dr. Kaszab Zita vezetonel lehet. Udvozlettel Winkler Istvan

29 years, 2 months

Psycoloquy Call for Papers

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR PAPERS 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 50,000. PSYCOLOQUY publishes 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), institutional address(es) and URL(s). 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 .gif .jpeg .tiff or 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.princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE: To be eligible for publication, a PSYCOLOQUY target article should not only have sufficient conceptual rigor, empirical grounding, and clarity of style, but should also offer a clear rationale for soliciting Commentary. That rationale should be provided in the author's covering letter, together with a list of suggested commentators. A target article can be (i) the report and discussion of empirical research; (ii) an theoretical article that formally models or systematizes a body of research; or (iii) a novel interpretation, synthesis, or critique of existing experimental or theoretical work. Rrticles dealing with social or philosophical aspects of the behavioral and brain sciences are also eligible.. The service of Open Peer Commentary will be primarily devoted to original unpublished manuscripts. However, a recently published book whose contents meet the standards outlined above may also be eligible for Commentary. In such a Multiple Book Review, a comprehensive, 500-line precis by the author is published in advance of the commentaries and the author's response. In rare special cases, Commentary will also be extended to a position paper or an already published article dealing with particularly influential or controversial research. Submission of an article implies that it has not been published or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Multiple book reviews and previously published articles appear by invitation only. The Associateship and professional readership of PSYCOLOQUY are encouraged to nominate current topics and authors for Commentary. In all the categories described, the decisive consideration for eligibility will be the desirability of Commentary for the submitted material. Controversially simpliciter is not a sufficient criterion for soliciting Commentary: a paper may be controversial simply because it is wrong or weak. Nor is the mere presence of interdisciplinary aspects sufficient: general cybernetic and "organismic" disquisitions are not appropriate for PSYCOLOQUY. Some appropriate rationales for seeking Open Peer Commentary would be that: (1) the material bears in a significant way on some current controversial issues in behavioral and brain sciences; (2) its findings substantively contradict some well-established aspects of current research and theory; (3) it criticizes the findings, practices, or principles of an accepted or influential line of work; (4) it unifies a substantial amount of disparate research; (5) it has important cross-disciplinary ramifications; (6) it introduces an innovative methodology or formalism for consideration by proponents of the established forms; (7) it meaningfully integrates a body of brain and behavioral data; (8) it places a hitherto dissociated area of research into an evolutionary or ecological perspective; etc. In order to assure communication with potential commentators (and readers) from other PSYCOLOQUY specialty areas, all technical terminology must be clearly defined or simplified, and specialized concepts must be fully described. NOTE TO COMMENTATORS: The purpose of the Open Peer Commentary service is to provide a concentrated constructive interaction between author and commentators on a topic judged to be of broad significance to the biobehavioral science community. Commentators should provide substantive criticism, interpretation, and elaboration as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary material, such as illustrations; all original data will be refereed in order to assure the archival validity of PSYCOLOQUY commentaries. Commentaries and articles should be free of hyperbole and remarks ad hominem. STYLE AND FORMAT FOR ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES TARGET ARTICLES: should not exceed 500 lines (~4500 words); commentaries should not exceed 200 lines (1800 words), including references. Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation should be consistent within each article and commentary and should follow the style recommended in the latest edition of A Manual of Style, The University of Chicago Press. 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References should be typed on a separate sheet in alphabetical order in the style of the following examples. Do not abbreviate journal titles. Kupfermann, I. & Weiss, K. (1978) The command neuron concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1:3-39. Dunn, J. (1976) How far do early differences in mother-child relations affect later developments? In: Growing point in ethology, ed. P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde, Cambridge University Press. Bateson, P. P. G. & Hinde, R. A., eds. (1978) Growing points in ethology, Cambridge University Press. EDITING: PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit and proof all articles and commentaries accepted for publication. Authors of articles will be given the opportunity to review the copy-edited draft. Commentators will be asked to review copy-editing only when changes have been substantial. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Stevan Harnad psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu Editor, Psycoloquy phone: +44 1703 594-583 fax: +44 1703 593-281 Department of Psychology http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)

29 years, 2 months

tudfil eloadas

by George Kampis

Mark Notturno Director of Popper Project Central European University "Science and the Institution" FIGYELEM: Uj helyszin! Abstract This paper traces the 'Institutional' turn in the philosophy of science to the failure of classical foundationalism on the one hand, and to the failure to distinguish between Descartes' methodological scepticism and his rench epistemology' on the other. In so doing, it argues that the institutional approach leads to authoritarianism, since it retains the structure and function of classical foundationalism while leaving the oundations' themselves floating in midair. And it suggests that a better response would be to maintain Descartes' resolution to doubt whatever can be doubted without contradiction, while renouncing his resolution not to accept any thesis or belief that has not been proven. Az eloadas idotartama 50-60 perc, amelyet rovid szunet utan kb. 30-60 perc vita kovet. Az eloadas anyaga (Word 6.0 v. PostScript) elerheto a tanszeki home page-en: _ftp://hps.elte.hu/pub/Papers/notturno.doc_ _ftp://hps.elte.hu/pub/Papers/notturno.ps_ Idopont: 1997 februar 27., csutortok, 18.00 ora Hely: Budapesti Muszaki Egyetem Tanari Klubja, K. ep. I. em. Az eloadasra a Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag Tudomanyfilozofia Szakosztalya, a BME Filozofia Tanszeke es az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeke kozos szervezeseben kerul sor. Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varnak a szervezok.

29 years, 2 months

Primate Theory of Mind: BBS Call for Commentators

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: THEORY OF MIND IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES by C. M. Heyes 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 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)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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 familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. 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 with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ THEORY OF MIND IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES C. M. Heyes Department of Psychology University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom c.heyes(a)ucl.ac.uk KEYWORDS: apes; associative learning; concepts; convergence; deception; evolution of intelligence; folk psychology; imitation; mental state attribution; monkeys; parsimony; perspective-taking; primates; role-taking; self-recognition; social cognition; social intelligence; theory of mind. ABSTRACT: Since the BBS article in which Premack & Woodruff (1978) asked "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?", it has been repeatedly claimed that there is observational and experimental evidence that apes have mental state concepts, such as `want' and `know'. Unlike in research on the development of theory of mind in childhood, however, no substantial progress has been made through this work with nonhuman primates. A survey of empirical studies of imitation, self-recognition, social relationships, deception, role-taking and perspective-taking suggests that in every case where nonhuman primate behavior has been interpreted as a sign of theory of mind, it could instead have occurred by chance or as a product of nonmentalistic processes such as associative learning or inferences based on nonmental categories. Arguments to the effect that, in spite of this, the theory of mind hypothesis should be accepted because it is more parsimonious than alternatives, or because it is supported by convergent evidence, are not compelling. Such arguments are based on unsupportable assumptions about the role of parsimony in science, and either ignore the requirement that convergent evidence proceed from independent assumptions, or fail to show that it supports the theory of mind hypothesis over nonmentalist alternatives. Progress in research on theory of mind requires experimental procedures that can distinguish the theory of mind hypothesis from nonmentalist alternatives. A procedure that may have this potential is proposed. It uses conditional discrimination training and transfer tests to determine whether chimpanzees have the concept `see'. Commentators are invited to identify flaws in the procedure and to suggest alternatives. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. 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. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.heyes.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.heyes ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.heyes gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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.heyes When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

29 years, 2 months

None

by Bende Farkas Agi

The Programme of the Ph.D. Seminar at the Theoretical Linguistics Programme (ELTE) 1996-97/2nd Semester Feb. 25: Gabriella Toth: The Syntax of Aspect March 4: Beata Gyuris: Temporal Quantification in Hungarian March 11: Nino Amiridze: t.b.a. March 25: Silvi Tenjes: Conversational Gestures in Estonian Dialogue April 8: Huba Bartos: Specificity in Syntax April 15: Attila Molnar: The Structure of Adjunct Clauses April 22: Greta Dalmi: Specificity Revisited April 29: Agnes Bende-Farkas: Static Operators in Dynamic Logic May 6: Elena Buja: Romanian and Theoretical Linguistics May 13: Anita Viszket: t.b.a. Seminars start at 11a.m. Location: Research Institute of Linguistics, H.A.S.: no. 1-5, Szinhaz street, room no. 119. For further information contact bfarkas/kinga(a)nytud.hu.

29 years, 2 months

Sex Hormones & Brain: BBS Call for Commentators

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: OVARIAN HORMONES IN BRAIN SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION by Roslyn Holly Fitch and Victor H. Denenberg 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 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)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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 familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. 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 with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ A ROLE FOR OVARIAN HORMONES IN SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BRAIN Roslyn Holly Fitch and Victor H. Denenberg Biobehavioral Sciences Graduate Degree Program University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-4154 Dberg(a)UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU KEYWORDS: Activational effects, androgens, corpus callosum, estrogen, female default hypothesis, feminization, masculinization, organizational effects, sensitive periods, sexual differentiation, testosterone ABSTRACT: Historically, studies of the role of endogenous hormones in developmental differentiation of the sexes have suggested that mammalian sexual differentiation is primarily mediated by testicular androgens, and that exposure to androgens in early life leads to a male brain as defined by neuroanatomy and behavior. The female brain has been assumed to develop via a hormonal default mechanism, in the absence of androgen or other hormones. The role of ovarian hormones in female sexual differentiation may be complementary to androgen-mediated masculinization because the feminizing effects of ovarian steroids are only found in the absence of perinatal androgen. Ovarian hormones have significant effects on the development of a sexually dimorphic cortical structure, the corpus callosum, which is larger in male than female rats. In the females, removal of the ovaries as late as Day 16 increases the cross-sectional area of the adult corpus callosum. Treatment with low-dose estradiol starting on Day 25 inhibits this effect. Female callosa are also enlarged by a combination of daily postnatal handling and exogenous testosterone administered prior to Day 8. The effects of androgen treatment are expressed early in development, with males and testosterone-treated females having larger callosa than control females as early as Day 30. The effects of ovariectomy do not appear until after Day 55. These findings are consistent with other evidence of a later sensitive period for ovarian feminization than androgenic masculinization. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. 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. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.fitch.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.fitch ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.fitch gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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.fitch When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

29 years, 2 months

Feature Creation: BBS Call for Commentators

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURES IN OBJECT CONCEPTS by Philippe G. Schyns, Robert L. Goldstone & Jean-Pierre Thibaut 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 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)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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 familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. 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 with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEATURES IN OBJECT CONCEPTS Philippe G. Schyns Robert L. Goldstone Jean-Pierre Thibaut Psychology Dept. Psychology Dept. Psychology Dept. Glasgow University Indiana University Universite de Liege Glasgow G12 8QB UK Bloomington IN 47405 4000 Liege BELGIUM philippe(a)psy.gla.ac.uk rgoldsto(a)ucs.indiana.edu jthibaut(a)vm1.ulg.ac.be KEYWORDS: Concept learning, conceptual development, perceptual learning, features, stimulus encoding ABSTRACT: According to an influential approach to cognition, our perceptual systems provide us with a repertoire of fixed features as input to higher-level cognitive processes. We present a theory of category learning and representation in which features, instead of being components of a fixed repertoire, are created under the influence of higher-level cognitive processes. When new categories need to be learned, fixed features face one of two problems: (1) High-level features that are directly useful for categorization may not be flexible enough to represent all relevant objects. (2) Low-level features consisting of unstructured fragments (such as pixels) may not capture the regularities required for successful categorization. We report evidence that feature creation occurs in category learning and we describe the conditions that promote it. Feature creation can adapt flexibly to changing environmental demands and may be the origin of fixed feature repertoires. Implications for object categorization, conceptual development, chunking, constructive induction and formal models of dimensionality reduction are discussed. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. 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. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.schyns.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.schyns ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.schyns gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals 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.schyns When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

29 years, 2 months

Workshop *Logic in Human Reasoning* (fwd)

by George Kampis

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:22:57 GMT From: S.PSILLOS(a)lse.ac.uk To: Members of the list <philos-l(a)liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Workshop *Logic in Human Reasoning* Your help with circulating this announcement locally would be appreciated. Apologies for multiple copies. ______________________________ Workshop *Logic in Human Reasoning* Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, Tymes Court Bldg London School of Economics Saturday 8 March 1997 10.00-6.00pm 9.15-10.00 Registration 10.00-10.30 Bob Kowalski (Computing, Imperial College London) Opening Statement 10.30-11.20 Deirdre Wilson (Linguistics, University College London) "Logic in Communication and Cognition" 11.20-11.35 Coffee Break 11.35-12.25 Murray Shanahan (Computing, Queen Mary London) "The Use of Logic in Robotics" 12.25-13.15 Paul Thagard (Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada) "Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction" 13.15-14.30 Lunch Break 14.30-15.20 David Over (School of Social and International Studies, University of Sunderland) "Logic, Probability and Utility" 15.20-16.10 Giovanni Sartor (Law, Queen's University Belfast) "Law: Logic and Argumentation in Legal Reasoning" 16.10-16.30 Tea Break 16.30-18.00 Panel Discussion (provisionally: John Worrall (Philosophy, LSE) Jonathan Evans, Psychology, Plymouth Keith Stenning, HCRC, Edingurgh David Pearce, Compulog Paul Thagard, Philosophy, Waterloo Stathis Psillos, Philosophy, LSE) For more information and registration*, you may contact: Dr Stathis Psillos Dept of Philosophy London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE Tel. 0171 955 7089 e-mail: psillos(a)lse.ac.uk or Professor Robert Kowalski Imperial College Department of Computing 180 Queen's Gate London SW7 2BZ Tel: 0171 594 8225 e-mail: rak(a)doc.ic.ac.uk (* There is no registration fee, but since space may be limited, potential participants should register with the organisers.) Return-Path: <rak(a)doc.ic.ac.uk> Received: from pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk by res.lse.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:41:34 +0000 Received: from [146.169.18.119] [146.169.18.119] by pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 0.55 #3) id E0vrMlt-0001NB-00; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:41:14 +0000 X-Sender: rak(a)laotzu.doc.ic.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:41:15 +0000 To: J.W.Scannell(a)ncl.ac.uk, d.edmonds(a)mmu.ac.uk, H.Gaylard(a)mmu.ac.uk From: rak(a)doc.ic.ac.uk (Bob Kowalski) Subject: Workshop *Logic in Human Reasoning* Cc: S.PSILLOS(a)lse.ac.uk Message-Id: <E0vrMlt-0001NB-00(a)pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk>

29 years, 2 months

Csak proba. Dobd el!

by Gabor Ujvari

Elnezest kerek minden kedves KOGLIST olvasotol. A listat kiszolgalo gepen levelezo programot cserelunk, ezert elofordulhatnak atmeneti zavarok. Nehany proba-levelet is utnak fogok meg inditani. Ujvari Gabor -- Gabor Ujvari | Institute for Psychology, Budapest, HUNGARY system manager | Tel.: (36-1) 153-3244 Fax: (36-1) 269-2972 ujvari(a)cogpsyphy.hu | http://www.cogpsyphy.hu/~ujvari

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