koglist May 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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: May 3, Wednesday: Bhismadev Chakrabarti - Clues from reward & mimicry to understand Autism

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Bhismadev Chakrabarti<https://www.reading.ac.uk/psychology/about/staff/b-chakrabarti.aspx> (University of Reading) Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101 Clues from reward & mimicry to understand Autism Humans are social beings. Most of us find looking at, hearing, and interacting with other humans to be a rewarding experience. One theoretical account of autism is based on the observation that individuals with ASD often do not find social stimuli and interactions to be rewarding. This account suggests that social behavioural difficulties in ASD are driven by a deficit in reward processing from social stimuli. In our research, we study how reward influences a fundamental aspect of human social behaviour, i.e. spontaneous facial mimicry. Spontaneous facial mimicry is an integral part of everyday social interactions, e.g. we smile automatically when we see others smile at us. Individuals with ASD commonly show reduced spontaneous facial mimicry. These two processes of mimicry and reward are intricately linked from early on in human development. Mothers commonly mimic their children, and the children mimic back. This cycle of mimicry helps build social bonds, in children as well as in adults. As adults, we tend to prefer individuals who mimic us more, and, mimic those who we prefer more. We study these links between reward and mimicry using a range of techniques that measure physiological response (using facial EMG), brain activity (using fMRI), eye movements (using eye-tracking), and overt behaviour. The emerging picture from our research suggests that autism represent a weakening of the bidirectional links between reward and mimicry. Rather than there being a core problem in the act of mimicry per se, or responding to social rewards, autistic symptoms might be more representative of an atypical connection between neural systems involved in reward processing and those underlying mimicry. 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

8 years, 11 months

[Koglist] MTA NYTI júniusi program

by Nyelvesz Info

Kedves Kollégák! Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet júniusi programjaira. 2017. június 1. (csütörtök) 11.00 óra Miloš Jakubíček (Mazaryk University, Brno – Lexical Computing Ltd) Word sketches for linguistic analysis szervező: Nyelvtechnológiai és Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Osztály helyszín: Benczúr Hotel Mozaik terem (1068 Budapest Benczúr u. 35.) 2017. június 19–20. Implicatures or domain restriction/domain widening? Theoretical and experimental approaches http://www.nytud.hu/iod2017/ szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet és PPKE helyszín: PPKE BTK, Sophianum 009. terem, 1088 Budapest, Mikszáth tér 1. 2017. június 25–27. 25th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics http://www.nytud.hu/iacl25/ szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet és ELTE helyszín: ELTE BTK, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/A 2017. június 27–28. Conference on the Syntax Of Uralic Languages http://www.nytud.hu/soul2017/ szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet és PPKE helyszín: PPKE BTK, Sophianum, 1088 Budapest, Mikszáth tér 1. 2017. június 29–30. 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian http://www.nytud.hu/icsh13/ szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet helyszín: MTA Székház, Kisterem, 1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9. *** A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon tájékozódhatnak: http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium **this week @ 18h00**, Brent Strickland, Wednesday 31st

by Katarina Begus

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: *Brent Strickland *(CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) web <http://brentstrickland.net/> *Date: *Wednesday, May 31st *** Change of time! *** Please note that this week the colloquium will exceptionally start *at 18:00.* *Title: *Automaticity in the perception of causality *Abstract: *For many years, following Michotte researchers believed that in simple events, like billiard ball collisions, were in some cases "directly" seen as causal. In other words these events were postulated to be automatically categorized as involving causality in a way that may divorced from higher level judgment. In studying this phenomenon however, one major problem has been the use of direct as opposed to indirect measures. Since the 1950's, researchers interested in this topic have typically shown a causal or non-causal event to participants and asked them to assess the extent to which that event looks causal. This leaves open the possibility that any factors that are hypothesized to affect the perception of causality could in fact merely be affecting judgments about causality (Rips, 2011). Here I discuss two new sets of results involving indirect measures in the perception of causality and which help strengthen the argument that causal perception is an automatic perceptual mechanism. The first involves a novel visual search task in which we show that physically impossible accelerations "pop-out" for causal launching events but accelerations do not do so for closely matched but non-causal events (Kominsky*, Strickland*, Wertz, & Keil, under review). We further show that similar effects obtain in pre-verbal infants from 10 months of age. A second demonstration of the automaticity of causal perception involves a novel "switch cost" paradigm in which participants are asked to make a judgment about an orthogonal property (such as shirt color) on images involving an agent (i.e. the actor performing an action) and a patient (i.e. the actor undergoing an action) in a causal interaction (Hafri, Trueswell, & Strickland, under review). Participants are faster in making orthogonal judgments on trials in which they were asked about actors with the same role on the previous trial (e.g. Agent-Agent trial pairs) than when they are asked about actors with different roles (e.g. Patient-Agent trial pairs). Collectively these findings help demonstrate that causality is detected rapidly and automatically during on-line perception, and this can have surprising down stream effects. *Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101 We are looking 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 -- 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] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: May 29, Monday: Ilan Yaniv (Hebrew University) and Chris Frith (University College London)

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to two talks on free will and decision making by Ilan Yaniv (Hebrew University)<http://crmr-en.huji.ac.il/people/ilan-yaniv> Social Decision Making A Full Professor at the Department of Psychology and a member of the Center for Study of Rationality. He has great interest in psychological and behavioral aspects of individual and interpersonal decision making as well as in negotiations processes. and Chris Frith (University College London)<https://royalsociety.org/people/chris-frith-11469/> Free Will and the Brain Chris Frith is a neuropsychologist whose experiments have helped us to understand the major symptoms of schizophrenia - hallucinations and delusions - in terms of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie conscious experience. A pioneer in the application of non-invasive neuroimaging techniques, he used these to study the relationship between the mind and the brain, and in particular the neural basis of consciousness and free will. Date: Monday 29th May, 16.00-18.00 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. 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 ______________________________________________ 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: [MaFLa] MAKOG 25 -- konferenciafelhívás]

by Laszlo E. Szabo

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:05:00 +0200 Subject: [MaFLa] MAKOG 25 -- konferenciafelhívás To: mafla <mafla(a)phil.elte.hu> From: János Tőzsér <jantozser(a)gmail.com> Kedves Kollégák, szeretném újból (emlékeztetőül) a figyelmetekbe/figyelmükbe ajánlani a MAKOG (Magyar Kognitív Tudományi Alapítvány) 25. (jubileumi) konferenciájának felhívását. A jelentkezési határidőt két héttel meghosszabbítottuk. Üdvözlettel, Tőzsér János _______________________________________________ MaFLa - Hungarian philosophers' mailing list Archives & Help: http://phil.elte.hu/mafla -- 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] Opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Mate Lengyel`s group

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, The Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University announces an opening for postdoctoral fellows for one year (extendable), starting no later than September 2017, to work on a project in computational cognitive science. The aim of the project is to track changes in human subjects' structured, task-general internal models over time as a result of decay, interference, and learning. For this, a set of novel 'doubly Bayesian' data analytical methods will need to be developed, using state-of-the-art Bayesian statistical and machine learning techniques which can be used to infer humans' internal models formalised as prior distributions in Bayesian models of cognition. The project will also involve a set of stringent, quantifiable criteria which will be systematically applied at each step of the work to rigorously assess the success of the approach. These analyses will be applied to a variety of experimental data sets, collected by our collaborators, in paradigms ranging from perceptual learning, through visual and motor structure learning, to social and concept learning. Position for: Faculty Detailed Job Ad is available here: https://hro.ceu.edu/vacancies/postdoctoral-research-position-in-computation… We very much appreciate if you could spread this news to your colleagues, collaborators and PhD students. Thank you! With best 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] Research Progress Workshop at CEU CogSci: Thursday, June 1

by Gergely Csibra

Doctoral students of the CogSci department at this phantom university will present their work at the annual Research Progress Workshop. The workshop is free and open to anyone. Come along if you are interested in the research of phantom students! -- Research Progress Workshop Department of Cognitive Science Central European University Thursday, June 1, 2017 Room 101, Október 6. utca 7. Budapest 1051 — Program SESSION 1 (Chair: Arianna Curioni) 9:00 Martin Freundlieb Spontaneous perspective-taking in social interactions 9:20 Laura Schmitz How do we represent others' action sequences? 9:40 Luke McEllin Perceiving kinematic cues in teaching and joint action 10:00 Simily Sabu Exploring the role of variability in a joint sequence learning task 10:20 Thomas Wolf Of experts adapting and novices rushing in joint music performance — 10:40 COFFEE BREAK — SESSION 2 (Chair: Hanna Marno) 11:00 Nazli Altinok What is rational about faithfully copying sub-efficient actions? 11:20 Gábor Bródy Spatiotemporal vs kind based object individuation 11:40 Paula Fischer Can children integrate information about efficiency and causality in false belief reasoning? 12:00 Otávio Mattos Communicative learning and the development of human reference 12:20 Liza Vorobyova Infants' understanding of cooperative vs competitive goal-directed events involving multiple agents — 12:40 LUNCH BREAK — SESSION 3 (Chair: Cordula Vesper) 13:30 Georgina Török Efficiency and rational decision-making in joint action 13:50 Mia Karabegović The influence of rule origins on fostering rule abidance 14:10 Johannes Mahr Young children’s source memory in receptive and productive communication 14:30 Francesca Bonalumi Psychological basis of commitment 14:50 Helena Miton Towards new methods for the study of cultural evolution — 15:10 COFFEE BREAK — SESSION 4 (Chair: Barbara Pomiechowska) 15:30 Eszter Szabó The comprehension of negative existentials and standard negation in 18-month-olds 15:50 József Arató Visual statistical learning and spatial attention 16:10 Gábor Lengyel Statistically defined chunks show similar within/ between-object processing to real objects 16:30 Oana Stanciu The origins of primacy in estimation ______________________________________________ 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] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: Andrei Cimpian, Wednesday 24th, 17:00

by Katarina Begus

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: *Andrei Cimpian (NYU)* *Date: *Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30 *Host:* Gergely Csibra *Generics and Stereotypes* Stereotypes are typically defined as beliefs about groups, but this definition is underspecified. I will ask whether stereotypes are better characterized as generic beliefs about groups or as quantified beliefs. In addition to clarifying the cognitive structure of stereotypes, the answer to this question bears on the longstanding debate about stereotype accuracy: Whether stereotypes can be said to be accurate depends in part on what sorts of beliefs they turn out to be. *Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: http://www.cimpianlab.com/ We are looking 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] Talk on Tuesday

by Dezso Nemeth

The Brain, Memory and Language Lab cordially invites you to a talk by Paul J. Reber <http://reberlab.psych.northwestern.edu/people/paul/> (Northwestern University) Implicit learning: Cognitive consequences of human neuroplasticity Date: Tuesday, May 23. 17:00 Location: Institute of Psychology, ELTE Izabella utca 46. Room 301. We're looking forward to seeing you there! -------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (PhD) Brain, Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com Phone: +36-1-4614500/3565, +36-1-4614500/3519

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