koglist February 2003

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11 participants
19 discussions

by Francesca Happe

CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE: ART AND MIND LOCATION: CUMBERLAND LODGE, WINDSOR GREAT PARK DATES: FRIDAY MAY 30 - SUNDAY JUNE 1, 2003 Speakers include: Simon Blackburn (Philosophy, Cambridge) Noel Caroll (Philosophy, Wisconsin) Greg Currie (Philosophy, Nottingham) Tamar Szabo Gendler (Philosophy, Syracuse) Peter Goldie (Philosophy, KCL) Paul Harris (Graduate School of Education, Harvard) Jon Jureidini (Child Psychiatry, University of Adelaide) Jerrold Levinson (Philosophy, Maryland) Steven Mithen (Archaeology, Reading) Keith Oatley (Psychology, Toronto) Gerard O'Brien (Philosophy, Adelaide) Barbara Tversky (Psychology, Stanford) An interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together leading figures from philosophy and psychology to address fundamental questions about the connections between narrative as an explanatory tool in the arts, and in development and psychopathology. · What can artistic theories of narrative tell us that would be useful in assessing the psychological function of narrative? · Can artistic theories of narrative themselves be assessed against evidence from controlled psychological experiments? · Are the elaboration of narratives and an awareness of narrative concepts important features of psycho-social development. · Can an impoverished, excessive or inappropriate narrative sense lead to psychological disorder? Traditionally, theories of narrative, within the arts as well as within psychological theorizing, have drawn on Freudian and other psychodynamic conceptions. These theories are often criticised for their a priori approach to matters that are really empirical. More recently, cognitive approaches to the arts have emphasised the requirement that theorising in this area be informed by well-tested psychological theories; yet narrative remains a theoretical tool largely uninfluenced by systematic experimental work. The currently available body of experimental work on narrative comprehension and on the reader/viewer's imagined location within the space-time of the work is itself subject to various interpretations. The conference will provide a much-needed opportunity for scholars in philosophy and psychology to develop an approach to narrative that is theoretically rich yet properly informed by empirical work. Registration: £50. Bursaries are available for post graduate students, to cover half of registration, accommodation and travel. Registration forms are available at: <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/conference.htm>http://www.nottingham .ac. uk/philosophy/conference.htm Or write to: Andrea Hill Dept of Philosophy University of Nottingham NG7 2RD UK

23 years, 2 months

Szekely Anna Ph.D. vedese

by Szekely Anna

Ezuton szeretnek mindenkit meghivni a jovo penteken esedekes Ph.D vedesemre kognitiv pszichologia temakorben (lehetseges, hogy ezt a levelet valaki tobb peldanyban kapja meg, ezt sajnos a levelezolistak hasznalata miatt nem tudtam elkerulni). A disszertaciom cime: "A LEXIKALIS ELOHIVAS INTERKULTURALIS KUTATASA KEPMEGNEVEZESI HELYZETBEN" A vedes ideje es helyszine: 2003. februar 21. (pentek) 10 ora. ELTE - BTK alagsori tanacsterem. Budapest VIII. Muzeum krt. 4 / D epulet, alagsor A hivatalos meghivo es a tezisek ezen a weboldalon tekinthetok meg: http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/PhD/PhDvedes.html Temavezetom: Dr. Vargha Andras, a pszichologiai tudomanyok kandidatusa Opponensek: Prof. Dr. Goncz Lajos, a pszichologiai tudomanyok doktora Dr. Mero Laszlo, a muszaki tudomanyok kandidatusa Az ertekezes megtekintheto az ELTE BTK Pszichologiai Intezetenek konyvtaraban Budapest VI. Izabella u. 46. Udvozlettel, Szekely Anna

23 years, 3 months

Categorization: Summer Institute; June/July Montreal

by Stevan Harnad

Second announcement The Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al (UQ�M) will hold its first graduate summer institute in cognitive sciences from June 30th to July 11th 2003. The theme will be 'categorisation' as seen from the point of view of the following disciplines: cognitive anthropology, cognitive computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The program is provided below. For more information, consult our website: www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog. Registration at a lower rate is available prior to March 1st.

23 years, 3 months

Announcement of Erice School on Cortical Dynamics 31 Oct - 6 Nov 2003

by Erdi Peter

International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello" JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY IIASS International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies and EMFCSC Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture 8th Course: Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics 31 Oct.- 6 Nov. 2003 Ettore Majorana Centre Erice (Sicily) ITALY homepage: http://www.sa.infn.it/NeuralGroup/CorticalDynamicsSchool2003/ *Directors of the Course:* Maria Marinaro (Dept. of Physics "E.R. Caianiello", Univ. of Salerno, Italy) Peter Erdi (Kalamazoo College, USA & KFKI Res. Inst. Part. and Nucl. Phys. Hung. Acad. Sci. Hungary) *Lecturers:* Luigi Agnati - Dept. of Neuroscience Karolinka Inst.,Sweden & Modena Univ. Italy Peter Dayan - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK Peter Erdi - CCSS Kalamazoo College USA & KFKI Hung. Accad.of Science Hungary Bruce P Graham - Dept of Computer Science and Mathematics, Univ. of Stirling, UK John Hertz - Nordita, DK Zhaoping Li - Univ. College of London, UK Ronen Segev - School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel Ivan Soltesz - Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Univ. of California, USA Misha Tsodyks - Dept. of Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Ichiro Tsuda - Dept. of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Japan Alessandro Treves - Sissa, Cognitive Neuroscience, Trieste, Italy **** **Scientific Program ** Recently the amount of experimental data available to computational neuroscience community grows steadily, due to the development of new experimental technique.The data obtained with these modern techniques allows a degree of comparison with modeling results that so far was not possible. At the same time new and stronger theoretical ideas are being developed from all over the world, borrowing ideas and tools from different fields of science, such as physics and mathematics. The goal of the school is to present an up-to-date description of the experimental and theoretical results and of the current efforts to investigate processing, transmission and imprinting of information in the brain, focusing on cortical area. Cortical areas play a key role in important functions like those related to the memory. A systematic description of cortical rhythms and cortical neural plasticity will be given, from its structural basis to its functional significance. The school is devoted to students with different scientific background (physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, etc.) who wish to learn recent developments in computational neuroscience and cortical dynamics. The basic concepts will be introduced, with emphasis on the underlying physical concepts, common principles and connections between experimental data and biophysically-based as well abstract models. Then cortical dynamics will be investigated, focusing on recent developments and open problems. **Registrations:** Applications must be received before May 15 2003 in order to be considered by the selection committee. Registration fee of 900 Euro includes accomodation with full board. Application form and additional information are available from http://www.sa.infn.it/NeuralGroup/CorticalDynamicsSchool2003/. Applications should be sent by ordinary mail to the codirector of the school: Prof. Maria Marinaro IIASS Via Pellegrino 19, I-84019 Vietri sul Mare (Sa) Italy or by fax to: +39 089 761 189 (att.ne: Prof. M. Marinaro) or by electronic mail to: iiass.vietri(a)tin.it subject: summer school **Location** The "Ettore Majorana" International Centre for Scientific Culture takes its inspiration from the outstanding Italian physicist, after whom the Centre was named. Embracing 110 Schools, covering all branches of Science, the Centre is situated in the old pre-mediaeval city of Erice where three restored monasteries provide an appropriate setting for high intellectual endeavour. These monasteries are now named after great Scientists and strong supporters of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre. There are living quarters in all three Monasteries for people attending the Courses of the Centre. **The John von Neumann (1903-1957) Centenary will be celebrated during the meeting.**

23 years, 3 months

Carpendale & Lewis/Children's Social Understanding: BBS Call for Commentators

by Barbara Finlay & Jeffrey Gray

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social Understanding within Social Interaction by Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/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! 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(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. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social Understanding within Social Interaction Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University Charlie Lewis Lancaster University ABSTRACT: Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an alternative account, according to which the development of children's social understanding occurs within triadic interaction involving the child's experience of the world as well as communicative interaction with others about their experience and beliefs (Chapman, 1991, 1999). It is through such triadic interaction that children gradually construct knowledge of the world as well as knowledge of other people. We contend that the extent and nature of the social interaction children experience will influence the development of children's social understanding. Increased opportunity to engage in cooperative social interaction and exposure to talk about mental states should facilitate the development of social understanding. We review evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually in the context of social interaction. Thus, we need a theory of development in this area that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge, but rather children construct an understanding of mind within social interaction. KEYWORDS: Language; Piaget; Social interaction; Theories of mind; Vygotsky; Wittgenstein. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/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. 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23 years, 3 months

Carpendale & Lewis/Children's Social Understanding: BBS Call for Commentators

by Barbara Finlay & Jeffrey Gray

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social Understanding within Social Interaction by Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/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. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social Understanding within Social Interaction Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University Charlie Lewis Lancaster University ABSTRACT: Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an alternative account, according to which the development of children's social understanding occurs within triadic interaction involving the child's experience of the world as well as communicative interaction with others about their experience and beliefs (Chapman, 1991, 1999). It is through such triadic interaction that children gradually construct knowledge of the world as well as knowledge of other people. We contend that the extent and nature of the social interaction children experience will influence the development of children's social understanding. Increased opportunity to engage in cooperative social interaction and exposure to talk about mental states should facilitate the development of social understanding. We review evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually in the context of social interaction. Thus, we need a theory of development in this area that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge, but rather children construct an understanding of mind within social interaction. KEYWORDS: Language; Piaget; Social interaction; Theories of mind; Vygotsky; Wittgenstein. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/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. 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23 years, 3 months

Deadline approaching

by CogSci Summer School

Advanced Interdisciplinary Workshop on Constructive Memory: Data and Models Sofia, New Bulgarian University, July 12-14, 2003 The aim of the workshop will be to challenge our current understanding of human memory by integrating data with theoretical and computational models and by bringing researchers from a variety of domains together. The workshop topics will include: * False Memory and Memory Illusions * Interaction between memory and reasoning, between memory and imagination * Autobiographical memory * Spatial Memory * Memory for Actions and Events * Memory for Faces and Objects * WM and constructive processes * Context-Sensitivity of Human Memory * Collective memory The workshop is deliberately interdisciplinary and will cover a variety of methods: * lab experiments * field studies * computer simulations * mathematical models * brain imaging * brain lesions The workshop program will consist of invited key speaker talks which will be challenged by discussants, short talks by regular participants, and numerous discussions and working groups. In parallel to the workshop an International Summer School in Cognitive Science will take place. Key talks · Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emergence of Theory-like Knowledge from Experience: A Parallel-Distributed Processing Account · Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA) - False Memories and Other Mind Changes · Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK) - Constructive Processes in Working Memory · Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) - The Seven Sins of Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective · Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada) Remote Memory, Consolidation and Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction: Evidence from the Laboratory and Clinic. · Robert Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) - The Role of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the Construction and Distortion of Memories · Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA) - Inhibitory Processes and the Regulation of Awareness · Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK) & Amanda Barnier (University of New South Wales, Australia) - On the Accessibility of Autobiographical Memories: Shaping the Self · Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany) - What is Special about Memory for Actions? · William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) The Construction of a Collective Memory · Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Towards a General Theory of Human Memory · Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - The AMBR Model of Episodic Memory Construction and Distortion: Interaction between Memory and Reasoning Call for Papers Potential participants are invited to submit papers in electronic form (MS Word or PDF format) for presentation during the workshop. The papers should be not longer than 10 single spaced pages, including tables, figures, references, and appendices and use Times New Roman Font size 10. The papers may address any of the topics described above. Interdisciplinary work is especially welcome. Priority will be given to papers that open up new issues, challenge the current understanding of human memory, present new models or data. Papers should be sent by April 1st 2003 to the following address: memory(a)cogs.nbu.bg Program Committee Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA) Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK) Robert Bjork (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK) Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany) William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) - Co-Chair Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Co-Chair Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA) Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada) Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) For more information look at: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/workshop.html Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia 1618 phone: 955-75-18 e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.bg memory(a)cogs.nbu.bg Radostina Belcheva Administrative manager Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science Svetlana Petkova Administrative manager Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science

23 years, 3 months

Pickering & Garrod/Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue by Martin J. Pickering & Simon Garrod http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh Simon Garrod University of Glasgow ABSTRACT: Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a result, these accounts may only offer limited theories of the mechanisms that underlie language processing in general. We propose a mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, and use it to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes. The account assumes that, in dialogue, the linguistic representations employed by the interlocutors become aligned at many levels, as a result of a largely automatic process. This process greatly simplifies production and comprehension in dialogue. After considering the evidence for the interactive alignment model, we concentrate on three aspects of processing that follow from it. It makes use of a simple interactive inference mechanism, enables the development of local dialogue routines that greatly simplify language processing, and explains the origins of self-monitoring in production. We consider the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account. KEYWORDS: dialogue, language processing, common ground, dialogue routines, language production, monitoring. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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.) 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23 years, 3 months

Pickering & Garrod/Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue by Martin J. Pickering & Simon Garrod http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh Simon Garrod University of Glasgow ABSTRACT: Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a result, these accounts may only offer limited theories of the mechanisms that underlie language processing in general. We propose a mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, and use it to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes. The account assumes that, in dialogue, the linguistic representations employed by the interlocutors become aligned at many levels, as a result of a largely automatic process. This process greatly simplifies production and comprehension in dialogue. After considering the evidence for the interactive alignment model, we concentrate on three aspects of processing that follow from it. It makes use of a simple interactive inference mechanism, enables the development of local dialogue routines that greatly simplify language processing, and explains the origins of self-monitoring in production. We consider the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account. KEYWORDS: dialogue, language processing, common ground, dialogue routines, language production, monitoring. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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.) 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