koglist April 2012

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[koglist] ELTE Kognitív Péntek - Meghívó

by Linda Garami

Kedves Érdeklődők! Alább látható az ELTE Kognitív Péntek előadássorozat tavaszi programja. Szeretettel várunk mindenkit a rendezvényeinkre, elsőként jövő hét pénteken: 2012. április 13. 14:00.15:00, Izabella u. 46., 301. terem: Várnai Zsuzsa: Mit tesz a Cseperedő Alapítvány az autizmussal élőkért? 2012. április 17. (KEDD) 17:00-18:00, Izabella u. 46., 301 terem: Kenneth Hugdahl: Auditory laterality and cognition: From basic science to clinical applications 2012. május 4. 14:00-15:00, Izabella u. 46. 216., terem: Lábadi Bea: Téri tájékozódás fejlődése kisgyermekkorban További információk: https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek Szeretettel várunk Mindenkit! Üdvözlettel: Garami Linda ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Attila Molnar

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 11 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Attila Molnár Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest Possible Objects and Their Collisions in SpecRel with the Aid of Modal Logic ___________________________________ 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] invitation to a talk by Miljana Milojević on `What are colours if not surface spectral reflectances?` - 17 April, 4.00 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk by Miljana Milojević (University of Belgrade) on `What are colours if not surface spectral reflectances?` Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 4.00 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Naturalistic theories of content determination have to answer the question what constitutes representational content of mental states about secondary and tertiary qualities, such as being red or being pleasent. There are three typical views about the nature of non-primary qualities: they are objective physical properties, subjective mental properties, or dispositions of physical objects to produce appropriate mental states. Although there are three possible anwers, objectivism about secondary qualities was seen as only viable option for a naturalistically inclined philosopher. In spite of this commonly held opinion, it is possible to give a dispositionalist account about non-primary qualities which is compatible with naturalistic theories of content. This kind of dispositionalism has the advantage over objectivism as it resolves some of the difficulties objectivists face; it rejects dubious disjunctive properties as objects of representations, objectivists were forced to endorse, and replaces them with particular dispositions, and it gives a unified account about the nature of secondary and tertiary qualities, which were handled separately by objectivists about secondary qualities. Unfortunately, endorsement of dispositionalism opens yet new problems such as: the impossibility of misrepresentation, and the inclusion of normativity in otherwise naturalized theory of representational content. These seemingly difficult obstacles can nevertheless be surpassed by teleological amandment to dispositionalist account, or so I will argue, which simultaneously solves both problems – it naturalises assumed notion of normativity and defines response-dependent dispositions in such a way that binds them more tightly to the world and so surmounts the problem of misrepresentation. 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] Friday seminar series - April 6, 2012 - 13:30

by Bohm Tamas

Dear All, The next talk in our Friday seminar series will be given by: *Ma'te' Lengyel* (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engieering, University of Cambridge) *INTERNAL MODELS OF THE BRAIN: FROM BEHAVIOUR TO NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS* Date: April 6, 13:30 Location: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, MTA-TTK, Szondi u. 83-85, 1st floor Abstract: Our percepts rely on an internal model of the environment, relating physical processes of the world to inputs received by our senses, and thus their veracity critically hinges upon how well this internal model is adapted to the statistical properties of the environment. However, the level of statistical sophistication with which such internal models are adapted or learned has not been investigated systematically, and their neural underpinning has also remained unknown. We conducted behavioural and electrophysiological studies to address these issues. Using a visual statistical learning paradigm, we have shown that humans learn about the statistics of visual stimuli well beyond the level of pair-wise associations, approximating the performance of a Bayesian ideal learner (Orban et al, PNAS 2008). Using multielectrode recordings in awake ferrets, we have argued that spontaneous activity in V1 represents a key component of Bayesian inference: the prior distribution (Fiser et al, TICS 2010), and showed that this prior becomes gradually adapted to the statistic of natural visual scenes over the course of development (Berkes et al, Science 2011). [This is joint work with Gergo Orban, Pietro Berkes, and Jozsef Fiser.] Everyone is welcome to attend. Kindest regards, Tama's Bo"hm

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] ANNOUNCEMENT: CDC Seminar, Emmanuel Dupoux, Wednesday, April 11, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Emmanuel Dupoux, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor 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. *Studying early cognitive development using Near Infrared Spectroscopy: data and challenges* Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) is becoming a popular technique to study early neurocognitive development in infants. There are, however, still a host of methodological stumbling blocks that need to be addressed to improve the reliability of the data. In this talk, I address some of these issues, illustrating them with recent data in language discrimination and social cognition paradigms that we have been developing recently. *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] reminder Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 5 PM Katalin É. Kiss, Mátyás Gerőcs, Tamás Zétény

by Anne Tamm

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Katalin É. Kiss, Mátyás Gerőcs, Tamás Zétényi, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy - BME Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor 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 linguistic roots of multiplication Abstract: It is a well-established fact, confirmed by various experiments, that preschoolers, human infants, and even non-human primates can perform intuitive addition and subtraction. Much less evidence has been put forth testifying that children are capable of multiplicative operations on sets before receiving formal training. What makes evidence of intuitive multiplication hard to obtain is that in the visual and auditive domains multiplication is usually indistinguishable from repeated addition. Our talk will claim that multiplication operations are routinely performed by children prior to schooling; they are encoded by syntactic means in such doubly quantified sentences as the Hungarian Három maci is két autóval játszik *Three teddy bears (each) are playing with two cars*, and their English equivalents (cf. Musolino 2009). We will report on three experiments testing Hungarian preschoolers* strategies of interpreting such sentences, and will show that, given certain syntactic and pragmatic clues, children interpret the two numerically modified expressions as a multiplier and a multiplicand, and also compute the product of multiplication, presumably relying on their approximate number system. Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events

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[koglist] MTA NytI: áprilisi előadások

by Mária Sipos

A MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézete várja az érdeklődőket áprilisi programjaira is, amelyek megtekinthetők itt: http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html

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[koglist] INNS Award Nominations

by Professor Ron Sun

> From: Linda Potchoiba <lpotchoiba(a)reesgroupinc.com> > Date: April 2, 2012 3:16:38 PM EDT > > The International Neural Network Society's Awards Program is > established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding > contributions in the field of Neural Networks. Up to three awards, > at most one in each category, are presented annually to senior, > highly accomplished researchers for outstanding contributions made > in the field of Neural Networks. > > The Hebb, Helmholtz and Gabor Awards: > The Hebb Award - recognizes achievement in biological learning. > The Helmholtz Award - recognizes achievement in sensation/perception. > The Gabor Award - recognizes achievement in engineering/application. > > Young Investigator Awards: > Up to two awards are presented annually to individuals with no more > than five years postdoctoral experience and who are under forty > years of age, for significant contributions in the field of Neural > Networks. > > Nominations: > 1. The Awards Committee should receive nominations of no more than > two pages in length, specifying: > -The award category (Hebb, Helmholtz, Gabor, or Young Investigator) > for which the candidate is being nominated. > -The reasons for which the nominee should be considered for the award. > -A list of at least five of the nominee's important and published > papers. > 2. The curriculum vitae of both the nominee and the nominator must > be included with the nomination, including the name, address, > position/title, phone, fax, and e-mail address for both the nominee > and nominator. > 3. The nominator must be an INNS member in good standing. Nominees > do not have to be INNS members. If an award recipient is not an INNS > member, they shall receive a free one-year INNS membership. > 4. Nominators may not nominate themselves or their family members. > 5. Individuals may not receive the same INNS Award more than once > All nominations will be considered by the Awards Committee and > selected ones forwarded to the INNS Board of Governors, along with > the Committee's recommendations for award recipients. Voting shall > be performed by the entire BoG. > > Please email the 2013 nominations along with their attachments > directly to the chair of the Awards Committee at leonid(a)seas.harvard.edu > , with a copy to the Secretary of the Society at jonathan(a)sit.kmutt.ac.th > by June 1, 2012. Please use the following subject line in the > email: INNS award nomination. > > You may view this information at www.inns.org (under "Awards > Program"). ======================================================== 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] A little fun - Cognitive Neuroscience Video Contest Winner

by István Winkler

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/channeln/2012/04/cognitive-neuroscience-video…

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar, Katalin É. Kiss, Wednesday, April 4, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by: Katalin É. Kiss, Mátyás Gerőcs, Tamás Zétényi, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy - BME Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 5 PM Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor 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 linguistic roots of multiplication * Abstract: It is a well-established fact, confirmed by various experiments, that preschoolers, human infants, and even non-human primates can perform intuitive addition and subtraction. Much less evidence has been put forth testifying that children are capable of multiplicative operations on sets before receiving formal training. What makes evidence of intuitive multiplication hard to obtain is that in the visual and auditive domains multiplication is usually indistinguishable from repeated addition. Our talk will claim that multiplication operations are routinely performed by children prior to schooling; they are encoded by syntactic means in such doubly quantified sentences as the Hungarian *Három maci is két autóval játszik *’Three teddy bears (each) are playing with two cars’, and their English equivalents (cf. Musolino 2009). We will report on three experiments testing Hungarian preschoolers’ strategies of interpreting such sentences, and will show that, given certain syntactic and pragmatic clues, children interpret the two numerically modified expressions as a multiplier and a multiplicand, and also compute the product of multiplication, presumably relying on their approximate number system. 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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