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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar, Jukka Leppanen, Wednesday, April 25, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

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* _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: Postdoctoral Position to work on infant consiousness in Paris

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: > 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 > > > > POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ON EARLY FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS IN THE HUMAN INFANT BRAIN AND THEIR RELATION TO CONSIOUSNESS > > 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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[koglist] submissions to Pschological Science

by Gergely Csibra

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.

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[koglist] 3rd Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD13) - January 10-12, 2013

by Dora Kampis

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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[koglist] Postdoctoral researcher positions (BRAHE consortium)

by István Winkler

-------- Original Message -------- 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. ------- 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/

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[koglist] slides for presentation at CEU

by Kail, Robert V

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

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Barry Loewer

by Laszlo E. Szabo

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 ___________________________________ 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, Jukka Leppanen, Wednesday, April 25, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

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* _______________________________________________ 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] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar, Heidi Keller, FRIDAY, April 20, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

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* _______________________________________________ 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] [CDC Seminars] Reminder: April 17, 11:30 - Robert Kail: Advice to young writers from an old editor

by Gergely Csibra

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. --- 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 _______________________________________________ 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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