koglist December 2006

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10 participants
12 discussions

by Agnes Lukacs

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

19 years, 4 months

Molnár Márk előadások Szegeden

by NEMETH, Dezso

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! ---------------------------------------------------------- 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/

19 years, 4 months

Cognition at Christmas

by Gergely Csibra

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 --- 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.

19 years, 4 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Janos Tozser

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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

19 years, 5 months

vonatkozoi mellekmondatok elsajatitasa

by Banreti Zoltan

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 ------------------------------ 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. ---------------------------- 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

19 years, 5 months

Budapest Summer School on Cognitive Science

by sunweb sunweb

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

19 years, 5 months

Jablonka & Lamb/Evolution in Four Dimensions: BBS Multiple Book Review

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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. 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 précis (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 précis, 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.) ======================================================================= _______________________________________________________________________ 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 ** ====================================================================== *** 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 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 337-5016 Fax: +001 212 337-5959 -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years, 5 months

Jablonka & Lamb/Evolution in Four Dimensions: BBS Multiple Book Review

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 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 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 UNITED STATES bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org Tel: +001 212 337-5016 Fax: +001 212 337-5959 -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years, 5 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Katalin Martinas

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 ___________________________________ 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

19 years, 5 months

meghívó

by Horváth Zsuzsa

Mellékelem Tanszékünk által rendezendő Kognitív Péntek meghívóját. Üdvözlettel: Horváth Zsuzsa ELTE PPK Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszék 1064 Bp. Izabella u. 46. tel/fax: 461-2649 e-mail: <mailto:horvath.zsuzsa@ppk.elte.hu> horvath.zsuzsa(a)ppk.elte.hu

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