koglist March 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] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Akos Gyarmathy and Gabor Forgacs

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 6 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Ákos Gyarmathy and Gábor Forgács Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Grounding inferences _______________________________ 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, 1 month

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: April 6, Wednesday: Victoria Leong (University of Cambridge): How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its next talk by Victoria Leong (University of Cambridge) ( http://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/vvec2@cam.ac.uk) Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Agnes Kovacs Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations Young children spontaneously develop awareness of "big" phonological (speech sound) units such as prosodic stress patterns, syllables and rhymes. By 7.5 months, infants can use prosodic rhythm (motifs of strong and weak syllables) to segment words from continuous speech. This is a complex feat of speech engineering, requiring the child to "hack" the acoustic signal for its implicit phonological structure. In this talk, I will present converging computational and experimental evidence which suggests that infants could perform this feat through speech-to-brain coupling. This a process by which endogenous neuronal oscillations in the cortex entrain to a temporally-matched hierarchy of rhythmic patterns in the speech signal. Nursery rhymes and other forms of infant-directed speech have an enhanced and exaggerated rhythmic architecture which provides a rich substrate for acoustic-phonological extraction by the infant brain. Finally, I will provide preliminary evidence that brain-to-brain coupling between adults and infants could provide an early neural mechanism for the development of joint attention, which plays a important social modulatory role in early language learning. See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-04-06/departmental-colloquium-v… We are looking forward to see you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/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, 1 month

[Koglist] Reminder: invitation to a talk by Heather Douglas on`Jettisoning the Value-Free Ideal: Why do it and where does it leave us?`- 30 March, 5.30 PM , FT/608

by Krisztina Biber

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to aToPHSS Lecture by Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo) on Jettisoning the Value-Free Ideal: Why do it and where does it leave us? 30 March, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Room: Faculty Tower/608. ABSTRACT First, I will provide an overview of the arguments for getting rid of the value-free ideal for science. But more interesting is what comes next. This raises questions regarding both alternative ideals (what should constrain reasoning practices in science?) and the social location of science (what role does science play in society and what role should it play?). I will describe some advantages to particular replacement ideals, and address the question of how we should be thinking about science in society. "ToPHSS Lectures are part of the project “Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences”, funded by the Humanities Initiative. The project aims to cross boundaries between disciplines of the humanities and social sciences concerned with ‘the human’, that is with human beings, humanity, society, culture, history, and more. It focuses on methodological and ontological issues, in particular on those concerned with contested categories of the humanities and social sciences, and of those primarily on the categories of human, individual and person. This term the first focus is on the contested divide between nature and culture." 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, 1 month

[Koglist] Emlékeztető - ELTE Kognitív Szeminárium: Tauzin Tibor - A kontingens reaktivitás szerepe a kommunikáció felismerésében csecsemőknél és kutyánál

by Petia Kojouharova

Kedves Mindenki! Szeretettel várunk minden érdeklődőt az ELTE Kognitív Szeminárium előadására, amelyen *Tauzin Tibor: A kontingens reaktivitás szerepe a kommunikáció felismerésében csecsemőknél és kutyánál * című előadását hallgathatják meg. Időpont és helyszín: 2016. március 31. (csütörtök), 17:00, ELTE-PPK, Pszichológiai Intézet, Izabella utca 46, P3-as terem A társas kontingencia, vagyis a válaszvalószínűség nagysága interaktív helyzetben, a kommunikáció egy strukturális alapjellemzője. A kontingencia mértéke és a kontingens reaktivitás fajtája segíthet felismerni és elkülöníteni a kommunikatív és nem kommunikatív interakciókat. Ez alapjául szolgálhat többek között a kommunikációs szándék és kommunikatív ágensek felismerésének. Az előadás két olyan empirikus tanulmányt mutat be, amiben csecsemőknél és kutyánál vizsgáltuk a kontingens reaktivitásra mutatott érzékenységet és azt, hogy ez miként segíthet a kommunikáció felismerésén túl, a kommunikáció tartalmának kikövetkeztetésében.

10 years, 1 month

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Gabor Borbely

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 30 March (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gábor Borbély Department of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest A jóindulat-váltó: interpretációs problémák egy 14. századi szerző kapcsán (Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on the Principle of Non- contradiction: Conflicting Interpretations) _______________________________ 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, 1 month

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU Departmental Colloquium, March 30: Trix Cacchione (University of Bern) - Trans-temporal identity judgment in infants and great apes

by Barbara Pomiechowska

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Prof. ***Trix Cacchione* (University of Bern) [web <http://www.fhnw.ch/personen/trix-cacchione/publikationen>] *Title:* *Trans-temporal identity judgment in infants and great apes: Is object individuation a primordial form of psychological essentialism?* *Date*: Wednesday, 30 March 2016 *Time:* 17:00-18:30 *Location*: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 101 *Abstract:* Human reasoning is characterized by psychological essentialism. In reasoning about objects we distinguish between deep essential properties that define the objects’ identity and superficial properties that can be changed without altering the identity of the object. Painting a tiger like a crocodile, e.g., does not turn it into a crocodile. Essentialist reasoning has been amply documented in adults and older children from age four (Gelman, 2003; Keil, 1982). Little is known so far about the roots of psychological essentialism, both ontogenetically and phylogenetically. In particular, it is unclear whether psychological essentialism is based on the acquisition of linguistic means (such as kind terms) and is therefore uniquely human, or whether it is a more fundamental cognitive capacity possible without language. In a series of experiments with human infants and non-human apes we explored whether sortal object individuation in these subjects already involves essentialist modes of thinking. We are looking forward to see you. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events -- Barbara Pomiechowska Cognitive Development Center Central European University Budpest, 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

10 years, 1 month

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, April

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest April Program 6 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Ákos Gyarmathy and Gábor Forgács Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Grounding inferences 13 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Péter Mekis Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest The concept of understanding in Wittgenstein's Tractatus 20 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Zalán Gyenis* and Miklós Rédei** * Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics ** Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE, London Having a look at what a Bayesian Agent cannot see (the Bayes Blind Spot) 27 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gergely Ambrus Department of Modern Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest Tudatos gondolat (Conscious Thought) _______________________________ 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, 1 month

[Koglist] invitation to a talk on`Reality in Fiction` by Stacie Friend - Tuesday, 29 March, 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 Stacie Friend (Birkbeck, University of London) on Reality in Fiction Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT I argue that judgements of what is ‘true in a fiction’ presuppose the Reality Assumption: the assumption that everything that is (really) true is also fictionally the case, unless excluded by features of the work. By contrast with the more familiar Reality Principle, the Reality Assumption is not a rule or ‘principle of generation’ for inferring implied content from what is explicit in a text. Instead it provides an array of real-world truths that can be used in making such inferences. Drawing on empirical evidence, I claim that reliance on the Reality Assumption is essential to our ability to understand stories. However, the Reality Assumption has several unintuitive consequences, not least that what is fictionally the case includes countless facts that neither authors nor readers could or should ever consider. I argue that such consequences provide no reason to reject the Reality Assumption. Professor Friend has provided us with a now published article that is presently posted on e-Learning. All philosophy department faculty and students should have access to e-Learning. The document is also attached to this message for your convenience. 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, 1 month

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder: CogSci CEU Colloquium: March 23, Michiel van Elk (University of Amsterdam)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Michiel van Elk (Religion Cognition and Behavior Lab, University of Amsterdam) http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/e/l/m.vanelk/… Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Günther Knoblich Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Agency detection and supernatural beliefs Evolutionary accounts of religion have proposed that an evolved bias to over-detect the presence of other agents may be at the basis of belief in supernatural agents. More recently, similar ideas have been proposed in terms of the predictive coding framework, according to which prior beliefs come to dominate bottom-up perceptual input. In this talk I will present a series of studies scrutinizing the relation between supernatural beliefs, perceived agency in the environment and feelings of agency with respect to one’s actions. Although experimental manipulations of supernatural beliefs and experiences (e.g. through priming or placebo brain stimulation) did not affect agency detection, the hypothesized relation between agency detection biases and supernatural beliefs was tentatively supported by using an individual difference approach (including a developmental study and field studies with psychic believers). However, survey data (from large samples in the US and the Netherlands) indicates that the relative contribution of cognitive biases is only marginal with respect to the role of cultural learning in sustaining supernatural beliefs. We are looking forward to see you at the talk! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events Social Mind Center Events at CEU: http://socialmind.ceu.edu/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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