koglist November 2016

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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] Work in Progress Student Symposium

by Tolmár Fanni

*Work in Progress* The Department of Cognitive Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the Eötvös Loránd University is organizing its annual student symposium, "Work in Progress", whose main goal is to provide a forum for students in the field of cognitive science to present their research to a wider audience of peers as well as receive feedback on their work. Participation is open for any student who has not yet received his/her PhD degree. The topic of the presented research must be from the field of cognitive science, and pilot studies and research plans are also welcome. The presentations should be in English. A participant can choose to present their work in Hungarian at end of the event. Date and time: 19th of December, 2016 (Monday), starting at 10 o'clock Place: ELTE-PPK, Institute of Psychology, Izabella utca 46, Révész Géza room (room 301) The presentations should be 10 minutes long in the case of completed studies and 5 minutes long in the case of a pilot study or a research plan. There is no time limit for the discussion. If you would like to participate, please send us a title and a maximum 150-word abstract through the online registration form which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAUws2ScWktx2w4tDVJB_m7aPK3Pj7pn9… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAUws2ScWktx2w4tDVJB_m7aPK3Pj7pn9…> Deadline: 12th December, 2016 (Monday), 23:59 The final schedule of the event will be available after the deadline. -- Tolmár Fanni tanszéki ügyintéző ELTE PPK Pszichológiai Intézet Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék Szociálpszichológia Tanszék 1064 Bp.Izabella u. 46. III. em. 311. tel: 061-461-2600/5649, 461-2649

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Invitation: T. Papadopoulos: PA and RAN - Elucidating their relationship with word reading

by Dénes Tóth

Dear Colleagues, The Neurocognitive Development Research Group cordially invites you to the following talk:* * *Timothy C. Papadopoulos *(University of Cyprus)*: PA and RAN: Elucidating their relationship with word reading* Location: MTA TTK, ground floor, lecture room 2 Date: *December 7 (Wednesday), 2016, 14.00-15.30 * Abstract: Phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) have been shown to be reliable predictors of reading in several alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages, accounting for unique variance above and beyond general cognitive ability, short-term memory or letter knowledge. However, until recently little was known about the nature and conceptualization of these skills and the reasons why PA and RAN are related to word reading, an uncertainty that emanated from both PA’s and RAN’s multi-componential nature. This lecture focuses on the longitudinal evaluation of theory-driven conceptualizations of PA and RAN in a sufficiently transparent orthography (Greek) in two different cohorts of young readers, using advanced techniques within SEM. It also reports findings from studies aiming to understand the RAN-reading relationship based on the partition of RAN total time into its constituent components (articulation and pause time). Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Everyone is welcome to attend. Kind regards, Denes Toth --- Dénes Tóth, PhD Brain Imaging Centre, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences e-mail: toth.denes(a)ttk.mta.hu

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: November 30, Wednesday: David Pietraszewski: Towards a mechanistic account of the psychology of groups: Basic theoretical models and empirical tests of the psychology underlying racial categorizat

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER: The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by David Pietraszewski<https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/david-pietraszewski>, Max-Planck Institute Host: Christophe Heintz When: November 30, Wednesday, at 5 pm in Oktober 6 street 7, 1st floor, room 101. Title: Towards a mechanistic account of the psychology of groups: Basic theoretical models and empirical tests of the psychology underlying racial categorization. Abstract: The cognitive revolution can be understood as a commitment to describing psychological processes as mechanistically as possible, without intervention from an intentional agent or homunculus. This talk presents an overview of a research program committed to describing the psychology of groups in this way. Two primary veins of research will be described: First, a body of work will be presented that suggests we may have discovered the function of the cognitive mechanisms responsible for producing the phenomenon of racial categorization. Second, a task analysis will be presented that describes the invariances of n-person conflict and suggests a way to define the construct "group" in purely mechanistic terms. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-11-30/departmental-colloquium-… We are looking forward to see you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.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

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, December

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest December Program 7 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Áron Dombrovszki Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Realista lehetségesvilág-fikcionalizmus (Realist possible world fictionalism) 14 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gábor Etesi Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Exotica or the failure of the strong cosmic censor hypothesis in four dimensions _______________________________ 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

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] PhD studentships in Cognitive Science at CEU, Budapest

by Gergely Csibra

Applications are invited for PhD studentships at the Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. This is a research-based training program in human cognition with social cognition and learning as core themes. Research topics include cooperation, communication, social learning, cultural transmission, embodied cognition, joint action, cognitive development, strategic decision-making, problem solving, visual cognition, sensory and statistical learning, visual psychophysics, computational neuroscience, and social cognitive neuroscience. Students will follow courses in cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive anthropology, and computational cognition, and will receive practical research training in the laboratories of the members of the department. Faculty includes Gergely CSIBRA (cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience) József FISER (visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning) György GERGELY (infant cognition, developmental psychopathology) Christophe HEINTZ (culture and cognition, scientific cognition, behavioral economics) Günther KNOBLICH (embodied and social cognition, problem solving) Ágnes M. KOVÁCS (development of social cognition, theory of mind, mental representations) Máté LENGYEL (computational neuroscience, learning and memory) Natalie SEBANZ (social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience) Dan SPERBER (culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution) Ernő TÉGLÁS (cognitive development, reasoning) Applicants are expected to hold an internationally recognized Master’s or comparable degree in the standard disciplines that constitute cognitive science. A comparable degree in other Social Sciences, Humanities, or other disciplines will also be considered in case of an excellent academic record. We will consider the applications of *exceptional* students who only hold a Bachelor degree, provided it is in a discipline closely associated to cognitive science. Application deadline: February 1, 2017. For further details see http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/Admission ---- CEU (www.ceu.hu) is a graduate research-intensive university located in Budapest, Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU enrolls more than 1400 graduate students from more than 100 countries in its master's and doctoral programs. The teaching staff consists of more than 189 resident faculty from 29 countries, and prominent visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction is English.

9 years, 5 months

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by David Pietraszewski<https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/david-pietraszewski>, Max-Planck Institute Host: Christophe Heintz When: November 30, Wednesday, at 5 pm in Oktober 6 street 7, 1st floor, room 101. Title: Towards a mechanistic account of the psychology of groups: Basic theoretical models and empirical tests of the psychology underlying racial categorization. Abstract: The cognitive revolution can be understood as a commitment to describing psychological processes as mechanistically as possible, without intervention from an intentional agent or homunculus. This talk presents an overview of a research program committed to describing the psychology of groups in this way. Two primary veins of research will be described: First, a body of work will be presented that suggests we may have discovered the function of the cognitive mechanisms responsible for producing the phenomenon of racial categorization. Second, a task analysis will be presented that describes the invariances of n-person conflict and suggests a way to define the construct "group" in purely mechanistic terms. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-11-30/departmental-colloquium-… We are looking forward to see you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.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

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Peter Vecsernyes

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 30 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Péter Vecsernyés Institute for Particle and Nuclear PhysicsWigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest Mit szolgáltat nekünk a kvantumtérelmélet és mit nem? (What quantum field theory does and does not provide us) _______________________________ 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

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER -- CEU Departamental Colloquium, Nov 23, Sid Kouider (ENS) -- Neural signatures of perceptual consciousness, predictive coding and metacognitive sensitivity in infants

by Barbara Pomiechowska

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science gently reminds about its tomorrow's talk by: *Dr. Sid Kouider (ENS)* [web <http://www.lscp.net/persons/sidk/>] *Title:** Neural signatures of perceptual consciousness, predictive coding and metacognitive sensitivity in infants* *Date*: Wednesday, 23 November 2016 *Time:* 17:00-18:30 *Location*: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 101 *Abstract:* My talk will focus on whether and how infants 1) experience perceptual consciousness, 2) rely on bayesian inference to monitor surprising events in their environment, and 3) rely on metacognitive sensitivity to monitor decision confidence and detect their own errors. I will first describe how one can test for perceptual consciousness in infants by relying on neural signatures validated in adult populations. Our studies confirm the presence of these neural signatures in 5 to 15 month-old infants, but also reveal that their temporal dynamics are extremely slow compared to adult populations. Secondly, I will describe how EEG recordings combined with cross-modal cueing paradigms can be used to track the impact of predictions on the infant visual brain. Our results reveal that the infants brain deals with predictive codes using two distinct modes: first, by enhancing the gain of sensory signals for expected events, and then by triggering global responses to surprising events. Finally, I will show how post-decision behaviors and error-related electrophysiological signatures can be used to probe confidence and error monitoring in infants. Our results reveal that although explicit forms of metacognition might mature later during childhood, the core, implicit mechanisms of metacognitive sensitivity are already at play during the first year of life. I will conclude on perspectives for learning and education. We are looking forward to see you. Barbara Pomiechowska, PhD Cognitive Development Center Central European University Budapest, Hungary Web: http://www.babakutato.hu/lab-members ______________________________________________ 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

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Fwd: [Ganglion] COFEES - cortical feedback spring school

by Gyula Kovacs

COFEES – COrtical FEEdback Spring School 06.03.2017-09.03.2017, Jena, Germany REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN; PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ONLINE The dominant view on the cortical neural processing for a very long time was that the incoming sensory information is passed to higher order processing units within a strongly hierarchical cascade. Such systems are typically dominated by the feedforward or bottom-up connections and complemented by heavy lateral connections between units of the similar hierarchical levels. However, the importance of cortical feedback connections, rooting in higher-level areas and targeting lower-level ones is demonstrated by extensive works in anatomy, neurophysiology and specifically in brain imaging in the last two decades. It is generally accepted that these feedback connections convey several modulatory effects, higher-order representations and also have strong cognitive influences on the earlier processing units. Top-down effect include, among others, the influence of spatial and temporal contexts, of attention, predictions and expectations, learning and memory, as well as task and motor behavior related changes on the lower-level processing stages. In the last decades feedback mechanisms became a widely studied phenomenon in systemic and cognitive neurosciences as well as in cognitive and experimental psychology. The aim of COFEES is to bring together eminent researchers from the USA, the UK, and Europe with students of a broad range of disciplines to teach and discuss current views on feed-back related mechanisms. The speakers are experts in clinical, computational, single-cell, EEG/MEG/ERP and neuroimaging studies. We expect that COFEES will give a unique opportunity to present, discuss, and integrate cutting-edge research on this important phenomenon of the CNS. 1 intensive week of training with 16 speakers from 7 countries for 40 students as a maximum The Friedrich Schiller University, Jena organizes a Spring School aimed at PhD students and post-docs at the early stages in their careers. Places are limited to ensure good interaction in classes. COFEES will take place at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany between 06-09 March 2017. It will consist of an intensive week of lectures with two keynotes, a student-oriented poster session and a round-table discussion. Lecturers are renowned researchers from the most active research groups in their fields. A list of invited lecturers and the program of the summer school are available on summer school website: http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/COFEES.html <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/COFEES.html> In addition to the academic content, COFEES provides a networking opportunity for students to interact with their peers, and to make contacts among those who will be the active researchers of their own generation. § Important Dates: Registration is open from now. Registration deadline: 31 DEC 2016. Summer school: Monday 06 Marc - Thursday 09 March 2017 § Registration fee: 100 Euro. It includes all sessions and materials, accommodation (5 nights), lunches, refreshments and coffee, finger-foods and wine during poster session and round table discussion, Spring School Dinner. § Confirmed Speakers: Keynote speakers: Sabine Kastner (Princeton, NJ, USA) Pascal Fries (ESI, Frankfurt, D) Board: Moshe Bar (Bar Ilan Univ, Ramat-Gan, Il) Mark Greenlee (Univ. Regensburg, Regensburg, D) Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) Gyula Kovács (FSU, Jena, D) Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM, Lyon, Fr) Daniel Marguiles (Max Plack Inst. Leipzig, D) Lars Muckli (Univ. Glasgow, Glasgow, UK) Uta Noppeney (Univ. Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) Brigitte Roeder (Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, D) Pieter Roelfsema (Ned. Inst. Neurosci, Amsterdam, NL) Philipp Sterzer (Charite, Berlin, D) Zoltan Vidnyánszky (Hung. Acad. Sci. Budapest, H) Michael Wibral (Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D) István Winkler, (Hung. Acad. Sci, Budapest, H)

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