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[koglist] reminder: invitation to a talk by Nenad Miscevic on `COLOR: SNAPSHOT OR PHOTOSHOP?`- 30 October, 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Nenad Miscevic (CEU / University of Maribor) on COLOR: SNAPSHOT OR PHOTOSHOP? Tuesday, 30 October, 2012, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Where does usefulness of color perception come from? I want to argue that what enables us to talk about the usefulness of ‘detecting’ red is the unity bestowed by the response (the ‘visaging’ of phenomenal redness). It is the relational, response-dependent usefulness, response-usefulness for short. I shall also discuss the opposite view of Mohan Matthen who derives reality of color from the usefulness of color recognition, rather than usefulness from its reality.

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[koglist] Fwd: CFA: PLM Masterclass "Communication, Culture and Cognition" with Dan Sperber

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: > > From: esap-news(a)yahoogroups.com [esap-news(a)yahoogroups.com] on behalf of Marie Guillot [marie.guillot(a)gmail.com] > Sent: 25 October 2012 13:18 > To: esap-news(a)yahoogroups.com > Subject: [esap-news] REMINDER CFA - PLM Masterclass "Communication, Culture and Cognition" with Dan Sperber > > > > > 1st PLM Masterclass > Communication, Culture and Cognition > with, and around the work of, Dan Sperber > Paris, 10-11 December 2012 > > > REMINDER: > CALL FOR APPLICATIONS > > Postgraduates are invited to apply for the first PLM Masterclass, to be held at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, on December 10-11, 2012. The Masterclass will be led by Professor Dan Sperber (IJN/CEU-Budapest). > > PLM (Philosophy of Language and Mind) is a network of philosophical centres, institutes, and departments in Europe. Besides Institut Jean-Nicod, the network includes Arché (St Andrews), the Department of Philosophy of CEU (Budapest), CLLAM (Stockholm), CSMN (Oslo), ILCLI (San Sebastian), ILLC (Amsterdam), the Institute of Philosophy (London), the Institute of Philosophy II (Bochum), LOGOS (Barcelona), and NIP (Aberdeen). The purpose of the network is to further philosophy of mind and language and to provide a platform for cooperation between members, primarily in research, but also in research training. > > > This first PLM Masterclass will offer a dozen research students the opportunity to present their work in a collaborative and friendly atmosphere under the supervision of a leading academic in their field. The Masterclass will give every participant the chance to exchange with the ‘master’ who will respond to the presentations. Pr. Dan Sperber will also present some of his current research. > Following the Masterclass, an international conference in honour of Dan Sperber will be held, with the participation of leading figures in the areas relevant to Sperber’s work: philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and linguistics. Masterclass participants are invited to attend the conference (Paris, December 12-15). > > Participation in the Masterclass (and the conference) will be free of charge, however students will have to support their own accommodation and living expenses. > > If you would like to be considered for a place, please send a CV to plm.masterclass(a)gmail.com, along with a brief (up to one page) description of your research and how you hope to contribute to and benefit from the Masterclass. Priority will be given to European students. The deadline for applying is October, 31st, 2012. Please feel free to email requests for further information or to visit the PLM website at http://langmind.eu/. > > > > > *** > Marie Guillot > CNRS post-doctoral researcher > Institut Jean Nicod, CPR team > Pavillon-Jardin, Ecole Normale Supérieure > 29 rue d’Ulm > 75005 Paris, France > plm.masterclass(a)gmail.com

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[koglist] Reminder - BME Cognitive Seminar Series / Emlékeztető - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

We cordially invite you to the next lecture of the BME Cognitive Seminar Series: Date & Time: October 29, Monday, 12:00-13:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *Sensory noise processing in the human brain: insights from object recognition studies on healthy and amblyopic subjects* *Bankó Éva* Information Technology Department, Pázmány Péter Catholic University Neurobionics Research Lab http://vision.itk.ppke.hu/ Personal webpage: http://digitus.itk.ppke.hu/~banko/ <http://digitus.itk.ppke.hu/%7Ebanko/> Abstract Human visual object recognition is fast and efficient when viewing conditions are good. However, under low visibility conditions the visual system must recruit additional processing resources to handle the noisy and deteriorated visual images, thus object recognition becomes more effortful. Even though this is often the case, little is known about the neural mechanisms engaged in processing of noisy images. This is even more important since adding noise to images is widely used in decision-making studies to modulate task difficulty while not taking into account the confound introduced by the increased sensory processing demands. In a series of experiments on healthy and amblyopic subjects we have pinned down both in time and space the active processes associated with sensory noise processing using faces with decreased phase-coherence. Namely, phase noise affects the electrophysiological responses in the first 300 ms following stimulus onset that is unrelated to changes in task-difficulty; most importantly, there is an increase in the ERP single-trial (i.e. true) response amplitudes between 200 - 300 ms after stimulus onset -- involving the P2 component -- the noise-modulation of which is diminished in amblyopia. This amblyopic deficit measured on the P2 component predicted the severity of the noise-related behavioral impairments and could not be explained by an overall increase in stimulus uncertainty or task difficulty in the case of noisy stimuli, which have been also proposed previously as explanations of the noise-related ERP changes. On the other hand, the noise-modulation of the N170 component of the ERP responses -- reflecting structural processing of face images -- was similarly affected by the presence of noise in the amblyopic and the fellow eye of amblyopes, suggesting that the noise-induced decrease of the N170 could simply be due to the decrease in the face content of the images. Furthermore, we also showed that processing of phase randomized as compared to intact faces is associated with increased fMRI responses in specific areas of the lateral occipital cortex. These results suggest that efficient processing of noisy images depends on the engagement of visual cortical mechanisms that take place after the early structural processing of visual objects has been completed and is reflected in the P2 component of the ERP response sand most likely localized to a retinotopic part of the lateral occipital cortex that has been implicated in grouping and image segmentation. -- 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] Fw: Sign the Petition - and invite others to join!

by Csaba Pléh

Dear ESCOP members, as described in the following email, there are serious threats of significant cuts on research funds in the next EU budget. Different actions have been taken in an effort to oppose to these cuts. I strongly encourage you to carefully read the rest of the message and do as much as you can to support these initiatives (including signing the petition). Best regards Nuria Sebastian Galles Please sign this petition and forward it to your colleagues for signature: http://www.no-cuts-on-research.eu Dear colleagues, The discussions at and around the next summit of the European Union heads of states and governments, which is scheduled for 22 and 23 November, will be decisive in determining the EU research budget for the next seven years. Several Member States are demanding severe cuts on the total EU budget and research will have to compete with other policy priorities. This is a time when we, the scientific community, should act together and make our case to protect research funding, including that of the European Research Council (ERC), from cuts. Decisions will be prepared in discussions among politicians at the national level. All of us must look for opportunities to affect these decisions and send a strong signal to the Heads of State or Government. An open letter signed by European Nobel laureates has been published in top European newspapers this week. The impact of this letter will be increased if it is followed by a mobilization of the national scientific communities. I suggest we support these initiatives, for example, in the following ways: • speak at events we may be attending to make the case for the ERC and the budget for Horizon2020 • use contacts that we or our colleagues may have in political parties or in the media to inform and mobilise our communities and others • ask the leaders of any professional society to which we belong to bring this call to action to the attention of the society’s members. An online petition has been launched to keep the momentum going: http://www.no-cuts-on-research.eu I would like to ask you to sign it and to encourage your research group members and colleagues to do likewise. Note that in the past less than 30 000 scientists signed the largest petition for a scientific cause in Europe compared to the hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions from other groups of society. We must do better than that. Please contact Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner, Executive Coordinator of the ISE (ise(a)i-se.org), if you have any questions or suggestions. We would be interested to hear about any actions you take, and in particular, any reactions you hear from politicians and policy makers. Best regards, Maria Leptin President, ISE Director EMBO - excellence in life sciences Meyerhofstr. 1 69117 Heidelberg, Germany tel +49-6221-8891-102 fax +49-6221-8891-202 maria.leptin(a)embo.org

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[koglist] reminder: MISTAKES IN POLITICS: Public Lecture by ALAN RYAN--5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 25.

by Krisztina Biber

The Department of Philosophy & the Provost Office at CEU cordially invite you to a public lecture by ALAN RYAN Princeton University on MISTAKES IN POLITICS at 17:30 on Thursday, October 25, 2012 CEU-Auditorium, 1051 Bp., Nádor u. 9. There is a large, and to many people alarming, body of literature on the erroneous views of the ordinary voter; not only do most voters hold many views that are strikingly at odds with the facts, they resist information that tends to overturn these views, and where they do not, they re-adopt their false views more or less quickly. This poses an obvious problem for democratic politics: if politicians are responsive to the (erroneous) views of the electorate, will they not be forced to pursue irrational and counter-productive policies, both domestically or internationally; they are not responsive to the views of the electorate, do they not lack democratic credibility? Many writers believe that there are structural features of – modern rather than ‘Athenian’ – democracy that dissolve this problem, and the democracy functions ‘in spite of itself.’ The lecture will argue that this is unduly optimistic, and that there is too much room for the interested manufacture of erroneous opinions by elites, whether benign, malign, or simply trying to maintain their economic advantages, to give us many grounds for cheerfulness about contemporary democratic politics. Alan Ryan was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and taught politics at New College, and as a visiting professor at Hunter College, CUNY, The University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Texas at Austin and UC Santa Cruz. From 1988 to 1996 he was Professor of Politics at Princeton, and one of the founding faculty of the UCHV. After completing thirteen years as head of New College, Oxford, he returned to Princeton in 2009 and now serves as the Director of the undergraduate program on Values in Public Life. Kind regards, Zsuzsanna Bajó Assistant Office of Provost & the Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs Central European University H-1051 Budapest, Nador u. 9. Tel.: (+ 36 1) 327 3000/2188 Fax: (+ 36 1) 327 3007 ( tel:%28%2B%2036%201%29%20327%203007 ) E-mail: bajozs(a)ceu.hu ( mailto:bajozs@ceu.hu ) Web: www.ceu.hu

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[koglist] invitation to a talk by Nenad Miscevic on `COLOR: SNAPSHOT OR PHOTOSHOP?`- 30 October, 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

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[koglist] Fwd: Fwd: [pst] Hannover

by Anett Rago

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: [pst] Hannover Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:01:41 +0200 From: Óturai Gabriella <Oturai(a)psych.uni-frankfurt.de> To: Anett Ragó <rago(a)cogpsyphy.hu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bettina Frenz <bfrenz(a)uni-potsdam.de> Date: 2012/10/22 Subject: [pst] Hannover To: Multiple recipients of Psychologie-Stellen <psychologie-stellen(a)psych.uni-potsdam.de> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, in einem Forschungsprojekt im Rahmen der BMBF-Forschungsinitiative Sprachdiagnostik und Sprachförderung sind an der Leibniz Universität Hannover zum 01.01.2012 zwei 50%-Stellen für wiss. Mitarbeiter/innen zu besetzen (Laufzeit 3 Jahre). Bitte machen Sie geeignete Absolvent/inn/en darauf aufmerksam. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Joachim Grabowski --- Zu dieser Meldung koennen Sie einen Anhang direkt von der Website der DGPs laden. Klicken Sie dazu die nachfolgende Internetadresse an, bzw. laden Sie diese Adresse in Ihrem Webbrowser. http://www.dgps.de/view.php?id=5pJkev --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese Nachricht kommt von Mailingsliste Psychologie-Stellen http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/lists/psychologie-stellen/ Fragen? Probleme? Email listmaster(a)psych.uni-potsdam.de

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[koglist] Studentships in Cognitive Science at CEU

by Gergely Csibra

PhD studentships are available for the doctoral program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU). The Department of Cognitive Science at CEU invites applications for doctoral student positions starting in September 2013. This is a research-based training program in human cognition with social cognition and learning as core themes. Research topics include cooperation, communication, social learning, cultural transmission, embodied cognition, joint action, cognitive development, strategic decision-making, problem solving, visual cognition, sensory and statistical learning, visual psychophysics, computational neuroscience, and social cognitive neuroscience. Students will follow courses in cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive anthropology, computational cognition and linguistics, and will receive practical research training in the laboratories of the members of this new department. Faculty includes Gergely CSIBRA (cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience) József FISER (visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning) György GERGELY (infant cognition, developmental psychopathology) Christophe HEINTZ (culture and cognition, scientific cognition, behavioral economics) Guenther KNOBLICH (embodied cognition and social cognition, problem solving) Ágnes M. KOVACS (development of social cognition, theory of mind, mental representations) Máté LENGYEL (computational neuroscience, learning and memory) Natalie SEBANZ (social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience) Dan SPERBER (culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution) Anne TAMM (theories of language, linguistic diversity) Applicants are expected to hold an internationally recognized Master’s or comparable degree in the standard disciplines that constitute cognitive science. A comparable degree in other Social Sciences, Humanities, or other disciplines will also be considered in case of an excellent academic record. We will consider the applications of exceptional students who only hold a Bachelor degree, provided it is in a discipline closely associated to cognitive science. For further details see http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/Admission We encourage applicants to consult the website and approach appropriate members of the faculty in advance in order to check the suitability of their research plans. ---- CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a graduate research-intensive university located in Budapest, Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU enrolls more than 1500 students from more than 100 countries in its master's and doctoral programs. The teaching staff consists of more than 130 resident faculty from over 30 countries, and prominent visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction is English.

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Zsolt Kapelner

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 24 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Zsolt Kapelner Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest A more radical translation ___________________________________ 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] MISTAKES IN POLITICS: Public Lecture by ALAN RYAN--5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 25.

by Krisztina Biber

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