koglist January 2007

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Suddendorf & Corballis: 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=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 -------------------------------------------------------------------

19 years, 4 months

request

by Ferenc Kovacs

Új tagként kérek segítséget. Olyan olvasmányok érdekelnek, amelyek a rekurzió értelmezését taglalják a természetes emberi nyelvekben. Főleg magyar és angol szövegeket szeretnék megismerni. Kovács Ferenc

19 years, 4 months

Budapest Mind Society lecture series: György Gergely

by Jakab Zoltán

György Gergely Institute for Psychological Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences *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 PM CEU Department of Philosophy, 1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14, 4th floor, rm. 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.

19 years, 4 months

invitation to a talk

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, 4 months

MAKOG 2007, ujra

by George Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, tobbek keresere ujra (ugy tunik, hozzajuk nem jutott el) kuldom/juk a 2007 evi konferencia felhivasat. Hatarido-alkuval .-) es egyebekkel kapcsolatban kerem, hogy valoban a szervezoket keressek (cf lent). makog(a)cogpsyphy.hu <makog(a)cogpsyphy.hu> Jo konferenciazast es Boldog Uj Evet! udv Kampis Gyorgy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Időpont: 2007. január 19-21. Helyszín: Eger Regiszrtáció határideje: 2007. január 8. Örömmel értesítünk minden kedves érdeklődőt, hogy a 2007-ben megrendezésre kerülő MAKOG konferencia szervezését elkezdtük. A várható részvételi díj kb. 10.000 Ft (amely tartalmazza a szállást, regisztrációt, pólót, absztrakt füzetet, ellátást, a konkrét összeg a szállás függvényében változhat, részletes információ a regisztrációnál). További kérdésekkel és észrevételekkel forduljanak a szervezőkhöz.

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