koglist October 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] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Colloquium: November 4, Emily Cross and Richard Ramsey (Bangor University)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Emily Cross and Richard Ramsey (School of Psychology, Bangor University) Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Günther Knoblich Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, October Hall (ground floor) Perceiving and Interacting with Social Agents: Insights from Brain and Behaviour The ability to perceive and interact with others in a social world occurs in an effortless manner, but is underpinned by complex cognitive and neural processes. In this talk, we review recent evidence from our laboratory from behavioural and brain imaging studies that uncover deeper insights into social cognition and brain function. Using paradigms that involve action learning, imitation, person perception and theory of mind tasks, we highlight the importance of considering distributed and connected brain circuits when aiming to understand how we perceive and interact with social agents. We are looking forward to see you at the talk! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Zsolt Ziegler

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 4 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Zsolt Ziegler Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Moral Responsibility, Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, Determinism, Indeterminism, Control _______________________________ 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: Laszlo E. Szabo (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

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] MTA NYTI novemberi program

by Nyelvesz Info

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet novemberi programjaira. 2015. november 3. (kedd) 11.00 óra Borbély Anna (MTA NYTI) Egyéni fenntartható kétnyelvűség szervező: Pszicho-, Neuro- és Szociolingvisztikai Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. november 10. (kedd) 15.00–18.00 óra A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2015 A nyelvtudomány technológiai alapú evolúciója helyszín: MTA Székház, Nagyterem http://mta.hu/esemeny_2015/?event=5330 2015. november 19. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Rebrus Péter - Törkenczy Miklós (MTA NYTI - ELTE BTK) Abigéllal matinére? A gyakoriság szerepe a hangrendi ingadozásban szervező: Kísérleti és Analógiás Fonológia–Alaktan Kutatócsoport helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. november 24. (kedd) 11.00 óra Marcin Wagiel (Palacky University, Olomouc) Adjectives and kind modification szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. november 26. (csütörtök) 14.00–17.00 óra A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2015 Nyílt Nap Digitális és kísérletes nyelvészet testközelből helyszín: MTA NYTI, földszinti előadóterem http://mta.hu/esemeny_2015/?event=5331 2015. november 26. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Brian Leahy (University of Konstanz) Counterfactual Antecedent Falsity and the Epistemic Sensitivity of Counterfactuals szervező: Magyar Szemantikusok Asztaltársasága helyszín: 108-as terem *** A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon tájékozódhatnak: http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] MRI módszertani előadások az MTA TTK-n

by Balázs Knakker

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretném felhívni a figyelmet az MTA TTK-n megrendezésre kerülő, MRI témájú alábbi előadásokra: október 29. 12:30 - 13:30 Zoltán Nagy (Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich): Devil's in the detail: The intricacies of using HARDI and parametric MRI data for in-vivo cortical parcellation november 3. 13:00 - 14:00 David Norris (Donders Institude, Radboud University, Nijmegen): Simultaneous multislice (multiband) imaging november 5. 13:00 - 14:00 Martin Blaimer (Research Center for Magnetic Resonance Bavaria, Würzburg): Parallel and phase-constrained MR imaging. Minden érdeklődőt szívesen látunk. Üdvözlettel, Kettinger Ádám

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Colloquium: October 28, Claus Lamm (University of Vienna)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Claus Lamm (Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, University of Vienna) Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 17:00-18:30 Host: Natalie Sebanz Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. The neural mechanisms of empathy - from shared representations to self-other distinction “My talk aims to provide an overview of recent social neuroscience research targeting the neural mechanisms of empathy. In the first part, I will review evidence showing that empathy for pain recruits neural networks overlapping with those underpinning the first-hand experience of pain. While this has been interpreted to indicate that empathy relies on "shared representations", similarity of neural activations alone is insufficient to indicate equivalence of representations. To obtain more conclusive evidence on whether empathy indeed recruits functionally similar neural processes, we therefore performed a series of behavioral, ERP, fMRI and psychopharmacological studies aiming to show that experimentally reducing the first-hand experience of pain (by means of placebo analgesia) equivalently reduces empathy for pain, and that this is supported by similar neural networks and neurochemical mechanisms. Our data indeed show that placebo analgesia reduces empathy for pain, and that this is accompanied with matching ERP and fMRI activation changes in the "shared" empathy for pain network identified previously. Moreover, blocking placebo analgesia by means of an opioid antagonist also blocks the effects of placebo analgesia on empathy. This provides more direct and mechanistic evidence that empathy indeed relies on functionally equivalent processes as first-hand emotion experiences, supporting claims that empathy consists in some sort of "embodied simulation" of the affective state of others. In the second part of my talk, I will focus on another aspect that is crucial for the experience of empathy, which is self-other distinction (S-O-D). I will present results from a series of behavioral, fMRI, and TMS experiments showing that the right supramarginal gyrus (an area adjacent but distinct to what has classically been labeled as the “right temporo-parietal junction”) is causally involved in self-other distinction and, more specifically, in overcoming emotion egocentricity. I will then demonstrate how the experience of acute psychosocial stress affects self-other distinction, and report recent behavioral and fMRI findings showing that a. there are profound gender differences in how stress affects S-O-D, with females and males becoming less or more egocentric under stress, respectively; b. that one mechanism for the higher egocentricity in men seems to be that stress triggers a stronger self-centered aversive response in them when witnessing the pain of others, as indicated by fMRI." We are looking forward to see you at the talk! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, November

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest November Program 4 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Zsolt Ziegler Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Moral Responsibility, Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, Determinism, Indeterminism, Control 11 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Tomas Veloz Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada Toward a Quantum Theory of Cognition: History, Development and Perspectives 18 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gergely Székely Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Principle of Relativity, Isotropy and Homogeneity (Reloaded) 25 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Márta Ujvári Institute of Sociology and Social Policy Corvinus University, Budapest Haecceitas Napjainkban és Duns Scotusnál: Tulajdonság vagy Entitás? (Haecceity Today and with Duns Scotus: Property or Entity?) _______________________________ 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: Laszlo E. Szabo (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

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] invitation to a talk on`Why the Scientific Revolution wasn’t a Scientific Revolution, and Why it Matters`by Daniel Garber - Friday, 30 October, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Daniel Garber (Princeton University) on Why the Scientific Revolution wasn’t a Scientific Revolution, and Why it Matters Friday!!!! 30 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions attempts to interpret scientific change on the model of a political revolution: a period of normalcy, followed by a crisis, that is resolved by a new regime, a new paradigm. This essay explores the appropriateness of this model for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. When we examine the eclipse of Aristotelian natural philosophy, for a long while, if ever, it was not replaced by a single new paradigm. Rather, the “new” non-Aristotelian philosophy was actually a diverse group of thinkers, the “novatores” or “innovators” who agreed only in the rejection of Aristotelian natural philosophy but otherwise were quite diverse. This is important not only for understanding the historical period, but also because it reveals a flaw in Kuhn’s framework. It is important for political revolutions to be resolved: the stability of the life depends on it. But there is no reason why a scientific revolution needs to result in the adoption of a single new paradigm: in the scientific world, a diversity of competing alternatives, and not Kuhnian normal science may turn out to be the norm. 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

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] invitation to a talk on`Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Confabulatory Explanations`by Lisa Bortolotti -Tuesday, 27 October, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) on Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Confabulatory Explanations Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT The phenomenon of confabulation is receiving increasing philosophical attention, and its relationship with self-interpretation and deliberation in the light of its epistemic costs and benefits are controversial in the literature. Here I start developing an account of confabulation that is compatible with the empirical evidence by focusing on one form of confabulation, that is, confabulatory explanations for one’s own attitudes and choices. In section 1 I present one way of understanding confabulation, building on the existing philosophical and psychological literature on the topic. In section 2 I consider examples of explanations for one’s attitudes and choices that can be interpreted as instances of confabulation. In section 3 I focus on the epistemic costs of confabulatory explanations, and in section 4 on their potential epistemic benefits. In section 5 I draw some implications from the previous discussion for debates about rationality and self-knowledge. . 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

10 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Reminder: Workshop on DBS & Frontostriatal disorders

by Pajkossy Péter

The Frontostriatal Research Group of the Hungarian Academy cordially invites you to a one-day workshop *on Deep Brain Stimulation and Cognitive Functions in Frontostriatal Disorders* Date: 22nd October 2015 Location: 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. (Small Room), Research Centre for Natural Sciences For more information see: http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/~ktkuser/learningmemory/news/download/programme.pdf Péter Pajkossy

10 years, 6 months

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