koglist December 2017

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[Koglist] Cognitive Seminar - Lilla Magyari: Prediction of turn-taking in infancy

by Kognitív pszichológia Tanszék

Dear All, We would like to invite you to the next event from the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series. /Location: PPK, Institue of Psychology, Izabella u. 46, room 101.// //Date: 13.12. 2017. (Wednesday), 15.00/ *Lilla Magyari** **Prediction of turn-taking in infancy* Natural conversations are characterized by giving and taking turns between conversational partners. It is a crucial feature of ever day turn-taking behavior that speakers often start their turn immediately after the other’s turn. Timed responses are achieved by predictions of when a current speaker ends her turn. Some studies have attributed a critical role to linguistic anticipation in the prediction of when a conversational turn is going to be finished, and it has been also shown that early recognition of the intent behind the utterances is also crucial for timed responses. It is intriguing then that a systematic way of turn-taking behavior appears rather early during human development, and it even precedes the development of linguistic competence. In my talk, I would like to present the plan and the design of an eye-tracking study which examines whether prediction of turn-transitions is closely related to semantic predictions and conceptualization as early as 14 months in development.

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[Koglist] Post-doc positions in Pittsburgh

by Istvan Winkler

Akit érdekel ... István Hello again! We also have funding for several post-docs for some new projects, including MMN. Please see attached advert and thanks for your suggestions and spreading the word. We are happy to wait until summer or so for someone good! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dean F Salisbury, PhD Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 3501 Forbes Ave, Suite 420, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Faculty: Department of Psychiatry, Center for Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh (CNUP), Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) Editor-in-Chief, /Clinical EEG and Neuroscience/ Phone: (412) 246-5123 Fax: (412) 246-6636 Lab website: www.cnrl.pitt.edu *From:*Salisbury, Dean *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2017 12:57 PM *To:* 'Tervaniemi, Mari' <mari.tervaniemi(a)helsinki.fi>; Kujala, Teija M <teija.m.kujala(a)helsinki.fi>; Alho, Kimmo A <kimmo.alho(a)helsinki.fi>; t.baldeweg(a)ucl.ac.uk; Alexandra Bendixen <alexandra.bendixen(a)uni-oldenburg.de>; Stefan Berti <berti(a)uni-mainz.de>; m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk; István Czigler <czigler(a)cogpsyphy.hu>; S.Denham(a)plymouth.ac.uk; msleon(a)mscc.huji.ac.il; Carles Escera <cescera(a)ub.edu>; Catherine Fischer <fischer.catherine(a)orange.fr>; judith.ford(a)ucsf.edu; angelafr(a)cbs.mpg.de; m.garrido(a)uq.edu.au; mh.giard(a)orange.fr; Sabine Grimm <sabine.grimm(a)uni-leipzig.de>; Thomas Gunter <gunter(a)cbs.mpg.de>; Christoph Herrmann <christoph.herrmann(a)uni-oldenburg.de>; Janos Horvath <horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu>; Huotilainen, Minna J <minna.huotilainen(a)helsinki.fi>; Thomas Jacobsen <jacobsen(a)hsu-hh.de>; m.kimura(a)aist.go.jp; Dr. Sonja Kotz <kotz(a)cbs.mpg.de>; nkraus(a)northwestern.edu; Manuel S. Malmierca <msm(a)usal.es>; Daniel Mathalon <Daniel.Mathalon(a)ucsf.edu>; Patricia Michie <Pat.Michie(a)newcastle.edu.au>; dominique.morlet(a)inserm.fr; Dagmar Müller <dagmar_mueller(a)uni-leipzig.de>; risto.naatanen(a)ut.ee; Israel Nelken <israel(a)cc.huji.ac.il>; penney(a)nus.edu.sg; friedemann.pulvermuller(a)fu-berlin.de; Urte Roeber <urte(a)uni-leipzig.de>; Rueb <rueb(a)uni-leipzig.de>; Erich Schröger <schroger(a)uni-leipzig.de>; vshafer(a)gc.cuny.edu; Yury.shtyrov(a)cfin.au.dk; elyse.sussman(a)einstein.yu.edu; juanita.todd(a)newcastle.edu.au; Laurel Trainor <ljt(a)mcmaster.ca>; Annekathrin Weise <akweise(a)uni-leipzig.de>; Nicole Wetzel <wetzel(a)psychologie.uni-leipzig.de>; Andreas Widmann <widmann(a)uni-leipzig.de>; winkler.istvan(a)ttk.mta.hu; hyabe(a)fmu.ac.jp; MMN 2018 kongressin järjestystoimikunta <mmn2018(a)helsinki.fi> *Subject:* pattern MMN and PCP. Ketamine, NMDAr Dear MMN colleagues, I have a question, and since you all are the best and brightest of the MMN world, I thought I would ask you all! If there is an answer out there I suspect one of you would know. Animal and human studies show that NMDAr antagonists such as ketamine (generally) reduce the size of the MMN to simple physical parameter changes. Is anyone aware of studies where the more complex pattern MMN has been tested with NMDAr antagonists? I am working on a grant and they are not convinced the pattern MMN and “simple” MMN utilize the same basic mechanisms. I don’t want to have to give PCP or ketamine to people, we’re not really a pharmacology group. But I bet someone has already done this with pattern MMN. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dean F Salisbury, PhD Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 3501 Forbes Ave, Suite 420, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Faculty: Department of Psychiatry, Center for Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh (CNUP), Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) Editor-in-Chief, /Clinical EEG and Neuroscience/ Phone: (412) 246-5123 Fax: (412) 246-6636 Lab website: www.cnrl.pitt.edu <http://www.cnrl.pitt.edu> *From:*Tervaniemi, Mari [mailto:mari.tervaniemi@helsinki.fi] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 22, 2017 9:15 AM *To:* Kujala, Teija M <teija.m.kujala(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:teija.m.kujala@helsinki.fi>>; Alho, Kimmo A <kimmo.alho(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:kimmo.alho@helsinki.fi>>; t.baldeweg(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:t.baldeweg@ucl.ac.uk>; Alexandra Bendixen <alexandra.bendixen(a)uni-oldenburg.de <mailto:alexandra.bendixen@uni-oldenburg.de>>; Stefan Berti <berti(a)uni-mainz.de <mailto:berti@uni-mainz.de>>; m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>; István Czigler <czigler(a)cogpsyphy.hu <mailto:czigler@cogpsyphy.hu>>; S.Denham(a)plymouth.ac.uk <mailto:S.Denham@plymouth.ac.uk>; msleon(a)mscc.huji.ac.il <mailto:msleon@mscc.huji.ac.il>; Carles Escera <cescera(a)ub.edu <mailto:cescera@ub.edu>>; Catherine Fischer <fischer.catherine(a)orange.fr <mailto:fischer.catherine@orange.fr>>; judith.ford(a)ucsf.edu <mailto:judith.ford@ucsf.edu>; angelafr(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:angelafr@cbs.mpg.de>; m.garrido(a)uq.edu.au <mailto:m.garrido@uq.edu.au>; mh.giard(a)orange.fr <mailto:mh.giard@orange.fr>; Sabine Grimm <sabine.grimm(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:sabine.grimm@uni-leipzig.de>>; Thomas Gunter <gunter(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:gunter@cbs.mpg.de>>; Christoph Herrmann <christoph.herrmann(a)uni-oldenburg.de <mailto:christoph.herrmann@uni-oldenburg.de>>; Janos Horvath <horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu <mailto:horvath.janos@ttk.mta.hu>>; Huotilainen, Minna J <minna.huotilainen(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:minna.huotilainen@helsinki.fi>>; Thomas Jacobsen <jacobsen(a)hsu-hh.de <mailto:jacobsen@hsu-hh.de>>; m.kimura(a)aist.go.jp <mailto:m.kimura@aist.go.jp>; Dr. Sonja Kotz <kotz(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:kotz@cbs.mpg.de>>; nkraus(a)northwestern.edu <mailto:nkraus@northwestern.edu>; Manuel S. Malmierca <msm(a)usal.es <mailto:msm@usal.es>>; Daniel Mathalon <Daniel.Mathalon(a)ucsf.edu <mailto:Daniel.Mathalon@ucsf.edu>>; Patricia Michie <Pat.Michie(a)newcastle.edu.au <mailto:Pat.Michie@newcastle.edu.au>>; dominique.morlet(a)inserm.fr <mailto:dominique.morlet@inserm.fr>; Dagmar Müller <dagmar_mueller(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:dagmar_mueller@uni-leipzig.de>>; risto.naatanen(a)ut.ee <mailto:risto.naatanen@ut.ee>; Israel Nelken <israel(a)cc.huji.ac.il <mailto:israel@cc.huji.ac.il>>; penney(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:penney@nus.edu.sg>; friedemann.pulvermuller(a)fu-berlin.de <mailto:friedemann.pulvermuller@fu-berlin.de>; Urte Roeber <urte(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:urte@uni-leipzig.de>>; Rueb <rueb(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:rueb@uni-leipzig.de>>; Salisbury, Dean <salisburyd(a)upmc.edu <mailto:salisburyd@upmc.edu>>; Erich Schröger <schroger(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:schroger@uni-leipzig.de>>; vshafer(a)gc.cuny.edu <mailto:vshafer@gc.cuny.edu>; Yury.shtyrov(a)cfin.au.dk <mailto:Yury.shtyrov@cfin.au.dk>; elyse.sussman(a)einstein.yu.edu <mailto:elyse.sussman@einstein.yu.edu>; juanita.todd(a)newcastle.edu.au <mailto:juanita.todd@newcastle.edu.au>; Laurel Trainor <ljt(a)mcmaster.ca <mailto:ljt@mcmaster.ca>>; Annekathrin Weise <akweise(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:akweise@uni-leipzig.de>>; Nicole Wetzel <wetzel(a)psychologie.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:wetzel@psychologie.uni-leipzig.de>>; Andreas Widmann <widmann(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:widmann@uni-leipzig.de>>; winkler.istvan(a)ttk.mta.hu <mailto:winkler.istvan@ttk.mta.hu>; hyabe(a)fmu.ac.jp <mailto:hyabe@fmu.ac.jp>; MMN 2018 kongressin järjestystoimikunta <mmn2018(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:mmn2018@helsinki.fi>> *Subject:* VS: MMN 2018 congress Dear MMN fellows, today we are contacting you regarding the content of Neuroplasticity symposium. The original idea was to focus it on stroke, or, more generally, to neurological disorders. However, despite many contacts, it has not been possible to identify 3-4 MMN researchers from this field who would be committed to travel without financial compensation. Our current suggestion is that we broaden the scope of this symposium so that it covers stroke (talk given by prof. Friedeman Pulvermüller or his colleague) but also involves other topics among neuroplasticity and MMN. Best regards, Mari and Teija --- Mari Tervaniemi, Research Director Cicero Learning, University of Helsinki Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Lähettäjä:*Kujala, Teija M *Lähetetty:* 21. marraskuuta 2017 15:45:23 *Vastaanottaja:* Alho, Kimmo A; t.baldeweg(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:t.baldeweg@ucl.ac.uk>; Alexandra Bendixen; Stefan Berti; m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>; István Czigler; S.Denham(a)plymouth.ac.uk <mailto:S.Denham@plymouth.ac.uk>; msleon(a)mscc.huji.ac.il <mailto:msleon@mscc.huji.ac.il>; Carles Escera; Catherine Fischer; judith.ford(a)ucsf.edu <mailto:judith.ford@ucsf.edu>; angelafr(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:angelafr@cbs.mpg.de>; m.garrido(a)uq.edu.au <mailto:m.garrido@uq.edu.au>; mh.giard(a)orange.fr <mailto:mh.giard@orange.fr>; Sabine Grimm; Thomas Gunter; Christoph Herrmann; Janos Horvath; Huotilainen, Minna J; Thomas Jacobsen; m.kimura(a)aist.go.jp <mailto:m.kimura@aist.go.jp>; Dr. Sonja Kotz; nkraus(a)northwestern.edu <mailto:nkraus@northwestern.edu>; Manuel S. Malmierca; Daniel Mathalon; Patricia Michie; dominique.morlet(a)inserm.fr <mailto:dominique.morlet@inserm.fr>; Dagmar Müller; risto.naatanen(a)ut.ee <mailto:risto.naatanen@ut.ee>; Israel Nelken; penney(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:penney@nus.edu.sg>; friedemann.pulvermuller(a)fu-berlin.de <mailto:friedemann.pulvermuller@fu-berlin.de>; Urte Roeber; Rueb; salisburyd(a)upmc.edu <mailto:salisburyd@upmc.edu>; Erich Schröger; vshafer(a)gc.cuny.edu <mailto:vshafer@gc.cuny.edu>; Yury.shtyrov(a)cfin.au.dk <mailto:Yury.shtyrov@cfin.au.dk>; elyse.sussman(a)einstein.yu.edu <mailto:elyse.sussman@einstein.yu.edu>; juanita.todd(a)newcastle.edu.au <mailto:juanita.todd@newcastle.edu.au>; Laurel Trainor; Annekathrin Weise; Nicole Wetzel; Andreas Widmann; winkler.istvan(a)ttk.mta.hu <mailto:winkler.istvan@ttk.mta.hu>; hyabe(a)fmu.ac.jp <mailto:hyabe@fmu.ac.jp>; Tervaniemi, Mari *Aihe:* Re: MMN 2018 congress Dear colleagues, The poster abstract submission for the Mismatch Negativity Conference 2018, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the MMN, is now open! We are delighted to invite you to listen to our key note speakers, Professors Stanslas Dehaene and Laurel Trainor in Helsinki, in early June, 2018. The conference program and poster submission instructions can be found here: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/mmn2018-the-8th-mismatch-negativity-… We hope to see you in Helsinki in great numbers! Please, distribute this add to your colleagues and via email lists. Best wishes, Teija and Mari ________________________________________ From: teija.m.kujala(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:teija.m.kujala@helsinki.fi> <teija.m.kujala(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:teija.m.kujala@helsinki.fi>> Sent: 21 October 2016 08:27:20 To: Kimmo Alho; t.baldeweg(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:t.baldeweg@ucl.ac.uk>; Alexandra Bendixen; Stefan Berti; m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>; István Czigler; S.Denham(a)plymouth.ac.uk <mailto:S.Denham@plymouth.ac.uk>; msleon(a)mscc.huji.ac.il <mailto:msleon@mscc.huji.ac.il>; Carles Escera; Catherine Fischer; judith.ford(a)ucsf.edu <mailto:judith.ford@ucsf.edu>; angelafr(a)cbs.mpg.de <mailto:angelafr@cbs.mpg.de>; m.garrido(a)uq.edu.au <mailto:m.garrido@uq.edu.au>; mh.giard(a)orange.fr <mailto:mh.giard@orange.fr>; Sabine Grimm; Thomas Gunter; Christoph Herrmann; Janos Horvath; Huotilainen, Minna J; Thomas Jacobsen; m.kimura(a)aist.go.jp <mailto:m.kimura@aist.go.jp>; Dr. Sonja Kotz; nkraus(a)northwestern.edu <mailto:nkraus@northwestern.edu>; Kujala, Teija M; Manuel S. Malmierca; Daniel Mathalon; Patricia Michie; dominique.morlet(a)inserm.fr <mailto:dominique.morlet@inserm.fr>; Dagmar Müller; risto.naatanen(a)ut.ee <mailto:risto.naatanen@ut.ee>; Israel Nelken; penney(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:penney@nus.edu.sg>; friedemann.pulvermuller(a)fu-berlin.de <mailto:friedemann.pulvermuller@fu-berlin.de>; Urte Roeber; Rueb; salisburyd(a)upmc.edu <mailto:salisburyd@upmc.edu>; Erich Schröger; vshafer(a)gc.cuny.edu <mailto:vshafer@gc.cuny.edu>; Yury.shtyrov(a)cfin.au.dk <mailto:Yury.shtyrov@cfin.au.dk>; elyse.sussman(a)einstein.yu.edu <mailto:elyse.sussman@einstein.yu.edu>; juanita.todd(a)newcastle.edu.au <mailto:juanita.todd@newcastle.edu.au>; Laurel Trainor; Annekathrin Weise; Nicole Wetzel; Andreas Widmann; winkler.istvan(a)ttk.mta.hu <mailto:winkler.istvan@ttk.mta.hu>; hyabe(a)fmu.ac.jp <mailto:hyabe@fmu.ac.jp>; Tervaniemi, Mari Subject: MMN 2018 congress Dear colleagues, we are looking forward to seeing you all in Helsinki in 2018, when the MMN will have its 40th and the MMN congress its 20th birth day! We tried to figure out an optimal week for the congress, which is not during the holiday season (end of June-August) or the most intensive teaching period, which then would be in mid June. Please, distribute this information (below is a brief add to make it easier for you). "MMN 2018 - Adaptive Brain in Health and Disease" will be held in Helsinki in June 12-15, 2018. By that year the MMN has existed in the service of basic and applied research for 40 years and the tradition of the MMN congres has continued for 20 years. More information will follow in a few weeks. Best wishes, Mari, Teija, and Kimmo, on the behalf of congress organizers -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Prof. Teija Kujala, PhD Cognitive Brain Research Unit Institute of Behavioural Sciences P.O.Box 9, Siltavuorenpenger 1A, room 233 FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland E-mail: teija.m.kujala(a)helsinki.fi <mailto:teija.m.kujala@helsinki.fi> Mobile: +358-50-3183962 (work)

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[Koglist] álláshirdetés

by Anita Lencsés

Kedves Mind! Racsmány Mihály kutatócsoportjába kísérleti asszisztenst keresünk 2018.január 1-ji kezdéssel. Csatoltam az álláshirdetést. üdv, Lencsés Anita

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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] Fwd: workshop: Artificial Grammar Learning: Implications of domain, modality and species differences

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pléh distinguished visiting professor CEU Dept of Cognitive Science 1051 Budapest Nádor u. 9 Hungary office: Október 6. u. 7, I. e 104 Tel.: 36 303493735 plehcsaba.eu view editor, Hungarian Journal of Psychology member of HAS and AE ________________________________ From: Judit Gervain <judit.gervain(a)parisdescartes.fr> Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 10:22:08 AM To: Judit Gervain Subject: Fwd: workshop: Artificial Grammar Learning: Implications of domain, modality and species differences Begin forwarded message: From: Elisabetta Versace <elisabetta.versace(a)unitn.it<mailto:elisabetta.versace@unitn.it>> Subject: workshop: Artificial Grammar Learning: Implications of domain, modality and species differences Date: 5 December 2017 at 22:16:39 GMT+1 To: elisabetta versace <Elisabetta.Versace(a)unitn.it<mailto:Elisabetta.Versace@unitn.it>> Dear colleagues, we are happy to invite you to the Evolang 2018<http://evolang.cles.umk.pl/> workshop https://evolang.cles.umk.pl/agl-workshop Artificial Grammar Learning: Implications of domain, modality and species differences 16th April 2018 in Torun (Poland) Call for abstracts Detecting regularities in the world allows individuals to make sense of the countless inputs they are exposed to, and to generalize to new contexts and stimuli. This poses interesting parallels between the processing of linguistic and non-linguistic stimuli. The Artificial Grammar Learning approach has spiked research in this area on a wide range of abilities, developmental stages and species from acoustic modality in neonates and songbirds to visual pattern generalization in domestic chicks. In this workshop, we will discuss the recent developments and advancements in the field of Artificial Grammar Learning and its implication for the study of language. By bringing together researchers from different disciplines, we will host an interactive, interdisciplinary workshop that will pave the way not only for fruitful discussion but also for future collaborations and renewing work on the learning abilities across the animal kingdom and developmental stages. We welcome abstracts for short presentations (10-15 minutes followed by 5 minutes discussion) on how Artificial Grammar Learning across species, modalities and developmental stages can inform our knowledge and investigation on the evolution of language. Please send an abstract that does not exceed 2 pages (excluding references) using the formatting guidelines of the main conference<http://www.evolang.org/submissions>, to agl.evolang(a)gmail.com<mailto:agl.evolang@gmail.com> by December 21st. Notification of acceptance by December 30th (please note that the deadline for early bird registration to the conference is December 31st). Confirmed speakers Judit Gervain<http://lpp.parisdescartes.cnrs.fr/people/judit-gervain/> (Université Paris Descartes, France) will speak about “The frequency-based bootstrapping of basic word order in infants and rats” Ruth Sonnweber<http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/staff/ruth-sonnweber/index.html> (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) will speak about “Cross-modal processing of structural information” Michelle Spierings<https://cogbio.univie.ac.at/people/postdoctoral-researchers/michelle-spieri…> (Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria) will speak about “Artificial grammar learning in birds” Elisabetta Versace<http://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/abc/abc-team-members> (Center for Mind/Brain Science, University of Trento, Italy) will speak about “Artificial grammars in visual modality: A comparative perspective” Gesche Westphal-Fitch<http://homepage.univie.ac.at/gesche.w.fitch> (Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria) will speak about “Performance on a visual Artificial Grammar Learning task in hearing and deaf participants” Ben Wilson<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/benjaminwilson.html#research> (Newcastle University Medical School, UK) will speak about “Behavioural and neuroimaging insights into structured sequence learning in humans and nonhuman primates”. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for spreading this notice to colleagues that might be interested. Sincerely, Elisabetta Versace (University of Trento) and Michelle Spierings (University of Vienna) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Elisabetta Versace, PhD Center for Mind/Brain Sciences University of Trento Piazza della Manifattura 1 38068, Rovereto, Italy email: elisabetta.versace(a)unitn.it<mailto:elisabetta.versace@unitn.it> twitter: @so_evolutionary ——— Judit Gervain Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception UMR8242 CNRS & Université Paris Descartes 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris, 75006, FRANCE +33142862197 (office) judit.gervain(a)parisdescartes.fr<mailto:judit.gervain@parisdescartes.fr> https://sites.google.com/site/juditgervain/

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[Koglist] Meghívó: Auer Tibor előadása, dec. 21 MTA TTK

by Petra Kovács

Kedves Kolléga! Tisztelettel meghívom az Agyi Képalkotó Központ szemináriumára, melyet 2017. *december 21-én, csütörtökön 13 órától* tartunk az MTA TTK Kutatóházban a földszinti kiselőadóban. Auer Tibor (Royal Holloway University of London) *Elme és gép a neurofeedback tréningben: elméleti és tapasztalati megfontolások* Vidnyánszky Zoltán központvezető <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Mentes a vírusoktól. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#m_2984602728895073285_m_9085686770010975618_m_8663682105963217015_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- Petra Kovács Hungarian Academy of Sciences Brain Imaging Centre Brain Structure and Dynamics Research Group MA

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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

REMINDER: 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] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Talk by Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington) - Dec. 5, Tue, 16h, MTA BTK

by Balazs Gyenis

Dear Colleagues! Let me call your attention to a talk by Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington), who is one of the leading figures of "experimental philosophy", an emerging field that forges close relationship between philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. See the details below. Yours, B. Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington): Are religious philosophers less analytic? Time: 2017. december 5., 16h Place: MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézet, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet, B.7.16 (Trapéz terem) Abstract: Some researchers in philosophy of religion have charged that the sub-discipline exhibits a number of features of poor health, prominently including that "partisanship is so entrenched that most philosophers of religion, instead of being alarmed by it, just take it for granted" (Draper and Nichols, 2013, 421). And researchers in experimental philosophy of religion have presented empirical work that supports this contention, arguing that it shows that confirmation bias plays a notable role in the acceptance of natural theological arguments among philosophers (De Cruz, 2014; Tobia, 2015; De Cruz and De Smedt, 2016). But while these studies indicate that there is a correlation between religious belief and judgments about natural theological arguments, they do not establish that causation runs from belief to judgment as has been claimed. In this paper I offer an alternative explanation, suggesting that thinking style is a plausible common cause. I note that previous research has shown a significant negative correlation between analytic thinking style and both religious belief and religious engagement in the general population (Shenhav, Rand, and Greene, 2012; Gervaise and Norenzayan, 2012; Pennycook et al., 2012, 2013; Jack et al., 2016). Further, other research has shown a significant positive correlation between analytic thinking style and training in philosophy that is independent of overall level of education (Livengood et al., 2010). Pulling these threads together, I hypothesize that there is an especially strong correlation between thinking style and religiosity among philosophers. This hypothesis is tested by looking at a sample of 524 people with an advanced degree in philosophy. The results support the hypothesis, showing a medium-large negative correlation between analytic thinking style and religious engagement that is roughly twice as strong as has been reported for the general population (r=-0.39 among men, r=-0.34 among women). And the correlation is even stronger if we restrict to Christian theists and non-theists (r=-0.61 among men, r=-0.62 among women). -- Balazs Gyenis Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences http://hps.elte.hu/~gyepi ______________________________________________ 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] Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington) előadása - Dec. 5, kedd, 16h, MTA BTK

by Balazs Gyenis

Kedves Kollégák! Engedjétek meg, hogy felhívjam a figyelmeteket Justin Sytsma holnapi előadására (részleteket lsd. alul). Justin egy feltörekvőben lévő, a pszichológiával és kognitív tudománnyal szoros kapcsolatot ápoló új terület, az "experimental philosophy" egyik nemzetközileg elismert alakja. Üdvözlettel, B. Az MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézete szeretettel meghív minden érdeklődőt Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington): Are religious philosophers less analytic? című előadására. Időpont: 2017. december 5., 16 óra Helyszín: MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézet, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet, B.7.16 (Trapéz terem) Az előadás absztraktja: Some researchers in philosophy of religion have charged that the sub-discipline exhibits a number of features of poor health, prominently including that "partisanship is so entrenched that most philosophers of religion, instead of being alarmed by it, just take it for granted" (Draper and Nichols, 2013, 421). And researchers in experimental philosophy of religion have presented empirical work that supports this contention, arguing that it shows that confirmation bias plays a notable role in the acceptance of natural theological arguments among philosophers (De Cruz, 2014; Tobia, 2015; De Cruz and De Smedt, 2016). But while these studies indicate that there is a correlation between religious belief and judgments about natural theological arguments, they do not establish that causation runs from belief to judgment as has been claimed. In this paper I offer an alternative explanation, suggesting that thinking style is a plausible common cause. I note that previous research has shown a significant negative correlation between analytic thinking style and both religious belief and religious engagement in the general population (Shenhav, Rand, and Greene, 2012; Gervaise and Norenzayan, 2012; Pennycook et al., 2012, 2013; Jack et al., 2016). Further, other research has shown a significant positive correlation between analytic thinking style and training in philosophy that is independent of overall level of education (Livengood et al., 2010). Pulling these threads together, I hypothesize that there is an especially strong correlation between thinking style and religiosity among philosophers. This hypothesis is tested by looking at a sample of 524 people with an advanced degree in philosophy. The results support the hypothesis, showing a medium-large negative correlation between analytic thinking style and religious engagement that is roughly twice as strong as has been reported for the general population (r=-0.39 among men, r=-0.34 among women). And the correlation is even stronger if we restrict to Christian theists and non-theists (r=-0.61 among men, r=-0.62 among women). Üdvözlettel MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézet -- Balazs Gyenis Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences http://hps.elte.hu/~gyepi

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[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Tim Crane

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 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 _______________________________ 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 (laszlo.e.szabo(a)gmail.com) -- 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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