koglist March 2006

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by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk by István Aranyosi (Centre for Consciousness-ANU,CEU) on 'Phenomenal intentionality' 22 March, 5:00pm, Zrinyi 14, room 412 Abstract: http://www.ceu.hu/phil/talks_abstracts.html#IA Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

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meghívó

by Horváth Zsuzsa

Meghívó Az ELTE PPK Pszichológiai Intézet Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszéke szeretettel meghívja Önt és munkatársait 2006. április 7-én 14 órakor a (Bp. VI., Izabella u. 46., 216 terem) a Kognitív Péntek sorozat következő rendezvényére, melynek programja: "Kognitív autizmus-kutatás" Győri Miklós ELTE Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék; Autizmus Alapítvány Új modellek felé a neurokognitív autizmus kutatásban Stefanik Krisztina Autizmus Alapítvány Fejlődési prognózis autizmusban elméletalapú eszközökkel A két előadás együtt áttekintést igyekszik nyújtani arról a kognitív szemléletű, részben alkalmazott, részben alapkutatás jellegű kutatási tevékenységről, amely az Autizmus Alapítványnál folyik az ELTE Pszichológiai Intézettel együttműködésben. Győri Miklós előadása összegzi alapkutatásaink eddigi legfontosabb eredményeit, s részben ezekre támaszkodva érvel amellett, hogy számos okunk van újragondolni az autizmus kognitív háttere kapcsán kialakított eddigi modelljeinket, s a finomabb magyarázatok érdekében neurológiai szintű hipotézisek mentén tervezni a kognitív/pszichológiai kutatásokat is. Ennek példájaként részletesebben tárgyalja jövőbeni kutatásainkat vezérlő "törékeny prefrontális funkciók" munkahipotézisünket. Stefanik Krisztina előadása egy olyan empirikus kutatásunkat és eredményeit mutatja be, amely céljában klinikai hangsúlyú, ám eszközeiben erősen támaszkodik az elmélet-vezérelt alapkutatások eredményeire. Központi kérdése az, mennyiben prognosztizálható autizmussal élő gyermekek esetében a kisgyermekkorban mutatott szociális-kommunikatív viselkedésmintázatok alapján az iskoláskorban mutatott klinikai kép és kognitív teljesítmény. Az előadás a kérdés gyakorlati relevanciája mellett elemzi a korábbi hasonló célú vizsgálatok eredményeit, a vizsgálat közvetlen elméleti hátterét, s az eredmények mellett röviden bemutatja azokat az alkalmazott eszközöket is, amelyek kialakítása részben kutatásaink során történt. _______________________________________________________ Tanszékvezető: Dr. Csépe Valéria 1068 Bp. Szondi u. 83-85. ' 354-2290, e-mail: csepe(a)cogpsyphy.hu Adminisztráció: Horváth Zsuzsa 1064 Izabella u. 46. ' 461-2600 e-mail: horvath.zsuzsa(a)ppk.elte.hu

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Erdelyi/The unified theory of repression: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, ================================================================== ** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Erdelyi-040… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than April 6, 2006 NOTE: 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. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== CALL FOR COMMENTATORS ================================================================== "The unified theory of repression" by Matthew Hugh Erdelyi has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Calls for Commentators are sent to over 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. Please DO NOT write a commentary unless you receive a formal invitation in the near future. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the commentary invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. ================================================================== ** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION ** ================================================================== TITLE: The unified theory of repression AUTHOR: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi ABSTRACT: Repression has become an empirical fact that is at once obvious and problematic. Fragmented clinical and laboratory traditions and disputed terminology have resulted in a Babel of misunderstandings in which false distinctions are imposed (e.g., between repression and suppression) and necessary distinctions not drawn (e.g., between the mechanism and the use to which it is put, defense being just one). "Repression" was introduced by Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to the defensive inhibition of "unbearable" mental contents. Substantial experimental literatures on attentional biases, thought avoidance, interference, and intentional forgetting exist, the oldest prototype being the work of Ebbinghaus, who showed that intentional avoidance of memories results in their progressive forgetting over time. It has now become clear, as clinicians had claimed, that the inaccessible materials are often available and emerge indirectly (e.g., procedurally, implicitly). It is also now established that the Ebbinghaus retention function can be partly reversed, with resulting increases of conscious memory over time (hypermnesia). Freud's clinical experience revealed early on that exclusion from consciousness was effected not just by simple repression (inhibition) but also by a variety of distorting techniques, some deployed to degrade latent contents (denial), all eventually subsumed under the rubric of defense mechanisms ("repression in the widest sense"). Freudian and Bartlettian distortions are essentially the same, even in name, but for motive (cognitive vs. emotional), and experimentally induced false memories and other "memory illusions" are laboratory analogs of self-induced distortions. KEYWORDS: Avoidance, Bartlett, Defense, Denial, Distortion, Ebbinghaus, False-Memories, Freud, Inhibition, Repression, Suppression. FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/ ================================================================== * * CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS * * ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Erdelyi-040… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than April 6, 2006 NOTE: 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. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Barbara Finlay - Editor Paul Bloom - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, April

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 Program - April 3 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817 Language: Hungarian Gergely Szekely Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Az ikerparadoxon logikai analizise (Logical analysis of the twin's paradox) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#1 ___ 10 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817 Language: Hungarian Janos Tanacs Department of Philosophy and History of Science History and Philosophy of Science Research Group of the HAS Budapest University of Technology and Economics Mifele kulonbseg? Avagy fogalmi vagy pusztan terminologiai kulonbseg-e a nem-euklideszi parhuzamossag Bolyai- es Lobacsevszkij-fele meghatarozasa? (Is there a conceptual or merely a terminological difference between Bolyai's and Lobatchevsky's definitions of parallelism?) Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#2 ___ 24 April 4:00 PM 1st floor 1.817 Language: English Takashi Hashimoto School of Knowledge Science Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology On origin and evolution of language - significance of constructive approach Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2006/April/#4 ___________________________________ The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments! The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)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 http://philosophy.elte.hu/leszabo

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Erdelyi/The unified theory of repression: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

================================================================== ** CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS ** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Erdelyi-040… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than April 6, 2006 NOTE: 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. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== CALL FOR COMMENTATORS ================================================================== "The unified theory of repression" by Matthew Hugh Erdelyi has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Calls for Commentators are sent to over 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an unedited, uncorrected target article is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. Please DO NOT write a commentary unless you receive a formal invitation in the near future. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the commentary invitation letter. The commentary invitation list is compiled by the Editors so as to balance proposals, areas of expertise, and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. ================================================================== ** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION ** ================================================================== TITLE: The unified theory of repression AUTHOR: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi ABSTRACT: Repression has become an empirical fact that is at once obvious and problematic. Fragmented clinical and laboratory traditions and disputed terminology have resulted in a Babel of misunderstandings in which false distinctions are imposed (e.g., between repression and suppression) and necessary distinctions not drawn (e.g., between the mechanism and the use to which it is put, defense being just one). "Repression" was introduced by Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to the defensive inhibition of "unbearable" mental contents. Substantial experimental literatures on attentional biases, thought avoidance, interference, and intentional forgetting exist, the oldest prototype being the work of Ebbinghaus, who showed that intentional avoidance of memories results in their progressive forgetting over time. It has now become clear, as clinicians had claimed, that the inaccessible materials are often available and emerge indirectly (e.g., procedurally, implicitly). It is also now established that the Ebbinghaus retention function can be partly reversed, with resulting increases of conscious memory over time (hypermnesia). Freud's clinical experience revealed early on that exclusion from consciousness was effected not just by simple repression (inhibition) but also by a variety of distorting techniques, some deployed to degrade latent contents (denial), all eventually subsumed under the rubric of defense mechanisms ("repression in the widest sense"). Freudian and Bartlettian distortions are essentially the same, even in name, but for motive (cognitive vs. emotional), and experimentally induced false memories and other "memory illusions" are laboratory analogs of self-induced distortions. KEYWORDS: Avoidance, Bartlett, Defense, Denial, Distortion, Ebbinghaus, False-Memories, Freud, Inhibition, Repression, Suppression. FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/ ================================================================== * * CALL RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS * * ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. If you wish to submit a proposal for commentary and/or suggest potential commentators, please go to the new Online Commentary Proposal System at the following URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/perl/commentary/commproposal?authordir=Erdelyi-040… * If you only wish to suggest potential commentators, please ignore prompts to submit a proposal with expertise information. * If you experience technical difficulties, please email bbs(a)bbsonline.org. * Please respond to this Call no later than April 6, 2006 NOTE: 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. Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions linked below: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/associnst.html ================================================================== ================================================================== Barbara Finlay - Editor Paul Bloom - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nyelvfeldogozas, agyi aktivitas

by Banreti Zoltan

------------- Forwarded message follows ------------- Tisztelt Kollégák, Az MTA nyelvtudományi Intézetben a Kisérletes nyelvészet program következő előadása március 16-án, csütörtökön 14 órától a földszinti előadóban: Jolsvai Hajnal (MTA nyelvtudományi Intézet): Nyelvfeldolgozás az eseményhez kötött agyi aktivitás vizsgálatok tükrében Az új, kísérleti eredményeket bemutató előadásra minden érdeklődőt szerettel várunk. Az előadás absztraktja az alábbiakban olvasható. Üdvözlettel, Bánréti Zoltán -------------------------- Nyelvfeldolgozás az eseményhez kötött agyi aktivitás vizsgálatok tükrében Jolsvai Hajnal (MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet) A nyelvfeldolgozás különböző folyamatai (hangalak, jelentés, szerkezet) jól követhetőek a minőségileg és funkcionálisan is eltérő esemény kiváltotta agyi potenciál (EKP) válaszok alapján. A szavak jelentésének feldolgozását a szókezdettől számított ~250 ms-al induló és 400 ms körül a centrális elvezetés felett maximális amplitúdóval jelentkező hullámösszetevő kíséri. Ezt a szemantikai folyamatokkal korreláló komponenst nevezzük N400-nak. A mondat szerkezetének feldolgozásával két jellegzetes agyi válasz korrelál, ezek a szintaktikai feldolgozás eltérő szakaszaihoz köthető LAN-ok (ELAN, LAN)(Early left anterior negativity/korai elülső negativitás valamint Left anterort negativity/ Bal elülső negativitás) és a P600/SPS (Syntictic positive shift) komponens. A LAN az irodalmi adatok egy része szerint a nyelvi munkamemória folyamataival korrelál, mások viszont a LAN-t a szintaktikai feldolgozás korai folyamataihoz kapcsolják. A LAN funkcionális természetére vonatkozó eltérő álláspontok angol, német és holland kísérleti bizonyítékait részletesen bemutatom, a LAN-t tesztelő magyar kísérletünk mellett. Az előadásban a nyelvi komponensek elektorfiziológiai és funkcionális természetére vonatkozó kísérleti eredmények és legfőbb kritikáik ismertetése mellett, a területen megfogalmazott, egymással versengő szériális és párhuzamos feldolgozást támogató modelleket ismertetem. ---------------- 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 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 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

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nyelvfeldogozas, agyi aktivitas

by Banreti Zoltan

Tisztelt Kollégák, Az MTA nyelvtudományi Intézetben a Kisérletes nyelvészet program következő előadása március 16-án, csütörtökön 14 órától a földszinti előadóban: Jolsvai Hajnal (MTA nyelvtudományi Intézet): Nyelvfeldolgozás az eseményhez kötött agyi aktivitás vizsgálatok tükrében Az új, kísérleti eredményeket bemutató előadásra minden érdeklődőt szerettel várunk. Az előadás absztraktja az alábbiakban olvasható. Üdvözlettel, Bánréti Zoltán -------------------------- Nyelvfeldolgozás az eseményhez kötött agyi aktivitás vizsgálatok tükrében Jolsvai Hajnal (MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet) A nyelvfeldolgozás különböző folyamatai (hangalak, jelentés, szerkezet) jól követhetőek a minőségileg és funkcionálisan is eltérő esemény kiváltotta agypotenciál (EKP) válaszok alapján. A szavak jelentésének feldolgozását a szókezdettől számított ~250 ms-al induló és 400 ms körül a centrális elvezetés felett maximális amplitúdóval jelentkező hullámösszetevő kíséri. Ezt a szemantikai folyamatokkal korreláló komponenst nevezzük N400-nak. A mondat szerkezetének feldolgozásával két jellegzetes agyi válasz korrelál, ezek a szintaktikai feldolgozás eltérő szakaszaihoz köthető LAN-ok (ELAN, LAN)(Early left anterior negativity/korai elülső negativitás valamint Left anterort negativity/ Bal elülső negativitás) és a P600/SPS (Syntictic positive shift) komponens. A LAN az irodalmi adatok egy része szerint a nyelvi munkamemória folyamataival korrelál, mások viszont a LAN-t a szintaktikai feldolgozás korai folyamataihoz kapcsolják. A LAN funkcionális természetére vonatkozó eltérő álláspontok angol, német és holland kísérleti bizonyítékait részletesen bemutatom, a LAN-t tesztelő magyar kísérletünk mellett. Az előadásban a nyelvi komponensek elektorfiziológiai és funkcionális természetére vonatkozó kísérleti eredmények és legfőbb kritikáik ismertetése mellett, a területen megfogalmazott, egymással versengő szériális és párhuzamos feldolgozást támogató modelleket ismertetem. ---------------- 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 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

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, L. E. Szabo

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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Budapest Mind Society lecture series: Kati Balog

by Jakab Zoltán

This talk has been rescheduled for the second time, please note the FINAL time below: To avoid confusion I'll resend this announcement once more before the time comes. Hope to see you there! Zoltán Jakab *Katalin Balog* Department of Philosophy, Yale University The Quotational Account of Phenomenal Concepts 12 April, 2006 (Wednesday) 5 PM CEU Department of Philosophy, 1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14, 4th floor, rm. 412. The central /metaphysical/ question in the philosophy of mind is whether mental phenomena- intentionality and phenomenal consciousness- are ultimately /physical/biological /phenomena or whether they are or involve fundamental aspects of reality that transcend the physical and biological. Most contemporary philosophers and neuro-scientists reject dualism because - among other difficulties - it cannot account for how consciousness causally interacts with physical events including behavior. The central /explanatory /issue is whether mental phenomena - even if they are physical - can be explained in terms of more basic physical/biological phenomena. While there has been some progress with respect to understanding intentional and rational features of mentality in biological/physical terms we still have no idea of how the subjective experience - /the what its like -/ of seeing a sunset can emerge from a brain process. The situation with respect to subjective experience contrasts, for example, with the way we can understand (although many details are lacking) how the complex organization of molecules can constitute cells and how cells can constitute living organisms, and in general, how chemical processes can give rise to biological phenomena. There seems to be something about consciousness that /resists/ scientific explanation. Lacking a physicalist account of consciousness, a defense of physicalism needs to explain the existence of this explanatory gap in a way that is compatible with the truth of physicalism. <> On my account, our lack of understanding the psychophysical connection, the /explanatory gap/, is not due to consciousness being non-physical but rather to the special nature of the /concepts /via which we represent our subjective experiences to ourselves. My view is that these concepts are partly /constituted/ by the experiences they represent. This view has recently become popular among physicalists who accept the existence of the explanatory gap. However, proponents of the constitutional theory of phenomenal concepts have to offer and account of how the reference of phenomenal concepts are determined. After all, constitution doesn't make for reference in most cases. The concept DOG is not constituted by dogs, and the fact that the concept ATOM /is/ constituted by atoms has nothing to do with why it refers to atoms. It seems to me plausible that one must look to the /conceptual role /of phenomenal concepts for an explanation of their self-referential nature. The idea of an item partly constituting a representation that refers to that item is reminiscent of how linguistic quotation works. The referent of "__" is exemplified by whatever fills in the blank. My proposal is that there is a concept forming mechanism that operates on an experience and turns it into a phenomenal concept that refers to a type of experience where the type is qualitative property (a qualia) of the experience. Further, the operation, like linguistic quotation, can be explained in terms of its conceptual roles. * * *BMS home page:* http://philosophy.elte.hu/bms *Inquiries:* zjakab(a)cogsci.bme.hu <mailto:zjakab@cogsci.bme.hu>

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1st Symposium of Pedagogy and Psychology PhD Students, Poland 15-18 March 2007

by Alicja Osio

Dear Sir/ Madame! We would like to inform You that from 15th till 18th March 2007 there will be held at Wroclaw University, Poland 1st Symposium of Pedagogy and Psychology PhD Students. The originators and administrators of the assembly are PhD students from University of Wrocław. The main aim of the symposium will be the comparison of experiences and knowledge between different academic centres in the area of current scientific investigations in pedagogy and psychology. With regard to the ideas and views exchange among different scientific societies from Europe and Asia, we would like to invite PhD students, representing your university to participation in our conference. In the attachment we are sending all the details concerning symposium. We would like also to ask you for spreading this information among your students. Thank you for Your consideration. Yours Truly, Alicja Osio

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