koglist September 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 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

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] neuro segedmunkatarsi palyazat

by BANRETI, Zoltan

Az MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet pályázatot hirdet az Intézet Pszicho-Neuro- és Szociolingvisztikai Osztálya Neurolingvisztikai Kutatócsoportjában tudományos segédmunkatárs munkakör betöltésére. Részleteket, jelentkezési határidőt lásd az intézet honlapján: www. nytud.hu Üdv, Bánréti Zoltán MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézete H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr utca 33. +3613510413 banreti.zoltan(a)nytud.mta.hu Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33. Hungary +3613510413 banreti.zoltan(a)nytud.mta.hu

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] Call for Application 2016/17 for CEU Department of Cognitive Science

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, We are kindly asking you to distribute the 2016/17 CEU Department of Cognitive Science Call for Application to your friends/contacts/colleagues/students. The application deadline is February 4, 2016. http://www.ceu.edu/admissions With many thanks and kind regards, -------------------------------------------------------- GyÖrgynÉ Finta (rÉka) Department Coordinator Department of Cognitive Science -------------------------------------------------------- Central European University Oktober 6 street 7. | Room 103 1051 Budapest, Hungary Office: + 36-1-887-5138 szabor(a)ceu.edu www.cognitivescience.ceu.edu

10 years, 7 months

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

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invite 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

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification 2015

by Nyelvesz Info

Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification 2015 October 16-17 2015 Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary Program Friday, October 16, 2015 9.00 - 9.10 Welcome 9.10 – 10.10 INVITED TALK - Irina Sekerina: What Eye Movements Reveal About Quantifier-Spreading 10.10 – 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 – 11.10 Ken Drozd: Children's cumulative construals of universally quantified sentences 11.10 – 11.50 Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez and Julien Musolino: The subject/object asymmetry in questions with quantifiers: syntax or discourse? 11.50 - 12.30 Ayaka Sugawara, Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko and Ken Wexler: Acquisition of quantifier scope: Evidence from English Rise-Fall-Rise 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 14.40 Elena Pagliarini, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Stephen Crain and Lyn Tieu: Distributive inferences in child language 14.40 - 15.20 Natasa Knezevic and Hamida Demirdache: The distributive share quantifier po in Serbian 15.20 - 16.00 Balázs Surányi and Gergő Turi: Focus and Givenness in quantifier scope interpretation 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 17.10 Margaret Ka-Yan Lei and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee: Differentiating universal quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children's command of the affixal quantifier 'saai3' 17.10 - 17.50 Amanda Rizun and Jeremy Hartman: Acquisition of Exceptives in Quantified Sentences Saturday, October 17, 2015 9.10 - 10.10 INVITED TALK - Yosef Grodzinsky: Polarity, Numerosity, and Verification Procedures: Experimental Explorations 10.00 – 10.40 Tasos Chatzikonstantinou and Michaela Nerantzini: On Nouwen's class A and B quantifiers: Psycholingustic and sign-language data 10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 11.40 Oliver Bott, Udo Klein and Fabian Schlotterbeck: Empty set effects during online comprehension and verification of quantifiers 11.40 - 12.20 Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke and Jakub Szymanik: Alternative Representations in Proportional Quantifier Verification 12.20 - 13.00 Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi: The existential quantificational force of pseudo-incorporated nominals and its effects on their anaphoric uptake 13.00 - 14.20 Lunch 14.20 - 15.00 Poster session Posters: Barbara Tomaszewicz, Roumyana Pancheva and Joanna Blaszczak: Focus association revealed in reading times (alternate) Anna Balázs and Anna Babarczy: The interpretation of Hungarian preverbal focus sentences by children and its correlation with some general cognitive abilities Ana Bosnic: Morpho-syntactic cues for distributivity in Serbian Katalin É. Kiss, Lilla Pintér and Tamás Zétényi: Ostention effect in experiments testing children's interpretation of quantification Chorong Kang: Covert movement, audible in prosody Petia Kojouharova and Attila Krajcsi: The Source of the Distance Effect in an Artificial Number Sequence Balázs Surányi and Levente Madarász: The distributive-collective ambiguity: The effect of Information Structure David Townsend: The Role of Pragmatics in Interpreting Universally Quantified Frequency Modifiers 15.00 - 15.40 Adam Liter, Antoinette Huelskamp, Christopher C. Heffner and Cristina Schmitt: Non-grammaticalized number entails an exclusive interpretation of plural morphology 15.40 - 16.20 Caitlin Meyer, Sjef Barbiers and Fred Weerman: Getting your ducks in a row: acquiring ordinals and ordinality 16.20 - 16.40 Coffee break 16.40 - 17.20 Benedict Vassileiou, Napoleon Katsos and Spyridoula Varlokosta: Logical and inferred meaning of quantifiers in Williams Syndrome 17.20 - 18.00 Lynda Kennedy, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu and Raffaella Folli: Scope ambiguity in Broca's aphasia: A comparative approach Registration is open until September 30, 2015. For further information, please see the conference website: http://www.nytud.hu/lcq2015/index.html

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, October

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest October Program 7 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 György Darvas Symmetrion, Budapest Isotopic field-charges in the physical world-view 14 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Judit X. Madarász Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Principle of Relativity, Isotropy and Homogeneity 21 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Ákos Gyarmathy & Péter Neuman Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics 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

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] First World Congress on Analogy, Puebla, Mexico, November 4-6, 2015

by Universal Logic

First World Congress on Analogy, Puebla, Mexico, November 4-6, 2015 http://www.uni-log.org/analogy2015 This is the first world event dedicated to analogy in all its aspects. This event wants to promote interdisciplinary. It is of interest for all people dealing with analogy in one way or another: philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, artists, computer scientists, linguists, psychologists, etc. This is an event jointly sponsored by the University of Puebla in Mexico and the University Adam Mickiewicz in Poland. We invite submissions for contributions on all aspects of analogy in Science, Philosophy, Humanities and Art. Work of an interdisciplinary nature are particularly welcome. To submit a contribution send a one page abstract before September 30, 2015 to analogy2015(a)gmail.com

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: September 23, Wednesday: Ludwig Huber (University of Wien) - How specific is human cultural learning?

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER: The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by Ludwig Huber (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna) Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Natalie Sebanz, Head of Department Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. How specific is human cultural learning? How specific is human cultural learning? To answer this question we need to know if nonhuman animals learn culturally and if so, how. This requires us looking over the fence. Since I consider cultural learning being a subcategory of social learning, I will review several studies on social learning in non-human animals. Interestingly, these studies share an irritating feature, they don’t fit (easily) into the current (dominant) theories of social learning research. Red-footed tortoises show clear evidence of learning a difficult spatial problem (detour task) by observing a conspecific model despite the fact that they are solitary. Archer fish, lizards and common marmosets exhibit high fidelity copying of movement patterns of a conspecific model, thereby solving the correspondence problem of imitation (transforming visual information into matching motor acts). Dogs seem able to perform — at least in ostensive-communicative contexts — selective imitation; they copy a conspecific’ actions more often when those actions are the efficient solution to a problem than when they are not. However, the ability to interpret the ‘rational’ dimension of others actions has been considered a hallmark of human cultural learning. Together these data challenge some theories of social learning by suggesting that several core components of human cultural learning, such as high copying fidelity, intentional inhibition and selectivity, are shared by many species. What remains human-specific in social learning needs to be specified. See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-09-23/departmental-colloquium-l… 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

10 years, 7 months

[Koglist] Emlékeztető: ELTE Kognitív Szeminárium: Racsmány Mihály - Kontroll és emlékezet szkizofréniában

by Petia Kojouharova

Kedves Mindenki! Szeretettel hívunk meg minden érdeklődőt a Kognitív Szeminárium következő előadására, amelyet Racsmány Mihály adja elő: *Kontroll és emlékezet szkizofréniában* 2015. szeptember 23., 15:00, Izabella utca 46, P3-as terem Üdvözlettel, Kojouharova Petia

10 years, 7 months

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