koglist November 2002

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by Tamas Makany

XI. MAKOG 2003 Konferencia Felhívás A Magyar Kognitív Tudományi Alapítvány a következő évi kongresszusát Pécsett tartja. Főtéma: A reprezentáció szintjei Időpont: 2003 január 30 --- február 01. Színhely: Pécs, Pécsi Akadémiai Székház (PAB) Pécs, Jurisics M. út 44. (nagy mecseki panorámás büfé, 100 –fős előadóterem) A fő témától eltérő előadásokat is szívesen látunk. Regisztráció kezdete: 2002. december 10. On-line regisztráció lesz a honlapon keresztül. Hagyományos postai levélváltást mellőzzük. A MAKOGXI. Homepage már működik. Elérhető bárhonnan, de a Pszichológia Online-on és a KOGLIST-en keresztül is. URL cím: HTTP://MAKOGXI.BTK.PTE.HU A szakmai program tőletek függ. Várjuk a jelentkezéseket. Absztrakt – program füzet készül, ezért kérjük a füzetbe szánt egy oldal terjedelmű összefoglalókat 2003 január 6- ig a honlapon regisztrálni szíveskedjetek. A meghívandó előadók felkérése folyamatban, a következő értesítés már tartalmazni fogja a nevüket és a bemutatandó témákat is. Részvételi díj: (még nincs véglegesítve) várhatóan: 2000 Ft (kutatók, oktatók, PhD-s ek) 1000 Ft diákoknak Étkezés: menü 380 Ft/adag a PTE Ifjúság úti Pacsirta étteremben Szállás: Jó 7200 Ft/éj/szoba PAB vendégszoba Jobb 2750 Ft/éjszaka Damjanich úti vendégház Legjobb 1300 Ft/éjszaka Boszorkány Kollégium Egyelőre a keretprogramok: Január 30-án 18.00: a város szívében lévő Dante Cafe-ben (a Székesegyház és a Széchenyi tér közelében) összejövetel: Program: könnyed percek a szendvicses asztal körül, valamint bevezető ritmusok (zeneművészeti hallgatók rövid műsora) Január 31-én 12.00 : A kongresszus helyszínén. „Érzés és gondolat”: a mentális reprezentáció különböző szintjének állapotairól. Képzőművészeti kiállítás megnyitója. Számos fűtött taverna a hideg éjszakák ellen Pécs szerte. Zenei és színházi program lehetőségeket majd melléklejük. A szervezők nevében Kállai János jkallai(a)btk.pte.hu Kérdésetek van, keressetek. Dr. Kállai János egyetemi docens PTE BTK Pszichológiai Intézet Pécs, Ifjúság út 6 7624 tel/fax: 72 501 516 -- Best regards, Tamas Makany University of Pecs Dept. of Psychology Email: max(a)mailbox.hu

23 years, 5 months

Ruchkin et al./Working Memory Retention Systems: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory by Daniel S. Ruchkin, Jordan Grafman, Katherine Cameron, and Rita S. Berndt http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/Referees/ 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 suggested 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 suggest 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. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) 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.) ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** IMPORTANT *** To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory Daniel S. Ruchkin University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Physiology Program in Neurosciences Baltimore, MD USA Jordan Grafman National Institutes of Health Cognitive Neuroscience Section NINDS Bethesda, MD USA Katherine Cameron Washington College Department of Psychology Chestertown, MD USA Rita S. Berndt University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Neurology Program in Neurosciences Baltimore, MD USA ABSTRACT: High-temporal resolution event-related brain potential (ERP) and electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence studies of the neural substrate of short-term storage in working memory indicate that the sustained co-activation of both pre-frontal cortex and the posterior cortical systems that participate in the initial perception and comprehension of the retained information are involved in its storage. These studies further show that short-term storage mechanisms involve an increase in neural synchrony between pre-frontal cortex and posterior cortex, and enhanced activation of the long-term memory representations of the material held in short-term memory. This activation begins during the encoding/comprehension phase and evidently is prolonged into the retention phase by attentional drive from pre-frontal cortex control systems. A parsimonious interpretation of these findings is that the long-term memory systems associated with the posterior cortical processors provide the necessary representational basis for working memory, with the property of short-term memory decay being due to, primarily, the posterior system. In this view, there is no reason to posit specialized neural systems whose functions are limited to that of short-term storage buffers. Pre-frontal cortex provides the attentional pointer system for maintaining activation in the appropriate posterior processing systems. Limitations on the number of pointers that can be sustained by the pre-frontal control systems determines short-term memory capacity and phenomena such as displacement of information in short-term memory. KEYWORDS: Coherence; Event-Related Potentials; Short-Term Storage; Verbal; Visuo-Spatial; Working Memory http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT ** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Deccember

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu Philosophy of Science Colloquium Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ Deccember 2 December No seminar session! instead you are invited to the following conference: A Minden filozófia 'nyelvkritika' címu" OTKA-kutatás keretében, az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézete és a Magyar Wittgenstein Társaság közös szervezésében nyelvfilozófiai miniszümpóziumot rendezünk 2002. december 2-án, hétfõn délután 3 órai kezdettel az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézetében (1054 Bp. Szemere u. 10.). Program: 15.00 Forrai Gábor: Locke versus Kripke-Putnam 16.00 Lehmann Miklós: A fényképek szerepe Wittgenstein filozófiájában 17.00 Pléh Csaba mutatja be Demeter Tamás: Az eszmék tipográfiája c. könyvét Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk! 9 December 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English) Williem Fouche Department of Quantitative Management University of South Africa Quantum Computation We begin with a discussion of the Turing-Church thesis and how it relates to the Feynman-Deutsch conception of quantum computation. We next discuss some simple, but conceptually interesting, quantum algorithms. Finally we outline Shor´s quantum prime factorisation algorithm. We focus on the the problem of estimating the phase of an eigenvalue of a unitary transformation on quantum states having a finite number of degrees of freedom. We conclude with a few open research problems which are suggested by problems in cryptography. 16 December 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Tamás Demeter Trinity College, Cambridge Philosophy, University of Miskolc Szkepticizmus és szemantikai tudás (Scepticism and semantic knowledge) Az elo"adásban a jelentés-szkepticizmus Wittgenstein által inspirált és Kripke által felvetett problémáját fogom megvizsgálni. 1) Elso" lépésben Kripke szkepticizmusának természetét vizsgálom. A kihívást egyfelo"l metafizikai, a jelentés mibenlétét érinto" kételyként értékelem, s szembeállítom egy episztémikus szkepszis leheto"ségével. Másfelo"l dialektikus szekpszisként mutatom be, s szembeállítom Quine naturalisztikus szkepszisével. 2) Második lépésben Kripke szkeptikus konklúzióhoz vezeto" stratégiáját rekonstruálom, és bemutatom az általa kínált szkeptikus megoldást is. Itt egyfelo"l amellett fogok érvelni, hogy Kripke szkeptikus konklúzióhoz vezeto" érvelése nem konklúzív, másfelo"l pedig, hogy megoldási javaslata maga is sugallja egy általa nem mérlegelt, nem-szkeptikus megoldás leheto"ségét. 3) Harmadik lépésben Thomas Nagel megoldási javaslatát mutatom be és vizsgálom meg. Konklúzióm ketto"s lesz: Nagel érvei egyrészt nem eléggé ero"sek ahhoz, hogy a szkeptikust meghátrálásra késztessék, másrészt Nagel válasza inkább értékelheto" a kérdés visszautasításaként mintsem valódi válaszként. 4) Végül negyedik lépésben saját megoldási javaslatomat reklámozom. Arra építek, hogy Kripke szkeptikus érvelése inkonkluzív, s érvei célt tévesztenek, mihelyt nem ragaszkodunk ahhoz, hogy az 'úgy értést' diszpozícióként értelmezo" felfogást kondicionálisok terminusaiban mutassuk be, hanem megengedjük a diszpozíciók realista értelmezését. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó <http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo> (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 5 months

Ruchkin et al./Working Memory Retention Systems: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory by Daniel S. Ruchkin, Jordan Grafman, Katherine Cameron, and Rita S. Berndt http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/Referees/ 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 suggested 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 suggest 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. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) 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.) ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** IMPORTANT *** To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory Daniel S. Ruchkin University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Physiology Program in Neurosciences Baltimore, MD USA Jordan Grafman National Institutes of Health Cognitive Neuroscience Section NINDS Bethesda, MD USA Katherine Cameron Washington College Department of Psychology Chestertown, MD USA Rita S. Berndt University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Neurology Program in Neurosciences Baltimore, MD USA ABSTRACT: High-temporal resolution event-related brain potential (ERP) and electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence studies of the neural substrate of short-term storage in working memory indicate that the sustained co-activation of both pre-frontal cortex and the posterior cortical systems that participate in the initial perception and comprehension of the retained information are involved in its storage. These studies further show that short-term storage mechanisms involve an increase in neural synchrony between pre-frontal cortex and posterior cortex, and enhanced activation of the long-term memory representations of the material held in short-term memory. This activation begins during the encoding/comprehension phase and evidently is prolonged into the retention phase by attentional drive from pre-frontal cortex control systems. A parsimonious interpretation of these findings is that the long-term memory systems associated with the posterior cortical processors provide the necessary representational basis for working memory, with the property of short-term memory decay being due to, primarily, the posterior system. In this view, there is no reason to posit specialized neural systems whose functions are limited to that of short-term storage buffers. Pre-frontal cortex provides the attentional pointer system for maintaining activation in the appropriate posterior processing systems. Limitations on the number of pointers that can be sustained by the pre-frontal control systems determines short-term memory capacity and phenomena such as displacement of information in short-term memory. KEYWORDS: Coherence; Event-Related Potentials; Short-Term Storage; Verbal; Visuo-Spatial; Working Memory http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT ** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Jackendoff/Foundations of Language: BBS Multiple Book Review

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming precis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). PRECIS OF: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees/ Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a reviewer for this book, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, 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 you decide whether you would be an appropriate reviewer for this book, an electronic draft of the precis (only) is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract below. ======================================================================= *** IMPORTANT *** Please do not prepare a review unless you are formally invited. To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, it would be most helpful if you would send us as specific as possible an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the subject, and what aspect of the book you would anticipate commenting upon. We will then let you know whether it was possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees. As noted earlier, it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. So please indicate whether you already have the book or would require a review copy to be sent to you if invited. (Note: Please do not simply indicate that we have your expertise information in our records. We request this information in order to simplify and thus, speed up the selection process.) ======================================================================= _______________________________________________________________________ PRECIS OF: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution Ray Jackendoff Program in Linguistics, MS 013 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02454 USA jackendoff(a)brandeis.edu ABSTRACT: The goal of this study to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was correct to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate Universal Grammar. However, generative grammar was mistaken to assume that the syntactic component is the sole course of combinatoriality, and that everything else is "interpretive." The proper approach is a parallel architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are autonomous generative systems, linked by interface components. The parallel architecture leads to an integration within linguistics, and to a far better integration with the rest of cognitive neuroscience. It fits naturally into the larger architecture of the mind/brain and permits a properly mentalistic theory of semantics. It leads to a view of linguistic performance in which the rules of grammar are directly involved in processing. Finally, it leads to a natural account of the incremental evolution of the language capacity. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees/ ====================================================================== *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Jackendoff/Foundations of Language: BBS Multiple Book Review

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming precis a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). PRECIS OF: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees/ Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Please note that it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a reviewer for this book, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, 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 you decide whether you would be an appropriate reviewer for this book, an electronic draft of the precis (only) is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract below. ======================================================================= *** IMPORTANT *** Please do not prepare a review unless you are formally invited. To help us put together a balanced list of reviewers, it would be most helpful if you would send us as specific as possible an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the subject, and what aspect of the book you would anticipate commenting upon. We will then let you know whether it was possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees. As noted earlier, it is the *BOOK*, not the precis, that is to be reviewed. So please indicate whether you already have the book or would require a review copy to be sent to you if invited. (Note: Please do not simply indicate that we have your expertise information in our records. We request this information in order to simplify and thus, speed up the selection process.) ======================================================================= _______________________________________________________________________ PRECIS OF: Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution Ray Jackendoff Program in Linguistics, MS 013 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02454 USA jackendoff(a)brandeis.edu ABSTRACT: The goal of this study to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was correct to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate Universal Grammar. However, generative grammar was mistaken to assume that the syntactic component is the sole course of combinatoriality, and that everything else is "interpretive." The proper approach is a parallel architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are autonomous generative systems, linked by interface components. The parallel architecture leads to an integration within linguistics, and to a far better integration with the rest of cognitive neuroscience. It fits naturally into the larger architecture of the mind/brain and permits a properly mentalistic theory of semantics. It leads to a view of linguistic performance in which the rules of grammar are directly involved in processing. Finally, it leads to a natural account of the incremental evolution of the language capacity. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jackendoff-07252002/Referees/ ====================================================================== *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Andras Benedek

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu Philosophy of Science Colloquium Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 25 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: Hungarian) András Benedek <benedek(a)helka.iif.hu> Research Institute for Philosophy of HAS Alkalmas-e a nem-standard analízis a mozgás metafizikai leírására? (Is nonstandard analysis applicable for the metaphysical description of motion?) A mozgás leírása Zénón aporiái óta, a Leibniz-féle infinitezimális kalkulus mu"ködo"képessége ellenére, a matematika megalapozási problémakör középpontjában áll. Az infinitezimálisok metafizikai entitásként és instrumentális segédfogalomként egyaránt szolgálták a mozgás és a folytonosság metafizikai fogalmainak matematikai analízisét. A Cauchy-féle folytonosság definíciók matematika megalapozási problémaként a matematika szigorúsági forradalmainakkiindulópontjául szolgáltak. Az Abraham Robinson-féle Nem-sztenderd Analízis a matematikai logika modellelméleti eszközeivel legitimálni látszott nemcsak az infinitezimálisokat, hanem a modern metafizikai mozgáselméleteket. Lakatos a matematika filozófia és a matematikatörténet metszéspontjába helyezte és a metamatematika önálló matematikai diszciplínává válását várta a Robinson-féle megközelítésto"l. Nyomdokain haladva - E Nelson eredményeit felhasználva - új metafizikai megoldások születtek a Zénón paradoxonok megoldására. Az elo"adásban áttekintve a problémakör történetét, amellett érvelek, hogy a Nem-sztenderd Analízis önmagában véve nem ad megoldást sem az aporiákra, sem a mozgás metafizikai magyarázatára. Robinson megközelítésmódjának tényleges hozadéka, mind a matematikus, mind a filozófus, mind a matematikatörténész számára az elméletalkotás axiomatikus döntéseinek modellelméleti alapokra helyezésében áll. Jelenség és leírás, matematikai és logikai modell, elmélet és axiómarendszer modellelméleti kezelése új interpretációs keretbe helyezte a matematika, metafizika és ismeretelmélet viszonyának továbbra is szétszakíthatatlan, de új fogalmi megkülönböztetéseken alapuló szerelmi háromszögét. Amellett foglalok állást, hogy a Nem-sztenderd Analízis ennek ellenére formálisan aligha alkalmas az infinitezimálisok iránti metafizikai vonzalom magyarázatára. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó <http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo> (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 5 months

nyelvfilozófiai miniszümpózium

by Miklos Lehmann

A "Minden filozófia 'nyelvkritika'" c. OTKA-kutatás keretében, az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézete és a Magyar Wittgenstein Társaság közös szervezésében nyelvfilozófiai miniszümpóziumot rendezünk 2002. december 2-án, hétfõn délután 3 órai kezdettel az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézetében (1054 Bp. Szemere u. 10.). Program: 15.00 Forrai Gábor: Locke versus Kripke-Putnam 16.00 Lehmann Miklós: A fényképek szerepe Wittgenstein filozófiájában 17.00 Pléh Csaba mutatja be Demeter Tamás: Az eszmék tipográfiája c. könyvét Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk!

23 years, 5 months

Aboitiz et al./Evolutionary Mammalian Isocortex: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Evolutionary Origin of The Mammalian Isocortex: Towards an Integrated Developmental and Functional Approach by Francisco Aboitiz, Daniver Morales and Juan Montiel http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Aboitiz/Referees/ 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 suggested 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 suggest 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. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) 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.) ======================================================================= IMPORTANT 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. _______________________________________________________________________ The Evolutionary Origin of The Mammalian Isocortex: Towards an Integrated Developmental and Functional Approach Francisco Aboitiz, Daniver Morales and Juan Montiel ABSTRACT: The isocortex is a distinctive feature of mammalian brains, which has no clear counterpart in the cerebral hemispheres of other amniotes. This paper speculates on the evolutionary processes giving rise to the isocortex. As a first step, we intend to identify what structure may be ancestral to the isocortex in the reptilian brain. Then, it is necessary to account for the transformations (developmental, connectional and functional) of this ancestral structure, which resulted in the origin of the isocortex. One long-held perspective argues that part of the isocortex derives from the ventral pallium of reptiles, while another view proposes that the isocortex originated mostly from the dorsal pallium. We consider that at this point, evidence tends to favor correspondence of the isocortex with the dorsal cortex of reptiles. The isocortex may have originated partly as a consequence of an overall dorsalizing effect (that is, an expansion of the territories expressing dorsal-specific genes) during pallial development. Furthermore, expansion of the dorsal pallium may have been driven by selective pressures favoring the development of associative networks between the dorsal cortex, the olfactory cortex and the hippocampus, which participated in spatial or episodic memory in the early mammals. In this context, sensory projections that in reptiles end in the ventral pallium, are observed to terminate in the isocortex (dorsal pallium) of mammals, perhaps owing to their participation in these associative networks. KEYWORDS: basolateral amygdala; claustrum; Emx-1; endopiriform nucleus; dorsal cortex; dorsal ventricular ridge; hippocampus; homology; olfactory cortex; Pax-6; ventral pallium http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Aboitiz/Referees/ ====================================================================== IMPORTANT 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 ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Aboitiz et al./Evolutionary Mammalian Isocortex: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Evolutionary Origin of The Mammalian Isocortex: Towards an Integrated Developmental and Functional Approach by Francisco Aboitiz, Daniver Morales and Juan Montiel http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Aboitiz/Referees/ 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 suggested 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 suggest 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. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) 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.) ======================================================================= IMPORTANT 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. _______________________________________________________________________ The Evolutionary Origin of The Mammalian Isocortex: Towards an Integrated Developmental and Functional Approach Francisco Aboitiz, Daniver Morales and Juan Montiel ABSTRACT: The isocortex is a distinctive feature of mammalian brains, which has no clear counterpart in the cerebral hemispheres of other amniotes. This paper speculates on the evolutionary processes giving rise to the isocortex. As a first step, we intend to identify what structure may be ancestral to the isocortex in the reptilian brain. Then, it is necessary to account for the transformations (developmental, connectional and functional) of this ancestral structure, which resulted in the origin of the isocortex. One long-held perspective argues that part of the isocortex derives from the ventral pallium of reptiles, while another view proposes that the isocortex originated mostly from the dorsal pallium. We consider that at this point, evidence tends to favor correspondence of the isocortex with the dorsal cortex of reptiles. The isocortex may have originated partly as a consequence of an overall dorsalizing effect (that is, an expansion of the territories expressing dorsal-specific genes) during pallial development. Furthermore, expansion of the dorsal pallium may have been driven by selective pressures favoring the development of associative networks between the dorsal cortex, the olfactory cortex and the hippocampus, which participated in spatial or episodic memory in the early mammals. In this context, sensory projections that in reptiles end in the ventral pallium, are observed to terminate in the isocortex (dorsal pallium) of mammals, perhaps owing to their participation in these associative networks. KEYWORDS: basolateral amygdala; claustrum; Emx-1; endopiriform nucleus; dorsal cortex; dorsal ventricular ridge; hippocampus; homology; olfactory cortex; Pax-6; ventral pallium http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Aboitiz/Referees/ ====================================================================== IMPORTANT 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 ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) 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, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Ralph BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph DeMarco Editorial Coordinator Behavioral and Brain Sciences Journals Department Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011-4211 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 924 3900 ext.374 Fax: +001 212 645 5960 -------------------------------------------------------------------

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