koglist October 2013

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: March 14. Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences?

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Anna Babarczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics on Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences? Date: Wed, March 14, 2012 - 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15 Can the comprehension of abstract language be rooted in sensory experiences? ABSTRACT: The question of learning the meaning of abstract language (roughly, expressions with no perceptible referents) has been bugging philosophers for thousands of years. More recently, a number of experimental paradigms have emerged trying to shed light on this issue. The basic idea explored in the talk is that people understand abstract (metaphorical) expressions by linking them to sensory or bodily experiences. If this is the case, we should be able to show that these experiences affect people’s interpretation of abstract utterances. The talk looks at the evidence we have so far (pro and contra).We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) ! _______________________________________________ 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

11 years, 4 months

[koglist] Emlékeztető - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

Szeretettel meghívjuk Önt és munkatársait szemináriumsorozatunk következő előadására: Időpont: November 4, Hétfő, 12:00-13:00 Helyszín: BME, XI., Egry József utca 1., T. ép. 515. * A neuropszichológus szerepe az agyműtétes betegek ellátásában*** * Borbély Csaba* Juhász Pál Epilepszia Központ Országos Klinikai Idegtudományi Intézet Absztrakt: Az előadás betekintést szeretne nyújtani egy idegsebészeti intézetben zajló neuropszichológusi munkáról: a neuropszichológus műtét előtti műtét előtti, -utáni és akár műtét közbeni feladatairól, a különböző diagnosztikai módszerekről, beleértve a pszichológia "hagyományos" vizsgálóeljárásai mellett azokat a funkcionális agytérképezési technikákat is (pl. fMRI, elektrokortikális ingerlés, stb.), amelyek napjainkban már nemcsak a kutatási területen, hanem a mindennapi klinikai gyakorlatban is egyre inkább nélkülözhetetlenek. -- Attila Keresztes PhD candidate Junior Research Fellow Budapest University of Technology and Economics Dept. of Cognitive Science, Egry József u. 1, Budapest 1111, Hungary Tel: +36 1 4633525

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] 16th International Morphology Meeting -- deadline extended

by rebrus＠nytud.hu

Call for Papers -- Deadline Extension Notice 16th International Morphology Meeting May 29 – June 1, 2014 Budapest, Hungary Extended Deadline: 17 November International Morphology Meetings are organized jointly by the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. We invite papers on subjects including but not limited to the main topics of the conference: (a) morphological case – paradigms and case systems (b) multifunctional affixes (grammatical polysemy, homonymy, polyfunctionality) Invited speakers Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Ingo Plag (Düsseldorf) Gregory Stump (Kentucky) Contact person Mária Sipos e-mail: imm16(a)nytud.mta.hu Abstracts 2-page fully anonymized abstracts for a 20 minutes presentation (plus 10 minutes discussion), a poster session, or one of the three workshops, should be submitted via the meeting's online services: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imm16 One person may only submit one independent and one co-authored abstract. For more information on submissions see: http://www.nytud.hu/imm16/abssub.html Deadline for submission of abstracts both for the main conference and the workshops: 17 November 2013. Organizing committee Ferenc Kiefer (kiefer.ferenc(a)nytud.mta.hu) Huba Bartos (bartos.huba(a)nytud.mta.hu) Mária Ladányi (ladanyi.maria(a)btk.elte.hu) Péter Rebrus (rebrus.peter(a)nytud.mta.hu)

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] [CDC Seminars] CogSci CDC Seminar series: November 6, Wednesday: Andrew Bremner (Goldsmith, University of London)

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Cognitive Development Center cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its seminar series) by Prof. Andrew Bremner, (Goldsmith, University of London) Date: Wednesday, November 6th, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30 Location: Cognitive Development Center, Seminar Room, Budapest, Hattyu street 14, 3rd floor Title and abstract of the talk is to be announced next week. We're looking forward to see you there ! 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

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] [CDC Seminars] CogSci CDC Seminar series: October 31, Thursday: Greg Bryant (University of California) - Acoustic forms of intentional signals

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Cognitive Development Center cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its seminar series) by Prof. Greg Bryant, (University of California) Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 11:00 - 12:30 Location: Cognitive Development center, Seminar Room, Budapest, Hattyu street 14, 3rd floor Acoustic forms of intentional signals The sound of animal vocalizations is shaped by communicative function and evolutionary history. In this talk I will describe research that examines two kinds of vocal signals in humans: infant-directed (ID) speech and spontaneous laughter. Acoustic features of ID speech are functionally specialized for getting infants’ attention and communicating intentions. While cultural variation exists in the frequency of its occurrence, the production and recognition of ID speech is similar across quite different societies. Analysis of the adaptive functions of ID speech provides the best level of explanation for its acoustic structure. In the case of laughter, mechanistic and phylogenetic factors can play a more central role in understanding its structural features, particularly in the acoustic differences between spontaneous laughter and volitional laughter which provide differential cues of speaker intent in social interaction. I will conclude with some thoughts about how Tinbergen’s four questions are differentially useful depending on the specific behavior one is examining. We're looking forward to see you there ! 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

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] invitation to a talk on `Towards A Community of the Plural: Philosophical Pluralism, Hermeneutics and Practice.`by Nicholas Davey - 5 November, 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 Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee) on `Towards A Community of the Plural: Philosophical Pluralism, Hermeneutics and Practice.` Tuesday, 5 November, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT It would be difficult to deny the pressing relevance of the questions, “What is pluralism?” and, “How is pluralism to be thought?” Tellingly, the notable political analyst Simon Jenkins of The Guardian wrote recently of the Syrian situation, that the “differences between Sunni and Shia are intractable” for (and this for our purposes was the key remark) “the acceptance of pluralism relativises truth.”[1] ( https://amsprd0410.outlook.com/owa/?ae=PreFormAction&a=ReplyAll&t=IPM.Note&… ) The comment betrays a common line of reasoning: to acknowledge a pluralism of values, norms and/or epistemic norms leads inexorably to relativism and nihilism. Although it is flattering for philosophy that one of its concepts should gain such notoriety, that alone should perhaps prompt caution. The defining question of this paper is, accordingly, “Does pluralism necessarily lead to relativism?” Furthermore, “Does pluralism represent an intractable problem for hermeneutics’ quest for understanding or is its methodological scepticism to be welcomed?” [1] ( https://amsprd0410.outlook.com/owa/?ae=PreFormAction&a=ReplyAll&t=IPM.Note&… ) Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 29 May 2013, p. 26.

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] Emlékeztető - BME Kognitív Szemináriumsorozat

by Attila Keresztes

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] invitation to a talk on`They've lost control: Reflections on Skill`by Ellen Fridland - 29 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 Ellen Fridland (Humboldt Universitat, Berlin) on `They've lost control: Reflections on Skill` Tuesday, 29 October, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT “learning to play the piano is learning to reason with your muscles” --Jeremy Denk In this talk, I submit that it is the controlled part of skilled action; that is, that part of an action that accounts for the exact, nuanced ways in which a skilled performer modifies, adjusts and guides her performance for which we must account, if we are to have an adequate, philosophical account of skill. My claim is that control is at the heart of skilled action because the particular way in which a skill is instantiated is precisely what defines how skillful that action is. That is, the level of skill that one possesses is in direct proportion to the amount of control that one exerts over the performance of one’s own actions. Control is what constitutes the difference between a gold medal performance and a bronze medal one, and between the elite athlete and the novice one. It is control that is learned through practice and control that allows us to gasp at the beauty, elegance, and perfection of a skilled performance. One may be unsurprised to learn that when it comes to a philosophical account of skill, both Intellectualists of the Stanley variety and Anti-intellectualists of the Dreyfus sort forego a satisfactory account of control. One may be surprised, however, to learn that both Stanley and Dreyfus forgo such an account for precisely the same reason: each reduce control to a brute, passive, unintelligent, automatic process, which then prevents them from producing a substantive account of how such processes are flexible, manipulable, subject to learning and improvement, responsive to intentional contents at the personal-level, and holistically integrated with both cognitive and motor states. Stanley and Dreyfus make the same mistake for very different reasons, but in making it, they both lose control. In this talk, I will review the reasons for their mistakes and illustrate what kinds of control both leave out.

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] [Fwd: conf.: Speech Prosody]

by "Dr. Pléh Csaba"

---------------------------- Eredeti üzenet ----------------------------- Tárgy: conf.: Speech Prosody Feladó: "Nyelvesz Info" <nyinfo(a)nytud.hu> Dátum: Pén, Október 25, 2013 7:37 am Címzett: nyelvesz(a)nytud.hu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speech Prosody Dublin, Ireland 20-23 May 2014 http://www.speechprosody2014.org/ Speech Prosody 2014 is the 7th biennial conference on the science and technology of prosody, speaking styles, and voice quality. Our focus this year is on social prosody. Speech Prosody is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, and Shanghai have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of linguistics, computer science, electrical engineering, speech and hearing science, psychology, and related disciplines. This year's special theme is social prosody, but we invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody, speaking styles, and voice quality. Papers are due December 15th. Topics of interest include: - Communicative situation and speaking style - Dynamics of register and style - L2 prosody - Phonology and phonetics of prosody - Pitch accent - Prosody and spoken language systems - Prosody and the sounds of language - Prosody development in first language acquisition - Prosody for forensic applications - Prosody in face-to-face interaction: audiovisual modeling and analysis - Prosody in neurological disorders - Prosody in speech synthesis, recognition, and understanding - Prosody models and theoretical issues - Prosody of sign language - Prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects - Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of prosody - Signal processing - Voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics - Prosodic characteristics of individuals As special review areas: - The prosody of nonverbal vocalisations - Speech-gesture interaction - Joint/choral speech Important Deadlines: Submission of regular papers: December 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance (by email): January 18, 2014 Author's registration deadline: March 15, 2014 Conference: May 20-23, 2014 Csaba Pléh Csaba e. tanár professor of psychology ed. chief Hungarian Review of Psychology member, Academia Europaea Hungarian Academy of Sciences Eszterházy College, Eger 3300 Eszterházy tér 1 HUNGARY 36(30)3493735

12 years, 6 months

[koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] ANNOUNCEMENT -- EXTRA SEMINAR: Greg Bryant, THURSDAY, October 31, 11AM CDC at Hattyúhaz

by olivier mascaro

Dear all, Next week, in addition to Andreas Roepstorff's talk on Wednesday at 5 pm, we will have an extra seminar by Greg Bryant on THURSDAY, at 11 am. The abstract is below: Greg Bryant (UCLA) Date: THURSDAY, October 31, 2013, 11 AM Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor Title: Acoustic forms of intentional signals. The sound of animal vocalizations is shaped by communicative function and evolutionary history. In this talk I will describe research that examines two kinds of vocal signals in humans: infant-directed (ID) speech and spontaneous laughter. Acoustic features of ID speech are functionally specialized for getting infants’ attention and communicating intentions. While cultural variation exists in the frequency of its occurrence, the production and recognition of ID speech is similar across quite different societies. Analysis of the adaptive functions of ID speech provides the best level of explanation for its acoustic structure. In the case of laughter, mechanistic and phylogenetic factors can play a more central role in understanding its structural features, particularly in the acoustic differences between spontaneous laughter and volitional laughter which provide differential cues of speaker intent in social interaction. I will conclude with some thoughts about how Tinbergen’s four questions are differentially useful depending on the specific behavior one is examining. PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early to ensure you get a seat. 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 _______________________________________________ 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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