Dear Dr. KogList List User,
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases
by
Stephanie D. Preston & Frans B. M. de Waal
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/
or
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/Preston.pdf
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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to:
calls(a)bbsonline.org
The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation
(indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment
on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish
to comment, or to nominate someone to comment.
If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS
Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar
with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic
list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help
you select a name:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html
If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your
Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime,
your name, address and email address will be entered into our database
as an unaffiliated investigator.)
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.
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online
BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below.
_____________________________________________________________
Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases
Stephanie D. Preston
Department of Psychology
3210 Tolman Hall #1650
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650
USA
spreston(a)socrates.berkeley.edu
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~spreston
Frans B. M. de Waal
Living Links,
Yerkes Primate Center and Psychology Department,
Emory University,
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
dewaal(a)rmy.emory.edu
http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/
KEYWORDS:
altruism; cognitive empathy; comparative; emotion;
emotional contagion; empathy; evolution; human; perception-action;
perspective taking;
ABSTRACT:
There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the
phenomenon of empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning
views, applying in varying degrees across species. An adequate description
of the ultimate and proximate mechanism can integrate these views.
Proximately, the perception of an object's state activates the subject's
corresponding representations, which in turn activate somatic and
autonomic responses. This mechanism supports basic behaviors (e.g., alarm,
social facilitation, vicariousness of emotions, mother-infant
responsiveness, and the modeling of competitors and predators) that are
crucial for the reproductive success of animals living in groups. The
"Perception-Action Model" (PAM) together with an understanding of how
representations change with experience can explain the major empirical
effects in the literature (similarity, familiarity, past experience,
explicit teaching and salience). It can also predict a variety of empathy
disorders. The interaction between the PAM and prefrontal functioning can
also explain different levels of empathy across species and age groups.
This view can advance our evolutionary understanding of empathy beyond
inclusive fitness and reciprocal altruism and can explain different levels
of empathy across individuals, species, stages of development, and
situations.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/
or
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/Preston.pdf
___________________________________________________________
Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having
inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees.
_______________________________________________________________________
*** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their
refereed research papers; they give them away. What they want is to
reach all interested researchers worldwide, so as to maximize the
potential research impact of their findings.
Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View costs are accordingly
access-barriers, and hence impact-barriers for this give-away
research literature.
There is now a way to free the entire refereed journal literature,
for everyone, everywhere, immediately, by mounting interoperable
university eprint archives, and self-archiving all refereed research
papers in them.
Please see: http://www.eprints.orghttp://www.openarchives.org/http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to self-archive all their papers in their own
institution's Eprint Archives or in CogPrints, the Eprint Archive
for the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to self-archive and will make all of our
papers available to all of us everywhere, at no cost to anyone,
forever.
Authors of BBS papers wishing to archive their already published
BBS Target Articles should submit it to BBSPrints Archive.
Information about the archiving of BBS' entire backcatalogue will
be sent to you in the near future. Meantime please see:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/
and
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able
to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for
Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do
not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your
mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage,
useing your username and password above:
http://www.bbsonline.org/
For information about the mailshot, please see the help file at:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/node5.html#mailshot
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases
by
Stephanie D. Preston & Frans B. M. de Waal
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/
or
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/Preston.pdf
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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to:
calls(a)bbsonline.org
The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation
(indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment
on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish
to comment, or to nominate someone to comment.
If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS
Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar
with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic
list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help
you select a name:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html
If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your
Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime,
your name, address and email address will be entered into our database
as an unaffiliated investigator.)
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.
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online
BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below.
_____________________________________________________________
Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases
Stephanie D. Preston
Department of Psychology
3210 Tolman Hall #1650
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650
USA
spreston(a)socrates.berkeley.edu
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~spreston
Frans B. M. de Waal
Living Links,
Yerkes Primate Center and Psychology Department,
Emory University,
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
dewaal(a)rmy.emory.edu
http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/
KEYWORDS:
altruism; cognitive empathy; comparative; emotion;
emotional contagion; empathy; evolution; human; perception-action;
perspective taking;
ABSTRACT:
There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the
phenomenon of empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning
views, applying in varying degrees across species. An adequate description
of the ultimate and proximate mechanism can integrate these views.
Proximately, the perception of an object's state activates the subject's
corresponding representations, which in turn activate somatic and
autonomic responses. This mechanism supports basic behaviors (e.g., alarm,
social facilitation, vicariousness of emotions, mother-infant
responsiveness, and the modeling of competitors and predators) that are
crucial for the reproductive success of animals living in groups. The
"Perception-Action Model" (PAM) together with an understanding of how
representations change with experience can explain the major empirical
effects in the literature (similarity, familiarity, past experience,
explicit teaching and salience). It can also predict a variety of empathy
disorders. The interaction between the PAM and prefrontal functioning can
also explain different levels of empathy across species and age groups.
This view can advance our evolutionary understanding of empathy beyond
inclusive fitness and reciprocal altruism and can explain different levels
of empathy across individuals, species, stages of development, and
situations.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/
or
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Preston/Preston.pdf
___________________________________________________________
Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having
inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees.
_______________________________________________________________________
*** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their
refereed research papers; they give them away. What they want is to
reach all interested researchers worldwide, so as to maximize the
potential research impact of their findings.
Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View costs are accordingly
access-barriers, and hence impact-barriers for this give-away
research literature.
There is now a way to free the entire refereed journal literature,
for everyone, everywhere, immediately, by mounting interoperable
university eprint archives, and self-archiving all refereed research
papers in them.
Please see: http://www.eprints.orghttp://www.openarchives.org/http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to self-archive all their papers in their own
institution's Eprint Archives or in CogPrints, the Eprint Archive
for the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to self-archive and will make all of our
papers available to all of us everywhere, at no cost to anyone,
forever.
Authors of BBS papers wishing to archive their already published
BBS Target Articles should submit it to BBSPrints Archive.
Information about the archiving of BBS' entire backcatalogue will
be sent to you in the near future. Meantime please see:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/
and
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able
to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for
Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do
not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your
mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage,
useing your username and password above:
http://www.bbsonline.org/
For information about the mailshot, please see the help file at:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/node5.html#mailshot
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
M E G H I V O ! ! !
A Szegedi Egyetem Elettani Intezet szeretettel meghiv invital minden,
a latorendszer kutatasa es modellezese irant erdeklodot hagyomanyos
latas szimpoziumunkra. A forum kivalo lehetoseget nyujt a
hallgatosag szamara hogy nemzetkozi szintu eloadasokat halljon es
szemelyes kontaktust teremtsen a szakma hazai kepviseloivel. A
szimpozium immaron a nyolcadik ilyen evenkent tartott osszejovetel.
Cim: Nyolcadik Magyar Latas Szimpozium
Idopont, idotartam, hely: 2001 Szeptember 8, szombat, Szeged
Dom ter 10. Elettan Intezet eloado terme
PROGRAMTERV
9:45
MEGNYITO
RETINA
10:00
A fény- és [cGMP]-változások hatása a glutaminsav felszabadulására
izolált patkány retinából
Barabás Péter
MTA Kémiai Kutatóközpont Kémiai Intézet Neurokémiai Osztály, Budapest
10:15
Egyes glutamat-receptor koto feherjek eloszlasa patkany retinaban
Gábriel Robert
Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Altalános Allattani es Neurobiologiai Tanszék
10:30
Tirozin-hidroxiláz aktivításukban eltérõ BALB/cJ és CXBI egértörzsek
fényadaptációs folyamatainak vizsgálata
Szikra T., Gabriel R., Slezia A, Juhasz G. Vadasz Cs
Neurobiologiai Kutatocsoport ELTE
10:45
Reserpin-szenzitiv retinalis neuronok intracellularis analizise
teknos retinaban
Rabl Katalin
Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Altalános Allattani es Neurobiologiai Tanszék
11:00
300 ms hosszu feldolgozott kepcsomagok hagyjak el a retinat
mikroszakkadonkent: a vizualis kepfeldolgozas uj elve
Juhasz G. Salfay, O, Plahalmi, J. Galambos, R.
Neurobiologiai Kutatocsoport ELTE
11:15
SZUNET
ANATOMIA
11:30
A retinalis rostok vegzodesi tipusai a madar tectumaban, es ezek
funkcionalis jelentosege.
Tombol, Alpar,Sebesteny
SOTE, Budapest
11:45
Az opticus rostok vegzodese a nucleus BOR-ban.
Zayats, Tombol
SOTE, Budapest
12:00
A kergi nagy kosarsejtek axoneloszlasa orientacio specifikus fejlodesre utal.
Kovács Krisztina, Ferecskó Alex, Buzás Péter, Ulf T. Eysel, Kisvárday Zoltán
Institut für Physiologie, Abteilung für Neurophysiologie,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
12:15
Orientacio specifikus kortiko-kortikalis inputok eloszlasa a piramis
sejtek dendritfajan.
Ferecskó Alex, Kovács Krisztina, Buzás Péter, Ulf T. Eysel, Kisvárday Zoltán
Institut für Physiologie, Abteilung für Neurophysiologie,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
12: 30
SZUNET
EBED
FIZIOLOGIA
2:00
Irányérzékeny complex sejtek látómezejének temporális struktúrája a
macska V2-es látóterületében.
Vajda Ildiko
Department of Physiology, University Utrecht
2:15
Akusztikus és vizuális ingerek térbeli kódolása a macska polymodális
asszociációs agykérgében
Eördegh Gabriella, Nagy Attila
Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Általános Orvosi Kar, Élettani Intézet
2:30
Az inferotemporális kéregben elhelyezked_ idegsejtek tüzelési
frekvenciája és a vizuális stimulus jellegzetessége közötti
összefüggés.
Ráduly Levente, Köteles Károly, Boda Krisztina, Chadaide Zoltán,
Tompa Tamás, Benedek György
SZTE, ÁOK Élettani Intézet es a Domus Hungarica Scientiarium et
Artium alapítvány
2:45
Illuzórikus kontúr percepció rhesus majomban
Chadaide Zoltán, Tompa Tamás, Kovács Gyula*, Köteles Károly, Benedek György
SZTE Élettani Intézet, Szeged és *Richter Rt., Budapest
3:00
SZUNET
HUMAN KISERLETEK ES MODELLJEIK I: MUKODES
3:15
Tranziensek a retinán: a Hermann-grid-illúzió szokásos magyarázatának kritikája
Geier János
ELTE, Kísérleti és Általános Pszichológiai Tanszék
3:30
Automatikus változás-detekció a látásban
Czigler Istvan
MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet
3:45
A vizuális mozgáspercepció figyelmi modulációjának mechanizmusai
Vidnyánszky Zoltán
Rutgers University
4:00
Szimmetria percepció és holografikus reprezentáció
Csathó Árpád
Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Magatartástudományi Intézet
4:15
SZUNET
HUMAN KISERLETEK ES MODELLJEIK II: FEJLODES
4:30
Dorzális vizuális rendszer és a fejlödési dyslexia
Karádi Kázmér
PTE, ÁOK, Magatartástudományi Intézet
4:45
A háttér kép strukturaltságának hatása egyszeru vizuális
alakjellemzök statisztikus tanulására
Fiser József
Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester
5:00
Tudja-e a látórendszer is a fizikát?
Kovács Ilona,
Rutgers University
5:15
Ockham borotvájával simított" homunculus modell
Lõrincz András
Informacio Rendszerek Tanszek , ELTE TTK
5:30
SZIMPOZIUM ZÁRÁS
Dear Dr. KogList List User,
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
Two Visual Systems and Two Theories of Perception:
An Attempt to Reconcile the Constructivist and Ecological Approaches
by
Joel Norman
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Norman/http://psy.haifa.ac.il/~maga/tvs&ttp.pdf
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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to:
calls(a)bbsonline.org
The Calls are sent to 8000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation
(indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment
on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish
to comment, or to nominate someone to comment.
If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS
Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar
with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic
list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help
you select a name:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html
If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your
Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime,
your name, address and email address will be entered into our database
as an unaffiliated investigator.)
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.
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online
BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below.
_____________________________________________________________
Two Visual Systems and Two Theories of Perception:
An Attempt to Reconcile the Constructivist and Ecological Approaches
Joel Norman
Department of Psychology
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
jnorman(a)psy.haifa.ac.il
KEYWORDS: Visual perception theories, ecological, constructivist,
two visual systems, space perception, size perception,
dual-process approach
ABSTRACT: The two contrasting theoretical approaches to visual
perception, the constructivist and the ecological, are briefly
presented and illustrated through their analyses of space perception
and size perception. Earlier calls for their reconciliation and
unification are reviewed. Neurophysiological, neuropsychological, and
psychophysical evidence for the existence of two quite distinct visual
systems, the ventral and the dorsal, is presented. These two
perceptual systems differ in their functions; the ventral systems
central function is that of identification, while the dorsal system is
mainly engaged in the visual control of motor behavior. The strong
parallels between the ecological approach and the functioning of the
dorsal system and between the constructivist approach and the
functioning of the ventral system are noted. It is also shown that the
experimental paradigms used by the proponents of these two approaches
match the functions of the respective visual systems. A dual-process
approach to visual perception emerges from this analysis, with the
ecological-dorsal process transpiring mainly without conscious
awareness, while the constructivist-ventral process is normally
conscious. Some implications of this dual-process approach to
visual-perceptual phenomena are presented, with emphasis on space
perception.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Norman/http://psy.haifa.ac.il/~maga/tvs&ttp.pdf
___________________________________________________________
Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having
inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees.
_______________________________________________________________________
*** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their
refereed research papers; they give them away. What they want is to
reach all interested researchers worldwide, so as to maximize the
potential research impact of their findings.
Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View costs are accordingly
access-barriers, and hence impact-barriers for this give-away
research literature.
There is now a way to free the entire refereed journal literature,
for everyone, everywhere, immediately, by mounting interoperable
university eprint archives, and self-archiving all refereed research
papers in them.
Please see: http://www.eprints.orghttp://www.openarchives.org/http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to self-archive all their papers in their own
institution's Eprint Archives or in CogPrints, the Eprint Archive
for the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to self-archive and will make all of our
papers available to all of us everywhere, at no cost to anyone,
forever.
Authors of BBS papers wishing to archive their already published
BBS Target Articles should submit it to BBSPrints Archive.
Information about the archiving of BBS' entire backcatalogue will
be sent to you in the near future. Meantime please see:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/
and
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able
to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for
Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do
not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your
mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage.
Check the helpfiles for details of how to obtain your username and
password.
http://www.bbsonline.org/
For information about the mailshot, please see the help file at:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/node5.html#mailshot
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
Two Visual Systems and Two Theories of Perception:
An Attempt to Reconcile the Constructivist and Ecological Approaches
by
Joel Norman
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Norman/http://psy.haifa.ac.il/~maga/tvs&ttp.pdf
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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to:
calls(a)bbsonline.org
The Calls are sent to 8000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation
(indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment
on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish
to comment, or to nominate someone to comment.
If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS
Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar
with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic
list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help
you select a name:
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html
If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your
Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime,
your name, address and email address will be entered into our database
as an unaffiliated investigator.)
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.
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online
BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below.
_____________________________________________________________
Two Visual Systems and Two Theories of Perception:
An Attempt to Reconcile the Constructivist and Ecological Approaches
Joel Norman
Department of Psychology
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
jnorman(a)psy.haifa.ac.il
KEYWORDS: Visual perception theories, ecological, constructivist,
two visual systems, space perception, size perception,
dual-process approach
ABSTRACT: The two contrasting theoretical approaches to visual
perception, the constructivist and the ecological, are briefly
presented and illustrated through their analyses of space perception
and size perception. Earlier calls for their reconciliation and
unification are reviewed. Neurophysiological, neuropsychological, and
psychophysical evidence for the existence of two quite distinct visual
systems, the ventral and the dorsal, is presented. These two
perceptual systems differ in their functions; the ventral systems
central function is that of identification, while the dorsal system is
mainly engaged in the visual control of motor behavior. The strong
parallels between the ecological approach and the functioning of the
dorsal system and between the constructivist approach and the
functioning of the ventral system are noted. It is also shown that the
experimental paradigms used by the proponents of these two approaches
match the functions of the respective visual systems. A dual-process
approach to visual perception emerges from this analysis, with the
ecological-dorsal process transpiring mainly without conscious
awareness, while the constructivist-ventral process is normally
conscious. Some implications of this dual-process approach to
visual-perceptual phenomena are presented, with emphasis on space
perception.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Norman/http://psy.haifa.ac.il/~maga/tvs&ttp.pdf
___________________________________________________________
Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having
inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear
on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was
possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees.
_______________________________________________________________________
*** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
(1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their
refereed research papers; they give them away. What they want is to
reach all interested researchers worldwide, so as to maximize the
potential research impact of their findings.
Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View costs are accordingly
access-barriers, and hence impact-barriers for this give-away
research literature.
There is now a way to free the entire refereed journal literature,
for everyone, everywhere, immediately, by mounting interoperable
university eprint archives, and self-archiving all refereed research
papers in them.
Please see: http://www.eprints.orghttp://www.openarchives.org/http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to self-archive all their papers in their own
institution's Eprint Archives or in CogPrints, the Eprint Archive
for the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to self-archive and will make all of our
papers available to all of us everywhere, at no cost to anyone,
forever.
Authors of BBS papers wishing to archive their already published
BBS Target Articles should submit it to BBSPrints Archive.
Information about the archiving of BBS' entire backcatalogue will
be sent to you in the near future. Meantime please see:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/
and
http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(3) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able
to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our
limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make
it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per
year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and
biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you
would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
(Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the
basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you
indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you
nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of
potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential
impact!).
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for
Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do
not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your
mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage.
Check the helpfiles for details of how to obtain your username and
password.
http://www.bbsonline.org/
For information about the mailshot, please see the help file at:
http://www.bbsonline.org/help/node5.html#mailshot
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Header field too long (>1024)
-----
Date: 13 Aug 01 13:55:00 +0200
From: gyorgy buzsaki <buzsaki(a)axon.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Taliban/taleban
To: Elizabeth Abercrombie <abercrombie(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Albert Aguayo <MC10@MCGILLA>, David Amaral <dgamaral(a)ucdavis.edu>,
Colin Beer <beer(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
April Benasich <benasich(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Benjamin Martin Bly <ben(a)psychology.rutgers.edu>,
Edward Bonder <ebonder(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Linda Brzustowicz <brzustowicz(a)nel-exchange.rutgers.edu>,
Gyorgy Buzsaki <buzsaki(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
"Mei-Fang Cheng" <mcheng(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Hungarian Cognitive Group <koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu>,
Ian Creese <creese(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Joel Davis <davisjl(a)ONRHQ.ONR.NAVY.MIL>,
Michale Fee <fee(a)physics.bell-labs.com>,
Walter Freeman <wfreeman(a)socrates.berkeley.edu>,
Doina Ganea <dganea(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
George Gerstein <george(a)mulab.physiol.upenn.edu>,
Alan Gilchrist <gilchrist(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Mark Gluck <gluck(a)pavlov.rutgers.edu>,
Robert L Isaacson <Isaacson(a)binghampton.edu>,
John Jefferys <j.g.r.jefferys(a)bham.ac.uk>,
Mill Jonakait <jonakait(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Frank Jordan <frjordan(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Anita Kamondi <anita(a)neur.sote.hu>, G Karmos <KARMOS(a)cogpsyphy.hu>,
David Kleinfeld <dk(a)physics.ucsd.edu>,
Barry Komisaruk <brk(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Gyuszi Kuti <JKuti(a)ucsd.edu>, Joe LeDoux <ledoux(a)cns.nyu.edu>,
LS Leung <SLEUNG(a)julian.UWO.CA>, Zili Liu
<liu(a)psychology.rutgers.edu>,
Chris McBain <chrismcb(a)codon.nih.gov>,
Joan Morrell <morrell(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Farzan Nadim <farzan(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Markku Penttonen <penttone(a)keula.uku.fi>,
Teresa Perney <perney(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Howard Poizner <poizner(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Michael Recce <recce(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Jay Rosenblatt <jzr(a)andromeda.rutgers.edu>,
Phil Schwartzkroin <PAS(a)U.WASHINGTON.EDU>,
m segal <JNSEGAL(a)weizmann.weizmann.ac.IL>,
Maggie Shiffrar <mag(a)psychology.rutgers.edu>,
Harold Siegel <hisiegel(a)psychology.rutgers.edu>,
Ralph Siegel <axon(a)cortex.rutgers.edu>,
ivan soltesz <isoltesz(a)uci.edu>,
Andras Spielman <spielmna(a)acfcluster.nyu.edu>,
kevin staley <staleyk(a)Jove.UCHSC.edu>,
Wendy Susuki <wendy(a)wotan.cns.nyu.edu>,
Paula Tallal <tallal(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Nobu Tamamaki <F00540(a)jpnac.bitnet>,
James Tepper <tepper(a)axon.rutgers.edu>,
Dennis Turner <turne008(a)MC.DUKE.EDU>,
Menno Witter <MP.Witter.Anat(a)med.vu.nl>,
Laszlo Zaborszky <zaborszky(a)axon.rutgers.edu>
Dear Friends,
>
>Please take a few minutes to read and act on this email.
>
>On May 23rd 2001 the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan confirmed
>that all Hindus will be required to wear a strip of yellow cloth
>sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify themselves. They
>claim that the measure is for their "protection". The world has faced this
>before, in 1939 the world was required, at great cost,
>to rid itself of Hitler's tyranny, it is not hard to spot his child.
>Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to relive it.
>
>The Taleban's record on respecting other religions gives great
>cause for concern that their ultimate aim, upon which they are
>intent, is "religious cleansing". They have already
>demonstrated their distain and intolerance for other religions and
>traditions by the desecration and destruction of the ancient Buddhist
>statues, our collective heritage, within the Afghanistan.
>Whatever your religion, or even if you have none, we hope that
>you will agree that this fundamentally wrong. Remember,
>"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
>Please do not do nothing, add your voice.
>
> DIRECTIONS:
>PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message,
>add your name and those of your household who wish to
>participate to the bottom and forward it to everyone on your
>distribution list. If you receive this petition and you find that you
>will be the 251st name on it, please e-mail a copy of it to:
>alastair(a)om-int.com. It will then be forwarded to the UN.
>
>
>Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill
>the petition as you will be denying your friends, and theirs,
>their legitimate voice. Instead return it to alastair(a)om-int.com
>
>To The Secretary General, Security
>Council and General Assembly of the United Nations.
>
>We the undersigned are appalled by the decision of the Taleban
>government of Afghanistan to require all Hindus to wear a piece
>of yellow cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify
>themselves. An individual's communion with God, however
>they find him, is a matter of personal conscience and must not be
>the subject of intimidation or persecution. The right of
>everyone to worship as they wish is fundamental and inalienable. The
>United Nations was founded in order to defeat Hitler and his
>henchmen who required the same from another religion with all
>it's horrific consequences. It is completely unacceptable that
> nearly 60 years later history is repeating itself. We ask the following:
>
>1. That the Taleban government is made aware in the strongest
>possible terms that the world will not countenance this
>perversion of human rights.
>
>2. That prior to the United Nations and/or it's constituent members
>granting recognition of the Taleban government this
>obscene policy is reversed.
>
>3. That the United Nations widen the terms of the trade sanctions
>currently in force.
>
>1. Alastair Mitton - London UK
>2. Robert Mitton - London UK
>3. Paulette Budd - London UK
>4. Andrew Peake - London UK
>5. Pippa Howell - London UK
>6. Cecile Kusters - Arnhem, the Netherlands
>7. Sarah Malpas - London UK
>8. Susan Donnelly - Newcastle UK
>9. Paul Donnelly - London UK
>10. Pauline Bartholomew - London UK
>11. Is0bel McMillan London UK
>12. Fiona Adamson
>13. Minka Emina Kulenovic La Jolla, US
>14. Cath Dolan, London, England
>15. Liz Murphy, Murcia, Spain
>16. William M. Rueter, Wisconsin, US
>17. Jaclyn A. Knapper, Tennessee, US
>18. Louise Morris, Tennessee, US
>19. Joe Stoud, Matsuyama, Japan
>20. Keiko Stroud, Matsuyama, Japan
>21.Larry Asher, Nepal
>22. Phyl Asher, Nepal
>23. Reiny de Wit, Nepal
>24. Helen Johnston, Nepal
>25. Isaac Thompson, Northern Ireland
>26. Anne Thompson, Northern Ireland
>27. Paul Carter, Vancouver, Canada
>28. Lois Carter, Vancouver, Canada
>29. Bronwyn Short, Vancouver, Canada
>30. David Short, Vancouver, Canada
>31. Mark Calder, Sydney, Australia
>32. Graham Wintle, Surbiton, UK
>33. Geoff Chivers, Surbiton, UK
>34. Derek Nathan New Malden UK
>35. Mary Nathan New Malden UK
>36 Rosalind Preston, London UK
>37 Marlena Schmool, UK
>38 Ephraim Borowski, Glasgow, UK
>39. Ruth Warrens, London, UK
>40. Anthony Warrens, London, UK
>41. Ian Goodman, London, UK
>42. Liz Lightstone, London, UK
>43 Elizabeth Simpson, London UK
>44. Dimitris Kioussis
>45. John_Griffin
>46. Hermann Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany
>47. Regine Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany
>48. Konrad Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany
>49. Ursula Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany
>50. Horst Simon, Heidelberg, Germany
>51. Michael Brand, Dresden
>52. Dorothea Brand, Dresden
>53. Christoph Lorra, Dresden
>54. Martin Stocker, London, UK
>55. Walter St=FChmer, G=F6ttingen, Germany
>56. Michael Hans, Bonn, Germany
>57. Wolfgang Mueller, Berlin, Germany
>58. Claude Wasterlain, Los Angeles, USA
59. Jerome Engel, Jr., Los Angeles, USA
60. Gyorgy Buzsaki, Millburn, NJ, USA
Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD
Veronika Solt MD
Lili Buzsaki
51 Sagamore Rd
Millburn, NJ, USA
Kedves Kollegák,
Egy internetes-mobilos kommunikációs szokások vizsgálatot végzünk Pléh
Csabával és Kovács Kristóffal. Egy kérdőívet tettünk fel a netre a
http://www.pszichologia.hu/hirdetes/internet.html címen. Ha valakinek van
ideje és kedve, töltse ki a rövid (nem olyan hosszú) kérdőívet.
Üdv,
Krajcsi Attila