koglist October 2017

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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] Adatelemzés és statisztika szimpózium

by Krajcsi Attila

Kedves Kollégák, A lentebbi szimpóziumra várunk előadás absztraktokat, és persze szívesen látunk mindenkit a hallgatóság soraiban is. Attila BEST PRACTICES IN DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS SYMPOSIUMABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM *Venue* Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology <https://www.ppk.elte.hu/en>, Budapest, Kazinczy street, 23-27 <https://www.google.hu/maps/@47.4981147,19.0627044,3a,75y,23.51h,86.1t/data=…>, Room 203. *Date* 17 November 2017, 12:00 *Website* http://www.cogstat.org/best_practices_symposium/ *Aims* While many new methods are developed these days, many valuable older methods are not used, because they are not accessible, because researchers do not know how to use them, or because researchers do not even know about them. The aim of the Best practices symposium is to popularize either new or old solutions, to familiarize researchers with these methods, and to make these methods more accessible. In addition, the symposium is a great opportunity to discuss and evaluate various methods to improve research practice. *Presentations* Potential talks may include: - Presentation of new methods, preferably also offering computational tools - Presentation of older methods, that are hardly known among researchers - Demonstration of software solutions that could make the analysis more efficient - Presentation of tutorials that introduce either new or older methods *Register* Because of the limited seats, please, register for the event here <https://goo.gl/forms/jNpZcWuHzkkgbpz62>. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Submit your abstract by filling out this form <https://goo.gl/forms/jNpZcWuHzkkgbpz62>. Deadline for abstract submission is 2 November 2017. For more information contact Attila Krajcsi <krajcsi(a)gmail.com>.

8 years, 6 months

[Koglist] MTA NYTI: novemberi program

by Nyelvesz Info

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet novemberi programjaira! 2017. november 13-18. (hétfő-szombat) 10.00-12.00 Szintaxis minikurzus: Syntactic Phenomena Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) szervező:Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: 414-es terem http://www.nytud.hu/szakcsoport/kurzus/syntax2017osz.html 2017. november 14. (kedd) 11.00 óra Ana Maria Brito (Universidade do Porto) Consecutive clauses in European Portuguese: A syntactic approach szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet helyszín: 108-as előadóterem 2017. november 14. (kedd) 14.00 óra Rebecca Woods (University of Huddersfield) Embedded Inverted Questions (EIQs) as Conventional Implicatures: a QUD-based approach szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: 108-as előadóterem 2017. november 16. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan) Acoustic prominence and phonological head-dependent structure szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály, ALFFA kutatócsoport helyszín: 108-as előadóterem 2017. november 28. (kedd) 14.00-18.00 óra A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2017 Nyelvtudomány az ember szolgálatában: esélyek, eredmények szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet helyszín: MTA Székház, Felolvasóterem http://mta.hu/mtu_esemenynaptar/2017-11-28-nyelvtudomany-az-ember-szolgalat… 2017. november 30. (csütörtök) 10.00-14.00 óra Mutatvány Az uráli nyelvek mondattanának változása aszimmetrikuskontaktushelyzetben OTKA-projektum eredményeiből (Some results of the project Languages under the Influence. Uralic syntax changing in an asymmetrical contact situation) Program: 10-10.35: Simon Eszter – Kalivoda Ágnes: Introducing the UraLUID database 10.35-11.10: Asztalos Erika - Gugán Katalin - Mus Nikolett: Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV to VO 11.10-11.45: Hegedűs Veronika - Mus Nikolett - Surányi Balázs: Copular clauses in Nenets 11-45-11.55: szünet 11.55-12.30: Dékány Éva - Gugán Katalin - Tánczos Orsolya: From prenominal to postnominal relative clauses in Udmurt and Khanty 12.30-13.05: É. Kiss Katalin - Tánczos Orsolya: From possessive agreement to object marking: the functional evolution of the Udmurt -jez suffix A előadásokat 5-10 perc vita követi. szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: 108-as előadóterem Helyszín: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1067 Budapest Teréz krt. 13. *** A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon tájékozódhatnak: http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html

8 years, 6 months

[Koglist] FW: Summer School Course “Thinking About the Possible” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from 9 July, 2018 till 14 July, 2018

by Gyorgyne Finta

Summer School Course “Thinking About the Possible” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from 9 July, 2018 till 14 July, 2018 __________________________________________________________ Dear All, CEU's summer school “Thinking About the Possible” invites applications from graduate students, junior faculty, researchers and practitioners in universities and other institutions from all over the world. Thinking about the possible and impossible and exploring counterfactual (“what if?”) scenarios are fundamental aspects of the human mind. The boundary conditions for counterfactual thinking, and the extent to which it shares the same underlying cognitive machinery with related abilities such as episodic future thinking and pretend play, are currently the subjects of substantial debate in philosophy and psychology. The course will bring together diverse perspectives on imagination and counterfactual reasoning, with seminars offered by faculty from the fields of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Informatics on a range of topics. Course participants will learn about empirical techniques and findings from studies in cognitive development, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience and will engage with theoretical perspectives on the nature of imagination and counterfactual reasoning. We would appreciate if you could spread this information to your colleagues, students and research fellows. Course Director(s): Patricia Ganea<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4837> Jackman Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto Agnes Kovacs<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/3133> Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University Course Faculty: Sarah Beck<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4726> Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham Ruth Byrne<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4838> Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin Gergely Csibra<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/795> Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University Felipe de Brigard<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4845> Department of Philosophy, Duke University Paul Harris<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4839> Graduate School of Education, Harvard University Christoph Hoerl<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4840> Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Ferenc Huoranszki<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/1768> Department of Philosophy, Central European University Karen S. Lewis<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4844> Department of Philosophy, Barnard College, Columbia University Christopher Lucas<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4846> School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Teresa McCormack<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4841> School of Psychology, Queen's University Eva Rafetseder <https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4842> Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling Erno Teglas<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4854> Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University Caren Walker<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4843> Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego Application deadline: 14 February 2018 Tuition waivers are available. The online platform will become available in December. Follow the instructions on the summeruniversity.ceu.edu . More detailed information available at https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2018-07-09/thinking-about-possible-… 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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Martin Freundlieb, Department of Cognitive Science, October 26, 10 am, room 101

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis SPONTANEOUS VISUOSPATIAL PERSPECTIVE-TAKING IN HUMANS by Martin Freundlieb PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Natalie Sebanz SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: ÁGNES M. KOVÁCS Members of the Dissertation Committee: Gergely Csibra, Chair, CEU Ian Apperly, external examiner, University of Birmingham Marcel Brass, external examiner Ghent University abstract | Perspective-taking is one of the fundamental building blocks enabling humans to successfully understand and relate to others in a large variety of social interactions. Yet, there are many open questions about whether, when and how instances of visuospatial perspective-taking occur during social interactions. This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of spontaneous visuospatial perspective-taking in humans. Chapter 1 discusses visuospatial perspective-taking in the wider context of social cognition abilities. The study presented in Chapter 2 explored the underlying factors as well as boundary conditions that characterize the spontaneous adoption of another person's visuospatial perspective (VSP). The results showed that participants spontaneously adopted a differing VSP, given there was an intentionally acting agent alongside of them. Chapter 3 investigated whether knowledge about another's visual access systematically modulates spontaneous VSP-taking. In two experiments we found that knowledge about another person's visual access indeed modulated the spontaneous integration of another person's VSP into one's own action planning. Specifically, our findings showed that participants only adopted the other person's VSP if he had unhindered visual access to the stimuli but regardless of whether or not he performed the same task or a different task. Finally, the study presented in Chapter 4 probed whether spontaneous VSP-taking also occurs in mental space where another person's perspective matters for mental activities rather than for physical actions. In three experiments participants reliably adopted the VSP of a confederate in the context of a semantic categorization task that involved reading words. Taken together, these studies show that we spontaneously take into account how somebody else perceives the environment, even in situations where we are not asked to do so, and we are likely not aware of doing so. This suggests that humans are endowed with a basic sensitivity to their conspecifics' viewpoints. The defense will take place at room 101, V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, 1st floor on Thursday, October 26, at 10 am organized by the Department of Cognitive Science 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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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMNDER: The seeds of social learning by Annie Wertz, Wednesday, October 25th, 17:00

by Gyorgyne Finta

This is a kind reminder: _____________________________________________ Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Annie Wertz (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) Date: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30 Host: Gergo Csibra Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. The seeds of social learning Plants have been central to human life across evolutionary time as sources of food and raw materials for artifact construction. However, plants also manufacture potentially dangerous chemical and physical defenses to protect themselves from herbivores. These circumstances create a fundamental problem: How does each individual human learn which plants in her local environment are food and which plants are fatal? Because there are no morphological features that reliably predict human-relevant edibility or toxicity, employing a trial-and-error strategy to learn about the specific plants in an environment would be extremely costly. Instead, I argue that human cognitive architecture contains social learning mechanisms specialized for acquiring information about plants over the course of ontogeny. I will present evidence from a series of studies with human infants exploring this proposal. The results indicate that infants possess a combination of behavioral avoidance and social information seeking strategies that allow them to safely learn about plants from more-knowledgeable others. I will close by discussing the broader implications of these findings for the evolution of learning mechanisms and the generation of human culture. See more at: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/annie-e-wertz We look forward to seeing you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events [Image removed by sender.] -- Katarina Begus Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Cognitive Development Center Central European University Budapest, Hungary +36 1 327 3000 / 2777 https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus ______________________________________________ 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

8 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Koen Lefever

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 25 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Koen Lefever Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Comparing Classical And Relativistic Kinematics In First-Order Logic* *Joint research with Gergely Székely (Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest) _______________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: (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 () -- 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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU CDC seminar: Annie Wertz, Wednesday, October 25th, 17:00

by Katarina Begus

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: *Annie Wertz (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)* *Date: *Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30 *Host:* Gergo Csibra *Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. *The seeds of social learning* Plants have been central to human life across evolutionary time as sources of food and raw materials for artifact construction. However, plants also manufacture potentially dangerous chemical and physical defenses to protect themselves from herbivores. These circumstances create a fundamental problem: How does each individual human learn which plants in her local environment are food and which plants are fatal? Because there are no morphological features that reliably predict human-relevant edibility or toxicity, employing a trial-and-error strategy to learn about the specific plants in an environment would be extremely costly. Instead, I argue that human cognitive architecture contains social learning mechanisms specialized for acquiring information about plants over the course of ontogeny. I will present evidence from a series of studies with human infants exploring this proposal. The results indicate that infants possess a combination of behavioral avoidance and social information seeking strategies that allow them to safely learn about plants from more-knowledgeable others. I will close by discussing the broader implications of these findings for the evolution of learning mechanisms and the generation of human culture. See more at: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/annie-e-wertz We look forward to seeing you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events -- Katarina Begus Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Cognitive Development Center Central European University Budapest, Hungary +36 1 327 3000 / 2777 https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus ______________________________________________ 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] ELTE Cognitive Seminar Series

by Kognitív pszichológia Tanszék

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the first event from the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series for the new academic year: *Péter Simor*** *Frequent nightmares at the intersection of personality factors, emotional dysregulation, and sleep physiology*** Location: PPK, Institue of Psychology, Izabella u. 46, room P2. Date: 28.09.2017. (Thursday), 17.00 Summary: Nightmares are intense and highly unpleasant mental experiences that occur usually – but not exclusively – during late-night Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and often provoke abrupt awakenings. Nightmares affect approximately four percent of the adult population on a weekly basis. The clinical relevance of nightmares should not be underestimated given their high incidence in psychiatric populations, co-morbidity with insomniac symptoms and their association with daytime affective as well as cognitive dysfunctions. Frequent nightmares are associated with personality factors, emotional dysregulation, and altered sleep physiology. In this talk, I will summarize our main findings regarding the neurophysiological aspects of nightmare disorder and present an integrative approach to analyze this somewhat neglected sleep disorder.

8 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: October 18, Wednesday: Marko Nardini (Durham) - Perceptual development as optimisation of inference

by Gyorgyne Finta

REMINDER: The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series By Marko Nardini (Durham University) Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 17:00 - 18:30 Host: Jozsef Fiser Perceptual development as optimisation of inference To survive, organisms must deal with many kinds of uncertainty, such as recognising objects given partial or uncertain information, or planning an action (e.g. reaching for a cup) with an uncertain outcome. Recent evidence suggests that the adult nervous system meets these challenges by implementing or approximating principles of Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT), which provides optimal solutions to problems of perception and action under uncertainty. This raises the interesting possibility that the long developmental trajectory for some perceptual skills in childhood can be understood as a process of optimisation of inference. I will present results from recent studies in support of this idea, showing that key elements of BDT are not in place until remarkably late in childhood - in perceptual tasks, motor tasks, and brain circuits. Even in quite simple tasks such as judging the layout of 3D surfaces, we see that sub-optimal computation (as distinct from noise) makes a major contribution to children's relatively low performance. These results provide a starting point for investigating the processes of development and learning by which the nervous system optimises its perception and action abilities. Progress on this problem has important future applications to atypical development, sensory / motor rehabilitation, and the design of intelligent agents who can learn from their environment. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-10-18/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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