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[Koglist] Nominations sought for the position of director

by Gergely Csibra

The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, invites nominations (including self-nominations) for a director position in the general area of cognitive neuroscience. See details below or via this link: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/open-call-mpi-cbs.pdf <https://www.cbs.mpg.de/open-call-mpi-cbs.pdf> Nominations, including self-nominations, should be sent to: managingdirector(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:managingdirector@cbs.mpg.de>. Best wishes, Tania Singer ------------------------------------------------ Nominations sought for the position of director The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, invites nominations (including self-nominations) for a director position in the general area of cognitive neuroscience. The institute currently has four departments and four research groups, and hosts about 380 scientists and related staff, including 90 PhD students. Research at the institute revolves around studying human cognitive and socio-emotional abilities and their underlying neural mechanisms. The successful candidate is expected to establish a unique, innovative and long-term research programme at the cutting edge of human cognitive neuroscience, ranging from developmental to computational neuroscience. The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences offers outstanding facilities for human cognitive neuroscience including three 3T, a 7T and an incoming 300mT/m Connectome MRI scanner; whole-head MEG; EEG; TMS. The institute sits in the heart of Leipzig in central Germany, and offers a welcoming, international and vibrant atmosphere. The working language at the institute is English. With over half a million inhabitants‭‬, Leipzig ‬is a thriving modern city with several major research institutions, and one of the most popular places for students, postdocs, and young families in Germany. ‬‬ The Max Planck Society, an equal opportunity employer, is committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. The Max Planck Society is aiming at increasing the percentage of women among its scientific leadership, particularly at the director level. Therefore, we strongly encourage expressions of interest from and nominations of qualified female scientists. Nominations, including self-nominations, should be sent to managingdirector(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:managingdirector@cbs.mpg.de>. All nominations will be treated strictly confidential. We expect this call to remain open until 30 November 2015. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Stephanstraße 1a 04103 Leipzig, Germany ----------------------------- Prof. Dr. Tania Singer Director Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Department of Social Neuroscience Stephanstr. 1a 04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel. +49 341 9940 2686 Email: singer(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:singer@cbs.mpg.de> Web: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/singer <http://www.cbs.mpg.de/singer>

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder: CogSci CEU Collouium: October 7, Prof. Juan M. Toro (University Pompeu Fabra)

by Frances Buttelmann

Dear all, This is a reminder for our next talk today. ---------- The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by Prof. Juan M. Toro (Center for Brain and Cognition ICREA - University Pompeu Fabra) Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Something old, something new: Combining mechanisms during language acquisition Abstract: I will present recent research on two separate topics that suggests human infants use a combination of both evolutionary old and new cognitive tools to tackle the task of language acquisition. Research on the principles that guide how humans and non-human animals group sequences of sounds has shown that we share with other species perceptual biases that we apply to linguistic stimuli. On the contrary, research on processing differences between consonants and vowels suggests humans, but not other animals, benefit from a "division of labor” across phonological representations. This division would help to extract regularities from the speech signal and facilitate language learning. The studies I will present provide support to the idea that perceptual biases together with language-specific representations guide the discovery of linguistic structures. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)! 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

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[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Gyorgy Darvas

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 7 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 György Darvas Symmetrion, Budapest Isotopic field-charges in the physical world-view Effective causality: the emergence of causal anomalies in effective theories _______________________________ 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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder: CogSci CEU Collouium: October 7, Prof. Juan M. Toro (University Pompeu Fabra)

by Frances Buttelmann

Dear all, This is a reminder for our next talk tomorrow. ---------- The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by Prof. Juan M. Toro (Center for Brain and Cognition ICREA - University Pompeu Fabra) Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Something old, something new: Combining mechanisms during language acquisition Abstract: I will present recent research on two separate topics that suggests human infants use a combination of both evolutionary old and new cognitive tools to tackle the task of language acquisition. Research on the principles that guide how humans and non-human animals group sequences of sounds has shown that we share with other species perceptual biases that we apply to linguistic stimuli. On the contrary, research on processing differences between consonants and vowels suggests humans, but not other animals, benefit from a "division of labor” across phonological representations. This division would help to extract regularities from the speech signal and facilitate language learning. The studies I will present provide support to the idea that perceptual biases together with language-specific representations guide the discovery of linguistic structures. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)! 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 ______________________________________________ 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

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[Koglist] [BCCCD16] poster submissions close on October 13

by Nazli Altinok

Dear colleagues, On behalf of BCCCD16 organizing committee, I would like to remind you the approaching deadline for poster submissions: October 13, 2015,11.59 pm (CET). Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) is the only annual conference entirely focused on cognitive development in Europe. Please visit the conference website for more information about the conference and the submission instructions: http://www.bcccd.org/ Looking forward to your poster submissions, and having you in Budapest The BCCCD16 Organizing Committee -- *Nazli Altinok* Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science Central European University

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[Koglist] reminder: invitation to a talk on`Instrumental Reasoning Again` by Jonathan Dancy - 6 October, 5.30 PM

by Krisztina Biber

The Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a lecture (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas at Austin) on Instrumental Reasoning Again Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT I start by considering John Broome’s recent account of instrumental reasoning in some detail. After raising objections to it, I offer a very different picture of reasoning in general, which makes much more sense of the possibility of reasoning to a sufficient means. I than raise some difficulties for my own account. 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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[Koglist] Bruner 100 éves

by Csaba Pleh

Jerome Bruner október 1-én lett 100 éves. Jó egészségben él New Yorkban. Sok egyéb mellett ő a neves Brown versus Board of Education , az amerikai oktatási egyenlőséget biztosító perhez született tàrsadalomtudósi nyilatkozat utolsó élő aláírója. üdvözlettel Pléh Csaba Csaba Pleh dist. visiting professor CEU Department of Cognitive Science 1051 Budapest Nádor utca 9 Office. Oktober 6 u. 9 I. 104 Vispleh(a)ceu.edu 36(30)3493735 www.plehcsaba.hu member Academia Europaea and HAS Csaba Pleh dist. visiting professor CEU Department of Cognitive Science 1051 Budapest Nádor utca 9 Office. Oktober 6 u. 9 I. 104 Vispleh(a)ceu.edu 36(30)3493735 www.plehcsaba.hu member Academia Europaea and HAS

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[Koglist] MTA NYTI októberi program

by Nyelvesz Info

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet októberi programjaira. 2015. október 8. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Biró Tamás (ELTE BTK) Ami megjelenik, és ami nem jelenik meg a beszédben: Performanciahibák, fedett információ, nyelvi változás (toborzás) szervező: Kísérleti és Analógiás Fonológia-Alaktan Kutatócsoport helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 15. (csütörtök) 11.00 óra Dalmi Gréte (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce) Hungarian disjunctive questions at the syntax/semantics interface szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 16-17. Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification http://www.nytud.hu/lcq2015/ szervező: "A kvantorok pszicholingvisztikája" Kutatócsoport helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 20. (kedd) 11.00 óra Oszkó Beatrix (MTA NYTI) Nyelvmegőrzés és attitűd szervező: Finnugor és Nyelvtörténeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 27. (kedd) 11.00 óra Wagner-Nagy Beáta - Szeverényi Sándor (Hamburgi Egyetem - Szegedi Tudományegyetem) A nganaszan nyelv beszélt nyelvi annotált korpusza szervező: Finnugor és Nyelvtörténeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 27. (kedd) 14.30 óra Negation in Uralic Languages. Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015. Könyvbemutató A kötetet bemutatja: Wagner-Nagy Beáta szervező: Finnugor és Nyelvtörténeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 27. (kedd) 15.00 óra Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki) Typology and Uralic languages: Negation and beyond szervező: Finnugor és Nyelvtörténeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 29. (csütörtök) 11.00 óra Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) A survey of verb-second – prospects and problems szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 29. (csütörtök) 14.00 óra Bene Annamária (MTA Domus ösztöndíjas; Újvidéki Egyetem) A vajdasági magyar nyelvről szervező: Pszicho-, Neuro- és Szociolingvisztikai Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2015. október 29. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Hans-Martin Gärtner - Gyuris Beáta (MTA NYTI) On bias profiles for polar interrogatives 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.

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[Koglist] kérlek terjesszétek Ostensive communication workshop

by Csaba Pleh

SOMICS Workshop on ‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission in small-scale and large-scale societies’ 15 October, Room 101 Program 9.00-10.30 Barry S. Hewlett - ‘Social learning among hunter-gatherers’ Tanya Broesch – ‘Social learning in small-scale societies’ 10.30-11.00 coffee break 11.00-12.30 Mikołaj Hernik - ‘Infant-directed speech helps disambiguating the content of ostensive referential communication for human infants’ Kata Oláh, Ildikó Király ‘Natural Pedagogy and the core processes of learning and acting in social groups’ 12.30-14.00 Lunch with Poster Session in room 102 14.00-15.30 Michelle Klein – ‘How to learn about teaching’ Tara Callaghan – ‘Children acquiring the ways of their groups: cultural developmental studies of imitation, pictorial symbols, pretense, and fairness’ 15.30-16.00 coffee break 16.00-17.30 Philippe Rochat – ‘Possession psychology factoring culture and development’ Vlad Naumescu – ‘Pedagogies of prayer: Teaching orthodoxy in South India’ 17.30 Dan Sperber – Closing remarks Abstracts Social Learning Among Hunter-Gatherers Barry S. Hewlett Washington State University, Vancouver Little is known about social learning in hunter-gatherers. More books and articles exist on great ape social learning than exist on hunter-gatherer social learning. Most studies of social or cultural learning in small-scale cultures (sometime called “traditional” or “preindustrial” cultures) come for subsistence farmers. This talk provides a brief overview of several current studies of social learning among hunter-gatherers. Topics covered include: a cross-cultural survey of social learning in hunter-gatherers, field studies of teaching in infancy and overimiation in 4 to 7 year olds, a field study of how forager adolescents use selected trust to learn to spear hunt, and an ethnographic study of forager views of social learning. The overview discusses how forager culturally constructed niches (e.g., foundational schema, physical and social setting, cultural practices) influence social learning. Social Learning in Small-Scale Societies Tanya Broesch Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Ethnographic reports of teaching and learning across the globe are in contrast with current theories of social learning – specifically Natural Pedagogy. Reports indicate that observation and imitation are the primary forms of learning across the globe, suggesting that direct teaching is specific to Western or urban societies where there is an emphasis on formal education. Current theories of social learning suggest that direct teaching in the form of ostensive cues (natural pedagogy) is critical/central to cumulative cultural evolution, facilitating the transmission of complex information across generations with high fidelity. Not only do ethnographic reports indicate that direct teaching is rare, they also suggest that the learner is responsible for learning in non-Western and small-scale societies with adults producing little to no face-to-face interaction with infants and little regard for an infant or young child as a person capable of learning. Lastly, there are strong cultural norms against adults modifying their behavior in child-like ways. These reports challenge existing theories of the universality of natural pedagogy and the use of ostensive cues to direct attention during a learning situation. I sought to investigate these reports with a multi-method, cross-cultural approach. Using natural and structured observations, interviews and experimental techniques, I examined parent-infant and parent-child interactions in traditional, small-scale villages in Tanna, Vanuatu and in urban Vancouver, Canada as well as a unique society in Tanna living in similar ways to traditional villages yet rejecting formal education and Westernization. I report commonalities across societies in parental behavior modification (acoustic modification, affect mirroring, ostensive cues), yet societal differences in the behavior form. I will present these findings as well as discuss ongoing and planned collaborations for a close systematic examination of natural observations across diverse human societies. Infant-directed Speech Helps Disambiguating the Content of Ostensive Referential Communication for Human Infants Mikołaj Hernik & Gergely Csibra Central European University, Budapest I will present two recent series of studies investigating the role of infant-directed speech (IDS) in disambiguating the content of ostensive communication for human infants. First series shows that IDS alone enables 6-month-olds to extract directional information from highly ambiguous dynamic luminance-patterns that are typical of the human eye. These results suggest a critical role of IDS in very early sensitivity to the deictic referential gesture of gaze-shift, which allows for finding the referent of communication. Second series of studies with 13.5-month-olds shows that IDS facilitates encoding of newly demonstrated functions of novel tools as their enduring generic - rather then transient episodic - properties. These results suggest that IDS plays a role in disambiguating the scope of demonstrations and further in stabilizing cultural knowledge. Together the results are consistent with the view that human infants are well equipped to receive ostensive referential communication and that one function of IDS, among other ostensive signals, may be facilitating sensory-motor responses and cognitive processes that enable fixing the referent and encoding the communicated content as generic knowledge. Natural Pedagogy and The Core Processes of Learning and Acting in Social Groups Oláh Kata, Ildikó Király Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Extended research has supported the idea that the capacity to represent and think in social categories constitutes a fundamental characteristic of the human cognitive system; even human infants and young children are sensitive to the boundaries of certain social groups. However, the function this capacity serves is still debated. A novel proposal to explain this phenomenon is that during social categorization the human mind aims at mapping out social groups defined by a certain set of shared knowledge. Foremost, as a basic mechanism, ostensive communicative signals induce universal epistemic trust and openness in order to learn from social partners. However as the role of Natural Pedagogy is to transmit culturally relevant knowledge, we believe, children should become sensitive to the cues of shared knowledge to maximize the benefit of teaching situations. Thus we assume the categorization of potential ‘teachers’ has important epistemic advantages for humans, most prominently at the beginning of their life: the identification of reliable sources of information for the sake of cultural knowledge acquisition. The presentation will focus on a set of empirical studies that are in line with the above proposal: these studies underline that children are ready to selectively trust and learn from in-group teachers when their demonstration involves culturally determined information’ How to Learn about Teaching Michelle Kline School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Despite a growing interest in the theoretical importance of pedagogy, or teaching, in human cultural learning and social development, the form and function of human teaching behaviors outside of Western classrooms is not well understood. In fact, cultural anthropologists continue to argue that teaching is rare outside the West, while researchers in child development and psychology assume that pedagogy is a human universal. The present study uses a novel typology of teaching behavior that includes both Western-style classroom teaching and more subtle, everyday teaching behaviors. These behaviors are united as “teaching” in that they all evolved as behaviors that facilitate learning in others, yet they differ in the specific learning problems they solve. The evidence I present shows that informal teaching is present and commonplace in these Fijian villages, and that the costs and benefits to teachers and pupils pattern teaching behaviors within and between relationships. This study lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork for future comparative studies of variation in teaching behaviors across human populations, social relationships, and the life course. Children Acquiring the Ways of their Groups: Cultural Developmental Studies of Imitation, Pictorial Symbols, Pretense, and Fairness Tara Callaghan St. Francis Xavier University, NS, Canada I will present selected findings from a decade of cultural developmental research investigating children’s early social cognitive abilities, symbolic functioning (pictorial, pretense), and prosociality. This work bridges fundamental questions of human communication and cooperation. An underlying theme of the talk will be how the research examines the foundational mechanisms underlying cultural transmission of these human behaviors, and where there are gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms. Possession Psychology Factoring Culture and Development Philippe Rochat Emory University, Atlanta, GA Moral concerns do arise primarily from issues around possession. Possession psychology is indeed central to morality. Depending on culture, kids grow under various pressures to own and protect possession. However, universally, once one has invested his own personal effort into something, be it physical or purely psychological, this investment makes such something “his”. It gives rise to an irresistible sense of ownership and entitlement. In turn, such sense opens up the possibility of bartering, gifting, sharing, stealing, and in general, the possibility of social exchanges as well the negotiation of value and the construction of a consensus around the equivalence of increasingly disparate (hard to compare) things. It also gives rise, from the second year of life to social tallying: the possibility of social debt creation and tracking, reputation management which, I will propose, is a major trademark of our self-conscious species. I shall review empirical evidence both illustrating and supporting such general assertions. Pedagogies of Prayer: Teaching Orthodoxy in South India Vlad Naumescu Central European University, Budapest This talk explores pedagogies of prayer among St. Thomas Christians in South India describing shifts in their epistemic stance and their effect on social learning. More than other religious traditions Orthodoxy is centered on 'mysteries' and the claim that meaning is beyond human grasp. Unlike ritual performance which remains opaque and prone to overimitation, Sunday school teaching is centered on explanation and text-based learning. Looking at the contexts and types of explanation it provides, I suggest that rather than inviting a form of Socratic learning this exegetical explanation is meant to reproduce the ‘mystery’ at the core of religious knowledge. Csaba Pleh dist. visiting professor CEU Department of Cognitive Science 1051 Budapest Nádor utca 9 Office. Oktober 6 u. 9 I. 104 Vispleh(a)ceu.edu 36(30)3493735 www.plehcsaba.hu member Academia Europaea and HAS

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: September 30, Wednesday: Cong Yu (Peking University) - Visual Perceptual Learning: A new perspective

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by Cong Yu (Department of Psychology and Peking-Tsingua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China) Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Jozsef Fiser, Associate Professor Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective Abstract: For many years perceptual learning (PL) researchers are excited by the observations that PL is specific to the trained retinal location and orientation, and regard these specificities as indications of neural plasticity in the early visual cortex. However, we have created a “double training” design to enable complete learning transfer to untrained conditions, suggesting that PL is mainly a cognitive learning process beyond the retinotopic visual areas. More recently we studied why PL is specific in the first place, and what is really learned in PL. In double training, PL becomes transferable if the subjects are exposed to the untrained location or orientation through an irrelevant task, indicating that learning specificity may be to do with the untrained conditions. We used a continuous flash suppression technique to create “bottom-up only” or “top-down only” exposure stimuli. We found that bottom-up exposure of an untrained location or orientation, or pure top-down influences, can both enable significant and sometimes complete learning transfer. These results suggest that learning specificities may result from neural under-activations at the untrained conditions that receive insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or top-down attention during training.In addition, we demonstrated that PL is a form of concept learning. We studied orientation learning with orientation features defined by either luminance gratings or symmetric dot patterns, and motion direction learning with first-order luminance stimuli and second-order contrast stimuli. Each pair of stimuli had distinctive physical properties that are encoded by different neuronal mechanisms. Using a variation of the double training method, we observed complete mutual transfer of learning between grating and dot-pattern defined orientations, and between first- and second-order motion directions. These results indicate that what is learned in PL is the abstract concept of a trained visual feature, such as orientation or motion direction. See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-09-30/departmental-colloquium-c… We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)! 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

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