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[Koglist] Reminder: ELTE Cognitive Seminar: Bálint Forgács - Babies’ understanding of understanding: ERPs at the intersection of social cognition & language comprehension

by Petia Kojouharova

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the first event from the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series for the new academic year: *Bálint Forgács* *Babies’ understanding of understanding: ERPs at the intersection of social cognition & language comprehension* Place: ELTE-PPK, Institute of Psychology, Izabella utca 46, room 405 Date and time: September 14th, 2016 (Wednesday), 10:30-12:00 Summary: Infants already at 7 months of age seem to be tracking other people’s beliefs, and under certain conditions, already at 9 months of age seem to exhibit the N400 event related potential component, a neural marker of semantic incongruity detection well known in adults. In our study we wanted to investigate whether infants, similarly to adults, evaluate utterances from the perspective of a potential communicative partner. In order to investigate such social aspects of language processing, we presented various toys to 14-month-old infants, named them in the presence of an adult observer, and measured their electroencephalogram (EEG). On the basis of previous studies, we chose fifteen toys for which the labels are suspected to be known to infants, and named them by playing an audio file. We measured the infants’ ERPs time-locked to the onset of the object’s name. Half of the time the object was named congruently from the perspective of the infant, but incongruently from the perspective of the observer (who had a false belief about the identity of the object), and half of the time it was named congruently from both of their perspectives. Therefore, infants experienced a correct object label at all times, but the observer had either a true or a false belief about the identity of the object at the time of the object naming. Preliminary analysis of the ERPs revealed that the label incongruent for the observer evoked a greater negativity in the 300-500 ms time window over centro-parietal electrode sites in infants compared to the label congruent for both parties (p < .05). Further analyses and control experiments are under way, but the present finding already suggests that infants use their language comprehension system right from the onset to evaluate not only their own, but also their communicative partner’s comprehension of utterances. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1769881429954285/ Best regards, Petia Kojouharova

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[Koglist] PhD opportunity at the University of Hong Kong

by puisanw

PhD Fellowship Opportunity in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Hong Kong The Speech Research Lab in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Hong Kong seeks a highly motivated candidate for a doctoral fellowship. The applicant should have outstanding academic performance, strong ability/potential in conducting research, excellent oral and written English proficiency, and good communication and interpersonal skills. Possible areas of research include speech acquisition in individuals with and without communication disorders, first and second language speech perception and production, and training methods for speech acquisition. The fellowship is open to candidates with any nationality and country of origin. Applicants with various backgrounds such as speech and hearing sciences, psychology, cognitive psychology, statistics, linguistics and computational modeling are encouraged to apply. Applicants are required to submit a four-page proposal summary and detailed research proposal (about 20 pages) on or before December 1st, 2016. Participants who are interested should send C.V., academic transcripts, statement of purpose and research proposal to Dr. Puisan Wong at puisanwong(a)hku.hk<mailto:puisanwong@hku.hk>. Information about the application procedures can be found at: http://web.edu.hku.hk/programme/mphil-phd/application-deadlines Information about the fellowships can be found at: http://web.edu.hku.hk/programme/mphil-phd/scholarships Information about the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme can be found at: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html --- Puisan Wong, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Assistant Professor Director, Speech Research Lab Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Office: (852) 3917-1567 Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/puisanw Lab: http://www.speech.hku.hk/research_lab_sa.html

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[Koglist] Workshop on Neural and Cognitive Architectures

by Balazs Ujfalussy

Dear Colleagues, The Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science and the Theoretical Neuroscience and Complex Systems Group of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics is organising a Workshop on "Neural and Cognitive Architectures" Date: September 30th, 2016 Venue: Wigner Research Centre for Physics, "KFKI Campus" III bldg. To register please write an email to Dorottya Cserpan (vintyister(a)gmail.com) by September 28th. Program in brief: 10.05: Péter Érdi (WRCP - BSCS):Opening remarks 10.10: Vassilis Cutsuridis: Cognitive decision making models 11.10: András Lőrincz: Cartesian Abstraction 12.00 - 13.30: Break 13.30: Vaibhav Diwadkar: Functional and dysfunctional cognitive neuro-architectures: Evidence from functional and effective connectivity analyses of fMRI data 14.20: Zoltan Jakab: Quantifíing with mental files 15.10: Panel Discussion: What did we learn? (Panelists: TBA) See the attached program for further details. Best, Balazs Ujfalussy

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium, September 14: Alan P. Fiske, UCLA - Kama Muta

by Barbara Pomiechowska

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Prof. *Alan P. Fiske* (UCLA, US) [web <http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/alan-page-fiske> <http:/>] *Title:* Kama Muta*:* The Tears-of-Joy, Goosebumps, Heart-Warming Emotion of Holding Your Newborn Baby, Feeling Divine Love, Patriotic Devotion, Social Support, and Pixar Movies *Date*: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 *Time:* 17:00-18:30 *Location*: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 101 *Abstract:* Abrupt changes in social motives are experienced as emotions. In particular, sudden intensification of a communal sharing (CS) relationship is felt as an emotion we call “kama muta” (Sanskrit ‘moved by love’). Vernacular approximations include *being moved, touched, heart-warming, rapture, megérintett*, and *megérint* – although none of these exactly correspond to the psychological phenomenon. People may experience kama muta (KM) when their own CS relationships suddenly intensify, or when they observe others’ CS relationships suddenly intensify. For example, people often feel KM when seeing the first ultrasound of their baby, when the baby is born, in reunions, when receiving a great kindness,at patriotic and memorial ceremonies, when feeling a deity’s love, watching Pixar movies, or when seeing someone else experience KM. When KM is intense, people typically cry, get goosebumps, have a warm or other feeling in the center of the chest, or get choked up. They may take a deep breath or say *awww.* KM is a very positive experience that people seek out and eagerly share with other CS partners. Consequently, a great many institutions, practices, narratives, and artifacts have culturally evolved to evoke KM; they are prominent in a great many diverse cultures across history. KM is easy to evoke in the lab. One set of participants’ averaged moment-to-moment judgments of the *closeness* of characters in a video predict with astounding precision four other sets of participants’ averaged moment-to-moment self-reports of, respectively, *being moved* or *touched,* tears, warm feelings in the chest, and goosebumps. We are looking forward to seeing you. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events Dr Barbara Pomiechowska 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

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[Koglist] Fwd: BCCCD17 LAST REMINDER - Submission deadlines

by Gabor Brody

*Dear Colleagues, * *Please note that on September 11, the paper and symposia submission will close. * *Please visit the conference website for more information about the program and submission instructions: http://www.bcccd.org/ <http://hirlevelcenter.eu/click.php?hirlevel_id=14731728149698&url=http%3A%2…>* *BCCCD is the only annual conference entirely focused on cognitive development in Europe. We welcome all the submissions within this research field. Past BCCCD conferences included presentations on topics such as comparative cognition, cognitive bases of culture, conceptual learning, early social cognition, language, numeracy, or object cognition. * *Looking forward to your submissions,* *The BCCCD17 Organizing Committee* *Frances Buttelmann, Gábor Bródy *Conference Chairs

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: September 7, Wednesday, Ed Vul: Structured inference and representations in visual cognition

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER: The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its public lecture as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by Ed Vul, UC San Diego, Department of Psychology Date: wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Jozsef Fiser Structured inference and representations in visual cognition Human cognition can get so much from just a little input by bootstrapping rich expectations about how the world works. Here I will talk about two strands of research that characterize the knowledge and expectations that people bring to bear on problems in visual cognition in a highly structured world. I will describe how visual memory exploits the structure of the world to encode complex scenes, and how perception uses an understanding of physics to extrapolate world dynamics to make predictions and make decisions. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-09-07/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, 8 months

[Koglist] Correction (start of the talk) Re: ELTE Cognitive Seminar: Tom Verguts - Grounding cognitive control in associative learning

by Petia Kojouharova

Dear All, The start of the talk is *10:30*. Apologies for the mistake! Best regards, Petia Kojouharova On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Petia Kojouharova <p.kojouharova(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > We would like to invite you to the next event from the ELTE Cognitive > Seminar series: > > *Tom Verguts* > > *Grounding cognitive control in associative learning* > > Place: ELTE-PPK, Institute of Psychology, Izabella utca 46, room P3 > Time: September 15th, 2016 (Thursday), 10:00-12:30 > Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1234333133301257/ > > *Abstract* > Traditionally, cognitive control and associative learning have been > studied in different research traditions. In the cognitive control > tradition, cognitive control is considered to go beyond, or be independent > from, associative learning (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974; Bugg & Crump, 2012). > However, recent models of cognitive control that have tried to pinpoint its > computational and neural basis have, ironically, found associative learning > to be an excellent basis for implementing cognitive control (Abrahamse, > Braem, Notebaert, & Verguts, 2016; O’Reilly & Frank, 2006). > > I will describe some of these models (Verguts & Notebaert, 2008; Verguts, > Vassena, & Silvetti, 2015), and how they inform both behavioral and neural > data. Behaviorally, a major emerging theme is choosing to invest effort in > a task (or not); neurally, a major emerging theme is the role of anterior > cingulate cortex (ACC) in relation to subcortical (dopamine, noradrenaline) > structures. > > ----------------- > References > Abrahamse, E. L., Braem, S., Notebaert, W., & Verguts, T. (2016). > Grounding cognitive control in associative learning. Psychological > Bulletin, 142(7), 693–728. > Baddeley, A., & Hitch, G. J. (1974). Working memory. In G. D. Bower (Ed.), > The psychology of learning and motivation (pp. 47–89). Academic Press. > Bugg, J. M., & Crump, M. J. C. (2012). In Support of a Distinction between > Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Control: A Review of the Literature on > Proportion Congruent Effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(September). > http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00367 > O’Reilly, R. C., & Frank, M. J. (2006). Making working memory work: a > computational model of learning in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. > Neural Computation, 18(2), 283–328. http://doi.org/10.1162/ > 089976606775093909 > Verguts, T., & Notebaert, W. (2008). Hebbian learning of cognitive > control: dealing with specific and nonspecific adaptation. Psychological > Review, 115(2), 518–25. http://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.115.2.518 > Verguts, T., Vassena, E., & Silvetti, M. (2015). Adaptive effort > investment in cognitive and physical tasks: A neurocomputational model. > Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 1–17. >

9 years, 8 months

[Koglist] ELTE Cognitive Seminar: Tom Verguts - Grounding cognitive control in associative learning

by Petia Kojouharova

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the next event from the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series: *Tom Verguts* *Grounding cognitive control in associative learning* Place: ELTE-PPK, Institute of Psychology, Izabella utca 46, room P3 Time: September 15th, 2016 (Thursday), 10:00-12:30 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1234333133301257/ *Abstract* Traditionally, cognitive control and associative learning have been studied in different research traditions. In the cognitive control tradition, cognitive control is considered to go beyond, or be independent from, associative learning (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974; Bugg & Crump, 2012). However, recent models of cognitive control that have tried to pinpoint its computational and neural basis have, ironically, found associative learning to be an excellent basis for implementing cognitive control (Abrahamse, Braem, Notebaert, & Verguts, 2016; O’Reilly & Frank, 2006). I will describe some of these models (Verguts & Notebaert, 2008; Verguts, Vassena, & Silvetti, 2015), and how they inform both behavioral and neural data. Behaviorally, a major emerging theme is choosing to invest effort in a task (or not); neurally, a major emerging theme is the role of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in relation to subcortical (dopamine, noradrenaline) structures. ----------------- References Abrahamse, E. L., Braem, S., Notebaert, W., & Verguts, T. (2016). Grounding cognitive control in associative learning. Psychological Bulletin, 142(7), 693–728. Baddeley, A., & Hitch, G. J. (1974). Working memory. In G. D. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (pp. 47–89). Academic Press. Bugg, J. M., & Crump, M. J. C. (2012). In Support of a Distinction between Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Control: A Review of the Literature on Proportion Congruent Effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(September). http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00367 O’Reilly, R. C., & Frank, M. J. (2006). Making working memory work: a computational model of learning in the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Neural Computation, 18(2), 283–328. http://doi.org/10.1162/089976606775093909 Verguts, T., & Notebaert, W. (2008). Hebbian learning of cognitive control: dealing with specific and nonspecific adaptation. Psychological Review, 115(2), 518–25. http://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.115.2.518 Verguts, T., Vassena, E., & Silvetti, M. (2015). Adaptive effort investment in cognitive and physical tasks: A neurocomputational model. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 1–17.

9 years, 8 months

[Koglist] MTA NYTI szeptemberi program

by Nyelvesz Info

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet szeptemberi programjaira. 2016. szeptember 13. (kedd) 11.00 óra Laurence White (Plymouth University) The origins of speech anti-rhythm szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2016. szeptember 15. (csütörtök) 11.00 óra Ilan Kernerman (Director of K Dictionaries) Lexicography Today: From a Book of Words to Knowledge Networks szervező: Nyelvtechnológiai és Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2016. szeptember 15. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Petra Wagner (Univerasität Bielefeld) t.b.a. szervező: ALFFA munkacsoport helyszín: földszinti előadóterem 2016. szeptember 22. (csütörtök) 11.00 óra Dan Everett (Bentley University) t.b.a. szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: földszinti előadóterem *** A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon tájékozódhatnak: http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.

9 years, 8 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: September 7, Wednesday, Ed Vul: Structured inference and representations in visual cognition

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its public lecture as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by Ed Vul, UC San Diego, Department of Psychology Date: wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Jozsef Fiser Structured inference and representations in visual cognition Human cognition can get so much from just a little input by bootstrapping rich expectations about how the world works. Here I will talk about two strands of research that characterize the knowledge and expectations that people bring to bear on problems in visual cognition in a highly structured world. I will describe how visual memory exploits the structure of the world to encode complex scenes, and how perception uses an understanding of physics to extrapolate world dynamics to make predictions and make decisions. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-09-07/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

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