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Application Information for Ph.D. Program in
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL SCIENCES
at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
* Application target date is February 1, 1998 *
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Additional information on our Ph.D. program, research
facilities,and faculty can be obtained over the internet at:
http://www.cmbn.rutgers.edu/bns-home.html
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The Behavioral and Neural Sciences (BNS) graduate program at
Rutgers-Newark aims to provide students with a rigorous understanding
of modern neuroscience with an emphasis on integrating behavioral and
neural approaches to understanding brain function. The program
emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of this endeavor, and offers
specific research training in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience as
well as Molecular, Cellular and Systems Neuroscience. These research
areas represent different but complementary approaches to contemporary
issues in behavioral and molecular neuroscience and can emphasize
either human or animal studies.
The BNS graduate program is composed of faculty from the Center for
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN), the Institute of Animal
Behavior (IAB), the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department
of Psychology, and the School of Nursing.
Research training in the BNS program emphasizes integration across
levels of analysis and traditional disciplinary boundaries. Basic
research areas in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience include the study
of the basal forebrain, basal ganglia, hippocampus, visual and auditory
systems and monoaminergic and neuroendocrine systems using
electrophysiological, neurochemical, neuroanatomical and molecular
biological approaches. Research in Cognitive and Behavioral
Neuroscience includes the study of memory, language (both signed and
spoken), reading, attention, motor control, vision, and animal
behavior. Clinically relevant research areas are the study of the
behavioral, physiological and pharmacological aspects of schizophrenia,
Alzheimer's Disease, amnesia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and other
movement disorders, and the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric
disorders
Other Information
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At present the CMBN supports up to 40 students with 12-month renewable
assistantships for a period of four years. The curent stipend for first
year students is $12,750; this includes tuition remission and excellent
healthcare benefits. Several other fellowships are offered.
More information is available in our graduate brochure, available upon
request.
The Rutgers-Newark campus is 20 minutes outside New York City, and
close to other major university research centers at NYU, Columbia,
SUNY, and Princeton, as well as major industrial research labs in
Northern NJ, including ATT, Bellcore, Siemens, and a host of
pharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson Hoecsht-Celanese,
and Sandoz.
Faculty Associated With Rutgers BNS Ph.D. Program
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FACULTY - RUTGERS
Elizabeth Abercrombie (Ph.D., Princeton), neurotransmitters and behavior
[CMBN]
Colin Beer (Ph.D., Oxford), ethology [IAB]
April Benasich (Ph.D., New York), infant perception and cognition [CMBN]
Ed Bonder (Ph.D., Pennsylvania), cell biology [Biology]
Linda Brzustowicz (M.D.,Ph.D., Columbia), human genetics [CMBN]
Gyorgy Buzsaki (Ph.D., Budapest), systems neuroscience [CMBN]
Mei-Fang Cheng (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr) neuroethology/neurobiology [IAB]
Ian Creese (Ph.D., Cambridge), neuropsychopharmacology [CMBN]
Doina Ganea (Ph.D., Illinois Medical School), molecular immunology
[Biology]
Alan Gilchrist (Ph.D., Rutgers), visual perception [Psychology]
Mark Gluck (Ph.D.,Stanford), learning, memory and neural computation
[CMBN]
Ron Hart (Ph.D., Michigan), molecular neuroscience [Biology]
G. Miller Jonakait (Ph.D., Cornell Medical College), neuroimmunology
[Biology]
Judy Kegl (Ph.D., M.I.T.), linguistics/neurolinguistics [CMBN]
Barry Komisaruk (Ph.D., Rutgers), behavioral neurophysiology/pharmacology
[IAB]
Joan Morrell (Ph.D., Rochester), cellular neuroendocrinology [CMBN]
Teresa Perney (Ph.D., Chicago), ion channel gene expression and function
[CMBN]
Howard Poizner (Ph.D., Northeastern), language and motor behavior [CMBN]
Jay Rosenblatt (Ph.D., New York), maternal behavior [IAB]
Anne Sereno (Ph.D., Harvard), attention and visual perception [CMBN]
Maggie Shiffrar (Ph.D., Stanford), vision and motion perception[CMBN]
Harold Siegel (Ph.D., Rutgers) neuroendocrine mechanisms [IAB]
Ralph Siegel (Ph.D., McGill), neuropsychology of visual perception [CMBN]
Jennifer Swann (Ph.D., Michigan), neuroendocrinology [Biology]
Paula Tallal (Ph.D., Cambridge), neural basis of language development
[CMBN]
James Tepper (Ph.D., Colorado), basal ganglia neurophysiology and anatomy
[CMBN]
Beverly Whipple (Ph.D., Rutgers), women's health [Nursing]
Laszlo Zaborszky (Ph.D., Hungarian Academy), neuroanatomy of forebrain
[CMBN]
ASSOCIATES OF CMBN
Izrail Gelfand (Ph.D., Moscow State), biology of cells [Biology]
Richard Katz (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr), psychopharmacology [Ciba Geigy]
Barry Levin (M.D., Emory Medical) neurobiology
David Tank (Ph.D., Cornell), neural plasticity [Bell Labs]
For More Information or an Application
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If you are interested in applying to our graduate program, or possibly
applying to one of the labs as a post-doc, research assistant or
programmer, please contact us via one of the following:
Dr. Gyorgy Buzsaki or Dr. Mark A. Gluck
BNS Graduate Admissions
CMBN, Rutgers University
197 University Ave.
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Phone: (201) 648-1080 (Ext. 3221)
Fax: (201) 648-1272
Email: buzsaki(a)axon.rutgers.edu or
gluck(a)pavlov.rutgers.edu
We will be happy to send you info on our research and graduate program,
as well as set up an a possible visit to the Neuroscience Center here
at Rutgers-Newark. Please also see our WWW Homepage listed above which
contains extensive information on faculty research, degree requirements,
local facilities, and more.
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)323-1998
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<CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA>
To: CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA
Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:31:52 -0400
From: Fredric Weizmann <weizmann(a)YORKU.CA>
To: PSYCHOLOGY(a)YORKU.CA
Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders
Those of you familiar with the latest in psychiatric and psychological
disorders as specified in the current Fourth edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric will no
doubt be interested in the preliminary draft of a new DSM-V Committee
set up to report on Cyber Disorders. This report comes to you courtesy of
Bruce Dienes <bdienes(a)S.PSYCH.UIUC.EDU>.
The Cyber Disorders section includes disorders that have a dependency
upon cyberexistance as the predominant feature. The section is divided
into three parts. The first part describes e-mail episodes that serve as
the building blocks for the disorder diagnoses. The criteria sets for
most of the Cyber Disorders require the presence or absence of the e-mail
episodes described in the first part of the section. The third part
includes the specifiers that describe either the most recent e-mail
episode, or the course of recurrent episodes.
The Cyber Disorders are divided into Posting Disorders, Flaming Disorders
and CC Disorders. The Posting Disorders (i.e., Lurking Disorder, Chronic
Posting Disorder and Posting Disorder not otherwise specified) are
distinguished from the Flaming Disorders by the fact that there is no
history of ever having posted a Flame or Flame-With-Apology. CC Disorders
(CC-All Disorder and Spam Disorder) may include episodes of Chronic
Posting, Flamies, and/or Flame-With-Apologies, but can be distinguished by
the number of addresses.
Lurking Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of lurking
(i.e., at least two weeks of lurking or loss of interest in answering mail
accompanied by at least four additional symptoms of Lurking, including
high on-line time balances, walking away from the computer while logged
on, composing posts and deleting them without sending them, etc.)
Chronic Posting Disorder is characterized by at least 4 weeks of posting
to a newsgroup of listserv more days than not, accompanied by additional
Cyber symptoms such as checking mail several times per day, posts in which
the content is shorter than the message header or sig, and messages of
extreme anxiety when list volume drops.
Posting Disorder Not Otherwise specified is included for coding disorders
with posting features that do not meet the criteria for Lurking Disorder
or Flaming Disorder.
Flaming Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of hot-tempered
posts, usually posted within seconds of receiving the "trigger" message,
but can be distinguished from the Flame-With-Apology in that the sender
has a sincere belief that he/she is 100% correct and morally entitled to
his/her feelings of outrage. Flaming Disorder is often accompanied by
Chronic Posting Disorder.
Flame-With-Apology Disorder is a milder form of Flaming Disorder, in which
the poster sincerely apologizes for the first portion of the message and
yet sends it anyway. A variation of Flame-With-Apology exists in which
posters staunchly defend their positiong for 3 to 4 days, then abruptly
back down and revert to Chronic Posting or Lurking.
The specifiers described in the third part of the section are provided to
increase diagnostic specificity, create more homogeneous subgroups, assist
in treatment selction, and improve the prediction of prognosis. Some of
the specifiers describe the most recent episode (i.e., Pine Elm,
Anonymous, With Humerous Features, and With Uncomplicated Internet
Access.)
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:27:05 +0200
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AI*IA 97
FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE
ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Rome, September 16-19, 1997
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza",
Facolta' di Ingegneria (Sede di S. Pietro in Vincoli),
via Eudossiana 18
Call for Participation
The Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence represents, at the italian level, the most
important meeting point for all persons involved in the
various areas of AI. The fifth Congress will include invited
relations of international experts, presentation of
scientific works, demos of systems and prototypes, round
tables about relevant methodological and applicative
aspects, tutorials of national experts, student projects and
other satellite events. During the last two days, at the
same time of the Congress sessions, two workshops of more
applicative nature will be held.
Technical Session
Presented papers contain either theoretical/methodological
work or applicative work. Areas of interest include:
Distributed artificial intelligence, Natural language,
Cognitive modeling, Connectionist models, Vision and
Perception, Planning, Automated reasoning, Robotics,
Knowledge-based systems, Learning, Control and diagnosis of
plants and processes, Software engineering and information
systems, Man-machine interfaces, Autonomous systems and
robots. The accepted papers are collected in a volume of the
serie Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence published by
Springer Verlag.
Demo section
The demo section will deal with demonstration of systems and
prototypes using Artificial Intelligence principles and
techniques. All partecipants can attend the demos and
discuss with the authors of the systems. A short description
of all the demos is included in the Congress proceedings.
Invited lectures
Invited lectures are an important event of the
Congress. This year there will be two invited talks:
* Complexity in AI and Knowledge Representation
by Georg Gottlob, Technische Universitat,
Wien (Austria)
* Automated Planning for autonomous space strobes
by Nicola Muscettola, Nasa Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field (CA, USA)
Tutorials
Four tutorials will be held (tutorials are given in
Italian):
* Knowledge representation and reasoning in the Web
(D. Nardi, M. Schaerf)
* Development systems for grammatical representations based
on Typed Feature Structures
(F. Pianesi)
* Multi-agent systems
(C. Castelfranchi, F. Giunchiglia)
* Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art
and applications
(L. Console)
Tutorials will be held on the 16th (the day before the
officla opening of the Congress), and attendance will be
limited. These tutorials are intended for industry
representatives, non specialists and Ph.D. students. The
participation is only permitted to registered Congress
attendees, although a limited number of seats will be
available for people not attending the whole Congress.
Workshops
Workshops are a recent addition in the Congress program, and
they are already a useful chance of meeting and discussion
among researchers and professionals. In addition, their aim
is to verify the contributes that Artificial Intelligence
can bring in specific contexts. This year both workshops
will focus on crucial sectors of today world, as are
services for citizens and financial services. The titles
are:
* Artificial Intelligence in financial institutions
(September 17) (Organized by: C. Rossignoli, C. Ficini)
* Artificial Intelligence, new technologies and services
for the citizen (September 19)
(Organized by: R. Petrioli, D. D'Aloisi, P. Naggar, G. Soda)
Each workshop will last a whole day, in parallel with the
technical/scientific/applicative sessions. Due to the
specific nature of these events, the participation is open
also to people who are not registered for the Congress.
REGISTRATION FEES (1)
Registration Registration
within after
August,11/97 August,11/97
Congress (2)
AI*IA Member 500.000 600.000
Non AI*IA Member 650.000 750.000
Student 100.000 150.000
Tutorials (3)
For those registered
for the Congress 130.000 180.000
For those non registered
for the Congress 300.000 350.000
Workshops (4)
For those registered
for the Congress - -
For those non registered
for the Congress 100.000 150.000
(1) Fees are tax-included.
(2) The registration fee include: participation to the
Congress and Workshops, congress and workshops proceedings,
coffee breaks. Please remember that you must be member AI*IA
for the year 1997, in order to be eligible for the reduced
fee. Students must enclose proof of studentship.
(3) The fee is per tutorial and includes all the course
material.
(4) This is only for those who aren't registered for the
Congress. The price is for a single Workshop and includes
the workshop proceedings and coffee breaks.
Information
Updated information on the Congress is available on the
World Wide Web at the address:
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~aiia97
Alternatively, it is possible to contact directly the
Program Chairman:
Prof. Maurizio Lenzerini
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma
e-mail: aiia97(a)dis.uniroma1.it
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Detailed Program
September 16, 1997
ore 8 - 9 Registration
ore 9 - 10:30 Tutorial 1 (Aula 15)
Knowledge representation and reasoning in the WEB
D. Nardi, M. Schaerf (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
Tutorial 2 (Aula 17)
Development systems for grammatical representations based on
Typed Feature Structures -
F. Pianesi (IRST, Trento)
ore 10:30 - 11 Break
ore 11 - 12:30 Tutorial 1 (Aula 15)
Knowledge representation and reasoning in the WEB
D. Nardi, M. Schaerf (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
Tutorial 2 (Aula 17)
Development systems for grammatical representations based on
Typed Feature Structures -
F. Pianesi (IRST, Trento)
ore 12:30 - 14 Intervallo pranzo
ore 14:30 - 16 Tutorial 3 (Aula 15)
Multi-agent systems
C. Castelfranchi (CNR, Roma), F. Giunchiglia (Universita' di
Trento)
Tutorial 4 (Aula 17)
Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art and
applications
L. Console (Universita' di Torino)
ore 16 - 16:30 Break
ore 16:30 - 18 Tutorial 3 (Aula 15)
Multi-agent systems
C. Castelfranchi (CNR, Roma), F. Giunchiglia (Universita' di
Trento)
Tutorial 4 (Aula 17)
Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art and
applications
- L. Console
(Universita' di Torino)
September 17, 1997
ore 8 - 9 Registration
ore 9 - 10 Opening (Aula 1)
ore 10 - 10:30 Coffee break
ore 10:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning 1 (Aula del chiostro)
Modeling Conceptual Change: an Interdisciplinary Approach
F. Neri, L. Saitta (Universita' di Torino),
A. Tiberghien (CNRS, France)
Refining Numerical Terms in Horn Clauses
M. Botta, A. Giordana, R. Piola (Universita' di Torino)
Handling Continuos Data in Top-Down Induction of First-Order
Rules
D. Malerba, F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, S. Caggese (Universita'
di Bari)
Inductive Inference of Tree Automata by Recursive Neural
Network
P. Frasconi, G. Soda (Universita' di Firenze),
M. Gori, M. Maggini, E. Martinelli (Universita' di Siena)
Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1)
ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo
ore 14 - 16:15 Natural Language 1 (Aula del chiostro)
A Computational Model of Misunderstandings in Agent
Communication
L. Ardissono, G. Boella, R. Damiano (Universita' di Torino)
Wide-coverage Lexicalized Grammars
G. Barbero, V. Lombardo (Universita' di Torino)
Flexible Response Choice Using Problem-Solving Plans and
Rethorical Relations
P. Barboni, D. Sestero (Universita' di Torino)
A Variant of Earley Parsing
M. Nederhof (University of Groningen, The Netherlands),
G. Satta (Universita' di Padova)
Student presentation
Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1)
ore 16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
ore 16:30 - 18:30 Perception, Vision and Robotics
(Aula del chiostro)
Autonomous Robot Navigation Using a Reactive Agent
M. Piaggio, A. Sgorbissa, R. Zaccaria (Universita' di Genova),
G. Vercelli (Universita' di Trieste)
A Hybrid Architecture for Autonomous Agents
A. Chella, S. Gaglio, G. Sajeva, F. Torterolo
(Universita' di Palermo)
Extraction of Discriminant Features from Image Fractal
Encoding
M. Baldoni, C. Baroglio, D. Cavagnino, G. Lo Bello
(Universita' di Torino)
3-D Facets Construction for Stereovision
E. Zagrouba (University of Monastir, Tunisia)
Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1)
September 18, 1997
ore 8 - 9 Registration
ore 9 - 10 Invited Speaker (Aula 1)
Complexity in AI and Knowledge Representation
Georg Gottlob (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
ore 10 - 10:30 Coffe break
ore 10:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning 2 (Aula 1)
Learning Relational Concepts at Different Levels of
Granularity
G. Armano, G. Fumera (Universita' di Cagliari)
Inferring Minimal Rule Covers from Relations
C. Carpineto, G. Romano (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma)
Learning the Syntax and Semantic Rules of an ECG Grammar
G. Kokai, J. Csirik (Jozsef Attila University, Hungary),
T. Gyimothy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Corpus-driven Unsupervised Learning of Verb
Subcategorization Frames
R. Basili, M. T. Pazienza, M. Vindigni
(Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata)
ore 10:30 - 12:30 Automated Reasoning (Aula del chiostro)
Introducing Abduction into (Extensional) Inductive Logic
Programming Systems
E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, F. Riguzzi
(Universita' di Bologna)
An Efficient Algorithm for Temporal Abduction
V. Brusoni, L. Console, P. Terenziani, D. Theseider Dupre'
(Universita' di Torino)
Experimental Analysis of the Computational Cost of
Evaluating Quantified Boolean Formulae
M. Cadoli, A. Giovanardi, M. Schaerf
(Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
A Proof Theory for Tractable Approximations of Propositional
Reasoning
F. Massacci (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
Demo (Laboratorio)
ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo
ore 14 - 15:45 Knowledge Representation 1 (Aula 1)
Embedding Minimal Knowledge into Autoepistemic Logic
R. Rosati (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
User Model-Based Information Filtering
F.A. Asnicar, M. Di Fant, C. Tasso (Universita' di Udine)
A Comparative Analysis of Horn Models and Bayesian Network
for Diagnosis
L. Portinale, P. Torasso (Universita' di Torino)
Student presentation
ore 14 - 15:45 Distributed Artificial Intelligence
(Aula del chiostro)
Multi-agent Negotiation and Planning Through Knowledge
Contextualization
E. Sangineto (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
>From Task Delegation to Role Delegation
C.. Castelfranchi, R. Falcone (CNR, Roma)
Automated Reasoning On-Board Autonomous Spacecrafts
N.D. Monekosso (University of Surrey, UK),
P. Remagnino (The University of Reading, UK)
Student presentation
Demo (Laboratorio)
ore 15:45 - 16 Coffee break
ore 16 - 17 Planning (Aula 1)
A Weakly Backjumping Strategy to Solve Hard Scheduling
Problems
A. Oddi (CNR, Roma)
Compiling Task Network into Partial Order Planning Domains
M. Baioletti, S. Marcugini, A. Milani (Universita' di Perugia)
Demo (Laboratorio)
ore 17 - 18 Premio AI*IA e Conferenza del
Vincitore (Aula 1)
ore 18 - 20 Assemblea soci AI*IA (Aula 1)
ore 20 Cena sociale
September 19, 1997
ore 8 - 9 Registration
ore 9 - 10 Invited Speaker (Aula 1)
Pianificazione automatica per sonde spaziali autonome
Nicola Muscettola (RECOM Technologies, NASA AMES Research
Center, USA)
ore 10 - 10:30 Coffe break
ore 10:30 - 12:30 Natural Language 2 (Aula del chiostro)
A Hybrid Approach to Hypertext Generation
N. Cancedda (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"),
G. Kamstrup, E. Pianta (IRST, Trento),
E. Pietrosanti (Finsiel, Roma)
Generating User-Adapted Hypermedia from Discourse Plans
B. De Carolis, F. De Rosis, S. Pizzutillo
(Universita' di Bari)
WordNet for Italian and Its Use for Lexical Discrimination
A. Artale, B. Magnini, C. Strapparava (IRST, Trento)
Student presentations
Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1)
ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo
ore 14 - 16 Knowledge Representation 2
(Aula del chiostro)
Efficient Support for Reactive Rules in Prolog
M. Gaspari (Universita' di Bologna)
Reasoning with Behavioural Knowledge in Application Domain
Models
E. Compatangelo (Universita' di Ancona),
F.M. Donini (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza),
G. Rumolo (Universita' di Roma TRE)
How to Solve Qualification and Ramification Using Dijkstra's
Semantics for Programming Languages
E.M. Bugaj (Warsaw University, Poland)
Towards a Qualitative Representation of Linguistic Negation
of Nuanced Properties
D. Pacholczyk (Universite' d'Angers, France)
Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1)
ore 16 - 16:30 Coffee break
ore 16:30 - 17:30 Machine Learning 3 (Aula del chiostro)
CBET: a Case Base Exploration Tool
P. Avesani, A. Perini, F. Ricci (IRST, Trento)
Learning Feature Weights for CBR: Global versus Local
A. Bonzano, P. Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),
B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1)
Con il contributo di
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
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SESM - Alenia Difesa, Roma
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
FOLK BIOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE: COGNITIVE
UNIVERSALS AND CULTURAL PARTICULARS
by Scott Atran
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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or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
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FOLK BIOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE: COGNITIVE
UNIVERSALS AND CULTURAL PARTICULARS
Scott Atran
Institute for Social Research
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48106-1248
USA
satran(a)umich.edi
KEYWORDS: Folk biology, taxonomy, cognitive universals,
modularity, evolution, culture, Maya, anthropology
ABSTRACT: This essay in the "anthropology of science" is
about how cognition constrains culture in producing science.
The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence
issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive
universals that provide the historical backbone of
systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and
animals in highly structured ways. People have similar
folk-biological taxonomies composed of essence-based
species-like groups and the ranking of species into lower-
and higher-order groups. Such taxonomies are not as
arbitrary in structure and content, nor as variable across
cultures, as the assembly of entities into cosmologies,
materials or social groups. These structures are routine
products of our "habits of mind," which may be in part
naturally selected to grasp relevant and recurrent "habits
of the world." An experiment illustrates that the same
taxonomic rank is preferred for making biological inferences
in two diverse populations: Lowland Maya and Midwest
Americans. These findings cannot be explained by
domain-general models of similarity because such models
cannot account for why both cultures prefer species-like
groups, despite the fact that Americans have relatively little
actual knowledge or experience at this level. This supports a
modular view of folk biology as a core domain of human
knowledge and as a special player, or "core meme," in the
selection processes by which cultures evolve. Structural
aspects of folk taxonomy provide people in different
cultures with the built-in constraints and flexibility that
allow them to understand and respond appropriately to
different cultural and ecological settings. Another set of
reasoning experiments shows that the Maya, American folk and
scientists use similarly structured taxonomies in somewhat
different ways to extend their understanding of the world in
the face of uncertainty. Although folk and scientific
taxonomies diverge historically, they continue to interact.
The theory of evolution may ultimately dispense with the
core concepts of folk biology, including species, taxonomy
and teleology; in practice, however, these may remain
indispensable for scientific work. Moreover,
theory-driven scientific knowledge cannot simply replace
folk knowledge in everyday life. Folk-biological knowledge
is not driven by implicit or inchoate theories of the sort
science aims to make more accurate and perfect.
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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.atran.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.atran
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ftp ftp.princeton.edu
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
REPRESENTATION IS REPRESENTATION OF SIMILARITIES
by Shimon Edelman
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.
____________________________________________________________________
REPRESENTATION IS REPRESENTATION OF SIMILARITIES
Shimon Edelman
Center for Biological and Computational Learning
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT E25-201
Cambridge MA 02142 USA
edelman(a)ai.mit.edu
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~edelman
KEYWORDS: representation, similarity, visual shape recognition,
categorization, perception, features, invariance, mental models,
affordance, constancy, distal/proximal stimulus, isomorphism
ABSTRACT: Advanced perceptual systems are faced with the problem of
securing a principled (ideally, veridical) relationship between the
world and its internal representation. I propose a unified approach to
visual representation, addressing the need for superordinate and
basic-level categorization and for the identification of specific
instances of familiar categories. According to the proposed theory, a
shape is represented internally by the responses of a small number of
tuned modules, each broadly selective for some reference shape, whose
similarity to the stimulus it measures. This amounts to embedding the
stimulus in a low-dimensional proximal shape space spanned by the
outputs of the active modules. This shape space supports
representations of distal shape similarities that are veridical as
Shepard's (1968) second-order isomorphisms (i.e., correspondence
between distal and proximal similarities among shapes, rather than
between distal shapes and their proximal representations).
Representation in terms of similarities to reference shapes supports
processing (e.g., discrimination) of shapes that are radically
different from the reference ones, without the need for the
computationally problematic decomposition into parts required by other
theories. Furthermore, a general expression for similarity between two
stimuli, based on comparisons to reference shapes, can be used to
derive models of perceived similarity ranging from continuous,
symmetric, and hierarchical, as in multidimensional scaling [Shepard,
1980], to discrete and non-hierarchical, as in the general contrast
models [Tversky, 1977; Shepard and Arabie, 1979].
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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.edelman.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.edelman
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.edelman
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.edelman
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
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)323-1998
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 17:26:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: al(a)pop.pitt.edu
To: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu
Subject: Cognitive Task Analysis
Resent-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 23:54:49 +100
Resent-From: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.stanford.edu
NATO Research Study Group 27 on Cognitive Task Analysis is culminating its activities with an international workshop intended to provide an up-to-the-minute view of the state of the art of cognitive task analysis. The workshop will be held in Washingt
, DC, October 30-November 1, 1997, with the financial sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
Previous activities of the NATO study group have included a review of the literature on cognitive task analysis. Thus, we are particularly interested in reports of very recent and innovative efforts that have not yet been extensively reported -- the s
rch for these is the primary reason for this open announcement. If you are interested in participating, we invite you to submit an abstract (200-400 words) outlining your potential contribution by August 1. Travel expenses will be provided for a limi
d number of invited participants.
European researchers are particularly encouraged to submit in order to help maintain the international balance of the workshop. Abstracts may be submitted in English or French. The primary language of the
workshop is expected to be English, but French translation services will be provided if there are participants who would benefit from them. Abstracts and/or questions about the workshop should be sent to Dr. Susan Chipman of ONR (chipmas(a)onr.navy.mil)
nd Dr. Jan Maarten Schraagen at TNO in the Netherlands (Schraagen(a)tm.tno.nl). Please do not reply directly to this email, as this will not get your response to Drs. Chipman and Schraagen.