koglist January 2015

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[koglist] Assistant professor of cognitive psychology

by Alen Hajnal

Dear koglist members! It would be an honor to welcome a new colleague at our department from the membership of koglist. Please let me know if you have any questions about the job. Here is the ad: The Department of Psychology at The University of Southern Mississippi is seeking an Assistant Professor for a tenure-track position to begin fall 2015. We seek candidates with a research specialization in cognition, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have a strong empirical research record with potential to attract external funding and an interest in both undergraduate and graduate teaching. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The position is contingent upon funding. The Department of Psychology, designated as one of six Centers of Excellence in the university, is a growing and dynamic department, with 35 full-time faculty lines and approximately 630 undergraduate majors and 115 graduate students. It is located in Hattiesburg, Miss., a prosperous and growing Pine Belt community about 70 miles from the Gulf Coast and about 100 miles from New Orleans. The department also offers APA-accredited graduate programs in clinical, counseling and school psychology. For consideration, send a CV, three letters of recommendation, reprints and a formal letter of application outlining your interests and qualifications to Don Sacco, Chair of the Experimental Search Committee, The University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Psychology, 118 College Drive #5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001. In addition, applicants must complete an employment application form located on the university’s Human Resources website at www.usm.edu/hr/emp_app/main.php<http://www.usm.edu/hr/emp_app/main.php>. Inquiries can also be directed to Donald.Sacco(a)usm.edu. General information about Southern Miss can be found at www.usm.edu<http://www.usm.edu/>, and information about the experimental psychology program is available at www.usm.edu/experimental-psychology<http://www.usm.edu/experimental-psychology>. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 1, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled. We especially encourage applications from women and members of ethnic minorities. AA/EOE/ADAI To view the full position advertisement and/or apply for this position, go to the following website, https://jobs.usm.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=14100…, and search job posting number 0003208. ---------- Alen Hajnal, PhD. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Southern Mississippi http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w785427/lab.html

8 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Kognitív Szeminárium: Illés Orsolya - Az ABA/VB (Applied Behavior Analysis/Verbal Behavior) program korszerű alkalmazása autizmus spektrum zavarral élő gyermekek fejlesztésében

by Petia Kojouharova

Szeretettel hívunk meg minden érdeklődőt a Kognitív Szeminárium következő előadására, amelyet Illés Orsolya, a GAPS alapítvány elnöke, adja elő: *Az ABA/VB (Applied Behavior Analysis/Verbal Behavior) program korszerű alkalmazása autizmus spektrum zavarral élő gyermekek fejlesztésében* 2014. november 14., 14:00, Izabella utca 46, P3-as terem Összefoglaló: Az ABA/VB ma Észak-Amerikában és Nyugat-Európában is a szülők által leghatékonyabbnak tartott, legnagyobb kutatási háttérrel rendelkező és tudományosan legtöbbször igazolt terápiának számít az autista tüneteket mutató, fejlődésükben emiatt korcsoportjuktól elmaradó gyermekek fejlesztésében. Ennek ellenére itthon még kevéssé ismert, gyakran hibásan kerül alkalmazásra, és rengeteg tévhit és előítélet övezi. Az előadás célja az ABA/VB alapelveinek, módszertanának és korszerű alkalmazásának bemutatása, ezzel remélhetőleg hozzájárulva a tévhitek eloszlatásához.

11 years

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] ANNOUNCEMENT: Hannes Rakoczy (University of Göttingen), Wednesday February 4, 5PM, Department of Cognitive Science

by Dora Kampis

Dear All, The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Science seminar series will by given by: Hannes Rakoczy (University of Göttingen): Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 5 PM Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15 Title: In defense of a developmental dogma: Children acquire propositional attitude folk psychology around age 4 When do children acquire a propositional attitude folk psychology or theory of mind (ToM)? The orthodox answer to this central question of developmental ToM research had long been that around age 4 children begin to apply “belief” and other propositional attitude concepts. This orthodoxy has recently come under serious attack, though, from two sides: Scoffers complain that it over-estimates children’s early competence and claim that a proper understanding of propositional attitudes emerges only much later. Boosters criticize the orthodoxy for underestimating early competence and claim that even infants ascribe beliefs. In this paper, the orthodoxy is defended on empirical grounds against these two kinds of attacks. On the basis of new evidence, not only can the two attacks be countered, but the orthodox claim can actually be strengthened, corroborated and refined: what emerges around age 4 is an explicit, unified, flexibly conceptual capacity to ascribe propositional attitudes. This unified conceptual capacity contrasts with the less sophisticated, less unified implicit forms of tracking simpler mental states present in ontogeny long before. This refined version of the orthodoxy might most plausibly be spelled out in some form of 2-systems-account of theory of mind. 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. 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

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: January 28, Wednesday: Botond Kőszegi (CEU) - Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Botond Köszegi (CEU Department of Economics) Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15 Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning (joint with Paul Heidhues and Philipp Strack) Abstract: We explore the learning process and behavior of an individual with unrealistically high expectations about ability when outcomes also depend on an external state of the world that affects the optimal action. We identify a broad class of situations in which ``learning'' leads the individual systematically away from a correct understanding of the world and to lower and lower performance. Even if the agent has correct initial beliefs about the state, due to her unrealistic expectations she is negatively surprised about her outcome. As a result, she becomes more pessimistic about the state of the world, and adjusts her behavior-suboptimally. This adjustment lowers outcomes, perpetuating the misdirected learning further. The greater is the loss from choosing a suboptimal action, the further the agent's action ends up from optimal. If the agent has an outside option, then she is initially too willing to enter a task in which performance depends on her ability and may persist in it for too long (as described in the existing literature), but she eventually tends to quit even superior tasks and to switch too much between tasks. We argue that our model provides one mechanism for self-defeating behavior described in the psychology literature, and that the decision situations in question are common in economic settings, including bureaucratic decisionmaking, delegation, public policy, and labor-leisure choices. See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events/2015-01-28/departmental-colloquium-bo… We are looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo utca 30-34)! 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

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] post-doc position in pragmatics & autism: Brussels

by "Ladányi Mária (ella)"

-------- Továbbított üzenet -------- Tárgy: [Cogling-L] post-doc position in pragmatics & autism: Brussels Dátum: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:06:48 +0100 Feladó: Mikhail Kissine <mkissine(a)ulb.ac.be> Címzett: cogling-l(a)mailman.ucsd.edu A full-time funded 2-year post-doc position in experimental pragmatics/psycholinguistics is available at the Université libre de Bruxelles. The successful candidate will work within the project Context in Autism ran by Mikhail Kissine in collaboration with Ira Noveck (Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon). The project involves experimental work with French-speaking children and adults with autism. The position requirement are the following: A PhD (or equivalent) in linguistics or psychology; Excellent research record; Good command of spoken French; Readiness to work in clinical environment; Excellent command of academic writing in English; Knowledge of statistical methods; Programming skills; Previous experience in experimental psychology/pragmatics Applications will be assessed on rolling basis until the position is filled. A CV, a cover letter and two reference letters should be addressed to mkissine AT ulb.ac.be

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] 10TH PANHELLENIC LOGIC SYMPOSIUM - Call for Papers

by Universal Logic

THE 10TH PANHELLENIC LOGIC SYMPOSIUM June 11-15, 2015 Samos, Greece http://samosweb.aegean.gr/pls10/index.html HISTORY OF THE SYMPOSIUM The Panhellenic Logic Symposium, a biennial scientific event established in 1997, aims to promote interaction and cross-fertilization among different areas of logic. Originally conceived as a way of bringing together the many logicians of Hellenic descent throughout the world, it has evolved into an international forum for the communication of state-of-the-art advances in Logic. The Symposium is open to researchers worldwide who work in logic, broadly conceived. The Tenth Panhellenic Logic Symposium will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Aegean, located at Karlovasi, Samos. The dates have been chosen so that participants may continue to participate in UNILOG 2015 <http://www.uni-log.org/enter-istanbul> (June 20-30, Istanbul). PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM The scientific program of the symposium will consist of one-hour long invited talks, two- to three-hour long tutorials, and about twenty-to-thirty-minute presentations of accepted contributed papers. There will also be a poster presentation and opportunities for students and young researchers to present work in progress. The following have accepted to deliver invited talks/tutorials: * J.-Y. Beziau (University of Rio de Janeiro) * P. D'Aquino (Seconda Universita di Napoli) * S. Durhan (Middle-East Technical University, Ankara) * R. Sklinos (University of Lyon 1) * N. Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London) * X. Vidaux (University of Concepcion, Chile) CALL FOR PAPERS Original papers that fall within the scope of the symposium are solicited. Prospective speakers of twenty-five-minute presentations are invited to submit an extended abstract, in English, not exceeding five pages, by 1 April 2015. Papers should be prepared using the EasyChair class style (available from http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690) and submitted electronically, using the Easy Chair conference system, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pls10. If possible, each submitted paper should be classified in one of the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Algebraic and Categorical Methods in Logic * Computability Theory * History and Philosophy of Logic * Logic in Computer Science * Model Theory * Nonclassical and Modal Logics * Proof Theory * Set Theory * Universal Logic All submitted papers will be reviewed by the scientific committee of the symposium, who will make final decisions on acceptance or rejection. During the symposium, each accepted paper will be presented by one of its authors. Authors of submitted papers will be notified of the decision by 4 May 2015. Camera-ready extended abstracts will be due by May 31 for inclusion in the symposium proceedings. POSTER SESSION Graduate students and young researchers are invited to submit a short abstract on work in progress but not yet ready for a regular contributed talk. Authors of accepted abstracts will have an opportunity to present their results in poster form in a special poster session. Interested students should submit abstracts of no more than one page in .pdf form by May 31, by sending them to: pls10(a)aegean.gr IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2015 * Acceptance/Rejection Notification: May 4, 2015 * Camera-ready Papers Deadline: May 31, 2015 * Abstracts of Posters Deadline: May 31, 2015 * Conference Dates: June 11-15, 2015 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Costas Dimitracopoulos, University of Athens Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus Lefteris Kirousis, University of Athens Phokion G. Kolaitis, UCSC and IBM Research-Almaden Joan Moschovakis, Occidental College and MPLA Nikolaos Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens Thanases Pheidas, University of Crete (Chair, pheidas(a)math.uoc.gr) George Tourlakis, York University, Canada Stathis Zachos, National Technical University of Athens ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Charalampos Cornaros, University of Aegean (Chair, kornaros(a)aegean.gr) Costas Dimitracopoulos, University of Athens Nikolaos Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens SYMPOSIUM WEBPAGE http://samosweb.aegean.gr/pls10/index.html CONTACT PLS10 email address: pls10(a)aegean.gr Thanases Pheidas (Chair of the Scientific Committee) http://fourier.math.uoc.gr/tmem/persons/pheidas.html Charalampos Cornaros (Chair of the Organizing Committee) Address: University of the Aegean Department of Mathematics 83200 Karlovasi, Samos Greece Tel: +30 22730 82137 Fax: +30 22730 82109

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] Research assistant job at CEU

by Gergely Csibra

The Cognitive Development Center (CDC) at Central European University (CEU) invites applications for a research assistant position. For details, see http://hro.ceu.hu/vacancies/research-assistant-2

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] Fwd: [Cogling-L] post-doc position in pragmatics & autism: Brussels

by "Ladányi Mária (ella)"

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] Budapest Conference on Projection and Representation in Syntactic Theory

by Nyelvesz Info

Budapest Conference on Projection and Representation in Syntactic Theory in honour of Michael Brody Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest 13-14 April 2015 Meeting Description: The notion of projection in generative linguistic theory has for the most part been a matter of stipulation. In syntax, X-bar theory codified the projection of a head to a phrase, via an intermediate projection level involving complementation; adjuncts could freely be added to the structure via the adjunction operation. Movement of a phrase into the periphery of a higher projection involved either substitution for a specifier position or adjunction; either way, the target of movement was guaranteed to project, by virtue of the X-bar-theoretic principles. In the minimalist program, the requirement that the target of movement project was derived independently, and X-bar structure was simplified or abolished altogether (Kayne 1994, Chomsky 1995:Chapter 4, Brody 1998, 2000). Without X-bar structure stipulating the organization of syntactic phrases, fundamental questions arise regarding the nature of and constraints on projection. Projections might not have to have a (unique) head. Perhaps the labelling problem posed by XP-YP structures could help derive a central ingredient of the standardly adopted derivation of long-distance filler-gap dependencies: successive-cyclic movement (Chomsky 2013). Thus exploited, problems of projection may then turn from explanandum into explicans. The notion of projection is centrally tied in with the representation of syntactic structure. Are syntactic structures projected from a head to a phrase, or are phrases traced back to their heads? Are filler-gap dependencies, constructions in which an element is pronounced in a position in which it seems unable to perform its role as an argument, predicate or modifier, derived via upward displacement of the filler or instead base-generated in a representational approach that traces the filler from its pronunciation position back to the gap (see Brody 2002 for critical discussion)? The derivational approach has had the upper hand in the generative approach, leading to the postulation of intermediate links in a chain derived by successive-cyclic movement. The applicability of the derivational approach to all cases of apparent displacement has frequently been called into question; the successive cyclicity that the standard approach embodies has become the subject of debate as well. If non-derivational approaches are desirable for certain cases, perhaps a purely representational approach would be applicable to all filler-gap dependencies uniformly. With this comes the prospect of the grammar and the parser being folded into a single mechanism for the building of structures and the dependencies within them. This conference is held in honour of the 60th birthday of Michael Brody. It will feature talks by invited speakers from Brody's circle (former and present colleagues and students) who have contributed to questions of projection and representation in syntactic theory. In addition, the conference will have a POSTER SESSION that is open for submissions on any topic related to the theme of the conference (projection and representation in syntactic theory). List of speakers Michael Brody, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Huba Bartos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Marcel den Dikken, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & CUNY Graduate Center Katalin É. Kiss, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Liliane Haegeman, University of Ghent Hans van de Koot, University College London Rita Manzini, University of Florence Ad Neeleman, University College London Balázs Surányi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Kriszta Szendro"i, University College London 2nd Call for Posters Abstracts are solicited for POSTERS on any topic related to the theme of the conference (projection and representation in syntactic theory). Submissions should meet the following restrictions: - Abstracts must not exceed two pages (A4 or letter size), including examples and references, set in a font no smaller than 11pt with single spacing. - Abstracts must be anonymous. - Abstracts should be submitted in PDF, via the conference's EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prorep2015. You can find instructions on how to submit on the conference website. - Submissions are restricted to two abstracts per author, at most one of which may be single-authored. The DEADLINE for submission of abstracts is 1 February 2015. Conference website: http://www.nytud.hu/prorep/ Contact: budconf.2015(a)nytud.mta.hu

11 years, 3 months

[Koglist] invitation to a philosophical talk on`How to Be Against What is Plainly Right`by Matti Eklund - Wednesday, 28 January, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 311

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Matti Eklund (Uppsala University) on How to Be Against What is Plainly Right PLEASE NOTE IT IS HELD ON WEDNESDAY IN ROOM 311!!! Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 311 ABSTRACT The talk summarises some main themes from a forthcoming book. The focus is on the fact that there are alternative normative concepts that we could use, and the foundational questions that this raises – about what realism about the normative should be taken to involve, and what it is for there to be normativity in the world. Krisztina Biber Department of Philosophy Coordinator ------------------------------------------ Central European University Nador u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary Office: + 36.1.327.3806 | biberk(a)ceu.hu | www.ceu.hu

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