Az 5. Magyar Latas Szimpozium helyenek pontos megnevezese:
MTA Pszichologiai Intezetenek eloadoterme, Budapest, Oktogon
A tevedesert elnezest kerunk.
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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 latorendszer kutatasa es modellezese
irant erdeklodot. A szimpozium immaron az otodik ilyen
osszejovetel, melyet az evek soran megszokotta valt formaban szervezunk az
alabbi modon.
I. Cim: Otodik Magyar Latas Szimpozium
II. Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1998 augusztus 29 szombat, egy napos talalkozo
A Magyar Pszichologiai Tarsasag Eloado terme, Budapest, Oktogon
III. Cel:
A szimpoziumnak fo celja, hogy forumot, talalkozasi lehetoseget
biztositson azon hazai es kulfoldon dolgozo kutatoknak
(neuroanatomusoknak, neurofiziologusoknak, pszichologusoknak es
neuralis halozatokat modellezo elmeleti szakembereknek), akik a latas
kozponti idegrendszeri feldolgozasanak problemajaval kapcsolatos
teruleteken dolgoznak.
IV. Forma:
A szimpozium formaja nagyon kotetlen, nyelve magyar. Minden eloado 15- 20
perces eloadast
tart, amit 5-10 perces lehetoseggel kerdesekreaz eloadas utan. Celunk,
hogy minel
tobb es minel kozvetlenebb 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. Ugyanugy mint az elmult negy alkalommal foleg olyan
fiatalabb- idosebb kutatok szerepleset szeretnenk elerni, akik
munkajukkal (akar itthon akar kulfoldon) potencialisan hozza tudnak
jarulni a tema hazai meghonosodasahoz es elismertte tetelehez.
A talalkozo profiljanak megfeleloen az eloadasok latorendszeri
anatomia es fiziologia, vizualis pszichofizika, magasabb
szintu latas pszichologia, matematikai es szamitogepes modellezes
temakorokbol allnak ossze.
VI. Jelentkezes:
Aki eloadast szeretne tartani a szimpoziumon, kerjuk, lepjen kapcsolatba az
alabbi szervezok egyikevel:
Fiser Jozsef -- fiser(a)bcs.rochester.edu
Kovacs Gyula -- kogyu(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu
Felkerjuk azokat is, akik hallgatokent szeretnenek resztvenni, hogy
jelezzek reszveteli szandekukat a szervezok egyikenek. Ily modon
hozavetoleges kepet tudunk alkotni a varhato letszamrol, es nevreszoloan
tudunk mindenkit tajekoztatni a tovabbi fejlemenyekrol.
VII. Dijak, szallas:
Reszveteli dij nincs. A szallas onkoltseges.
VIII. Web-site:
Jelenleg meg mindig konstrukcio alatt all, de hamarosam teljes fenyeben
elerheto az alabbi web-site ahol tovabbi informacio kaphato a jelenlegi
osszejovetelrol, es osszefoglalok is olvashatoak az elmult ev
szimpoziumairol.
http://web.szote.u-szeged.hu/phys/vision/vision.htm
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20h of June .
He will have a talk entitled:
Reconstructing the History of Experimental Psychology: Central
Personnel and dogmas
Time: June 19, Friday, 10 AM.
Place: Izabella Utca 46, Room 301
Some keywords: I will talk about the Lotze-Brentano group as the
origin of experimental psychology, and add on what I'm doing at
History of Neuroscience, which is the importance of
materialism for early experimental psychology.
All are welcome, and of course feel free to reach me by email to
learn more about Ed's program.
Greetings Csaba Pleh, pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
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Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel:
äSomatic Manifestations Indicative of Hedonics of Food-related Taste-
and Odor Stimuli in Man and Animalsö
illetve
Dr. Gary Schwartz
associate professor
Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,
U.S.A.:
äGut-Brain Neural Communication in the Control of Food Intake and
Energy Homeostasisö
Tovabbi informaciok: Dr. Bardos Gyorgy egyetemi docens,
Tel: 2670-820/2374, E-mail: BARDOSGY(a)LUDENS.ELTE.HU
Budapest, 1998. junius. 11.
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Professor Ed Haupt, a noted American historian of 19th century
German psychology will be a guest of our department between the 18th
20h of June.
He will have a talk entitled:
Reconstructing the History of Experimental Psychology: Central
Personnel and dogmas
Time: June n19, 10 AM.
Place: Izabella Utca 46, Room 301
Some keywords: I will talk about the Lotze-Brentano group as the
origin of experimental psychology, and add on what I'm doing at
History of Neuroscience, which is the importance of
materialism for early experimental psychology.
All are welcome, and of course feel free to reach me by email to
learn more about Ed's program.
Greetings Csaba Pleh, pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Csaba Pleh
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Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U
Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378
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IS VISION CONTINUOUS WITH COGNITION? THE CASE FOR COGNITIVE
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by Zenon Pylyshyn
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IS VISION CONTINUOUS WITH COGNITION? THE CASE FOR COGNITIVE
IMPENETRABILITY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
Zenon Pylyshyn
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
Psychology Addition, Busch Campus,
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
zenon(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu
KEYWORDS: visual processing, modularity, cognitive
penatrability, early vision context effects, top down
processes, signal detection theory, attention expert
perception, perceptual learning, knowledge-based vision, visual
agnosia, categorical perception.
ABSTRACT: Although the study of visual perception has made more
progress in the past 40 years than any other area of cognitive
science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely
vision is tied to cognition. This paper sets out some of the
arguments for both sides (arguments from computer vision,
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of vision science) and defends the position that an important
part of visual perception, corresponding to what some people
have called early vision, is prohibited from accessing relevant
expectations, knowledge and utilities in determining the
function it computes - in other words it is cognitively
impenetrable. That part of vision is complex and involves
top-down interactions that are internal to the early vision
system. Its function is to provide a structured representation
of the 3-D surfaces of objects sufficient to serve as an index
into memory, with somewhat different outputs being made
available to other systems such as those dealing with motor
control. The paper also addresses certain conceptual and
methodological issues raised by this claim, including the use of
signal detection theory and event-related potentials to assess
cognitive penetration of vision.
A distinction is made among several stages in visual processing.
These include, in addition to the inflexible early-vision
stage, a pre-perceptual attention-allocation stage and a
post-perceptual evaluation, selection, and inference stage which
accesses long-term memory. These two stages provide the primary
ways in which cognition can affect the outcome of visual
perception. The paper discusses arguments that have been
presented in both computer vision and psychology showing that
vision is "intelligent" and involves elements of "problem
solving". It is suggested that the cases of apparently
intelligent interpretation that are sometimes cited in support
of this claim do not show cognitive penetration, but rather they
show that certain natural constraints on interpretation,
concerned primarily with optical and geometrical properties of
the world, have been compiled into the visual system. The paper
also examines a number of examples where instructions and
"hints" are alleged to affect what is seen. In each case it is
concluded that the evidence is more readily assimilated to the
view that when cognitive effects are found, they have a locus
outside early vision, in such processes as the allocation of
focal attention and identification of the stimulus.
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