koglist May 2011

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, David Such

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 11 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Dávid Such Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Fenomenális fogalmak és antifizikalista érvek (Phenomenal concepts and anti-physicalist arguments) ___________________________________ 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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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] ANNOUNCEMENT: CDC Seminar, Dan Swingley, Wednesday, May 11, 2011

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Dan Swingley, University of Pennsylvania Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor *Category Learning and Speech Interpretation in Early Language Development * Abstract: It is usually assumed that the development of speech perception works like this: first, infants use distributional clustering to learn the consonants and vowels of their language; then, young children use these sounds to recognize and distinguish words. On this account, distributional learning in infancy solves the problem of phonological interpretation in learning words. I will argue on the contrary that infants may use words to learn speech sounds, and that this learning does not itself cause mature phonological interpretation. This proposal suggests new ways to consider the interrelation of word learning and phonological learning in infancy. _______________________________________________ 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

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[koglist] Emlékeztető - Luca Turin - BME - Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

A BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék szeretettel vár mindenkit tanszéki szemináriumsorozatának május 6-ai előadására: date: Friday, May 6, 15:00 location: Stoczek utca 2. St. ep. 320. 1111, Budapest, Hungary *Luca Turin* Fleming Institute, Athens, Greece turin(a)fleming.gr <mailto:turin@mit.edu> *Is smell a quantum phenomenon ?* Our sense of smell is a extraordinarily good at molecular recognition: we can identify tens of thousands of odorants unerringly over a wide concentration range. The mechanism by which this happens do so is still hotly debated. One view is that molecular shape governs smell, but this notion has turned out to have very little predictive power. Some years ago I revived a discredited theory that posits instead that the nose is a vibrational spectroscope, and proposed a possible underlying mechanism, inelastic electron tunneling. In my talk I will review the history and salient facts of this problem and describe some recent experiments that go some way towards settling the question. BBC on Turin's work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12827893 Luca Turin's TED profile: http://www.ted.com/speakers/luca_turin.html

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[koglist] ERNI-HSF Workshop on "The developing brain: perspectives from typical and atypical development"

by Bankó Éva

ERNI-HSF Workshop "The developing brain: perspectives from typical and atypical development." Granada, Spain 15-17. september 2011. http://erni-hsf.eu/granada2011/index.html

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[koglist] Call for posters: Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture

by Tamas Biro

Kedves Kollegak, Hadd osszam meg az alabbi felhivast a lista olvasoival. Ha valaki tud olyanrol, akit erdekelne, terjessze batran. Udvozlettel, Biro Tamas Call for Participation and Call for Posters: ============================================ Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture Workshop held at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 20, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts Short Summary: ============== Optimality Theory has been a very popular approach to linguistic phenomena, but how does it relate to (higher) cognition in general? Twenty-five years after the publication of Harmony Theory (Smolensky, 1986), and five years after The Harmonic Mind (Smolensky and Legendre, 2006), this half-day workshop at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society offers an opportunity to discuss the place of OT (and HG, and the ICS Architecture) within the cognitive sciences at large, as well as applications of OT to domains beyond linguistics. Longer description and Call for Posters: ======================================== Organizers: Tamas Biro and Judit Gervain Website: http://www.birot.hu/events/OTGCA/. Harmony Theory (Smolensky, 1986), introduced exactly 25 years ago, became one of the most popular current approaches to linguistics in the form of Optimality Theory (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993). While most people in the OT camp focus on particular linguistic problems, the underlying motivations of the theory warrant a constant connection between OT and the (computational) cognitive sciences. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the place of Optimality Theory (and related approaches: Harmony Grammar and the ICS Architecture) within the cognitive sciences at large. In The Harmonic Mind (2006), Smolensky and Legendre repeatedly allude to the possibility of applying their ICS Architecture to a broad spectrum of domains in (higher) cognition, while maintaining the connection between higher (abstract) level description and lower (neural) level processing. At the same time, some scholars have already adopted Optimality Theory to specific, non-linguistic phenomena, including culture and ethical decision making. Thirdly, experimental and computational OT research often tackle issues that fit nicely into the cognitive psychological tradition, thereby building new bridges between linguistics and other cognitive domains. Yet, it is sad to see the lack of opportunities for scholars working on OT as a general cognitive architecture to share their ideas. Even less collaboration is going on between the OT-camp and those employing utility function-based models in computational biology, psychology or economics. Therefore, the workshop offers a meeting point to those applying OT to non-linguistic domains, as well as an opportunity to discuss the place of OT, HG and ICS within the cognitive sciences. The half-day-long workshop consists of a key-note address by Paul Smolensky, as well as by papers delivered by Petra Hendriks, Lotte Hogeweg, Doug Jones, Geraldine Legendre and Giorgio Magri. Additionally, the workshop will also feature a poster session. We thus seek posters describing new results and addressing, primarily, though not exclusively, the following issues: * Optimality Theory and Harmony Grammar as general frameworks of (higher) cognition. * OT/HG-style analyses of phenomena belonging to (primarily, non-linguistic) domains that have not yet employed OT. * The connection of linguistic OT/HG to the study of other (higher) cognitive functions. * OT compared to HG, from theoretical-mathematical and cognitive-neuroscientific perspectives. * OT/HG-style formalisms compared to utility function-based approaches from a mathematical-computational perspective; their place in explaining the brain/mind. * Relating connectionist and symbolic approaches: the ICS Architecture and its eventual alternatives. * Ontogenetic aspects of OT/HG approaches (learnability). * Phylogenetic aspects of OT/HG approaches (including historical change, evolutionary models, etc.). 1-page-long abstracts are solicited by May 20, to be sent to Tamas Biro (t.s.biro(a)uva.nl). Notification of acceptance is due by May 31. Further information, including a longer description of the workshop is getting gradually available on the website of the workshop: http://www.birot.hu/events/OTGCA/. And a final note: One of the aims of the workshop is to gauge ongoing work and eventual interest in using OT beyond linguistics, either in other domains, or as a general cognitive architecture. Therefore, if you cannot join us in Boston for whatever reason, but you are nevertheless interested in contributing to the theme of the workshop, for instance in the form of a paper in an eventual volume coming out of the meeting, then you are still extremely welcome to contact us.

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[koglist] Emlékeztető: Kognitív Péntek

by Linda Garami

Kedves Érdeklődők, Emlékeztetőül az ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszékének következő Kognitív Péntek rendezvényére 2 nap múlva kerül sor: *Tompa Tamás: Az agy képei* Időpont: 2011. május 6. 14:00-15:00 Helyszín: ELTE-PPK Pszichológia Intézet, Izabella u. 46., 216. terem Absztrakt: https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek Ebben a tanévben ezen kívül még egy előadásra kerül sor: május 20-án Téglás Ernő lesz vendégünk. Előadásának címe: * *A kontingens reakciók észlelése és értelmezései csecsemőkorban. Szeretettel várunk Mindenkit! Üdvözlettel: Garami Linda ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar - Sara Baker, THURSDAY, May 5, 5PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by Sara Baker, University of Salford Date: THURSDAY, May 5th, 5 PM (Please note this talk is on a different day than usual!) Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor Individual differences in the expression of folk physical and folk psychological knowledge Abstract: Theories of cognitive development have moved away from the “one-stop shop” view, according to which a single developmental mechanism is responsible for change, and towards a “toolkit” view, whereby domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms interact to produce the behavior we observe. Still, a large amount of variability in cognitive development is not accounted for either in our methods or in our theories. Individual differences continue to represent a great challenge for the scientific study of developmental change. In this talk I will describe experiments which put both intra- and inter-individual variability at centre-stage. Drawing on examples from folk physics and folk psychology in 2- to 15-year-old children, I will discuss some ways in which individual differences contribute to our understanding of cognitive development. _______________________________________________ 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

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