koglist November 2017

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] TODAY: CogSci CEU Colloquium: November 22, Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Kenny Smith<https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/kenny-smith> (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; University of Edinburgh) Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101 Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic structure Language is a product of learning in individuals, and universal structural features of language presumably reflect properties of the way in which we learn. But language is not necessarily a direct reflection of properties of individual learners: languages are culturally-transmitted systems, which persist in populations via a repeated cycle of learning and use, where learners learn from linguistic data which represents the communicative behaviour of other individuals who learnt their language in the same way. Languages evolve as a result of their cultural transmission, and are therefore the product of a potentially complex interplay between the biases of human language learners, the communicative functions which language serves, and the ways in which languages are transmitted in populations. In this talk I will present a series of experiments, based around artificial language learning, dyadic interaction and iterated learning paradigms, which allow us to explore the relationship between learning and use in shaping linguistic structure; I will finish with an experimental study looking at cultural evolution in non-human primates, which suggests that systematic structure may be an inevitable outcome of cultural transmission, rather than a reflection of uniquely human learning biases. 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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[Koglist] UPDATED Call for Applications for the CEU PhD Program in Cognitive Sciences for 2018-19

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, Our flyer for the 2018-19 Academic Year has been updated with a bit more departmental specific information. We would appreciate if you could share it among your contacts and on your networks! Thank you very much! Reka 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] ``Compositional cognition: learning a model of the world from its parts`` a talk by Christopher Summerfield, Wednesday, December 6th, 17:00

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford) Date: Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30 Host: Jozsef Fiser Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Title: Compositional cognition: learning a model of the world from its parts Abstract: Humans can perform remarkably complex tasks, such as flying an aircraft or playing a violin concerto. The collection of mechanisms that underlie task-level performance ("executive functions") and their neural implementation in the prefrontal cortex have been extensively investigated by psychologists and neuroscientists. However, we know remarkably little about how new tasks are learned. This is a pressing problem, because despite recent advances in machine learning, researchers are currently unable to build intelligent systems that learn to perform multiple complex tasks in series (e.g. successive Atari games) without resetting network parameters. My talk will focus on the challenges of understanding task learning in humans, and describe recent work that has suggested that complex tasks can be best solved when broken down into their constituent parts (compositional learning). I will illustrate with examples from tasks involving navigation, visual categorisation, and value-guided learning in novel environments. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-12-06/departmental-colloquium-… We look forward to seeing 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

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[Koglist] X. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science - abstract submission is now open!

by Fischer Paula

Dear All, we are happy to announce the 10th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, titled Communication, Pragmatics, and Theory of Mind. The conference will take place on 24-27 May 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Submission is now open, we invite poster submissions from all areas of cognitive science. For more information please visit: http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php <http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php> or email us: ducog(a)cogsci.bme.hu <mailto:ducog@cogsci.bme.hu> On behalf of the organisers, Lilla Magyari Bálint Forgács X. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science <http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php> Communication, Pragmatics, and Theory of Mind 24-27 May, 2018 Dubrovnik, Croatia Submission is now open <http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_submission.php> ! We invite poster submissions from all areas of cognitive science. Invited speakers Noah Goodman Stanford University Judit Holler MPI for Psycholinguistics Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität, Berlin Ira Noveck CNRS, Lyon Nausicaa Pouscoulous University College London Paula Rubio-Fernandez Massachusetts Institute for Technology Deirdre Wilson University College London

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Colloquium: November 29, Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Manos Tsakiris<https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/manos-tsakiris(a1da6a46-…> (Department of Psychology; Royal Holloway, University of London) Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101 Turning the self inside-out: the role of interoception for self- and social-awareness Modern psychology has long focused on the importance of the body as the basis of the self. However, this focus concerned the exteroceptive body, that is, the body as perceived from the outside, as when we recognize ourselves in the mirror. This influential approach has neglected another important dimension of the body, namely the interoceptive body, that is, the body as perceived from within, as for example when one feels her racing heart. In psychology, research on interoception has focused mainly on its role in emotion. Recent research, however, has attempted to go beyond this approach, aiming instead to show how interoception and interoceptive awareness serve the unity and stability of the self, analogous to the role of interoception in maintaining physiological homeostasis. My talk will consider such findings from studies on infants and adults as a means of going beyond the division between interoception and exteroception to consider their integration in self-awareness. This approach provides an alternative to existing psychological theories of the self insofar it goes beyond the apparent antagonism between the awareness of the self from the outside and from within, to consider their dynamic integration and inform us on how humans navigate the challenging balance between inside and out, in terms of both the individual's natural (interoception vs. exteroception) and social (self vs. others) embodiment in the world. 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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[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 6 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Tim Crane Department of Philosophy, CEU, Budapest Putnam’s Ant: Some Reflections on the Explanation of Meaning 13 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Márton Gömöri* and László E. Szabó** *Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest **Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest The Elimination of Probability _______________________________ 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] 'K + K = 120' Workshop (18 Dec)

by Nyelvesz Info

Dear Colleague, You are cordially invited to the 'K + K = 120' Workshop, dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays. The event is going to take place on 18 December 2017, in the lecture room of the Research Institute for Linguistics, HAS (13 Teréz krt. Budapest). You can find the current version of the program below. Please note that the number of seats is limited. Therefore, if wish to attend the workshop, *please register using the link below BEFORE **4 DECEMBER 2017*: https://goo.gl/forms/Iu8uo4UrBvcVYs8k2 With best wishes, Beáta Gyuris, Katalin Mády and Gábor Recski (organisers) *** K + K = 120 WORKSHOP Dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays Date: 18 December 2017, 11:00 – 18:00 Venue: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 13 Teréz körút Budapest (temporary address), Lecture Room 108 PROGRAM 11:00 – 11:10 Introduction 11:10 – 11:30 Márton Makrai (RIL HAS Budapest): Do multi-sense word embeddings learn more senses? 11:30 – 11:50 Dávid Nemeskey (SZTAKI HAS Budapest): Building word embeddings from dictionary definitions 11:50 – 12:10 Angelika Kiss (U. Toronto): On biased questions and highlighted propositions 12:10 – 12:30 Beáta Gyuris (RIL HAS Budapest): Rising declaratives and their Hungarian counterparts 12:30 – 14:00 lunch break 14:00 – 14:20 Maik Gibson (SIL International): Does literacy no longer need an institution to remain sustainable? Some reflections on the impact of texting and messaging 14:20 – 14:40 Tamás Biró (ELTE Budapest): From Harmonic Grammar to Optimality Theory: The strict domination limit 14:40 – 15:00 Michael Bukatin (HERE Technologies) and Jon Anthony (Boston College): Dataflow matrix machines and V-values: a bridge between programs and neural nets (video presentation) 15:00 – 15:20 Anssi Yli-Jyrä (U. Helsinki): The regular universe of language models and its continuing expansion 15:20 – 15:40 coffee break 15:40 – 16:00 Paul Dekker (U. Amsterdam): PROPOSITIONS and propositions 16:00 – 16:20 Marcus Kracht (U. Bielefeld): Independence is not so trivial 16:20 – 18:00 short presentations by Márton András Baló, Tibor Beke, László Fejes, Gábor Prószéky, Péter Rebrus, Dániel Vásárhelyi, and Zsófia Zvolenszky, among others

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[Koglist] Conference: Some results of the project Languages under the Influence (30 Nov)

by Nyelvesz Info

Some results of the project Languages under the Influence. Uralic syntax changing in an asymmetrical contact situation Date: November 30, 2017, Place: Research Institute for Linguistics, Room 108 (Budapest, VI. Teréz krt. 13.) Program: 10.00–10.35: Eszter Simon–Ágnes Kalivoda: Introducing the UraLUID database 10.35–11.10: Erika Asztalos–Katalin Gugán - Nikolett Mus: Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV to VO 11.10–11.45: Veronika Hegedűs–Nikolett Mus–Balázs Surányi: Copular clauses in Nenets 11-45–11.55: break 11.55–12.30: Éva Dékány–Katalin Gugán–Orsolya Tánczos: From prenominal to postnominal relative clauses in Udmurt and Khanty 12.30–13.05: Katalin É. Kiss–Orsolya Tánczos: From possessive agreement to object marking: the functional evolution of the Udmurt -jez suffix The talks will be 25-30 minutes long; each will be followed by a 5-10 minute discussion. Abstracts: /Eszter Simon–Ágnes Kalivoda: Introducing the UraLUID database/ We present UraLUID, a linguistically annotated database built within the framework of the project Languages under the Influence. We aimed at creating a valuable resource of Udmurt, Tundra Nenets, Synja and Surgut Khanty. In order to provide a corpus as representative as possible, we focused on processing texts collected from different times, authors and genres. Thanks to the fieldwork carried out in the framework of the project, UraLUID contains spoken versions of the languages as well. We present the content and the structure of the database, discussing the main issues we had to face during the development. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to use the database by showing ELAN-files with audio data and explaining the structure of annotation in detail. /Erika Asztalos–Katalin Gugán - Nikolett Mus: Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV to VO/ The order of clausal constituents interacts with their discourse pragmatic function, and constituent order and patterns of discourse-pragmatic organization are both prone to contact-induced change (Aikhenvald 2006). In our talk, we survey patterns of (X)VO, or more precisely, (X)VX orders in three genetically related (S)OV languages, i.e., in Udmurt (Permic), Surgut Khanty (Ob-Ugric) and Tundra Nenets (Samoyedic), all of which are under heavy Russian, i.e., SVO influence. On the basis of a predominantly corpus-based research involving the comparison of two periods, we will show that the frequently hypothesized XV > VX change involves, self-evidently, an increase in the proportion of non-verb-final clauses. However, the analysis of the postverbal constituents with respect to their syntactic and discourse-pragmatic functions shows that the first steps of such a change can be described as the broadening of the potential discourse-pragmatic function of the postverbal elements, which may ultimately lead to the reanalysis of the basic word order. /Veronika Hegedűs–Nikolett Mus–Balázs Surányi: Copular clauses in Nenets/ Copular sentences exhibit rich and multifaceted and in many respects still ill-understood morphosyntactic variation across languages. A significant part of this variation concerns the morphosyntactic and functional correlates within individual languages of the lexical distinctions, if any, between different copulas, as well as the licensing of the absence of an overt copula. This talk will reconsider some descriptive generalizations regarding Tundra Nenets copular sentences, namely, the distribution of be-verbs across different constructions and the conditions on copula-drop in the language. Concerning the first issue, we show that the contexts in which the so-called existential verb and the copulas appear cannot be separated as neatly as previously reported. Addressing the second topic, we propose, adopting a Copula Support approach, that the omission of the copula is licensed if tense and subject agreement features of T (the functional head bearing them) enter syntactic agreement with the predicate, and get morphologically realized elsewhere. /Éva Dékány–Katalin Gugán–Orsolya Tánczos: From pre-nominal to post-nominal relative clauses in Udmurt and Khanty/ This talk examines changes that have taken place in the properties of relative clauses in Udmurt and Khanty. Originally, relatives were categorically non-finite. They were headed by participial verb forms, occupied a prenominal position, and had a gap at the relativization site without having a relative pronoun. While these types of noun-modifying clause are still in use, more recently both languages saw the emergence of postnominal participial relatives as well as postnominal finite relatives. These new relatives may feature relative pronouns, but the distribution of these pronouns is not identical in the two languages. The talk identifies the step of change from fully non-finite to fully finite relatives as well as the internal structure of postnominal relatives and the differences between the two languages. /Katalin É. Kiss–Orsolya Tánczos: From possessive agreement to object marking: the functional evolution of the Udmurt -jez suffix / The talk analyzes the functional evolution of the Udmurt -jez morpheme from crossreferencing a 3rd person singular possessor to marking accusative case. The use of possessive agreement in non-possessive – mainly determiner-like – functions is a shared property of several Uralic languages. Among them, possessive agreement appears to have obtained the widest range of roles in Udmurt, where the 3SG possessive agreement suffix is also said to function as a nominalizer, to mark contrast, to function as a kind of definite determiner, and to mark accusative case. We will argue that these seemingly different roles are instantiations of three major functions: cross-referencing a possessor, encoding partitivity, and marking specific objects, which, in turn, represent subsequent stages of a grammaticalization path. Evidence for the hypothesized changes will be provided by parallel developments in the sister languages, primarily Hungarian.

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[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, István Danka and Péter Neuman

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 29 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 István Danka and Péter Neuman Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Are we able to find out new things about Nature with the sole help of thought experiments? _______________________________ 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] Fwd: [familydog-project] Open positions – Comparative fMRI on speech processing

by Vera Konok

*Open positions **– Comparative fMRI on speech processing* http://etologia.elte.hu/en/lendulet-open-positions/ We are looking for excellent researchers to join the MTA-ELTE 'Lendület' Neuroethology of Communication Research Group (led by Attila Andics) to study social, vocal and verbal processing capacities of dogs, pigs and humans in a comparative neuroscientific framework. The group is hosted by the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, a world-leading centre of ethological and brain imaging research in dogs. In particular, this new project aims at distinguishing common mammalian traits and human-specific traits in the neural processing of vocal and linguistic signals, using behavioural and neuroimaging methods (with awake, unrestrained animals). The ideal candidate 1) has a strong background in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, 2) has a PhD/MSc/MA degree in neuroscience, psychology, biology, linguistics or a related discipline, 3) has a good publication record, 4) has ample experience in fMRI experimental design and advanced data analysis, and 5) is skilled at math and programming -- however, all these points may be negotiable in case of an otherwise very strong application. Furthermore, the applicant is expected to have advanced English skills, a specific interest in the neural mechanisms of auditory and speech processing, to be enthusiastic and dedicated to strive for scientific excellence, to be able to work independently, but also in a multidisciplinary team, and to supervise students. The successful applicant(s) will work on comparative fMRI studies on speech processing: design, conduct, analyze and publish brain imaging experiments with dogs, pigs and humans. The full-time position(s) are initially for 1 year, with possible prolongation for up to 4 years. Starting date: from January 2018, but negotiable. Salary depends on experience (350-550 kHUF/month with a PhD, 240-340 kHUF/month without a PhD). Please send your CV, a motivation letter and contact information of one reference to Attila Andics (attila.andics(a)ttk.elte.hu). Application deadline: *5 December 2017*. Further information about the group: http://etologia.elte.hu/en/ lendulet-neuroethology-research-group/ -- Please read the Know-hows: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0Y0XJXralS9QTVheTN6Q2NFVGM --- Azért kapta ezt az üzenetet, mert feliratkozott a Google Csoportok „Familydog Project” csoportjára. Az erről a csoportról és az ahhoz kapcsolódó e-mailekről való leiratkozáshoz küldjön egy e-amailt a(z) familydog-project+unsubscribe@ googlegroups.com címre. További lehetőségekért látogasson el ide: https://groups.google.com/d/optout .

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