koglist June 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] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Departmental Colloquium: July 5, Wednesday: Andreas Nieder: Coding of numerical quantity in the primate brain, with special reference to zero.

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by Andreas Nieder (Institute of Neurobiology, Dept. of Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany) Date: Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Barbara Pomiechowska Coding of numerical quantity in the primate brain, with special reference to zero. Andreas Nieder Institute of Neurobiology, Dept. of Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany Findings in animal cognition, developmental psychology and anthropology indicate that the ability to deal with numbers is rooted in nonverbal biological primitives. Humans and non-human primates share an elemental quantification system that resides in a dedicated neural network in the parietal and frontal lobes. In this cortical network, 'number neurons' encode the number of elements in a set, its 'numerosity', irrespective of stimulus appearance across sensory-motor systems, and from both spatial and temporal presentation arrays. While the coding of the number of items in a set is already abstract and demanding, representing empty sets, 'nothing', as a relevant and quantitative category is even more challenging. For that reason, the empty set and the zero are latecomers both in human history and ontogeny. I will argue that precursors of zero are already present in the behavior and neuronal responses of nonhuman primates. Our single-neuron data suggest a parieto-frontal processing hierarchy along which empty sets are steadily detached from visual properties and gradually positioned in a numerical continuum. These findings elucidate not only how the brain encodes the quantity of countable items, but also how it transforms 'nothing' into an abstract quantitative category, 'zero'. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-07-05/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

8 years, 10 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Geoff Georgi

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 30 June (Friday!!!) 5:00 PM Room 226 Geoff Georgi Department of Philosophy, West Virginia University Propositions, Representation, and Truth _______________________________ 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 (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- 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

8 years, 10 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Talk by Hugo Mercier - 23 June, 5:00-6:30 / N15 103

by Eszter Salamon

Dear All, this is a kind reminder that Hugo Mercier will be giving a talk Today at 17:00-18:30 in Nador 15, Room 103. Cognitive obstacles to the spread of counter-intuitive beliefs. Many beliefs of great practical import face difficulties spreading in the general population—beliefs in the efficacy of vaccination, in the dangers caused by global warming, in the safety of GMOs, and so forth. It can be argued that the primary obstacle these beliefs face is that they violate some of our intuitions—that injecting something drawn from someone sick into someone healthy is a bad idea, for instance. However, there are cognitive mechanisms designed to overcome any negative initial reaction one might have towards counter-intuitive beliefs—in particular, mechanisms of trust and argumentation. It has been suggested that these mechanisms work rather poorly: that people are either not deferential enough, or are too deferential, that they accept too many or too few arguments. I will argue on the contrary that these mechanisms work, on the whole, very well, and can make people accept counter-intuitive beliefs. I will point to another obstacle in the spread of counter-intuitive beliefs: the difficulties faced by people who have accepted these beliefs to convince others in turn. I will present a series of experiments showing that people who have accepted a counter-intuitive belief on the basis of trust or argumentation can find it difficult to produce arguments that would convince someone else to accept this belief. These difficulties should hinder the spread of counter-intuitive beliefs in the general population. __________________________________ Dr. John Michael Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK & Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University Oktober 6 Utca 7, 1051-Budapest, Hungary Web: https://warwick.academia.edu/JohnMichael ______________________________________________ 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, 10 months

[Koglist] CANCELLED talk by Katie Overy, June 23

by Lukács Borbála

Dear Colleagues, The MTA-LFZE Research Group on Active Music Learning regrets to inform you that the talk by Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh) on June 23, 2017, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been cancelled. We hope that she will visit us again soon and give a talk at the Institute. Kind regards, Borbála Lukács MTA-LFZE Research Group on Active Music Learning E-mail: lukacs.borbala(a)ttk.mta.hu

8 years, 10 months

[Koglist] Invitation: Talk by Katie Overy, June 23

by Lukács Borbála

Dear Colleagues, The MTA-LFZE Research Group on Active Music Learning cordially invites you to the following talk: Katie Overy (IMHSD, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh) Date: June 23rd 2017, Friday, 11.00-12.00 Location: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for Natural Sciences Brain Imaging Centre, Magyar tudósok körútja 2., 3rd floor, conference room 2 (D3.09C) Short-Term, Music-Cued Motor Training Leads to Neuroplasticity in The Arcuate Fasciculus: a DT-MRI Study The arcuate fasciculus, a white matter tract linking auditory and motor regions of the brain, has been found to show increased connectivity in highly trained musicians, but it is not known whether such differences are specifically caused by musical training. We hypothesized that learning a musical, auditory-motor task with the left hand would lead to microstructural neuroplasticity in the contralateral, right arcuate fasciculus. Thirty right-handed participants were assigned to a motor learning condition either with (Music Group) or without (Control Group) musical cues. Participants completed 20 minutes of motor training three times per week over four weeks, resulting in a total of four hours of training. Using diffusion tensor MRI and probabilistic neighbourhood tractography, we identified mean Fractional Anisotropy (FA), axial (AD) and radial (RD) diffusivity values in the left and right arcuate fasciculi for each participant, before and after the four-week training period. Results revealed that FA increased significantly in the right, contralateral arcuate fasciculus of the Music group only, as hypothesised, with trends for AD to increase and RD to decrease. No significant changes were found in the left, ipsilateral arcuate fasciculus of either group, as predicted. This is a pattern of results consistent with activity-dependent increases in myelination and, to our knowledge, is the first evidence that adding musical cues to movement learning can induce rapid microstructural change in white matter pathways in the adult brain (Moore et al 2017). Moore E, Schaefer R, Bastin M, Roberts N & Overy K. (2017). Brain and Cognition, 116, 40-46. Everyone is welcome to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Kind regards, Borbála Lukács MTA-LFZE Research Group on Active Music Learning E-mail: <mailto:lukacs.borbala@ttk.mta.hu> lukacs.borbala(a)ttk.mta.hu

8 years, 10 months

[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] álláshirdetés

by Valéria Barnicskó

Kedves Kollégák! A múlt héten a Brain Bar rendezvényen találkoztam egy álláshirdetéssel: kognitív idegtudományokban nemzetközi trendjek terén járatos szakembert keresnek. Csatolva elküldöm az álláspályázat linkjét - remélve, hogy mielőbb a megfelelő ember kerül a megfelelő helyre. https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=30008&s… Üdvözlettel: Barnicskó Valéria

8 years, 11 months

[Koglist] Kiserlet-felhivas

by rebrus＠nytud.hu

Kedves Kollegak, a mellekletben egy pszicholingvisztikai kiserletre vonatkozo felhivas talalhato. A tema a magyar maganhangzo-harmonia. Kerem, terjesszek kollegaik, diakjaik kozott, Koszonettel, Rebrus Peter MTA NYelvtudomanyi Intezet

8 years, 11 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, June

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest June Program 30 June (Friday!!!) 5:00 PM Room 226 Geoff Georgi School of Philosophy, University of Southern California Propositions, Representation, and Truth _______________________________ 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 (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- 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

8 years, 11 months

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