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[koglist] Meghívó - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat / Invitation - BME Cognitive Seminar Series

by Attila Keresztes

We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME cognitive seminar series: Date & Time: November 22, Tuesday, 16:00-17:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *Wolfgang Klimesch*** Division of Physiological Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria *The meaning of alpha synchronization and inhibition for memory* Abstract Convergent evidence suggests that an increase in alpha amplitudes reflects inhibition. As an example, alpha is increased over the ipsilateral hemisphere in a variety of spatial attention- and working memory tasks with hemifield presentations of visual stimuli. But alpha obviously also reflects an 'active' process that can hardly be interpreted in terms of 'pure' inhibition that simply blocks information processing. As an example, an increase in evoked alpha and inter-areal phase synchronisation can be observed during access to stored memories. It is suggested that inhibition -- associated with alpha - might operate in at least two different ways. In task irrelevant and potentially competing/interfering networks, an increase in inhibition may indeed reflect the actual blocking of information processing. In task relevant neural networks, however, an increase in inhibition may improve the signal to noise ratio by silencing neurons with a comparatively low level of excitation. A variety of recent findings -- including evoked traveling alpha waves -- will be discussed that are well in line with the suggested interpretation. -- Attila Keresztes Junior Research Fellow Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. of Cognitive Science, Egry József u. 1, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel: +36 1 4633525

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[koglist] Fwd: Eötvös Loránd University Cognitive Seminar Series

by Krajcsi Attila

Dear All, The Department of Cognitive Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University cordially invites you to the next public lecture of Eötvös Loránd University Cognitive Seminar Series by Natalie Sebanz, associate professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen. ( http://somby.info/index.html) Title: Joint Action: From Planning to Coordination Date: 18. nov. 2011. 14:00-15:00 Venue: ELTE-PPK, Izabella u. 46., room 216. Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of research into the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying people's ability to perform actions together. I will present a series of studies suggesting that co-actors have a strong tendency to include each other's parts in their action planning, to monitor and predict each other's performance, and to form joint action plans that trigger group mimicry. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best regards, Linda Garami linda.garami(a)ppk.elte.hu Department of Cognitive Psychology Eötvös Loránd University

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[koglist] REMINDER: BCCCD12 Early Registration Deadline is November 15th!

by Marian Chen

Just a reminder: early bird rates for the BCCCD12 meeting to be held January 12-14, 2012 in Budapest, Hungary, will end on November 15th! Rates before November 15: Regular participants € 120 Students € 85 Rates after November 15: Regular participants € 140 Students € 100 The registration fee includes: » Admission to scientific sessions, poster, exhibition area » Conference materials » Abstract booklet » Coffee breaks » Conference Reception To register, please visit our website at: http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/

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[koglist] reminder:invitation to a workshop dedicated to the philosophical works of Prof.David Owens - November 15th

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a workshop titled `Reading Owens` Date and Location: November 15th, CEU Monument Buiding 1st floor, Gellner room The one-day workshop is dedicated to the philosophical works of Prof. David Owens (http://sites.google.com/site/davidowensphilosophy/), faculty member of the Philosophy Department at University of Reading, currently visiting professor at NYU. Presentations aim to cover all the major topics in Prof. Owens’s works, from causation to epistemic normativity, from self-knowledge to promising. Program 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11:00-11:40 Dániel Kodaj: Nomological relevance and higher-order properties 11:40-12:20 Zsuzsanna Balogh: Does the first-person concept characterise the rational animal? 12:20-14:00 Lunch break 14:00-14:40 Anna Réz: Responsibility for Believing 14:40-15:20 Anton Markoc: A New Look at Scanlon's Account of Promising 15:20-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-17:00 David Owens: Habit, Policy and Convention

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[koglist] BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: McCullough

by Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty: We are writing you to announce that BBS has just accepted an article for open peer commentary in BBS. The article was already reviewed, and we are now accepting commentary proposals. If you are interested in writing a commentary, you are welcome to submit a short proposal (see instructions below). No action is required if you aren't interested. Please DO NOT submit a full commentary article unless you are formally invited---AFTER you submit a commentary *proposal*. We will review all commentary proposals and issue invitations around the middle of December. Also, please be aware that we typically receive far more commentary proposals than we can accommodate with formal invitations. When choosing invitations, we balance over multiple factors, including the interest of the commentary itself, the commentator's expertise, whether the commentator's work has been discussed in the target article, and other considerations. NOW PROCESSING COMMENTARY PROPOSALS ON: Target Article: "Cognitive Systems for Revenge and Forgiveness" Authors: Michael E. McCullough, Robert Kurzban, and Benjamin A. Tabak Deadline for Commentary Proposals: November 29, 2011 Abstract: Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our ancestors regularly faced such adaptive problems (including homicide, bodily harm, theft, mate poaching, cuckoldry, reputational damage, sexual aggression, and the infliction of these costs on one's offspring, mates, coalition partners, or friends). One solution to this problem is to impose retaliatory costs on an aggressor so that the aggressor and other observers will lower their estimates of the net benefits to be gained from exploiting the retaliator in the future. We posit that humans have an evolved cognitive system that implements this strategy?deterrence?which we conceptualize as a revenge system. The revenge system produces a second adaptive problem: losing downstream gains from the individual on whom retaliatory costs have been imposed. We posit, consequently, a subsidiary computational system designed to restore particular relationships after cost-imposing interactions by inhibiting revenge and motivating behaviors that signal benevolence for the harmdoer. The operation of these systems depends on estimating the risk of future exploitation by the harmdoer and the expected future value of the relationship with the harmdoer. We review empirical evidence regarding the operation of these systems, discuss the causes of cultural and individual differences in their outputs, and sketch their computational architecture. Keywords: adaptationism, aggression, computation, conflict, cost/benefit analysis, evolution, evolutionary psychology, forgiveness, function, punishment, reconciliation, social relationships, revenge, violence, social psychology Download Target Article Preprint:http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Call/McCullough_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. To suggest others as possible Commentators, or to nominate others for BBS Associateship status, please email bbsjournal(a)cambridge.org. http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Inst/Assoc HOW TO SUBMIT A COMMENTARY PROPOSAL If you would like to nominate yourself for potential commentary invitation, you must submit a Commentary Proposal via our BBS Editorial Manager site: 1. Log-in as Author Username: CQwerty-545 Password: Qwerty875632 Log-in to your BBS Editorial Manager account as an author: http://www.editorialmanager.com/bbs If you do not have an account, please visit the site and register. You can also submit a request for missing username and password information if you have an existing account. 2. Submit New Manuscript Within your author main menu please select Submit New Manuscript. 3. Select Article Type Choose the article type of your manuscript from the pull-down menu. Commentary Proposal article types are temporarily created for each accepted target article or book. Only select the Commentary Proposal article type that you wish to submit a proposal on. For example: "Commentary Proposal (McCullough)" 4. Enter Title Please title your proposal submission by indicating the relevant first author name of the target article or book. For example: "Commentary Proposal on McCullough" 5. Add Co-Authors If you are proposing to write a commentary with any co-authors, the system will not allow you to enter their information here. Instead, include their names in the commentary proposal document you upload. These potential co-authors need not contribute to the Commentary Proposal itself. 6. Attach Files The only required submission Item is your Commentary Proposal in MSWord or RTF format. In the Description field please add the first author name of the target article or book. For example: "Commentary Proposal on McCullough" 7. Approve Your Submission Editorial Manager will process your Commentary Proposal submission and will create a PDF for your approval. On the "Submissions Waiting for Author's Approval" page, you can view your PDF, edit, approve, or remove the submission. (You might have to wait several minutes for the blue "Action" menu to appear, allowing you to approve. Once you have Approved the Submission, the PDF will be sent to the editorial office. **It is VERY important that you check and approve your Commentary Proposal manuscript as described above. Otherwise, we cannot process your submission.** 8. Editorial Office Decision At the conclusion of the Commentary Proposal period, the editors will review all the submitted Commentary Proposals. An undetermined number of Commentary Proposals will be approved and those author names will be added to the final commentary invitation list. At that time you will be notified of the decision. If you are formally invited to submit a commentary, you will be asked to confirm your intention to submit by the commentary deadline. Note: Before the commentary invitations are sent, the copy-edited and revised target article will be posted for invitees. In the case of Multiple Book Review, invitees will be sent a copy of the book to be commented upon if requested. With Multiple Book Reviews, it is the book, not the précis article that is the target of commentary. Please do not write a commentary unless you have received an official invitation! BEING REMOVED FROM THE CALL EMAIL LIST If you DO NOT wish to receive Call for Commentary Proposals in the future, please reply to bbsjournal(a)cambridge.org, and type "remove" in the subject line. Regards, Gennifer Levey Managing Editor, BBS Cambridge University Press bbsjournal(a)cambridge.org http://journals.cambridge.org/bbs http://bbs.edmgr.com/

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[koglist] postdocs

by Anne Tamm

3 (RENEWABLE) 2-YEAR POST-DOC POSITIONS AVAILABLE The CIMeC-CLIC laboratory of the University of Trento, an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both computational and cognitive methods (clic.cimec.unitn.it) announces the availability of at least 3 (renewable) 2-year Post-Doc positions. The scholarships are funded by a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to the COMPOSES (COMPositional Operations in SEmantic SPACE) project (clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes), that aims at modeling composition in distributional semantics. The project is expected to have strong impact on both theoretical and computational semantics, as well as their cognitive underpinnings. * Desired Profiles * Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek brilliant researchers with any of the following backgrounds: - Machine learning (areas of special interest: regression, regularization methods, hierarchical regression, autoencoders, curriculum learning, scaling machine learning to large multivariate and multi-level problems, dealing with very sparse data); - Psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics or cognitive science (areas of special interest: systematic judgment elicitation methods such as Likert scales or magnitude estimation, crowdsourcing, semantic processing); - Formal and/or computational semantics (areas of special interest: Montague Grammar and its derivatives, distributional semantics) Advanced programming and mathematical skills are required of candidates from machine learning. Linguists and cognitive scientists must possess at least basic programming skills and a reasonable knowledge of statistics. If you think that your background is relevant to the research program outlined on the project website (clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes) and you have good programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch even if you do not fit any of the profiles above. All researchers are expected to have an interest in working in an interdisciplinary environment. * The Research Environment * The CLIC lab (clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of Trento's Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC, http://www.unitn.it/en/cimec), an English-speaking, interdisciplinary center for research in brain and cognition whose staff includes neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists, computer scientists and physicists. CLIC consists of researchers from the Departments of Computer Science (DISI) and Cognitive Science (DISCoF) carrying out research on a range of topics including concept acquisition, corpus-based computational semantics, combining NLP and computer vision, combining brain and corpus data to study cognition, formal semantics and theoretical linguistics. Modeling composition in distributional semantics is increasingly a focus point of CLIC, and activity in this area will grow considerably thanks to COMPOSES funds. CLIC is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on Natural Language Processing and related domains in the Trento region, that is quickly becoming one of the areas with the highest concentration of researchers in NLP and related fields anywhere in Europe. The CLIC/CIMeC laboratories are located in beautiful Rovereto, a lively town in the middle of the Alps, famous for its contemporary art museum, the quality of its wine, and the range of outdoors sport and relax opportunities it offers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovereto * Application Information * For further information, please send an expression of interest to marco.baroni(a)unitn.it, attaching a CV. Positions are available immediately and open until filled. -- Marco Baroni Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) University of Trento http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/marco

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[koglist] invitation to a workshop on` Freedom of the Will: A Conditional Analysis` by Ferenc Huoranszki - November 16th

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a workshop Are We Free After All? Reading Huoranszki Date and Location: November 16th, CEU Monument Buiding 1st floor, Gellner room The one-day workshop is dedicated to Freedom of the Will: A Conditional Analysis (Routledge 2010), a recently launched monograph by Prof. Ferenc Huoranszki, faculty member of the Department of Philosophy. During the workshop we discuss and critically analyze the main theses of the book chapter by chapter. Program 09:00-09:50 Introduction — Ferenc Huoranszki (CEU) 09:50-10:00 Coffee break 10:00-10:40 Chapter 2 – Gábor Bács (KE) 10:40-11:20 Chapter 3 — Anna Réz (CEU) 11:20-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:10 Chapter 4 — Zsófia Zvolenszky (ELTE) 12:10-12:50 Chapter 4 — Howard Robinson (CEU) 12:50-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:10 Chapter 6 — Eric Brown (CEU) 15:10-15:50 Chapter 7 — Judit Szalai (ELTE) 15:50-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-16:40 Chapter 8 — András Szigeti (CEU) 16:40-17:20 Chapter 9 — Stefaan Cuypers (KU Leuven) 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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[koglist] Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020 (fwd)

by Kenesei Istvan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:42:08 +0100 From: secretariat allea <secretariat(a)allea.org> To: secretariat allea <secretariat(a)allea.org> Subject: Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020 Dear colleagues, With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation (http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/), alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) contribute to address Europe's and the world's Grand Societal Challenges. In view of legislative decisions to be taken on the next 100-Billion-worth EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the letter stresses the necessity for a varied and strong research programme in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH): it argues that neglecting such potential contributions as SSH research has to make risks undermining the EU strategy to develop innovative, inclusive and sustainable societies. Yet, there still is a distinct danger of insufficient funding in Horizon 2020 for research areas such as cultural change, demography, education, the economy and globalisation, identity politics and social cohesion, and many others. For background information on these matters see: http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/ The Open Letter initiative has grown out of deliberations among a number of European umbrella organisations in the area of SSH, and seeks to bring to the attention of the European Commission and national governments the concerns of the largest research community in Europe. If you agree, that a substantial and independent SSH-centered research programme should be included in all future European Framework Programmes, we invite you to sign the Open Letter online at http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/. Please also kindly circulate this invitation to sign among your institutions, and across your networks and subject associations. First results of this initiative will be presented to Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn on 10 November 2011. We hope to be able to point to a high number of signatures as an expression of a groundswell of support and concern among SSH communities. The collection of signatures will, however, continue after this specific date, as the legislative decision process will last for longer. Thank you in advance for signing and for supporting this initiative. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: SSH-letter(a)net4society.eu<mailto:SSH-letter@net4society.eu>. On behalf of the Inter-agency Task Group on SSH in Europe, Dr Ruediger Klein Executive Director European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) P.O.Box 19121, 1000GC Amsterdam c/o KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011JV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel.: +31-20-5510-722 (secretariat: -754) ruediger.klein(a)allea.org<mailto:ruediger.klein@allea.org>

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[koglist] invitation to a workshop dedicated to the philosophical works of Prof.David Owens - November 15th

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a workshop titled `Reading Owens` Date and Location: November 15th, CEU Monument Buiding 1st floor, Gellner room The one-day workshop is dedicated to the philosophical works of Prof. David Owens (http://sites.google.com/site/davidowensphilosophy/), faculty member of the Philosophy Department at University of Reading, currently visiting professor at NYU. Presentations aim to cover all the major topics in Prof. Owens’s works, from causation to epistemic normativity, from self-knowledge to promising. Program 11:00-11:40 Anton Markoc: A New Look at Scanlon’s Account of Promissory Obligations 11:40-12:20 Zsuzsanna Balogh: Does the first-person concept characterise the rational animal? 12:20-14:00 Lunch break 14:00-14:40 Anna Réz: Responsibility for Believing 14:40-15:20 Dániel Kodaj: Nomological relevance and higher-order properties 15:20-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-17:00 David Owens: Habit, Policy and Convention

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[koglist] reminder: invitation to a talk on `Aristotle on Defining the Forms of Material Objects`by Alan Code - 8 November, 4.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) cordially invite you to a talk (as part of the Philosophy Departmental Colloquium series and the 7th Colloquium Series of the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies) by Alan Code (Stanford University) on `Aristotle on Defining the Forms of Material Objects` Tuesday, 8 November, 2011, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT This paper explores Aristotle`s account of the scientific definitions of material objects, and the way in which these definitions are responsive to their material constitution. For Aristotle, natural substances, such as plants and animals, are composites of matter and form. In Physics II.1 and Metaphysics VI.1 he advocates a view according to which the definitions of such composites must somehow contain a reference to perceptible matter. However, in Metaphysics VII.10-11 he argues that the definition of a sensible substance is an account of just its form, and its material parts are not parts of this form. Nonetheless, reference to material parts of some sort is required even for the specification of the form. 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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