A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit
tanszéki szemináriumsorozatának következő előadására:
Április 12., hétfő, 12:00-13:00, BME, XI., Stoczek u. 2., St. ép.,
320.-as terem.
A mentális képességek általános faktorának kognitív magyarázata
Kovács Kristóf
Magyary Zoltán Poszdoktori Ösztöndíjas
BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék
Absztrakt:
Több, mint egy évszázadnyi kutatás után a kognitív
képességekben meglévő egyéni különbségek természete és
eredete továbbra is nyitott kérdés. A terület legtöbbször
megismételt eredménye szerint aki egyfajta kognitív képességet
(pl. fejszámolást) mérő teszten jobban teljesít, az másfajta
mentális teszteken (pl. szövegértés) is jobban fog szerepelni. Ezt
a statisztikai jelenséget, amelyet gyakran neveznek pozitív
sokféleségnek, le lehet írni az intelligencia általános (g)
faktorával, amelynek magyarázatáról jelenleg sincs elfogadható
konszenzus. A doktori disszertációmban egy olyan modellt javasoltam
az általános faktor magyarázatára, amely túlmutat a pozitív
sokféleség puszta leírásán, és számos empirikus eredményre ad
magyarázatot a pszichometria, a fejlődés-pszichológia, a kognitív
pszichológia és az idegtudomány területeiről, és anélkül
magyarázza meg az általános faktort, hogy egyetlen, általános
képesség (általános intelligencia, IQ stb.) létezését
feltételezné. E helyett abból indul ki, hogy minden komplex
kognitív feladat megoldásakor az emberek több, különféle
képességre támaszkodnak, ám ezen képességek közül némelyik,
amelyek elsősorban a magasabb rendű kognícióhoz kötődnek, és
amelyekért a frontális és parietális kéreg dorzális területei
felelősek, számos különböző feladat megoldásához
szükségesek, az adott feladatnak megfelelő specifikus
képességekkel együtt.
Bővebb info innen
Attila Keresztes
Junior research fellow
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
Stoczek u. 2., Budapest
1111, Hungary
+36 1 4631072
akeresztes(a)cogsci.bme.hu
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod)
on
Can one share another's pain?
Tuesday, 30 March, 2010, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
The goal of this paper is to sketch an account of empathetic pain.
The experience of empathetic pain is a species of vicarious experiences of pain. Empathetic responses to another's affective state of kind S are vicarious experiences of affective states of kind S. There are presently two prevalent approaches to empathetic experiences in both cognitive science and philosophy: a mimicry approach (based on the discovery of mirror neurons) and the direct perception approach. Both approaches face insuperable objections. I argue instead for an imagination-based account of vicarious pain and turn to some neuroscientific findings in order to try and account for the distinction between two kinds of vicarious experiences of pain: contagious experiences and empathetic experiences.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Leonard Schilbach (Psychiatry, Köln)
A Second-Person Approach to Other Minds: Preliminary Evidence from
Functional Neuroimaging
Thursday, April 1, 3.00 pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
Abstract
Starting from the distinction between adopting a first- as compared to a
third-person perspective of others' mental states, this presentation will
attempt to
argue for a second-person approach to understanding other minds. This
approach is
based on the idea that social cognition is fundamentally different when we
are
actively engaged with another person ('online' social cognition) as
compared to
being a mere observer of others. Furthermore the second-person account
suggests to
take the reciprocity of social interactions seriously by focusing on the
different
roles interactors play when initiating or responding to each others' actions.
Subsequently, results of two sets of studies are presented which were
based upon the
above mentioned theoretical considerations. The first set of studies was
realized to
assess the neurobiological correlates (fMRI, EMG, eyetracking) of the
perception of
socially relevant facial expressions depending upon whether or not they were
directed towards the human observer (as opposed to someone else; Schilbach
et al.
2006, Mojzisch et al. 2006, Schilbach et al. 2008). A second paradigm was
devised to
investigate the neural correlates of joint attention in online
interaction. To this
end a novel fMRI-compatible eyetracking setup was devised which allows
participants
to interact with an anthropomorphic virtual character. Here, a crucial
experimental
manipulation consisted in varying whether participants initiated joint
attention
themselves or responded to someone else's gaze shifts (Wilms et al. in press;
Schilbach et al. in press).
Results of these studies highlight differential effects on neural
processing both
related to self-involvement and to the reciprocal nature of social
interaction
consistent with the idea of these being important constituents of social
cognition.
On a more speculative note, these results may be seen as preliminary
evidence in
support of the notion of a second-person approach to other minds which
could help to
further our understanding of the neurobiology of social cognition and may
help to
bridge recent findings in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience.
--
Ágnes M. Kovács
Marie Curie Research Fellow-DISCOS
MTA PKI
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
&
CEU, Cognitive Development Centre
Budapest
Hungary
tel: +3612796095
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Bart Geurts (Philosophy, Nijmegen):
A small theory of behaviour
Monday, March 29, 5.00pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
Abs
Based on a wealth of experimental data, it has been argued that, already
between their first and second birthdays, children routinely appeal to
mental states---goals, perceptions, beliefs, and desires---to explain the
behaviour of others. In this talk, I will analyse a range of experiments
involving, e.g., non-verbal false-belief tasks, cooperative pointing, and
reasoning about goals and desires, and attempt to show that all of them can
be accounted for on the assumption that infants have a quite minimal theory
of behaviour, which is defined purely in terms of relations between
particulars (individuals, places, and times) and is not mentalistic in any
deep way.
--
Ágnes M. Kovács
Marie Curie Research Fellow-DISCOS
MTA PKI
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
&
CEU, Cognitive Development Centre
Budapest
Hungary
tel: +3612796095
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Author: Joshua Knobe
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Abstract: It has often been suggested that people's ordinary capacities for understanding the world make use of much the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A series of recent experimental results offer a challenge to this widely-held view, suggesting that people's moral judgments can actually influence the intuitions they hold both in folk psychology and in causal cognition. The present target article distinguishes two basic approaches to explaining such effects. One approach would be to say that the relevant competencies are entirely non-moral but that some additional factor (conversational pragmatics, performance error, etc.) then interferes and allows people's moral judgments to affect their intuitions. Another approach would be to say that moral considerations truly do figure in workings of the competencies themselves. It is argued that the data available now favor the second of these approaches over the first.
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
7 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Judit X. Madarász
Department of Logic, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Egy, a relativitáselméletre vonatkozó teljességi tétel
(A completeness theorem for general relativity)
___________________________________
Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web
site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
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coffee break, 60 minute discussion.
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EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Bart Geurts: A small theory of behaviour
Department of Philosophy
University of Nijmegen
Date and time:
Monday, 29 March, 5.00 pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
Abstract
Based on a wealth of experimental data, it has been argued that, already
between their first and second birthdays, children routinely appeal to
mental states---goals, perceptions, beliefs, and desires---to explain the
behaviour of others. In this talk, I will analyse a range of experiments
involving, e.g., non-verbal false-belief tasks, cooperative pointing, and
reasoning about goals and desires, and attempt to show that all of them can
be accounted for on the assumption that infants have a quite minimal theory
of behaviour, which is defined purely in terms of relations between
particulars (individuals, places, and times) and is not mentalistic in any
deep way.
--
Ágnes M. Kovács
Marie Curie Research Fellow-DISCOS
MTA PKI
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
&
CEU, Cognitive Development Centre
Budapest
Hungary
tel: +3612796095
Szeretettel várunk minden kedves érdeklődőt kedden a Pázmány-ITKra a Keddi Idegtudományi Előadássorozat eheti előadására, melyet Dr. Cserjési Renáta tart az obeztiásról. Időpont:Kedd, márc. 23. 16hHelyszín:Pázmány P. Kat. Egyetem - ITK (Práter utca 50/a. VIII.ker.), Kari Tanácsterem (204-es szoba) Dr. Cserjési RenátaPost-doctoral researcher of Developmental NeuropsychologyDepartment of Clinical & Developmental Neuropsych.Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningenhttp://www.rug.nl/staff/r.cserjesi/index
A kóros elhízás (obezitás) neuropszichológiájaObezitásról vagy kóros túlsúlyról akkor beszélünk, mikor a zsírszövetben felhalmozott és raktározott természetes energiakészlet mértéke annyira megnő, hogy annak számos kóros egészségre ártalmas szövődménye lehet, illetve megnöveli a korai halál kockázatát. A túlsúly orvosi értelemben vett szövődményei mellett, olyan pszichológiai problémákkal jár együtt, mint a depresszió vagy a súlyos szorongás a nyugati kultúra által közvetített „zsír-fóbia” és a kövérekkel szembeni előítélet miatt. Ezt igazolja az is, hogy azok a betegek, akik szakember segítségét kérik a fogyáshoz, leginkább a pszichológiai problémák miatt fordulnak orvoshoz nem a fizikai vagy orvosi következmények miatt. Annak ellenére, hogy az evészavarok (anorexia és bulimia) napjainkra már konkrét, klinikailag jól definiált és diagnosztizált pszichiátriai betegségek (DSM-IV, DSM-V) az obezitásra még mindig úgy tekintenek, mint súlyos orvosi betegségek kockázati tényezőjére. A kontinuum modell szerint, az evészavarok elhelyezhetőek egy folyamatos spektrumon a restriktív anorexiától a bulímián keresztül a stabil elhízásig (Vandereycken 1982). Ezért az előadás célja az, hogy megvizsgáljuk azokat az érzelem feldolgozási és kognitív kontrol zavarokat, amiket az evészavarokban találtunk elhízott betegek esetében is. Amennyiben igazolni tudjuk a kontinuum modell érvényességét, így egyidejűleg igazolhatjuk azt is, hogy a kóros elhízás nem csupán súlykezelési probléma, hanem az evészavarokkal egyenrangú betegség. Az előadás után kötetlen beszélgetésre invitáljuk Önöket kávé és süti kíséretében! a Szervezők
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