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BBS Call for Commentators: Hurford; The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure by James R. Hurford http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Hurford/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 Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure James R Hurford Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit Linguistics Department University of Edinburgh jim(a)ling.ed.ac.uk KEYWORDS: logic, predicate, argument, neural, object, dorsal, ventral, attention, deictic, reference. ABSTRACT: Neural correlates exist for a basic component of logical formulae, PREDICATE(x). Vision and audition research in primates and humans shows two independent neural pathways; one locates objects in body-centered space, the other attributes properties, such as colour, to objects. In vision these are the dorsal and ventral pathways. In audition, similarly separable 'where' and 'what' pathways exist. PREDICATE(x) is a schematic representation of the brain's integration of the two processes of delivery by the senses of the location of an arbitrary referent object, mapped in parietal cortex, and analysis of the properties of the referent by perceptual subsystems. The brain computes actions using a few 'deictic' variables pointing to objects. Parallels exist between such non-linguistic variables and linguistic deictic devices. Indexicality and reference have linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g. visual) versions, sharing the concept of attention. The individual variables of logical formulae are interpreted as corresponding to these mental variables. In computing action, the deictic variables are linked with 'semantic' information about the objects, corresponding to logical predicates. Mental scene-descriptions are necessary for practical tasks of primates, and pre-exist language phylogenetically. The type of scene-descriptions used by non-human primates would be reused for more complex cognitive, ultimately linguistic, purposes. The provision by the brain's sensory/perceptual systems of about four variables for temporary assignment to objects, and the separate processes of perceptual categorization of the objects so identified, constitute a preadaptive platform on which an early system for the linguistic description of scenes developed. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Hurford/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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Thanks, 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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MIT OCW

by LORINCZ, Andras

MIT OCW Pilot Opens to the Public on September 30th OCW = Open CourseWare OCW plans to publish our first wave of courses on September 30, 2002. Sample courses will be included from the following academic departments: Anthropology Biology Chemical Engineering Chemistry Civil and Environmental Engineering Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Economics Electrical Engineering and Computer Science History Linguistics and Philosophy Management Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering Political Science Urban Studies and Planning The opening of these courses represents a continuation of the early pilot of OCWs long-term effort. We expect OCW content to become deeper and richer over time. We invite you to return on September 30th, when we will welcome your feedback. Megjegyzes: Ha erdekel valamelyik kurzus, akkor nezd meg es segits bekapcsolni azt az egyetemi oktatasi haloba: http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz/CourseWare_SW.html A szoftver a TouchGraph-hoz (Lasd: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html freeware: http://touchgraph.sourceforge.net/index.html) hasonlo, sajat fejlesztesu kliens-szerver szoftvereszkozzel tortenik. Lorincz Andras

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Giora Hon

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Semtember & October

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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Science & Consciousness Review - latest news and reviews

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear member of this list, Science & Consciousness Review (http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/) has released new articles and reviews: _____________________ NEWS Knowing more than you see By Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy News: Normally, you probably think that you see the entire visual field in front of you. However, careful studies of vision show that this is false. Actually, you are quite poor at seeing details falling outside your focal attention. The discussion about how much you can be visually aware of, and how much your visual system can process without consciousness has recently been updated by a recent finding. The conclusion of this study is that we are actually quite good at perceiving "complex" natural scenes even while attending elsewhere. Read the full article at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/LN_Sep02_KnowMoreSee.htm _____________________ NEWS IN BRIEF - Consciousness is slower than you think - Emotions: From neuropsychology to functional imaging - Neural responses to emotional faces - New issue: Dreaming Full access at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/more_news.html _____________________ ARCHIVES Previous issues of Science & Consciousness Review can be found at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/archive.html We have now issues from April to August 2002, including all articles, reviews and news in brief. _____________________ ABOUT SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW SCR is a community-building effort. Many scientific communities study how the human brain makes possible perception, memory, and even attention. But for historical reasons, we have no scientific community for exploring consciousness --- including our own experiences of the world, of each other and of ourselves. It is probably the most important neglected topic in science. Students and scientists all over the world are vitally interested. Hardly a week goes by without another major article in headline journals like Science and Nature. The flow of evidence has increased enormously. But so far we have few institutional resources for teaching, learning, and sharing this information. In the last decade we have seen new, high quality journals, professional societies, and regular meetings. They are vitally important. But many people feel that we need an international forum to build a sense of shared community. SCR is an effort in that direction. CONTRIBUTE! Please send your contributions to us. Instructions for authors can be found at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/author_instructions.html _____________________ Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

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Fogorvos

by csibra

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FIGYELEM! virus fertozott "Fogorvos"

by Gergely Csibra

Valaki egy virust kuldott a KOGLIST listara "Fogorvos" subject-tel latszolag az en e-mail cimemrol (csibra(a)cogpsyphy.hu). Ne nyissa fel, akihez eljutott. -- Gergely Csibra Centre of Brain and Cognitive Development Research Scientist School of Psychology Senior Lecturer Birkbeck College g.csibra(a)bbk.ac.uk Malet Street Tel: +44 20 7631 6323 London WC1E 7HX Fax: +44 20 7631 6587 United Kingdom

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Erdélyi Pszichológiai Szemle: Call for papers

by Imre Pentek

Erdélyi Pszichologiai Szemle http://www.pszichologia.ro/epsz The editorial board of the Transilvanian Journal of Psychology highly welcomes articles from the field of cognitive sciences in Hungarian or English language. The editorial board will blindly review manuscripts focusing on basic and applied research and clinical issues related to psychology or special education. The journal will emphasize studies with an empirical base, but review articles, issue-oriented contributions, and well-documented case studies are also welcome. Send articles to: Imre Péntek imrepentek(a)pszichologia.ro or epsz(a)pszichologia.ro For more information about the journal visit our website at: http://www.pszichologia.ro/epsz Guidelines for Submissions The editorial board of the Transylvanian Journal of Psychology will blindly review manuscripts focusing on basic and applied research and clinical issues related to psychology and special education. The journal will emphasize studies with an empirical base, but review articles, issue-oriented contributions, and well-documented case studies are also welcome. Any manuscript submitted to the Transylvanian Journal of Psychology may not currently be under consideration by another publication. In addition, any manuscript submitted must contain original and previously unpublished (in whole or in part) work. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the quotations mentioned in the manuscript are authentic and have been properly cited. Manuscripts must be submitted in the format prescribed by the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Each manuscript should be approximately 8000 words long and must be accompanied by an abstract containing 120-150 words and 4-6 keywords to be reviewed. All abstracts must be typed on a separate sheet of paper. Manuscripts must be submitted on paper of good quality or by e-mail (preferably both). The author(s) should always keep an additional copy for their own records. If there is more than one author, please include addresses, phone/fax numbers and, if available, electronic mail addresses of each author. Any submissions should be made with the understanding that if accepted for publication, ownership, copyright and the right to reproduce the article in any form will be allocated solely to the publisher. After an initial review by the Editor, two Contributing Editors shall be assigned to review the manuscript. Each manuscript shall be returned to the Author(s) with comments and recommendations. At this point, manuscripts fall into one of the following categories: * accepted for publication. * accepted pending revisions based on comments and recommendations. * rejected. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for review, please follow the above guidelines and mail manuscripts to: Transylvanian Journal of Psychology Redactia EPSZ Cluj Napoca - 3400, O.P: 1 C.P.1060 ROMANIA

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Semtember & October

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eötvös University, Budapest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pázmány P. sétány 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 The web site of the seminar: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar Philosophy of Science Colloquium Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM P r o g r a m SEPTEMBER 30 September 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language of presentation: English) Giora Hon <http://philo.haifa.ac.il/faculty_pages/hon.htm> Department of Philosophy University of Haifa Gödel, Einstein, Mach: Constraining Completeness of Physical Theory Can a theory turn back, as it were, upon itself and vouch for its own features? That is, can the derived elements of a theory be the very primitive terms that provide the presuppositions of the theory? This form of completeness assumes a totality in which there occurs quantification over that totality, quantification that is defined by this very totality. I argue that the Mach principle exhibits features of this notion of completeness. I propose an analogy between the Mach principle as a possible selection principle in general relativity and the vicious-circle principle in foundation of mathematics. I finally conclude with a consequence of this analogy vis-á-vis completeness, viz., completeness has to be constrained. Cosmological models set the scene for the view of completeness discussed in the paper. Specifically, the ideas encapsulated in what Einstein called the "Mach principle" constitute the thread of this account. The principle however is found to falter, in view of the fact that there are several different types of solution of the field equations that contradict it. One such important result with ramifying consequences is the rotational mass solution of Gödel. The question arises as to whether there is an analogy between incompleteness in foundation of mathematics and in physics? The analogy between the vicious-circle principle and the Mach principle demonstrates an affirmative answer which suggests in turn that completeness must be curtailed - that is, conditions and limits should be imposed on completeness to render it valid. ================================================================== OCTOBER 7 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language of presentation: English) René Voltz Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg Platonism in modern physics Since Galileo, modern physics can be envisaged as progressing following a Platonic program: explore the world beyond sensory appearances, with ideas and theories based on the existence of unchanging physical laws that are expressible in mathematics. In the search of unified theories and the "dreams of a final theory", contemporary physics expresses more than ever the Platonic tendencies: it basically admits the reality of intelligible forms, representations of generalized symmetries, which convince via their "beauty"besides the necessary verifications of their empirical consequences. The importance of Platonic inspirations during the successive conceptual mutations which mark the History of physics was recognized by the most creative actors. Representative examples are discussed in the presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language of presentation: Hungarian) Béla Lukács <mailto:lukacs@rmki.kfki.hu> Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics Hungarian Academy of Sciences RETROKAUZALITÁS Lélektudományok müvelöi közt hivei vannak azon álláspontnak, hogy idöben VISSZAFELÉ terjedö hatások léteznek (habár csak rövid idötartamra), söt, hogy ezeket statisztikailag ki is lehet mutatni (pl. pszichológiai mérésekkel). A természettudományoktól a gondolat általában idegen. Megmutatom azonban, hogy a retro folyamatok az általános relativitáselméletbe beleférnek. A "naiv" általános relativitáselméletben (+++-) szignatúra) az ilyen folyamatok kivételes helyek közelében lehetségesek, oksági paradoxonokra ill. a szabad akarat nemlétére vezetnek. Ezzel szemben BIZONYOS magasabb dimenziójú téridökben a retro folyamat általános, és oksági paradoxonokra ill. a szabad akarat nemlétére vezet. Hogy a jelenség van-e, az a lélektudományokra tartozik egyelöre. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian) Tamás Rudas <mailto:rudas@tarki.hu> Department of Statistics, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös University, Budapest Measurement and modelling of association in contingency tables Association between two variables is defined in the talk as the information in their joint distribution not present in the univariate distributions. Therefore, a measure of association, together with the marginal distributions, has to parameterize the joint distribution and has to be variationally independent from the marginals. These requirements point to the odds ratio as the only appropriate measure of association. For higher dimensional contingency tables, a possible generalization is the system of conditional odds ratios. The conditional odds ratios, on an ascending class of subsets, are variationally independent from the marginal distributions on the complement descending class and together parameterize the joint distribution. Depending on the class of subsets used, one obtains a flexible class of parametereizations that can be used to model the conditional association structure. The models obtained by assuming lack of conditional association on an ascending class of subsets are of the log-linear type. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English) Douwe Draaisma <http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/%7Eteng/draaisma.html> Heymans Institute, Univerity of Groningen The tracks of thought: metaphors of memory There has always been an intimate link between human memory and the means invented to record knowledge independently of that memory. From Plato's wax tablet to holography and computers, artificial memories have supported, relieved and occasionally replaced natural memory. Over the centuries these artificial memories have also shaped our views of remembering and forgetting, providing the terms and concepts with which we have reflected on our own memory. After a general introduction on the theme of metaphor and memory, I will demonstrate my analysis by the case of 'panoramic memory', the experience sometimes reported by persons in sudden mortal danger of seeing a rapid sequence of visual scenes from their childhood 'flash before their eyes like a movie'. A brief history of metaphorical descriptions of this sensation from the period before the invention of film will make clear just how metaphors may lay down the tracks of our thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Douwe Draaisma's book, METAFORAMASINA <http://www.typotex.hu/p_0027.html>, has been recently published in Hungarian translation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó <http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo><mailto:leszabo@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

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News from Science & Consciousness Review

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear all, Science & Consciousness Review (http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/) has released new articles and reviews: _____________________ NEWS / HISTORY The description and definition of consciousness By Alex Green "Empirical descriptions of consciousness have been available in Western literature for centuries and in Eastern literature for millennia. Western empirical descriptions are due largely to Descartes and Kant but William James and Hermann Weyl have also made important contributions. It is often maintained that no-one can define consciousness but there exists a clear empirical description of consciousness as an observation of the space, time and content of our minds (where the content contains intuitions and feelings). Perhaps the claim that no-one can define consciousness is frustration at the fact that no-one can explain consciousness." Read the full article at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/LN_Sep02_DefConsc.htm _____________________ NEWS IN BRIEF - Live One Hour Online Chat with David Chalmers - BBC Radio: Emotional Rollercoaster - Synaesthesia: A Case Study of Discordant Monozygotic Twins - International Society for Research on Emotions - Call for abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2003 Full access at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/more_news.html _____________________ ARCHIVES Previous issues of Science & Consciousness Review can be found at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/archive.html We have now issues from April to August 2002, including all articles, reviews and news in brief. _____________________ ABOUT SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW SCR is a community-building effort. Many scientific communities study how the human brain makes possible perception, memory, and even attention. But for historical reasons, we have no scientific community for exploring consciousness --- including our own experiences of the world, of each other and of ourselves. It is probably the most important neglected topic in science. Students and scientists all over the world are vitally interested. Hardly a week goes by without another major article in headline journals like Science and Nature. The flow of evidence has increased enormously. But so far we have few institutional resources for teaching, learning, and sharing this information. In the last decade we have seen new, high quality journals, professional societies, and regular meetings. They are vitally important. But many people feel that we need an international forum to build a sense of shared community. SCR is an effort in that direction. CONTRIBUTE! Please send your contributions to us. Instructions for authors can be found at http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/author_instructions.html _____________________ Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

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