koglist December 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] COFEES – COrtical FEEdback Spring School, Jena, Germany. deadline extended.

by Gyula Kovacs

Kindly see our advertisement below. The deadline has been extended until the 15th of January, 2017. A few places are still available. Please contact the homepage for the updated program and informations as well. 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) > Gyula Kovács > > Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience > Institute of Psychology > Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena > Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany > Tel: 03641945936 > http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/ <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/> > >

9 years, 4 months

[Koglist] Work in Progress invitation

by Tolmár Fanni

Dear All, We cordially invite you to this year's "Work in Progress" Student Symposium. Date and time: 19 of December, 2016 (Monday), starting at 10 o'clock Place: ELTE-PPK, Institute of Psychology, Izabella utca 46, Révész Géza room (room 301) You can find attached the symposium's schedule. -- 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, 4 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: December 14, Wednesday: Pascal Fries: Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence.

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by Pascal Fries (Max-Planck Institute) Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Barbara Pomiechowska Title: Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence Abstract: I will show that free viewing induces gamma-band oscillations in early visual cortex. If the gamma rhythm in a lower visual area entrains a gamma rhythm in a higher visual area, this might establish an effective communication protocol: The lower area sends a representation of the visual stimulus rhythmically, and the higher area is most excitable precisely when this representation arrives. At other times, the higher area is inhibited, which excludes competing stimuli. I refer to this scenario as the Communication-through-Coherence (CTC) hypothesis. I will show that the gamma rhythm in awake macaque V4 modulates the gain of synaptic inputs. I will further show that constant optogenetic stimulation in anesthetized cat area 21a (homologue to V4) induces a local gamma rhythm, and that this isolated gamma is sufficient to produce similar gain modulation. These gain modulation effects would be ideal to lend enhanced effective connectivity to attended stimuli. I will show that this is indeed the case between macaque V1 and V4. When two visual stimuli induce two local gamma rhythms in V1, only the one induced by the attended stimulus entrains V4. I will then investigate how these changes in gamma synchronization between visual areas are controlled by influences from parietal cortex. I will show that posterior parietal cortex influences visual areas primarily via beta-band synchronization. I will show that generally, beta-band influences are stronger in the top-down direction, while gamma-band influences are stronger in the bottom-up direction. This holds across macaques and human subjects, and in both species it allows building a hierarchy of visual areas based on the directed influences. Finally, I will show that attentional selection occurs at a theta rhythm. When two objects are monitored simultaneously, attentional benefits alternate at 4 Hz, consistent with an 8 Hz sampling rhythm, sampling them in alternation. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-12-14/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, 4 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Talk by Wayne Christensen, Wednesday December 14, 10:15-11:45

by Michael, John

Hi all, There will be an extra special CEU-CogSci Bonus Talk by Wayne Christensen in room 103 next Wednesday, December 14, at 10:15 a.m. See title and abstract below. Be there or be square. Cheers John Meshed control in skilled action Wayne Christensen1, John Sutton2, Kath Bicknell2 1 University of Warwick, presenting author. 2 Macquarie University According to common views of skill acquisition cognitive control diminishes in the course of skill learning, with perceptual-motor processes operating largely independently of cognitive control in advanced stages of expertise. We outline an alternative theory called Mesh which proposes that cognitive control continues to play a major role in advanced skill. Fundamentally, skills do not automate strongly because real-world skilled action is too complex: it is commonly subject to the requirement of achieving precise outcomes in the context of high degrees of situational variability, whereas the development of strong automaticity requires a high degree of constancy of perception-action relations. Conversely, skill learning ameliorates the speed and capacity limitations faced by cognitive control of novice actions. Overall there is increased integration between cognitive and motor processes in advanced skill rather than greater independence. Mesh incorporates a model of action control that explains how the combination of flexibility and precision of skilled action is achieved. Conceptual representations of the situation serve as the basis for high level action specifications that configure lower order action production processes for the particularities of the situation. This model identifies an important role in action control for forms of action awareness such as sense of agency and sense of control. ______________________________________________ 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, 4 months

[Koglist] Talk invitation -- Pascal FRIES (ESI, Frankfurt), Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence

by Barbara Pomiechowska

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by: *Pascal Frie*s (Ernst Strüngmann Institute, web <http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/research/fries-lab/>) *Date*: *Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - 17:00-18:30* *Location*: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101 *Title*: *Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence* *Abstract*: I will show that free viewing induces gamma-band oscillations in early visual cortex. If the gamma rhythm in a lower visual area entrains a gamma rhythm in a higher visual area, this might establish an effective communication protocol: The lower area sends a representation of the visual stimulus rhythmically, and the higher area is most excitable precisely when this representation arrives. At other times, the higher area is inhibited, which excludes competing stimuli. I refer to this scenario as the Communication-through-Coherence (CTC) hypothesis. I will show that the gamma rhythm in awake macaque V4 modulates the gain of synaptic inputs. I will further show that constant optogenetic stimulation in anesthetized cat area 21a (homologue to V4) induces a local gamma rhythm, and that this isolated gamma is sufficient to produce similar gain modulation. These gain modulation effects would be ideal to lend enhanced effective connectivity to attended stimuli. I will show that this is indeed the case between macaque V1 and V4. When two visual stimuli induce two local gamma rhythms in V1, only the one induced by the attended stimulus entrains V4. I will then investigate how these changes in gamma synchronization between visual areas are controlled by influences from parietal cortex. I will show that posterior parietal cortex influences visual areas primarily via beta-band synchronization. I will show that generally, beta-band influences are stronger in the top-down direction, while gamma-band influences are stronger in the bottom-up direction. This holds across macaques and human subjects, and in both species it allows building a hierarchy of visual areas based on the directed influences. Finally, I will show that attentional selection occurs at a theta rhythm. When two objects are monitored simultaneously, attentional benefits alternate at 4 Hz, consistent with an 8 Hz sampling rhythm, sampling them in alternation. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-12-14/departmen tal-colloquium-pascal-fries-max-planck-institute-rhythms-cognition We are looking forward to see you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Barbara Pomiechowska, PhD Cognitive Development Center Central European University Budapest, Hungary Web: http://www.babakutato.hu/lab-members

9 years, 4 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] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Gabor Etesi

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 14 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gábor EtesiDepartment 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] Fluencia Party on December 16 (Friday)

by Dezso Nemeth

Dear Cognitive Folks, The next Fluencia Party will be on 16th September (Friday) starting at 8.00pm at Ankert (Paulay Ede utca). Info: *https://www.facebook.com/events/692207110945384/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/692207110945384/>* Fluencia is a monthly organized informal "jamboree" for cogsci-, psychology-related students (undergrads, grads), professors, researchers from many different universities in Hungary. The idea and motivation are to facilitate interactions, communication, collaboration among researchers working here, get to know others and others' interests, topics, etc. And, of course, to have some drinks and fun in a friendly environment. Everybody is welcome to attend! If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask. All the best, Dezso -------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (PhD) Brain, Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com Phone: +36-1-4614500/3565, +36-1-4614500/3563

9 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Dora Kampis, Department of Cognitive Science, on January 9, 2017

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis MINDREADERS IN THE CRIB: COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF REPRESENTING OTHERS' MENTAL STATES IN HUMAN INFANTS by Dóra Kampis SUPERVISOR: ÁGNES M. KOVÁCS SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: GERGELY CSIBRA A crucial part of human cognition is to understand that people are guided not just by external factors, but also by their mental states. This capacity, termed "Theory of Mind", has been of great interest in the past four decades to researchers from a variety of fields. A pressing question is how the ability to form metarepresentations of others' mental states develops, and whether it is present in human infants. The present work investigated the cognitive mechanisms that may enable young infants to represent other people's mental representations. One set of experiments explored the neuro-cognitive bases of infants' ability to encode the world from another person's perspective; and found common neural activation when infants sustained a representation from their own perspective, and when they could attribute such representations to someone else. A second set of studies investigated infants' abilities to ascribe to others beliefs based on correct or mistaken individuation of objects using spatiotemporal or feature/kind information; and found that infants can represent others' beliefs involving multiple objects, and object identity. Finally, a third line of experiments probed the flexibility of infants' mental state attributions by testing how infants can integrate new information into their already existing representations. Together, these studies point to the possibility of an early developing, flexible, and powerful apparatus suitable to handle multiple concurrent representations; which may be the core of a mature mindreading ability in adulthood. The defense will take place at room 101, V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, 1st floor on Monday, January 9, at 9:00 a.m. With kind regards, 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

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