Kedves Mindenki,
Holnap és holnapután, azaz december 19-én és 20-án Elena Lieven tart phd
kurzust a BME Kognitív Tudomány Tanszék PhD programjában a
pszicholingvisztika programon: A usage-based approach to the development
of syntax. Délelo"tt 9-11 és délután 4-6 között lesznek az elo"adások a
Stoczek épület 320-as termében, és a következo" témákat fedik le, nem
feltétlenül ebben a sorrendben:
*1. Introduction and theoretical preliminaries*
Precursors and pre-requisites for language learning
A usage-based approach to language learning
A first look at the complexity of input effects
*2. Learning argument structure*
Creating abstract constructions
Competing cues: English, German and Cantonese
'Weird' word order and 'weird' linking
Reconciling the results of different studies including preferential looking
*3. Learning morphology*
Productivity
Errors
The Agreement-Tense Omission Model
Individual differences
*4. Building up structure*
Patterns of error and their relationship to the input
Building one constructions from earlier ones: the German passive
Developing complex syntax
Minden érdeklo"do"t várunk,
Lukács Ágnes
Molnár Márk (MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet)
Nem lineáris EEG elemzés elméleti és gyakorlati vonatkozásai
c. kurzusa december 19-én lesz.
Elsõ óra: dec. 19. 10 óra.
Helyszín:
SZTE BTK Pszichológia, Irinyi épület, Kardos Lajos Terem, Tisza Lajos
körút 103, 3. lépcsõház, Földszint.
Minden érdeklõdõt várunk!
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NEMETH, Dezso (PhD)
University of Szeged, Department of Psychology
Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/
Cognitive Sciences at University of Szeged: http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Psychology at University of Szeged:
http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/pszichologia/
Az idei Cognition at Christmas szeminárium december 21-én, csütörtökön lesz
a Műszaki Egyetemen. A programot lásd alább. További részletek megtalálhatók
a http://cogsci.bme.hu/cogxmas.php lapon.
Csibra Gergely
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Cognition at Christmas VI
Symposium on
Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition
Thursday, 21 December 2006
Programme
09.00 Introduction: Csaba Pléh
09.15-10.15 Richard Aslin (Rochester)
Statistical learning in visual and auditory domains
10.15-10.45 Máté Lengyel (London)
Computational principles for statistical learning
coffee
11.15-11.45 József Fiser (Brandeis)
Do we learn new features by coding pairwise statistics of the input?
11.45-12.15 Nicola van Rijsbergen (Trieste)
U-shaped learning curve in faces reveals universal non-grammar
12.15-12.45 Balázs Aczél (Cambridge) & Dénes Tóth (Budapest)
Dynamical aspects of probability learning
lunch
14.00-15.00 Elena Lieven (Leipzig)
Learning strings: A shortcut to grammar?
15.00-15.30 László Kálmán (Budapest)
Holistic views of language: The end of structuralism?
coffee
16.00-16.30 Anna Babarczy (Budapest)
The statistical properties of errors in child language
16.30-17.00 Judit Gervain (Trieste)
Statistical information in the linguistic input to children:
A cross-linguistic corpus study
17.00-17.30 Ágnes Lukács, Attila Krajcsi, Dezso Németh, & Ferenc Kemény
(Budapest)
Implicit learning of sequences and language impairment
Venue:
Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem "Oktatói Klub",
K épület I. emelet 66.
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM
Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium
18 December 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Janos Tozser
Institute for Philosophy, Eotvos University, Budapest
Ontologiai kategoriak
(Ontological categories)
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/December/#3
___________________________________
The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a
30-60-minute discussion.
The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments!
A printable poster is available from here:
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/December/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email:
leszabo(a)philosophy.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
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo
Kedves Kollégák,
Az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézetben (Bp. VI. Benczúr u. 33)
a Kisérletes nyelvészet program következő elődása december 12-én,
kedden, 11 órától a földszinti előadóban:
KAS BENCE: (ELTE BGGyFK Fonetikai és Logopédiai Tanszék és
BMGE Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék):
A vonatkozói mellékmondatok elsajátítása tipikus és zavart nyelvi
fejlődésű populációban
Ez nagyon érdekes téma, ezért minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk.
Az előadás absztraktja az alábbiakban olvasható.
Üdvözlettel,
Bánréti Zoltán
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A vonatkozói mellékmondatok elsajátítása tipikus és zavart nyelvi
fejlődésű populációban
Kas Bence
ELTE BGGyFK Fonetikai és Logopédiai Tanszék
BMGE Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék
A vonatkozói mellékmondatokat (VMM-eket) tartalmazó összetett mondatok
elsajátítása hagyományosan kiemelt területe a pszicholingvisztikának.
A múltban nagy mennyiségű kutatás irányult a vmm-ek megértésére,
melyek alapján számos különböző hipotézis született a vmm-ek online
feldolgozási stratégiáit illetően. Ilyen többek közt a conjoined-
clause hypothesis (Tavakolian), a megszakítottsági hipotézis (Slobin),
a kanonikus formák feltevése (Bever) vagy a perspektívaváltás
hipotézise (MacWhinney). Ezen stratégiák többsége, úgy tűnik, nem,
vagy nem azonos mértékben mutatható ki a különböző nyelvekben,
és újabb bizonyítékok arra utalnak, a vmm-ek produkcióját sem pontosan
ugyanezek a tendenciák jellemzik. Egyes nyelvekben, pl. az angolban a
feltételezett specifikus stratégiák nem vizsgálhatók külön-külön, mert
bizonyos szerkezeti jegyek tipikusan együttjárnak (pl. a fej esete és a
mellékmondat pozíciója). Ezzel szemben a magyar nyelv sajátosságai
lehetővé teszik több szerkezeti tulajdonság elkülönítését, s ezzel
egyes stratégiák független vizsgálatát. Az előadásban feszegetett fő
kérdések, hogy a mondatprodukcióban is tetten érhetők-e a feldolgozási
stratégiákkal magyarázható specifikus mintázatok, illetve azok milyen
természetűek.
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MTA Nyelvtudomanyi Intezete
Research Institute for Linguistics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1068 Budapest
Benczúr u. 33
tel: 36-1-351-0413
fax: 36-1-322-9297
email: banreti(a)nytud.hu
Dear All,
The CEU Summer University is pleased to announce the course on CULTURE AND COGNITION, held between July 4 - 12, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.
The course will concentrate on recent theoretical and empirical advances in the scientific study of the role that evolved domain-specific cognitive adaptations such as peripheral and central modular and core knowledge systems of the mind play in explaining the emergence, transmission, and stabilization as well as the variability and universal aspects of cultural phenomena across different societies and cultural environments.
The course invites applications from post-doctoral young researchers and PhD students.
Application deadline: 14 February, 2007.
For more information please visit the flowing URL:
http://www.sun.ceu.hu/3Courses/descriptions/brief_descriptions.php#Cognition
Looking forward to receive your application,
CEU Summer University
Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple
Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS).
PRECIS OF: Evolution in Four Dimensions
by
Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb
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.
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to nominate someone to comment.
If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate
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PRÉCIS OF BOOK: Evolution in Four Dimensions
AUTHORS: Eva Jablonka* & Marion J. Lamb
*Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
ABSTRACT: In his theory of evolution, Darwin recognized that the conditions of
life play a role in the generation of hereditary variations, as well as in their
selection. However, as evolutionary theory was developed further, heredity
became identified with genetics and variation was seen in terms of combinations
of randomly generated gene mutations. We argue that this view is now changing,
because it is clear that a notion of hereditary variation that is based solely
on randomly varying genes that are unaffected by developmental conditions is an
inadequate basis for evolutionary theories. Such a view not only fails to
provide satisfying explanations of many evolutionary phenomena, it also makes
assumptions that are not consistent with the data that are emerging from
disciplines ranging from molecular biology to cultural studies. These data show
that the genome is far more responsive to the environment than previously
thought, and that not all transmissible variation is underlain by genetic
differences. In Evolution in Four Dimensions we identify four types of
inheritance (genetic, epigenetic, behavioural, and symbol-based), each of which
can provide variations on which natural selection will act. Some of these
variations arise in response to developmental conditions, so there are
Lamarckian aspects to evolution. We argue that a better insight into
evolutionary processes will result from recognizing that transmitted variations
that are not based on DNA differences have played a role. This is particularly
true for understanding the evolution of human behaviour, where all four
dimensions of heredity have been important.
KEYWORDS: cultural evolution, Darwinism, directed mutations, epigenetic
inheritance, evolutionary psychology, information transmission, Lamarckism,
language evolution, memes, social learning
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jablonka-10132006/Referees/
** Please reply to this call no later than December 28, 2006 **
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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
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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
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming precis of a book accepted for Multiple
Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS).
PRECIS OF: Evolution in Four Dimensions
by
Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb
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 to this call no later than December 28, 2006:
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 INSTRUCTIONS ***
==================================================================
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: Evolution in Four Dimensions
AUTHORS: Eva Jablonka* & Marion J. Lamb
*Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
ABSTRACT: Abstract: In his theory of evolution, Darwin recognized that the
conditions of life play a role in the generation of hereditary variations, as well
as in their selection. However, as evolutionary theory was developed further,
heredity became identified with genetics and variation was seen in terms of
combinations of randomly generated gene mutations. We argue that this view is now
changing, because it is clear that a notion of hereditary variation that is based
solely on randomly varying genes that are unaffected by developmental conditions is
an inadequate basis for evolutionary theories. Such a view not only fails to provide
satisfying explanations of many evolutionary phenomena, it also makes assumptions
that are not consistent with the data that are emerging from disciplines ranging
from molecular biology to cultural studies. These data show that the genome is far
more responsive to the environment than previously thought, and that not all
transmissible variation is underlain by genetic differences. In Evolution in Four
Dimensions we identify four types of inheritance (genetic, epigenetic, behavioural,
and symbol-based), each of which can provide variations on which natural selection
will act. Some of these variations arise in response to developmental conditions, so
there are Lamarckian aspects to evolution. We argue that a better insight into
evolutionary processes will result from recognizing that transmitted variations that
are not based on DNA differences have played a role. This is particularly true for
understanding the evolution of human behaviour, where all four dimensions of
heredity have been important.
KEYWORDS: cultural evolution, Darwinism, directed mutations, epigenetic
inheritance, evolutionary psychology, information transmission, Lamarckism,
language evolution, memes, social learning
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Jablonka-10132006/Referees/
** Please reply to this call no later than December 28, 2006 **
======================================================================
*** 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!).
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journals Department
Cambridge University Press
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Room 1.817 (1st floor) Monday 4:00 PM
Pazmany P. setany 1/C Budapest, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium
11 December 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817
Katalin Martinas
Department of Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest
On the Reappraisal of Microeconomics
Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/December/#2
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The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a
30-60-minute discussion.
The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments!
A printable poster is available from here:
http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/December/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email:
leszabo(a)philosophy.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
http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo