PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early
to ensure you get a seat. The talk will begin promptly at 5.
The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:
Jukka Leppanen, University of Tampere
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
*The 7-month transition in attention to social signals of emotion*
Cross-species evidence suggests that the onset of locomotion and
explorations away from the mother early in life is associated with
functional maturation of emotion-related neural circuitry and behavioral
sensitivity to danger-alerting cues. In human infants, these developmental
changes in emotion-processing may occur during the second half of the first
year when infants begin to exhibit preferential attention to social signals
of fear. My talk will discuss this argument by reviewing i) studies
examining the neural bases and nature of infants' attentional bias towards
social signals of fear; ii) studies that have begun to link genetic
variations in brain function with fear-processing in human infants; and
iii) preliminary data suggesting that individual variations in early
perceptual biases towards emotional cues may be relevant for predicting
typical and atypical emotional traits later in life.
*
*
*Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events*
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> From: "Ghislaine Dehaene" <gdehaene(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 23 April 2012 12:48:16 pm CEST
> Subject: Postdoctoral Position to work on infant consiousness in Paris
>
> Dear Friends
>
> Can you spread this announcement among your students and collaborators? If anyone is interested to come to Paris and work on infant’s electrophysiological data, there is a lot to do!
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
> Unité INSERM 992 "Neuroimagerie Cognitive"
> http://www.unicog.org/ Kids' lab
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> POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ON EARLY FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS IN THE HUMAN INFANT BRAIN AND THEIR RELATION TO CONSIOUSNESS
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> Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position supervised by Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz to study the organization of the early functional networks in the human infant brain and their relation to consciousness using EEG/MEG. The team is part of INSERM ‘Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit' (http://www.unicog.org, director : Stanislas Dehaene) at NeuroSpin (director : Denis LeBihan) in the greater Paris region. NeuroSpin is an outstanding interdisciplinary research environment that houses several research laboratories and combines expertise in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, magneto-electrophysiology, high field MR imaging and imaging data analysis. The project is part of an European community project to study consciousness in adults, monkeys, infants and comatose patients. The postdoc will program and analyse EEG experiments (subliminal presentation, stimulus collision, etc..) and discuss the results with the other teams involved. Applicants should have a PhD degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, or in Mathematics, Physics. Prior experience with EEG/MEG analysis or signal processing is valued. The position is funded for one to three years, and should be started during autumn 2012. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. For further information or to submit an application (including the names of two referees) please contact Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, email: ghislaine.dehaene(a)cea.fr
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During his talk this week, Rob Kail mentioned that he would check the statistics on submissions to Psychological Science from Hungary. A “submission from Hungary” is one in which the corresponding author lists his or her institutional address as being from within Hungary. Here’s what he found.
In the last two years (2010, 2011), there were 17, which represented .31% of the 5,323 new manuscripts that were received during that period. Of the 17, 14 were triaged (i.e., neither of the two editors who read the paper thought it would be competitive for publication). Of the remainder, in one case, the outcome of initial review was that the author was encouraged to submit a revised version, which almost certainly would have been reviewed, but we never received the requested submission. In the other two cases, one manuscript was accepted and another made it past the evaluation and full peer review resulted in a revise-resubmit decision.
The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the third
annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary. As the only annual European
conference focusing on cognitive development, the BCCCD welcomes
submissions in all related topics and areas.
January 10-12, 2013
Central European University, Budapest
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
INVITED SPEAKERS
Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France)
Laurie Santos (Yale University)
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Bayesian modeling of cognitive development
Organizer: Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
SUBMISSIONS will open June 2nd for symposium proposals and poster abstracts
at http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/.
SYMPOSIA
A symposium consists of 3 presentations and a discussant. We have set up a
Facebook page for potential symposium participants to find each other.
See BCCCD13
symposium finder. <https://www.facebook.com/groups/192549250851825/>
Link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/192549250851825/
Deadline for symposium proposals: September 17, 2012. Notifications of
acceptance will be sent out by October 1 at the latest. We have limited
slots for symposia, and participants of submitted symposia that cannot be
included in the program are welcome to resubmit their presentation for the
poster sessions.
POSTERS
There are two deadlines for poster abstracts:
- Early deadline for those who need an early decision to apply for funding:
July 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: July 23, 2012.
- Standard deadline: October 15, 2012. Notification of acceptance: October
29, 2012
The meeting will begin at 1 PM on Thursday, January 10th, and ends in the
evening on Saturday, January 12th. Conference attendance will be limited
and there will be no parallel sessions.
For more information see the conference website at
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
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Subject: [hbrc] Postdoctoral researcher positions (BRAHE consortium)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:33:27 +0300
From: katri.wegelius(a)helsinki.fi <Katri.Wegelius(a)helsinki.fi>
To: fgsn-lista@helsinki. fi <fgsn-lista(a)helsinki.fi>,
becs-personnel(a)list.hut.fi, nt-lista(a)helsinki.fi,
biomag-users(a)biomag.hus.fi, hbrc-members(a)helsinki.fi,
bio-tiede@helsinki. fi <bio-tiede(a)helsinki.fi>, bi-everyone@helsinki. fi
<bi-everyone(a)helsinki.fi>, farmasia <ftdk-tiedotus(a)helsinki.fi>,
SATS-jasenet(a)helsinki.fi
*Postdoctoral researcher positions in BRAHE-consortium!*
(BRAHE = Brain Research at Aalto University and University of Helsinki)
The BRAHE-consortium supports and develops neuroscience collaboration
between Aalto University and the University of Helsinki and through this
collaboration promotes and strengthens research and education in the
field of neuroscience in the Helsinki area.
The University of Helsinki invites applications for
*2 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER POSITIONS*
and the Aalto University invites applications for
*2 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER POSITIONS*
for a fixed term from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2015 to advance
collaboration in neuroscience research between Aalto University, the
University of Helsinki and the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa
(HUS).
More information about the University of Helsinki positions:
http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=55425
More information about the Aalto University positions:
http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/teaching_and_research/tutkijatohtoriksi…
The application deadline is Wednesday, *16 May 2012 at 15.45* local
Helsinki time.
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Katri Wegelius, PhD, Coordinator
Finnish Graduate School of Neuroscience /
Doctoral Program Brain & Mind
Department of Biosciences
P.O.Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
katri.wegelius(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:katri.wegelius@helsinki.fi>
+358-9-19159859
http://www.brain-mind.fi/
As promised in Tuesday's talk, here are the slides from my presentation. Thanks for coming to the talk. I enjoyed my visit to Budapest very much.
Robert V. Kail, Ph. D.
Editor, Psychological Science
Incoming Editor, Child Development Perspectives
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907
Phone: 765.494.6921
Fax: 765.496.1264
Web: http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~rk/home.html
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
25 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Barry Loewer
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Two Accounts of Laws and Time
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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
PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early
to ensure you get a seat. The talk will begin promptly at 5.
Next week, our speaker will be:
Jukka Leppanen, University of Tampere
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
*The 7-month transition in attention to social signals of emotion*
Cross-species evidence suggests that the onset of locomotion and
explorations away from the mother early in life is associated with
functional maturation of emotion-related neural circuitry and behavioral
sensitivity to danger-alerting cues. In human infants, these developmental
changes in emotion-processing may occur during the second half of the first
year when infants begin to exhibit preferential attention to social signals
of fear. My talk will discuss this argument by reviewing i) studies
examining the neural bases and nature of infants' attentional bias towards
social signals of fear; ii) studies that have begun to link genetic
variations in brain function with fear-processing in human infants; and
iii) preliminary data suggesting that individual variations in early
perceptual biases towards emotional cues may be relevant for predicting
typical and atypical emotional traits later in life.
*
*
*Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events*
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PLEASE NOTE: This talk will take place on a different day than usual!
Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early to ensure you
get a seat. The talk will begin promptly at 5.
The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:
Heidi Keller, University of Osnabrück
Date: FRIDAY, April 20, 2012, 5 PM
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
*Infancy curricula: Cultural conceptions of natural pedagogy
*
Abstract: Infancy is the life phase in human ontogeny with the fastest
developmental pace. Psychologists and neuroscientists have therefore argued
that infancy is especially important for laying the ground for
developmental trajectories. From an evolutionary perspective, infancy does
not only serve as a preparatory period to acquire competencies that are
important for later life, but also to adapt to the environment to ensure
survival and thriving. Humans are endowed with behavioral dispositions that
are particularly suited to support infant development, i.e. with natural
pedagogy. Yet, the environmental challenges and affordances differ
substantially, so that there is not one pedagogy, that fits all infants. In
this presentation, infancy curricula will be discussed from two very
divergent environments: Western middle class families, who cover about 5%
of the world’ s population, but determine largely our mainstream
understanding of development, and subsistence based farmer families, who
cover about 30 to 40 % of the world’ s population but are grossly
underrepresented in our textbooks. Families in these two contexts have
completely different cultural worldviews and infancy curricula accordingly.
It is argued that development can be understood as the cultural solution of
universal developmental tasks. Caregivers are endowed with a universal
parenting repertoire from which cultural styles have emerged. Cultural
variation is not random, but has to be considered systematically if
development is to be understood from a global scale.
*Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events*
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This presentation will take place next week at the Department of Cognitive Science of CEU.
Venue: Room G15, Frankel Leó utca 30-34., Budapest 1023 (close to Margit híd, see the map attached).
Everyone is welcome to attend. Please note that the event will start on time.
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Robert Kail, the outgoing editor of Psychological Science, will give a presentation at 11:30 am on Tuesday, 17 April at CEU (exact venue is to be announced later). His title is "Advice to young writers from an old editor". This is not a scientific talk but a presentation to researchers in any areas of psychology on how to get your paper published in Psychological Science or other high-profile journals. The target audience is doctoral students, postdocs, and young faculty members. (In fact, Rob Kail would prefer if senior people who have extensive experience in publishing would not attend because "their presence discourages inexperienced writers from asking questions.")
Please circulate this announcement to those who may be interested.
Gergely Csibra
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