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BBS Call for Commentators: Thomas & Karmiloff-Smith; Are Developmental Disorders Like Cases of Adult Brain Damage?

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Are developmental disorders like cases of adult brain damage? Implications from connectionist modelling by Michael Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Thomas/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 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 will be updated shortly) 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. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS LIKE CASES OF ADULT BRAIN DAMAGE? IMPLICATIONS FROM CONNECTIONIST MODELLING Michael Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith Neurocognitive Development Unit Institute of Child Health London, UK KEYWORDS: Acquired and developmental disorders, connectionist models, past tense, reading, modularity ABSTRACT: It is often assumed that similar behavioural impairments found in cases of adult brain damage and developmental disorders correspond to similar underlying causes, and can serve as convergent evidence to the modular structure of the normal adult cognitive system. We argue that this correspondence is contingent on an unsupported assumption that atypical development can produce selective deficits while the rest of the system develops normally (Residual Normality), an assumption that tends to bias data collection in the field. Based on a review of connectionist models of acquired and developmental disorders in the domains of reading and past tense, as well as on new simulations, we explore the computational viability of the assumption and the potential role of development in producing deficits. Simulations demonstrate that damage to a developmental model can produce very different effects depending on whether it occurs prior to or following the training process. Since developmental disorders typically involve damage prior to learning, we conclude that the developmental process is a key component of the explanation of endstate impairments. Further simulations demonstrate that in simple connectionist learning systems, the assumption of Residual Normality is undermined by processes of compensation elsewhere in the system. We outline the precise computational conditions required for Residual Normality to hold in development, and suggest that in many cases it is an unlikely hypothesis. We conclude that in developmental disorders, inferences from deficits to underlying structure crucially depend on developmental conditions, and that the process of ontogenetic development cannot be ignored in constructing models of developmental disorders. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Thomas/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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BBS Call for Commentators: Thomas & Karmiloff-Smith; Are Developmental Disorders Like Cases of Adult Brain Damage?

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Are developmental disorders like cases of adult brain damage? Implications from connectionist modelling by Michael Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Thomas/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 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 will be updated shortly) 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. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS LIKE CASES OF ADULT BRAIN DAMAGE? IMPLICATIONS FROM CONNECTIONIST MODELLING Michael Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith Neurocognitive Development Unit Institute of Child Health London, UK KEYWORDS: Acquired and developmental disorders, connectionist models, past tense, reading, modularity ABSTRACT: It is often assumed that similar behavioural impairments found in cases of adult brain damage and developmental disorders correspond to similar underlying causes, and can serve as convergent evidence to the modular structure of the normal adult cognitive system. We argue that this correspondence is contingent on an unsupported assumption that atypical development can produce selective deficits while the rest of the system develops normally (Residual Normality), an assumption that tends to bias data collection in the field. Based on a review of connectionist models of acquired and developmental disorders in the domains of reading and past tense, as well as on new simulations, we explore the computational viability of the assumption and the potential role of development in producing deficits. Simulations demonstrate that damage to a developmental model can produce very different effects depending on whether it occurs prior to or following the training process. Since developmental disorders typically involve damage prior to learning, we conclude that the developmental process is a key component of the explanation of endstate impairments. Further simulations demonstrate that in simple connectionist learning systems, the assumption of Residual Normality is undermined by processes of compensation elsewhere in the system. We outline the precise computational conditions required for Residual Normality to hold in development, and suggest that in many cases it is an unlikely hypothesis. We conclude that in developmental disorders, inferences from deficits to underlying structure crucially depend on developmental conditions, and that the process of ontogenetic development cannot be ignored in constructing models of developmental disorders. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Thomas/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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chomsky-searle vita a new york review of books-ban

by GYORI, Miklos

a T. Erdeklodoknek: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15617

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Fw: Public lecture in the Collegium Budapest

by Csaba Pleh

Kedves Kollegak, Szeretettel meghivjuk Onoket a Budapest Kollegium, a CEU Nyari Egyetem programja, az ELTE es a Santa Fe Institute altal kozosen szervezett eloadasra, melyet Geoffrey West (Los Alamos National Laboratory/Santa Fe Institute) fog tartani julius 23-an du. 5 orakor a Budapest Kollegiumban. Az eloadas cime: THE TREE OF LIFE: ITS COMPLEXITY, SIMPLICITY, AND UNITY. Az eloadast egy fogadas koveti. Mellekelten kuldjuk az eloadast hirdeto posztert, melyet kernenk, hogy tovabbitson esetleges erdeklodoknek. Koszonettel es szivelyes udvozlettel: Gedeon Eva Eva Gedeon Executive Director Summer University, CEU 1051 Nador 11, Budapest Hungary Tel.: 36-1-327-3069 Fax: 36-1-327-3124 E-mail:gedeone@ceu.hu Web site: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html

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Fwd: preliminary program

by DR G CSIBRA

Non-member submission from [utak(a)nytud.hu] --- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:23:21 +0200 (CEST) To: <koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu> Subject: preliminary program LINGUISTIC SOCIALIZATION, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS dedicated to the memory of Zita Reger (1944-2001) 7 - 9 October 2002, Budapest PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday 7 October: Language Acquisition, Child Language 9.00 - 9.55 Invited Talk: Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University):Language Acquisition and Socialization among Gypsies in Hungary: Zita Reger's Legacy 9.55 - 10.30 Cristina Dye (Cornell University) - Barbara Lust (Cornell University): Dissociating UG and Specific Language Grammar through Cross-Linguistic Evidence 10.30 - 11.05 Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):Linguistics, Adults, Children and the Truth about o ('or') 11.05 - 11.25 Coffee Break 11.25 - 12.00 Elena Buja (Transsylvania University, Brasov):Tense and Aspect in Romanian Pre-School Children's Narratives 12.00 - 12.35 Agnes Melinda Kovacs (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj) - Erno Teglas (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj):Possible Developmental Consequences of Acquiring a Second Language 12.35 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 15.05 Ilona Kassai (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):The Development of Fluency in Hungarian: A Case Study 15.05 - 15.40 Miklos Gyori (ELTE University, Budapest):Acquiring Language and Acquiring Naive Theory of Mind: Analogies, Disanalogies, Interactions 15.40 - 16.15 Gabor Alberti (PTE University, Pics) - Helga Latyak (PTE University, Pecs):Child Language Analyses in the Framework of Lifelong DRT 16.15 - 16.45 Coffee Break 16.45 - 17.20 Uziel-Karl Sigal (Tel Aviv University):When Transparency Meets Simplicity: Evidence from the Acquisition of General-Purpose Verbs in Hebrew 17.20 - 17.55 Barbora Skarabela (Boston University) - Shanley E.M. Allen (Boston University):Joint Attention and Null Arguments of Uninflected Verbs in Child Inuktitut Tuesday 8 October: Aphasia Research: Lexicon, Syntax and Phonology in Impaired Language 9.00 - 9.55 Invited Talk: Herman Kolk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen):The Linguistic Brain as a Limited Capacity System 9.55 - 10.30 Jacqueline Stark (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Kegelg) - Christiane Pons (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Kegelg) - Heinz Karl Stark (Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Cerebral Blood Flow Research, Vienna): Word Order Errors and Impairment of Lexical Retrieval in Agrammatic Sentence Production - Are they Related? 10.30 - 11.05 Katalin Szentkuti-Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):Is there a Double Dissociation in the Formation of Regular and Irregular Plural in Hungarian Anterior and Posterior Aphasics? Validity of the Dual Process Hypothesis in Hungarian 11.05 - 11.25 Coffee Break 11.25 - 12.00 Zoltan Banreti (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest and ELTE University, Budapest):Ellipsis in Agrammatic Aphasia 12.00 - 12.35 Eva Meszaros (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):Processing of Neutral and Non-Neutral Sentences in Hungarian Broca's and Wernicke's Patients 12.35 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 15.25 Invited Talk: Csaba Pleh (Technical University, Budapest) - Agnes Lukacs (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest) - Mihaly Racsmany:The Language Profile of Hungarian Williams Syndrome Children: Classical Dissociations and Some Challenges 15.25 - 16.00 Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):Phonology as Human Behavior: An Analysis of Hebrew-Speaking Aphasics 16.00 - 16.20 Coffee Break 16.20 - 16.55 Klara Marton (City University of New York):Interaction between Working Memory and Language Processes in American and Hungarian Children with Specific Language Impairment 16.55 - 17.30 Csilla Bartha (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):Reconstructing Deafness: Language Ideologies, Discriminatory Practices and Deaf Community in Hungary 18.00 - Conference Party Wednesday 9 October: Linguistic Socialization, and Language Use in Gypsy Communities 9.00 - 9.55 Invited Talk: Susan Gal (University of Chicago):The role of Linguistic Difference in Socialization: Towards a Semiotics of Cultural Diversity 9.55 - 10.30 Ann Williams (University of London) - Eve Gregory (University of London):Literacy Practices and Language Socialization in Bilingual Families in East London: The Role of Siblings 10.30 - 10.50 Coffee Break 11.50 - 11.25 Peter Bodor (ELTE University, Budapest) - Aniko Illes (PTE University, Pecs):Linguistic Socialization of Subjectivity: Emotions 11.25 - 12.00 Katalin Weber (PTE University, Pecs):Ways in Language 12.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 - 14.55 Invited Talk: Michael Stewart (University College London):Language Use in Gypsy Communities 14.55 - 15.30 Renata Dekany (Gandhi Grammar School, Pecs):Conversational Rules in a Romani - Hungarian Bilingual Spoken Discourse 15.30 - 16.05 Andrea Szalai (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):Correlations between Language Use and Gender in Romani Invitation Situations 16.05 - 16.25 Coffee Break 16.25 - 17.00 Anna Borbely (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest): A Reger-fele teszt alkalmazasa empirikus nyelveszeti kutatasokban 17.00 - 17.35 Andrea Remenyi (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest):Beszeltnyelvi fejlesztes az iskolaban: Brit es magyar programok osszehasonlitasa 17.35 - 18.10 Anna Palmaine Orsos (PTE University, Pecs) - Aranka Varga (PTE University, Pecs):Nyelvi szocializacio es nyelvhasznalat a cigany kozossegekben Alternates: Virag Barcza (Research Institute for Linguistics of HAS, Budapest): Linguistic Aspects of Children's Role-Playing Games Julianna Oszko (PTE University, Pecs): Knowledge of Synonyms of Hungarian Native Speakers Sabine Stoll (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) A context-driven approach to the acquisition of Russian aspect Dankovics Natalia (ELTE University, Budapest) An alternative approach to the language acquisition of deaf children Svetlana Feckova-Kapalkova (Comenius University) - Marina Mikulajova (Comenius University) - Daniela Slancova (Presov University) - Iveta Bonova (Presov University) Grammar Acquisition by Slovak Speaking Children Aleka A. Blackwell (Middle Tenessee State University) Where lexical input and lexical development diverge: Evidence from the acquisition of funny For registration information, registration form, hotel information, and local information see the conference website: www.nytud.hu/LSLALD/lslald.html

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