koglist January 2007

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15 discussions

by MAKOG

Kedves Lehetséges Résztvevõk, 15. alkalommal kerül megrendezésre a MAKOG konferencia, melynek témája "modell és valóság". A konferencia helyszíne Eger, idõpontja 2007. január 19-21. A regisztráció határideje január 8. Regisztráció és részletes információ a http://makog.cogpsyphy.hu honlapon található. Kérdéseikkel bátran fordulhatnak a szervezõkhöz (makog(a)cogpsyphy.hu e-mail címen). Minden kedves elõadót és érdeklõdõt sok szeretettel várunk! A szervezõk Dr.Czigler István Háden Gábor Péter Pató Lívia Gabriella Stefanics Gábor

19 years, 3 months

Darwin-nap

by Szappanos Adrienn

A Darwin-nap a tudomány vívmányainak és az evolúció elméletének ünnepe. A kezdeményezők úgy gondolták, annak ellenére, hogy modern kultúránk és életlehetőségeink sokasága nagyrészt a tudomány eredményeire épül, nem volt olyan nemzetközi tradíció, amely méltóképpen megemlékezett volna a tudományos módszerről, és az ennek segítségével felépített tudáshalmazról. További információk és programok: http://www.darwinnap.hu/ február 12.

19 years, 3 months

14th International Summer Scool in Cognitive Science

by school

The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science at the New Bulgarian University is pleased to announce the 14th International Summer School in Cognitive Science which will be held in Sofia, 9-28 July 2007. You can find more information about the courses, participation and fees at the following address: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2007.html. Deadline for application is March 15. For further information, please contact us at school(a)cogs.nbu.bg Best regards, --- Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Blvd. Sofia 1618 Bulgaria school(a)cogs.nbu.bg <http://mail.nbu.bg/newmsg.php?sid=%7b45B715A07ADB9-45B715A07B586-116962 6528%7d&tid=4&lid=0&to=school(a)cogs.nbu.bg>

19 years, 3 months

[Fwd: 2 Lectureships in Psychology, St Andrews]

by Peter Foldiak

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/recruitment/vacancies/vacancy-list/SK127a http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/recruitment/vacancies/vacancy-list/SK128 http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/

19 years, 3 months

invitation to a philosophy talk

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department and the Budapest mind Society cordially invite you to a talk by György Gergely (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) on 'Learning "about" versus learning "from" other minds: The role of ostensive cues in triggering pedagogical knowledge transfer in human infants' Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 5.00pm, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT By the end of their first year human infants start to exhibit a number of species-unique social cognitive competences (such as social referencing, imitative learning of novel means, or proto-declarative pointing) that involve triadic interactions in ostensive communicative cuing contexts. The currently dominant interpretation of these early social-cognitive phenomena assumes that their primary function is to serve social motives (such as intersubjective sharing of mental states). In this talk I shall contrast this view with an alternative interpretation based on the theory of human pedagogy (Csibra & Gergely, 2006; Gergely & Csibra, 2005, 2006) which assumes that ostensively cued triadic interactions serve primarily the epistemic function of transferring new and relevant cultural knowledge about referents to infants. The theory argues that others referential manifestations during triadic interactions are typically framed by specific types of ostensive-communicative cues for which infants show early sensitivity and preference. These include eye-contact, contingent turn-taking reactivity, the prosodic intonation pattern of motherese, and addressing infants by their own name. Such ostensive cues trigger in infants the interpretation that the other exhibits a communicative intention addressed to them to manifest new and relevant information for them to fast learn about the referent. It is hypothesized that ostensive cues can act as an interpretation switch directing infants to construe others referential knowledge manifestations as pedagogical teaching events. I shall review recent evidence from studies of relevance-guided selective imitative learning and of infants differential interpretation of others referential emotion expressions during the second year that provide convergent empirical support for the hypothesized interpretation-modulating role of ostensive cuing in early infancy. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

19 years, 3 months

Researcher Support for Open Access to Research

by Stevan Harnad

Dear Colleagues, The European Commission, the European Research Advisory Board and the European Research Councils have recently each recommended adopting the policy of providing Open Access to research results: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publicati… http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.… http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/open-access.pdf (Very similar recommendations are also being made by governmental research organisations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Asia.) There are non-research interests strongly lobbying against these recommendations, so a display of support by the research community is critically important. A consortium of European organisations working in the scholarly communication arena is now sponsoring a petition to the European Commission to demonstrate support for these recommendations on the part of the European and worldwide research community. Signatures may be added by individual researchers or universities and research institutions. I would strongly urge you to register your support. To sign the petition, please go to: http://www.ec-petition.eu/ The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark). Many thanks and best wishes, Stevan Harnad Chaire de recherche du Canada Professor of Cognitive Science Ctr. de neuroscience de la cognition Dpt. Electronics & Computer Science Université du Québec à Montréal University of Southampton Montréal, Québec Highfield, Southampton Canada H3C 3P8 SO17 1BJ United Kingdom http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/

19 years, 3 months

Reminder: Deadline for Paper Submission is January 31, 2007 --- IJCNN 2007 in Orlando, Florida

by Professor Ron Sun

Reminder: Deadline for Paper Submission is January 31, 2007 --- IJCNN 2007 in Orlando, Florida 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Orlando, Florida August 12-17, 2007 http://www.ijcnn2007.org The 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), sponsored by the International Neural Network Society and co- sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, is the premier event in the field of neural networks. It covers all topics in neural network theories and applications, including, but not limited to: - Neural network models and analysis - Connectionist cognitive science and cognitive modeling (language, reasoning, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, emotion, etc.) - Computational neuroscience - Neuroengineering - Cognitive robotics, developmental robotics, and neural robotics - Data analysis and pattern recognition - Signal processing and image processing - Neural control - Neuroinformatics - Hybrid neural-symbolic, neuro-fuzzy, neuro-evolutionary systems, etc. - Bayesian models and other graphical models - Kernel methods - Learning methods: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement - Approximate dynamic programming and neural network approaches to optimization - Neural dynamics, complex systems, and chaos - Hardware implementations of neural networks and neuromorphic engineering - Neural networks applications (expert systems, embedded systems, data mining, Multi-agent systems, social computing, financial engineering, bioinformatics, telecommunication, manufacturing, etc.) IJCNN 2007 will feature plenary speakers, special sessions, moderated panel discussions, pre-conference tutorials, post-conference workshops, regular technical sessions, poster sessions, and social functions. Prospective authors are invited to submit complete papers of no more than six (6) pages (including results, figures, tables, and references) in IEEE two-column format. Authors should submit their papers in PDF through the online submission system, which will be available at the website: http://www.ijcnn2007.org. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline (including submissions to special sessions): January 31, 2007 Pre-Conference Tutorial and Post-Conference Workshop Proposals: January 31, 2007 Decision Notification: March 31, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: April 30, 2007 For further information: http://www.ijcnn2007.org ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun(a)rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun =======================================================

19 years, 3 months

EC Conference in Brussels on scientific publication issues (15-16 February 2007)

by Stevan Harnad

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:09:10 +0000 From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: EC Conference in Brussels on scientific publication issues (15-16 February 2007) [Apologies for Cross-Posting: The conference below is far too top-heavy on (Gold) OA publishing rather than focussing on OA itself (Green and Gold) but it is nevertheless an important event, given the growing momentum of OA worldwide and attendance is accordingly highly recommended. -- SH/] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:28:02 +0100 (MET) From: EC / Sinapse Administration <sinapse --- ec.europa.eu> Subject: Conference in Brussels on scientific publication issues (15-16 February 2007) Dear Prof. Stevan Harnad, On 15-16 February 2007 the European Commission is hosting a conference in Brussels entitled "Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area -- Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age." The conference is a joint initiative between the Research and Information Society Directorate Generals and both Commissioner PotoÄnik and Commissioner Reding will speak at the conference. Its goal is to bring together all stakeholders concerned with access, dissemination and preservation issues in connection with scientific publication and data in an effort to provide policy options for scientific publishing under FP7 and in the European Research Area. All details including registration can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459 Attendance at this conference is free of charge but places are limited and registration will close January 31st 2007. We kindly ask you to disseminate information about this conference to your networks and mailing lists as we hope that it will provide the opportunity for all stakeholders to voice their opinions and collaborate to shape future European policy in this area. Kind regards, RTD Scientifc Publications ---------------------------------------- SINAPSE HOMEPAGE: http://europa.eu/sinapse/

19 years, 3 months

invitation to a philosophy talk-reminder

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Philosophy Department and the Center for Hellenic Traditions cordially invite you to a lecture by FILIP GRGI* (Institiute of Philosophy, Zagreb and University of Rijeka, Fellow at Center for Hellenic Traditions, CEU) on "SEXTUS EMPIRICUS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF INQUIRY" 5.00 PM, Tuesday, 16 January, Zrinyi 14, room 412 Abstract At the beginning of the second book of his Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus raises the question how can the Pyrrhonist inquire into something of which he has no knowledge. This is a question of vital importance for the Pyrrhonists, who insist that we should suspend judgment about everything and who characterize themselves as perpetual inquirers. I will discuss Sextus solution to this problem. He seems to accept the idea that in order to inquire into something one must have some concept of it, and that such an antecedent concept does not imply the existence of its object. I will try to show that this is just a dialectical concession to his opponents. FILIP GRGI* is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka. His research interest is in ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle and skepticism. His publications include articles in Ancient Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Phronesis and elsewhere. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

19 years, 3 months

Suddendorf & Corballis: 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=Suddendorf-… * 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 January 29, 2007 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 ================================================================== ** Target Article Information ** ================================================================== 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. This unedited draft has been prepared only for potential commentators who wish to nominate themselves for formal commentary invitation. Please DO NOT write a commentary until you receive a formal invitation. If you are invited to submit a commentary, a copyedited, corrected version of this paper will be posted in the 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. TITLE: The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel and is it unique to humans? AUTHORS: Thomas Suddendorf and Michael C. Corballis ABSTRACT: In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they offer for anticipatory behavior and put forward a corresponding taxonomy of prospection. The adaptive advantage of any memory system can only lie in what it can contributes for future survival. The most flexible is episodic memory, which we suggest is part of a more general faculty of mental time travel that allows us not only to go back in time, but also to foresee, plan, and shape virtually any specific future event. We review comparative studies and find that, in spite of increased research in the area, there is as yet no convincing evidence for mental time travel in non-human animals. We submit that mental time travel is not an encapsulated cognitive system, but instead comprises several subsidiary mechanisms. A theater metaphor serves as an analogy for the kind of mechanisms required for effective mental time travel. We propose that future research should consider these mechanisms in addition to direct evidence of future-directed action. We maintain that the emergence of mental time travel in evolution was a crucial step towards our current success. KEYWORDS: cognitive evolution, comparative cognition, episodic memory, memory systems, mental time travel, planning, prospection FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Suddendorf-04122006/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=Suddendorf-… * 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 January 29, 2007 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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