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Meghívó - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

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

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invitation - Pierre Jacob on `Can one share another's pain?` 30th March,4.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

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

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CDC Seminar April 1 Thursday Leonhard Schilbach

by Agnes Kovacs

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

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CDC Seminar Reminder March 29 Bart Geurts

by Agnes Kovacs

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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Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 11, Iss. 2, 2010

by Professor Ron Sun

New issue is now available on ScienceDirect: * Cognitive Systems Research Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 131-210 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/ 6595-2010-999889997-1623128 NOTE: If the URLs in this email are not active hyperlinks, copy and paste the URL into the address/location box in your browser. = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS 2) Emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication in artificial creatures Pages 131-147 Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin, Charbel Niño El-Hani, João Queiroz http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… 3) On strong anticipation Pages 148-164 N. Stepp, M.T. Turvey http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… 4) Is a naturalistic theory of communication possible? Pages 165-180 Gabriella Airenti http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… 5) A micro-level simulation for the prediction of intention and behavior Pages 181-193 Juliette Richetin, Abhijit Sengupta, Marco Perugini, Iqbal Adjali, Robert Hurling, Danica Greetham, Michael Spence http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… 6) An alternative account of the minimal counterintuitiveness effect Pages 194-203 M. Afzal Upal http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… Book Review 7) Review of T.T. Rogers and J.L. McClelland, semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach , MIT Press (2004). Pages 204-207 J.F. Glazebrook http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… Call for papers 8) The Workshop on Cognitive Social Sciences—Grounding the Social Sciences in the Cognitive Sciences Pages 208-209 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&… =========== See the following Web page for submission, subscription, and other information regarding Cognitive Systems Research: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html See http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cogsys for further information regarding accessing these articles. If you have questions about features of ScienceDirect, please access the ScienceDirect Info Site at http://www.info.sciencedirect.com ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President-Elect, International Neural Network Society 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 =======================================================

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BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Knobe

by Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty: When a target article or recent book has been accepted for BBS Commentary, the editorial office sends out the Call for Commentary Proposals to thousands of people. Commentary Proposals help the BBS Editors craft a well-balanced commentary invitation list. If this target article interests you as a possible subject for commentary, please download the full pre-print to see if you would like to propose a commentary. If you are interested please follow the instructions below the target article information. Please keep in mind that we are not asking you to submit a commentary -- but rather, a short proposal in order to be considered as an invited author after the proposal deadline. Please also be aware that we typically get far more proposals than we can accept. NOW ACCEPTING COMMENTARY PROPOSALS ON: Target Article: "Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist" Author: Joshua Knobe Deadline for Commentary Proposals: April 16, 2010 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. Keywords: experimental philosophy; folk psychology; intentional action; moral cognition; theory of mind Download Target Article Preprint: http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Call/Knobe_preprint COMMENTARY PROPOSALS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING 1. What aspect of the target article or book you would anticipate commenting upon. 2. The relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the target article or book. Please include names and affiliations of your co-authors if applicable. SUGGESTING COMMENTATORS AND NOMINATING BBS ASSOCIATES Commentators must be BBS Associates, or suggested by a BBS Associate. If you are not a BBS Associate, please follow the instructions below. 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Meghívó Prof. Christo Pantev előadására

by Honbolygó Ferenc

Kedves Kollégák! Továbbítom az MTA-KEB meghívóját "A tudomány a zenéről a zenéért" előadássorozat első előadására.

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Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Judit Madarasz

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: László E. Szabó (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

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CDC Seminar March 29 Monday Bart Geurts

by Agnes Kovacs

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

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Idegtudományi Előadás HOLNAP 16:00 - PPKE-ITK -- téma:obezitás

by dreamingtree

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 &bdquo;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 <a href="" target="_blank"></a>

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