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[koglist] Fwd: INNS-WC2012

by Professor Ron Sun

Begin forwarded message: > From: jonathan(a)sit.kmutt.ac.th > Date: February 21, 2012 2:08:40 PM EST * Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement. * Kindly forward to those who may be interested. Thanks. ********** INNS-WC 2012 - Call for Symposium Proposals ********* INNS-WC2012 : 3rd Winter Conference of the International Neural Network Society Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012 http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/ Proposals are solicited for INNS-WC2012 Symposia under the broad theme of Natural and Machine Intelligence. Each symposium will consist of both invited and contributed papers. All accepted papers will appear in the INNS-WC2012 conference proceedings in Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science. Each proposal for symposium should include the following information: * Name/Title of the Symposium * Symposium organizer and affiliation * Subject areas to be covered by the symposium * Potential authors Important Dates: Deadline for symposium proposal submission: March 31, 2012 Notification of proposal acceptance: April 15, 2012 Deadline for symposium session papers submission: May 15, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: June 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper: July 15, 2012 Proposal for symposium should be submitted in electronic form (Word or pdf) to inns(a)sit.kmutt.ac.th by March 31, 2012 ORGANIZERS - International Neural Network Society (INNS) - National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) - King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) SPONSOR - Elsevier B.V. - Procedia Computer Science Collocated Conferences ===================== - The 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2012 - www.incob2012.org) - The 3rd International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio2012 - www.csbio.org) ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President, International Neural Network Society Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: dr.ron.sun [AT] gmail.com web: http://sites.google.com/site/drronsun =======================================================

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[koglist] reminder: invitation to a talk by Aaron Lambert on`What are the prospects for a science-friendly mind-body dualism? `-21 February, 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 Aaron Lambert (University of Chicago) on `What are the prospects for a science-friendly mind-body dualism? ` Tuesday, 21 February, 2012, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT The causal completeness of the physical domain has usually been seen as a tough nut for the interactionist dualist to crack. If every physical event or state has a sufficient physical cause, i.e., if the physical domain is what I call 'minimally complete,' then the dualist is faced with what looks to be an unacceptable dilemma. Either mental events never cause any physical events at all, so interactionism is false, or mental events overdetermine the physical events they cause, so interactionism, if not exactly false, is not respectable. The dualist's usual response is to beat a retreat and reject the completeness of the physical domain. The prospects for a science-friendly dualism look dim. In this presentation I argue, first, that though completeness seems to threaten mental efficacy, denying completeness doesn't lead anywhere useful for the dualist. The solution to the problem of mental causation lies elsewhere. Second, minimal completeness is an important principle whose rejection is not be taken lightly. And third, dualists are misguided to think they need to beat a retreat in the first place, for dualists can have their cake and eat it too. Physical completeness can be left standing alongside the principle that mental events are genuine causes of physical events. There is a way of putting physical completeness and mental efficacy together that leads neither to an unsustainable tension between mental and physical causation, nor to the temptation to regard mental events as causally redundant because physical events 'already do all the work'. The prospects for a science-friendly dualism do not look so bad after all. 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] ELTE, Logika és tudományelmélet MA

by Laszlo E. Szabo

ELTE BTK Logika és tudományelmélet MA szak Filozófia, fizika, matematika, közgazdaságtan, vagy nyelvészet BA/BSc diplomával is lehet jelentkezni, még Február 24-ig! Négy fő témakörre lehet fókuszálni: Logika és matematikafilozófia A fizika filozófiája Logika a nyelvészetben Modellek a társadalomtudományokban További részletek: http://phil.elte.hu/logic/ma.html -- 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] 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 22 February (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Zsolt Kapelner Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest Esszencia és relevancia - egy antiesszencialista érv vázlata (Essence and relevance - Outlines of an anti-essentialist argument) ___________________________________ 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] 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: February 27, Monday, 12:00-13:00 Location: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép 515. *The effect of stimulus probability on visual encoding of faces and objects* *Gyula Kovács* Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Institute for Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany web: http://cogsci.bme.hu/~gkovacs/gyulakovacs/Mainpage.html ** -- 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: Phd in London

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: > From: Denis Mareschal <ubjta99(a)mail.bbk.ac.uk> > Date: 16 February 2012 9:32:25 am CET > To: Denis Mareschal <d.mareschal(a)bbk.ac.uk> > Subject: Phd in London > Reply-To: d.mareschal(a)bbk.ac.uk > > Dear Colleagues, > > Two Phd positions have come up in my lab in London. I would be grateful if you pass this on to any good potential applicants. > > Best regards, > Denis > > Marie Curie PhD positions in London > > The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development and School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, are offering 2 3-year fully funded PhD studentships to be supervised by Professor Denis Mareschal and Dr. Richard Cooper. > > The projects are part of a European Commission ITN project exploring the development of action, and action selection infancy and childhood. Although it is expected that there will be substantial interactions between the projects, they can broadly be characterized as follows: > > (1) The interplay between top-down and bottom-up constraints in the selection of action: This project will combine diverse empirical methods and possibly EMG methods to investigate how perceptual processes induce constraints in choosing an action to perform and how this interacts with decision-making processes and judgments. The successful candidate will have experience or a strong interest in working with children and toddlers. > > (2) Using reinforcement learning and internal models to map between intention and action: This project will use computational modelling and behavioural methods to explore the mechanisms underlying how learning takes place and how it interacts with internal processes related to the perception and production of intentional action. The successful candidate will be expected to have advanced computational skills. > > Mobility constraints apply. Successful applicants cannot have resided more the 12 months in the past 36 months in the UK. The position must be taken up no later than October 1st, 2012. > > > Further details can be found at: http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/mcphddevcompneuro > > > Informal enquiries can be sent to d.mareschal(a)bbk.ac.uk or r.cooper(a)bbk.ac.uk. Procedural enquiries concerning application to the Department of Psychological Sciences PhD programme should be directed to James Vallerine (j.vallerine(a)bbk.ac.uk). > -- > Professor Denis Mareschal > Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development > School of Psychology > Birkbeck College > University of London > Malet St., London > WC1E 7HX, UK > tel +44 (0)20 7079-0751/7631-6582 reception: 7631-6207 > fax +44 (0)20 7631-6312 > http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psyc/staff/academic/dmareschal > > Neuroconstructivism books: > http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198529910 > http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198529934 >

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[koglist] BBS Call for Commentary Proposals: Clark

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 end of February. 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: "Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science" Authors: Andy Clark Deadline for Commentary Proposals: March 8, 2012 Abstract: Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming sensory inputs with top-down expectations or predictions. This is achieved using a hierarchical generative model that aims to minimize prediction error within a bidirectional cascade of cortical processing. Such accounts offer a unifying model of perception and action, illuminate the functional role of attention, and may neatly capture the special contribution of cortical processing to adaptive success. The paper critically examines this 'hierarchical prediction machine' approach, concluding that it offers the best clue yet to the shape of a unified science of mind and action. Sections 1 and 2 lay out the key elements and implications of the approach. Section 3 explores a variety of pitfalls and challenges, spanning the evidential, the methodological, and the more properly conceptual. The paper ends (sections 4 and 5) by asking how such approaches might impact our more general vision of mind, experience, and agency. Keywords: Action, attention, Bayesian brain, expectation, generative model, hierarchy, perception, precision, predictive coding, prediction, prediction error, top-down Download Target Article Preprint:http://journals.cambridge.org/BBSJournal/Call/Clark_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 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 (Clark)" 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 Clark" 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 Clark" 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] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER CogSci CEU Colloquium: Feb. 15th, Social Cognition and the Origins of Language, by Thomas Scott-Phillips

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Thomas Scott-Phillips, University of Edinburgh on Social Cognition and the Origins of Language Date: Wed, February 15, 2012 - 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15 ABSTRACT: Evolutionary biologists have established the general processes by which communication systems evolve. I will present both theoretical and experimental research that shows that the evolution of sophisticated social cognition allowed humans to transcend these processes, and hence create language and other forms of ostensive communication. In particular, I will argue that the origins of widespread combinatorial communication, such as we see in languages, depends upon advanced mind-reading abilities, and therefore must have followed rather than preceded the origins of sophisticated social cognition. We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) ! CEU Department of Cognitive Science http://cogsci.ceu.hu _______________________________________________ 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] 1st NetWordS Summer School--Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exploring the Mental Lexicon

by Lukacs Agnes

http://www.networds-esf.eu/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01arti… 1st NetWordS Summer School Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exploring the Mental Lexicon Center for Advanced Academic Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia Jul 2th-6th 2012 Download summer school programme here. If you are interested in attending the summer school please pre-register here. Category: SUMMER SCHOOL The school offers a broad and intensive range of interdisciplinary courses on methodological and topical issues related to the architecture of the mental lexicon, its level of organisation, content and functioning, and a series of key-note lectures on recent advances in this area. Teachers and lectures, top scholars in their respective fields, will provide a cross-disciplinarily informed synthesis of a variety of topics and approaches, with a view to promoting interdisciplinary methods of research and assessment for grammar architecture and language physiology. The school targets doctoral students and junior researchers from as diverse fields as Cognition, Computer Science, Brain Sciences and Linguistics, with a strong motivation to advance their awareness of theoretical, typological, psycholinguistic, computational and neuro-physiological aspects of word structure and processing. The school will be able to accept up to 80 participants. Pre-registration applications will be processed in order of receipt. Priority will be given to applicants from countries which financially support the ESF Programme (contributing organisations). Registration is carried out in two steps. Step 1): applicants will have to submit the pre-registration form below. A confirmation of successful submission will immediately be sent to the email address provided in the form. Step 2): by March 15th applicants will receive a further email confirming that their application was accepted and will be asked to finalise their registration accordingly. Accomodation info: a number of affordable double and triple rooms will be made available at a convent nearby the school venue (for a total of 70 beds). The Dubrovnik University Residence also provides about 20 single rooms (49€ per day, per person), 3 double rooms (37€ per day, per person) and 7 double-bed apartments (40€ per day, per person). Other reasonable B&B accommodations are available in private houses and apartments.

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[koglist] ELTE Kognitív kurzusok

by Krajcsi Attila

*ELTE Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszék 2012 tavaszi mester és doktori kurzusai Szeretettel várunk minden külsős érdeklődőt az ELTE Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszék kurzusain. A külsős hallgatók vegyék fel a kapcsolatot az oktatóval, ha be szeretnének járni az órákra. Az oktatók elérhetősége megtalálható a honlapunkon: kognitiv.elte.hu * Kurzus címe Oktató Időpont és helyszín A figyelem modern elméletei (PhD kurzus) Kenneth Hugdahl Április 15-18. A külsős érdeklődők Ragó Anettet keressék. Emlékezeti modellek (PhD kurzus) Jean Francois Démonet Május 14-17. A külsős érdeklődők Ragó Anettet keressék. Neurokognitív változások a serdülő- és fiatal felnőttkorban (PhD kurzus) Csépe Valéria Megbeszélés szerint. A külsős érdeklődők Horváth Zsuzsát keressék. Kognitív fejlődés-pszichofiziológia (PhD kurzus) Honbolygó Ferenc Megbeszélés szerint. Programozás és kísérletvezérlés (PhD kurzus) Krajcsi Attila https://sites.google.com/site/krajcsi/Home/kurzusok/programozas-es-kiserlet… Fejezetek a kognitív pszichológia területeiről Nádasdy Zoltán Megbeszélés szerint Emlékezet elméletek és modellek Kónya Anikó Megbeszélés szerint Megismerő funkciók Czigler István Szerda, 16:30-18:00, Izu 416 Emlékezet Király Ildikó Szerda, 10:00-11:30, Izu 206 Kognitív idegtudomány Honbolygó Ferenc Kedd, 13:30-15:00, Izu 416 Fejezetek a kognitív pszichológia területeiről Horváth János Kedd, 15:00-16:30, Izu 305 Nyelv, gondolkodás, tudat Egyed Katalin Hétfő, 15:00-16:30, Izu 416 Pszicholingvisztika Szamarasz Vera Péntek, 10:00-13:00, Izu 402 Fejezetek a kognitív pszichológia területeiről Ragó Anett Csütörtök, 9:00-10:30, Izu 416 Igazságügyi fejlődéspszichológia; gyermek tanúk és gyermek áldozatok Halász Erna Szerda, 14:30-16:00, Izu 201 Neuropszichológia Albu Mónika Megbeszélés szerint További információ a tanszék honlapján (kognitiv.elte.hu) és Horváth Zsuzsától (horvath.zsuzsa(a)ppk.elte.hu).

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