koglist January 2011

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by BANRETI, Zoltan

MEGHÍVÓ Tisztelettel meghívjuk a Magyar Tudomány Ünnepének az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet által szervezett központi programjára: 2010. november 8. hétfőn, 13.30 - 15.30 között, MTA Székház (Budapest, V. Roosevelt tér), Nagyterem: BIONYELVÉSZET: LEHETŐSÉGEK ÉS KIHÍVÁSOK Levezető moderátor: Bánréti Zoltán, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézete Előadások: Pléh Csaba, az MTA rendes tagja: A nyelv biológiai alapjai: bátor elméletek es józan épitkezés Venetianer Pál, az MTA rendes tagja: Létezik-e emberi beszédgén? Kabai Péter, PhD, egyetemi docens, Szent István Egyetem Állatorvos-tudományi Kar, Ökológiai Tanszék: A madarak énektanulásáról Gervain Judit, PhD, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS-Paris Descartes: A csecsemőkori beszédészlelés mechanizmusai és a nyelvelsajátitás. Kas Bence, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet, Elméleti és Kísérletes Nyelvészeti Osztály: A nyelvi zavarok vizsgálatának szerepe a nyelvi képesség kutatásában. -------------------------- igazgatóhelyettes MTA Nyelvtudomanyi Intezete deputy director 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 MEGHÍVÓ Tisztelettel meghívjuk a Magyar Tudomány Ünnepének az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet által szervezett központi programjára: 2010. november 8. hétfõn, 13.30 - 15.30 között, MTA Székház (Budapest, V. Roosevelt tér), Nagyterem: BIONYELVÉSZET: LEHETÕSÉGEK ÉS KIHÍVÁSOK Levezetõ moderátor: Bánréti Zoltán, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézete Elõadások: Pléh Csaba, az MTA rendes tagja: A nyelv biológiai alapjai: bátor elméletek es józan épitkezés Venetianer Pál, az MTA rendes tagja: Létezik-e emberi beszédgén? Kabai Péter, PhD, egyetemi docens, Szent István Egyetem Állatorvos-tudományi Kar, Ökológiai Tanszék: A madarak énektanulásáról Gervain Judit, PhD, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS-Paris Descartes: A csecsemõkori beszédészlelés mechanizmusai es a nyelvelsajátitás. Kas Bence, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet, Elméleti és Kísérletes Nyelvészeti Osztály: A nyelvi zavarok vizsgálatának szerepe a nyelvi képesség kutatásában.

15 years, 2 months

[koglist] [CDC Seminars] CDC Seminar: Anne Tamm (Wednesday Feb 2, 5 PM)

by Marian Chen

Sorry, I neglected to add the time of the talk to this announcement. The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series will be given by: Anne Tamm, CEU Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 5 PM Location: CEU Cognitive Develoment Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor * Cross-Categorial Case: Telicity and Evidentiality* Cross-categorial case (a.k.a. ‘case on verbs’, ‘verbal case’, ‘versatile case’, henceforth: CCC) is a cover term for various case phenomena in atypical syntactic environments (e.g., on verbs), and expressing atypical semantics (e.g., tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, negation). Previous scholarship has discovered ‘verbal case’ in several languages across the world. For instance, Blake (2001) describes case in the verbal tense and aspect system of Kalaw Lagaw Ya. Aikhenvald (2008) discusses the ‘versatile cases’ of Ket and Manambu, which express aspect and modality or temporal, causal and other relationships between clauses. Analyses of more accessible languages with rich CCC systems were missing until the rich pool of data of the Uralic languages was discovered. The Uralic languages provide excellent linguistic and extra-linguistic conditions for exploring the complexity of interdependent factors: rich nominal and cross-categorial case paradigms, a wide scale of forms between verbs and nominals, well-documented diachronic and synchronic variation (especially in Finnic or Permic), existing descriptions of spatial and non-spatial semantics of the cases. Integrating the new research agenda with the new data and with previous scholarship has resulted in the insight that CCCs are rarely markers of prototypical predicate categories but have retained much of their core semantics. In addition to their idiosyncratic morphosyntactic constraints, CCCs impose semantic and pragmatic constraints on their environment: the nature of the evidence, evaluation of knowledge, and expectations about the goals of activities. Tendencies in the grammaticalization of predicate functional categories have become clearer: e.g., spatial cases tend to give rise to tense-aspect marking, comitatives to Aktionsart (intensification, habituality), and abessives to negation. The partitive case provides the example of cross-categorial case, which in present-day Estonian exemplifies the diachronic evolution path from a spatial case to an aspectual case and further, to a marker of epistemic modality and evidentiality. The categories of aspect and evidentiality preserve the basic semantics of the spatial partitive; the example provides an illustration of the shared structure of these categories. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] Fwd: [COGDEVSOC] PhD studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (London)

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: > From: Natasha Kirkham <natasha.kirkham(a)gmail.com> > Date: 28 January 2011 5:24:06 pm CET > To: cogdevsoc(a)virginia.edu > Subject: [COGDEVSOC] PhD studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (London) > > The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (Birkbeck, University of London) is accepting applications for funded PhD studentships, starting Fall 2011. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested. > > > 7 Marie Curie PhD Studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience > Birkbeck, University of London, UK > Funded by the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) > Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN PART B: Tracking Early Human Development: > From Basic Science to Applications > > The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development and affiliated laboratories has recently been granted a number of Marie Curie doctoral training bursaries by the European Commission. As a result of this, we are pleased to announce that 7 PhD studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London are available. The PhD studentships are > tenable for up to 3 years and must be taken up no later than October 2011. > Fellows will be hosted at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD), within the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. Details of the Centre’s and affiliated lab’s activities can > be found at http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/. > Successful applicants will be required to complete a PhD under the primary supervision of a member of the CBCD faculty and secondary supervision from one of the seven associated partners. > Associated partners include: > > Cognitive Development Centre > Central European University, Budapest, Hungary > > Dipartimento di Psicologia > University of Padova, Padova, Italy > > Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering > University College London > > Research & Development > Acuity ETS Limited, Reading, UK > > Research & Development Baby Care > Proctor & Gamble, Germany > > Research & Development > Electrical Geodesics Inc., Eugene, OR, USA > > Abbey Home Media Group Ltd > > Eligibility conditions: Marie Curie actions carry a number of mobility constraints. Successful applicants cannot have resided more than 1 year within the last 2 in the UK. We encourage applications from outside the EU, but applicants should be aware that overseas tuition fees are not included in this funding. Other eligibility requirements may apply. Excellent English language standards apply for all PhD candidates to the CBCD. Successful candidates will be expected to have sufficiently high written English skills to undertake the writing of their doctoral thesis in English. > > Equal Opportunity: Birkbeck is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage application from women and recognise the differing life patterns of men and women in the work and trainings sectors. > > Qualifications: The fellowships are open to truly outstanding candidates who must have achieved at least a level of training that would enable them to qualify for entry into a PhD programme in their home country. This would be a first class or high upper second class degree in psychology, neuroscience biomedical engineering, neuroimaging or related areas of research. As the PhD must be completed within the 3 years of the fellowships we anticipate that successful candidates will have already obtained training in relevant > research methods (e.g., from a masters degree or equivalent training). > > Conditions of employment: Successful candidates will be employed as research assistants within the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. A competitive salary commensurate with the cost of living in London will be offered. All payments are determined by personal circumstance, details of actual salary and allowances can be obtained upon request. > > Application procedures Interested applicants should consult the relevant web pages of the CBCD and affiliated Labs first to assess whether their research interests and experience match those of relevant possible supervisors. > IMPORTANT: You must apply to the Department of Psychological Sciences PhD program by following the links on > (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/phd/psychology/RRRPSYCH.html#how2apply). > When applying, candidates should make it clear on their application form that they wish to be considered for a Marie Curie Studentship. Applications should be submitted not later than Friday 18th March 2011. A short list of candidates will be invited to London for interviews approximately 2 to 4 weeks following this date. We will continue to consider applications until all 7 positions have been filled. We will announce when the position have been filled on the CBCD web pages cited above. > > > Informal enquires can be made to Dr. Natasha Kirkham > (n.kirkham(a)bbk.ac.uk) or any potential supervisor who is part of the CBCD > and affiliated laboratories. > > Procedural or administrative enquires regarding the application procedures or > conditions of employment should be made to the Marie Curie Administrator > Ms Robin Saunders (r.saunders(a)bbk.ac.uk). Those submitting an application > should also email Ms Saunders following submission to alert the CBCD and > confirm that the application has been successfully submitted.

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] [CDC Seminars] Announcement: CDC Seminar - Anne Tamm

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series will be given by: Anne Tamm, CEU Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Location: CEU Cognitive Develoment Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor * Cross-Categorial Case: Telicity and Evidentiality* Cross-categorial case (a.k.a. ‘case on verbs’, ‘verbal case’, ‘versatile case’, henceforth: CCC) is a cover term for various case phenomena in atypical syntactic environments (e.g., on verbs), and expressing atypical semantics (e.g., tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, negation). Previous scholarship has discovered ‘verbal case’ in several languages across the world. For instance, Blake (2001) describes case in the verbal tense and aspect system of Kalaw Lagaw Ya. Aikhenvald (2008) discusses the ‘versatile cases’ of Ket and Manambu, which express aspect and modality or temporal, causal and other relationships between clauses. Analyses of more accessible languages with rich CCC systems were missing until the rich pool of data of the Uralic languages was discovered. The Uralic languages provide excellent linguistic and extra-linguistic conditions for exploring the complexity of interdependent factors: rich nominal and cross-categorial case paradigms, a wide scale of forms between verbs and nominals, well-documented diachronic and synchronic variation (especially in Finnic or Permic), existing descriptions of spatial and non-spatial semantics of the cases. Integrating the new research agenda with the new data and with previous scholarship has resulted in the insight that CCCs are rarely markers of prototypical predicate categories but have retained much of their core semantics. In addition to their idiosyncratic morphosyntactic constraints, CCCs impose semantic and pragmatic constraints on their environment: the nature of the evidence, evaluation of knowledge, and expectations about the goals of activities. Tendencies in the grammaticalization of predicate functional categories have become clearer: e.g., spatial cases tend to give rise to tense-aspect marking, comitatives to Aktionsart (intensification, habituality), and abessives to negation. The partitive case provides the example of cross-categorial case, which in present-day Estonian exemplifies the diachronic evolution path from a spatial case to an aspectual case and further, to a marker of epistemic modality and evidentiality. The categories of aspect and evidentiality preserve the basic semantics of the spatial partitive; the example provides an illustration of the shared structure of these categories. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Fincher & Thornhill

by Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty: When a target article or recent book has been accepted for BBS Open Peer Commentary, the editorial office sends out the Call for Commentary Proposals to thousands of people. Commentary proposals help the editors craft a well-balanced commentary invitation list. Please DO NOT submit a commentary article unless you are formally invited. If this target article interests you as a possible subject for commentary, please download the full un-copyedited preprint to see if you would like to *propose* a commentary. If you are interested, carefully follow the instructions below the target article information. Please keep in mind that we are not asking you to submit a commentary article -- but rather, a short proposal in order to be considered as an invited author after the proposal deadline. Also be aware that we typically receive far more commentary proposals than we can accommodate with formal invitations. NOW PROCESSING COMMENTARY PROPOSALS ON: Target Article: "Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: the cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity." Authors: Corey L. Fincher and Randy Thornhill Deadline for Commentary Proposals: February 16, 2011 Abstract: Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude that they value strong family ties or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of contingent psychological adaptation that facilitates in-group assortative sociality in the face of high levels of parasite-stress while devaluing in-group assortative sociality in areas with low levels of parasite-stress. This is because in-group assortative sociality is more important for the avoidance of infection with novel parasites and for the management of infection in regions with high levels of parasite-stress compared to regions of low infectious disease stress. We examined this hypothesis by testing the predictions that there would be a positive association between parasite-stress and strength of family ties or religiosity. We conducted this study by comparing between nations and between states in the United States of America. We found for both the international and the interstate analyses that in-group assortative sociality was positively associated with parasite-stress. This was true when controlling potentially confounding factors such as human freedom and economic development. The findings support the parasite-stress theory of sociality, the proposal that parasite-stress is central to the evolution of social life in humans and other animals. Keywords: assortative sociality, collectivism, family ties, Homo sapiens, individualism, infectious disease, parasites, religion, religiosity, sociality Download Target Article Preprint: http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Call/Fincher_preprint COMMENTARY PROPOSALS *MUST* INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING 1. What aspect of the target article or book you would anticipate commenting on. 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, in the text of your commentary proposal. 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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15 years, 3 months

[koglist] Konferencia felhívás - ICSH10

by ICSH10 Conference

Tisztelt Kolléga! Örömmel értesítjük, hogy augusztus 25. és 27. között rendezzük az International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian konferenciasorozat tizedik találkozóját (ICSH10). A konferencia helyszíne Lund, Svédország. A programban helyet kap egy tematikus workshop "Approaches to Uralic Languages and Scandinavian" címmel. A konferencia hivatalos felhívása megtalálható a csatolt fájlban. További kérdéseivel ezen az e-mail címen fordulhat a szervezőbizottsághoz. Részvételére feltétlenül számítunk! Üdvözlettel, A Szervezők nevében,Hegedűs Vera és Egedi Barbara --------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICSH10 Organizing Committee 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian 25-27 August, 2011 http://www.nytud.hu/icsh10

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar, Thomas Bugnyar, TOMORROW, Jan 26, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center at CEU seminar series will be given by: Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna Date: Wednesday, January 26, 5 PM Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor Social cognition in ravens: (When) Does smart behaviour-reading become mind-reading? Abstract: Differentiating between individuals with different knowledge states is an important step in child development and has been considered as a hallmark in human evolution. Recently, primates and corvids have been reported to pass knower-guesser tasks, raising the possibility of mental attribution skills in non-human animals. Yet, it has been difficult to distinguish ‘mind-reading’ from behaviour-reading alternatives, specifically the use of behavioural cues and/or the application of associatively learned rules. Here I show that ravens observing an experimenter hiding food are capable of predicting the behaviour of bystanders that had been visible at both, none, or just one of two caching events. Manipulating the competitors’ visual field independently of the view of the test-subject resulted in an instant drop in performance, whereas controls for behavioural cues had no such effect. These findings indicate that ravens not only remember whom they have seen at caching but take into account that the other’s view was blocked. Notably, it does not suffice for the birds to associate specific competitors with specific caches. These results support the idea that certain socio-ecological conditions may select for similar cognitive abilities in distantly related species and that some birds have evolved analogous precursors to a human Theory-of-Mind. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] 5 PhD Positions in Animal Cognition and Communication

by Gergely Csibra

Dear colleagues, I would appreciate if you could spread this announcement (pdf attached) in your group / department / faculty / university. Many thanks in advance, Ludwig Huber 5 PhD Positions in Animal Cognition and Communication In recent years, Vienna has become an important center for behavioral and cognitive research, with a strong research focus on comparative cognitive biology. The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the University of Vienna have supported this development, by funding a multi-level, integrative PhD training programme (DK) on cognition and communication in humans and non-human animals. The goal is to train graduate students to understand cognition from a biological viewpoint, with a focus on how animals solve real-world problems, such as dealing with conspecifics in daily social life. Communication is studied as a window into social cognition, allowing us to design experiments, which test specific hypotheses developed through an innovative combination of field observations and experiments, and laboratory work on humans and other animals. The PhD positions are fully paid by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and are based at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna. It includes five faculty members (T. Bugnyar, W.T. Fitch, W. Hödl, L. Huber, K. Kotrschal) and integrates behavioral studies of multiple aspects of cognition and communication. Although cognition research traditionally tends to focus on mechanisms, this programme explicitly incorporates all four of Tinbergen’s levels of analysis (phylogeny, adaptation, causation, ontogeny). The trainees will learn to study animal and human behavior in a variety of cognitive and ethological frameworks - focused on social cognition and communication - in both the laboratory and in the field and will work with a diversity of model species including amphibians (frogs, salamanders), reptiles (tortoises, lizards), birds (pigeons, corvids, parrots), canids (wolves and dogs), humans, and nonhuman primates (squirrel monkeys, marmosets). See the following website for more information: cogcom.univie.ac.at Letters of application including CV, photograph, publication list, 2-3 letters of recommendation and a statement of research interests should be sent to Mrs. Petra Pesak, Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Applications by email are particularly welcome (petra.pesak(a)univie.ac.at). The application deadline is February 15, 2011. The University of Vienna promotes the employment of women in fields of work in which they are underrepresented and therefore encourages qualified women to apply to this opening. Disabled people will be preferentially treated if qualified. Desired qualifications A master or an equivalent in Biology or related fields Excellent knowledge of English as the programme language Field experience for specific projects (e.g. on frogs) Designing and conducting learning experiments Demonstrated aptitude for technological skills as video-/audio recording and analyses, computer programming, hormone analyses Scientific interests Animal cognition, multimodal communication, bioacoustics, learning theory, analogical reasoning, categorization, cooperation (foraging), social hunting, behavioral and vocal physiology, social knowledge, social learning, attachment / bonding, pattern perception, evolution of language and music Potential PhD Projects Conflict Management in Corvids Project 1/ Thomas Bugnyar: Dealing with conflicts is a major challenge for any socially living species. Individually based, flexibly-used skills to prevent conflicts and/or buffer their effects have been studied almost exclusively on mammals, i.e. primates. Recent findings suggest that patterns like third-party intervention, coalition formation, reconciliation and consolation may be also found in captive corvids. However, it is unclear a) to what extent different species rely on which of those strategies, b) whether or not they are based on the same cognitive mechanisms and c) how these strategies are affected by different degrees of fission-fusion dynamics. The project supervised by Thomas Bugnyar shall include an observational part, focusing on conflict management strategies of individually marked birds in wild populations of ravens and carrion crows, and an experimental part, manipulating the context (likelihood of aggression via distribution of resources) and the information accessible for bystanders (via playback of simulated encounters). Experiments shall be conducted mainly in captivity, on a total of four species (ravens, carrion crows, rooks and jackdaws). Observations shall be conducted in the area of the Cumberland Wildpark Grünau, in the Northern Austrian Alps (ravens), in the area of Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna (carrion crows) and in Leon, Spain (cooperatively breeding population of carrion crows). Project 2/ Tecumseh Fitch: A) Acoustics of Individual Displays in Ravens The trainee is supervised by Tecumseh Fitch and will conduct detailed analysis of the highly idiosyncratic and multimodal displays of adult ravens from both structural/acoustic and gestural perspectives. We will use principles of vocal production to analyze the use of source and filter components in these displays and use repeated measures analysis within birds to extract the reliability of these different cues. We will then use touch-screen experiments to explore ravens' classification of calls whose acoustic and visual properties are experimentally varied. Finally, we will perform a combined environment/genetic analysis to analyze how these different aspects of displays are driven by upbringing and by genetics, and thus how the uncovered acoustic cues may provide reliable cues to genetics, provenance, and individual identity. Or B) Mechanisms and Perception of Vocalization in Canids The trainee is supervised by Tecumseh Fitch and will start with a thorough exploration of canid vocal production (both source and filter components, cf); the second step will be construction of a dog vocal tract model and synthesizer. This tool will then be used in playback experiments to generate synthetic stimuli, to gain understanding of the various acoustics cues present in dog growls, barks, whines and howls, and how these are perceived and categorized by other listening dogs. Project 3/ Walter Hödl: Acoustic and Spatial Neighbor Recognition in Poison Frogs Based on our knowledge of call parameters carrying the potential for individual recognition (Gasser et al. 2009), play-back experiments in the field will test for a possible dear-enemy effect in the highly territorial and acoustically very active Brilliant-thighed Poison Frog. Allobates femoralis has been the main bioacoustic study object of W. Hödl, supervisor of this project, for over 20 years. Field studies will be organized in the CNRS station Pararé, Nouragues, French Guyana, where we have been working in collaboration with South American, French and US colleagues for over 20 years. A genotyped population of A. femoralis will be established on a yet unpopulated river island across the field station Pararé in 2011. This closed population will allow the study of various aspects of the population genetics, behavior and ecology of A. femoralis without disturbing effects of migration in a naturally delimited research area. Foci of the PhD-project will include adult and juvenile orientation, neighbor recognition, space use and communication while other students will analyze genetic drift, bottleneck and founder effects. In addition to field observations, A. femoralis will be kept (and bred) in the Vienna lab to study kin and individual recognition based on acoustic and visual traits. Project 4/ Ludwig Huber: Analogical reasoning in birds (keas, ravens, pigeons) One of the most controversially debated topics about animal pre-linguistic abilities is the ability of analogical reasoning (reasoning based on the inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects it is likely that they will agree in others). Until now, only language-trained animals have unequivocally shown this ability. The project supervised by Ludwig Huber, aims at elucidating the relationship between the cognitive and communicative aspects of this ability. Among birds, corvids and parrots are prime candidates for advanced cognitive abilities. For comparative avian cognition, these two groups are particularly interesting as their cognitive abilities are most likely the result of convergent evolution. These two large-brained birds shall be compared to pigeons, which have shown to be surprisingly competent in terms of picture discrimination and categorization, but less so in abstract and analogical tasks. Project 5/ Kurt Kotrschal A) The Social Components and Physiology of Cooperative Hunting in Grey Wolves Wolves elaborately cooperate over raising offspring, hunting and territorial defence. Social carnivores may indeed be superior to apes or monkeys as models for investigating the biology of cooperation. This PhD project supervised by Kurt Kotrschal would make use of a unique resource worldwide, provided by the Wolf Science Centre: more than a dozen well trained grey wolves and a number of equally raised dogs can be employed in a variety of experiments. A treadmill allows to stage experimental social hunts. Basic questions are how much energy different individuals would invest in hunting, how that affects their readiness to share food and to cooperate in other tasks after the hunt, how personality, sex, life history or social context affect investment in hunting, etc. OR B) Dog-human relationships We recently showed that the relationship between dogs and their owners and the practical operationality of dyads mainly depends on owner personality and attitude as well as dyadic sex distribution. For example, owners high in “neuroticism” (NEO-FFI-axis 1) maintained an affective relationship with their dogs, appreciating them mainly as social supporters. Their dogs showed low cortisol values, but the dyadic performance in a practical task was also low. Human-animal dyads indeed, provide model insights into the principles of long-term vertebrate dyadic relationships. ******************************************************************************************************* *ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ludwig Huber* *Department of Cognitive Biology* *Faculty of Life Sciences* *University of Vienna* *Biocenter, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria* *office +43-1-4277-76110; mobile +43-664-60277-76110; fax +43-1-4277-9761* *email: ludwig.huber(a)univie.ac.at website: cogbio.univie.ac.at* *******************************************************************************************************

15 years, 3 months

[koglist] July 18-21, 2011, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), USA (Deadline: March 10, 2011)

by WORLDCOMP'11 Congress Conferences

Dear Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would share the appended announcement with those who may be interested. Thank you - Steering Committee, ICAI ------------ CALL FOR PAPERS and Call For Workshop/Session Proposals ICAI'11 The 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA Conference Web site: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11 This is the 13th annual offering of ICAI conference. You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the ICAI conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Brain models / cognitive science O Natural language processing O Fuzzy logic and soft computing O Software tools for AI O Expert systems O Decision support systems O Automated problem solving O Knowledge discovery O Knowledge representation O Knowledge acquisition O Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques O Knowledge networks and management O Intelligent information systems O Intelligent data mining and farming O Intelligent web-based business O Intelligent agents O Intelligent networks O Intelligent databases O Intelligent user interface O AI and evolutionary algorithms O Intelligent tutoring systems O Reasoning strategies O Distributed AI algorithms and techniques O Distributed AI systems and architectures O Neural networks and applications O Heuristic searching methods O Languages and programming techniques for AI O Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming O Intelligent information fusion O Learning and adaptive sensor fusion O Search and meta-heuristics O Swarm Optimization O Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques O Integration of AI with other technologies O Evaluation of AI tools O Social intelligence (markets and computational societies) O Social impact of AI O Emerging technologies O Topics on satisfiability O Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...) O Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications: - General Machine Learning Theory . Statistical learning theory . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning . Multivariate analysis . Hierarchical learning models . Relational learning models . Bayesian methods . Meta learning . Stochastic optimization . Topics on satisfiability . Simulated annealing . Heuristic optimization techniques . Neural networks . Reinforcement learning . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning . General Learning models . Multiple hypothesis testing . Decision making . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods . Non-parametric methods . Graphical models . Gaussian graphical models . Particle filter . Cross-Entropy method . Ant colony optimization . Time series prediction . Fuzzy logic and learning . Inductive learning and applications . Grammatical inference - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques . Graph kernel and graph distance methods . Graph-based semi-supervised learning . Graph clustering . Graph learning based on graph transformations . Graph learning based on graph grammars . Graph learning based on graph matching . General theoretical aspects of graph learning . Statistical modeling of graphs . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs . Motif search . Network inference . General issues in graph and tree mining - Machine Learning Applications . Aspects of knowledge structures . Computational Finance . Computational Intelligence . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques . Induction of document grammars . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval, web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining . Latent semantic analysis . Aspects of natural language processing . Intelligent linguistic . Aspects of text technology . Computational vision . Bioinformatics and computational biology . Biostatistics . High-throughput data analysis . Biological network analysis: protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks, transcriptional regulatory networks . Graph-based models in biostatistics . Computational Neuroscience . Computational Chemistry . Computational Statistics . Systems Biology . Algebraic Biology USEFUL WEB LINKS: The DBLP list of accepted papers of ICAI 2010 is at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/icai2010.html The main web site of ICAI'11 is at: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11 ICAI'11 conference will be held simultaneously (same location and dates) with WORLDCOMP 2011 congress - WORLDCOMP 2011 congress is composed of major tracks in the following areas: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES); Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise IS, & e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems (ERSA); Embedded Systems (ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education, CS & CE (FECS); Grid Computing (GCA); Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA); Security & Management (SAM); Software Engineering (SERP); and Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS). For more information about each of the above tracks, refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: March 10, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 03, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) April 24, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'11) ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of ICAI (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA. (51607) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference. In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of ICAI 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/icai10/c… The ICAI 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science. Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor(a)world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, ICAI 2011) offering to help with. GENERAL INFORMATION: ICAI conference is a track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries. WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books. Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration (ie, ICAI), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). email your session proposal to editor(a)world-comp.org We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible (preferably before Feb. 5, 2011). NEWS: Thanks to authors and speakers of last WORLDCOMP congress and members of the editorial boards who informed us of the following good news: According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" and specific information extracted from it (in reference to WORLDCOMP's individual conferences' names/acronyms and tracks) from the link below: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/news As of January 21, 2011, papers published in IC-AI/ICAI conference proceedings have received 1,478 citations - see: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This email was sent to: koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu To opt out of this email list: http://world-comp.org/cgi-bin/rm/full.cgi?60664C74-5F75-11DE-8EB0-A907A2EBF…

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