koglist August 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] Reminder: Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Denis Tatone, Department of Cognitive Science, on September 5th, 2017

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis The naïve sociology of resource transfer An investigation of the inferential links between sharing behaviors and relational models in human infants by Denis Tatone Primary supervisor: Gergely Csibra Secondary supervisor: Dan Sperber Members of the Dissertation Committee: József Fiser, Chair, CEU Valerie Kuhlmeier, external examiner, Queens University Luca Surian, external examiner, University of Trento abstract | The ubiquitous occurrence of active transfer (giving) in the domain of nonkin interactions represents one of the most distinguishing features of the human sharing complex, and a striking departure from the sharing behavior of non-human primates, where giving occurs rarely and only in the presence of dependent offspring. The re-deployment of giving outside of parental-care contexts, we surmise, reflects human-unique selective pressures for the formation of cooperative partnerships to smooth the risks of high-variance foraging via reciprocal sharing. The co-variation between giving and reciprocally patterned relationships, we hypothesize, represented an evolutionarily recurrent feature of our ancestral social ecology, which has been captured in the human cognitive system in the form of an adaptive prior: an inbuilt propensity to infer from the occurrence of a giving-based interactions the existence of an underlying relationship regulated on reciprocal exchange. Borrowing from Fiske's (1992) Relational Models Theory, we characterize such relationship as conforming to the equality-matching (EM) model (i.e., a model governed by a directive standard of even balance). Building on these premises, the present work seeks to experimentally investigate such sensitivity to giving as cue of EM relationships in human infants. The dissertation is composed of five sets of studies (excluding the Appendix), which addressed this hypothesis at different levels: first, by assessing whether infants are capable of representing giving actions, and which are the minimal input conditions for inducing such representation (Chapters III and IV); second, by testing whether infants encode information functional for the bookkeeping of welfare imbalances (a socially relevant aspect of EM relationships) selectively for giving-based interactions (Chapters V and VI); and, third, by exploring whether infants expect equal resource division specifically for allocation procedures involving active distribution (Chapter VII). The findings produced by these studies convergently supported the hypothesis that the observation of giving primes the representation of EM relationships, additionally suggesting that superficially similar transferring actions (i.e., unresisted taking) may elicit fundamentally different inferences about the coordination rules adopted by the sharing partners. These results have two major implications for the research on early social cognition. Firstly, they demonstrate that infants are equipped with a rich conceptual repertoire of possession-related actions, which they exploit to infer different rules for regulating benefit exchange over time. Secondly, they suggest that, beyond the attribution of morally relevant dispositions and the representation of cooperative/competitive coalitions, infants' naïve sociology also encompasses the understanding and classification of social relationships on the basis of different rules of long-term exchange and benefit distribution. The defense will take place at room 101, V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, 1st floor on Tuesday, September 5th, at 3 pm organized by the Department of Cognitive Science ______________________________________________ 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] 25. MAKOG]

by Laszlo E. Szabo

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:38:03 +0200 Subject: [MaFLa] 25. MAKOG To: mafla <mafla(a)phil.elte.hu> From: János Tőzsér <jantozser(a)gmail.com> Kedves Kollégák, néhány nappal ezelőtt a 25. MAKOG (A kognitív tudományok alapjai és alkalmazhatósága című konferencia) hiányos programját küldtem el. Küldöm most a JÓ programot és a HIÁNYTALAN absztrakt-gyűjteményt. Mindenkit nagy-nagy szeretettel várunk! TőzsérJános _______________________________________________ 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

8 years, 8 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU CDC seminar: Valerie Kuhlmeier, Wednesday, September 6th, 17:00

by Katarina Begus

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: *Valerie Kuhlmeier (Queen's University, Canada)* *Date: *Wednesday, September 6th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30 *Host:* Gergo Csibra *Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. *Selectivity in Early Prosocial Behaviour* Within the animal kingdom, humans are unique in the frequency and complexity with which we engage in other-oriented, prosocial behaviors. We are exceptional in our ability to provide aid to others across a wide variety of contexts — and in response to a diversity of needs — even within the first few years of life. In this talk, I will present recent research from my laboratory, as well as from colleagues and collaborators, that aims to define the types of prosocial behaviors observed in very young children. Then, I will focus on the early development of selective prosociality toward certain individuals, inspired by the ‘partner choice’ evolutionary model for the maintenance of reciprocal systems. Together, this work is beginning to shed light on the factors that encourage or discourage prosocial behavior in our early social interactions. See more at: http://www.infantcognitiongroup.com/ResearchTeam/DrValerieKuhlmeier/tabid/6… 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

8 years, 8 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Invitation to the NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM : Brain mechanisms of navigation in physical and cognitive spaces - Aug 31, 14:45 - Nador 15 Aud. Registration needed!

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, This is a kind reminder about the NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: please do not forget that the registration<https://beta.doodle.com/poll/z4t5c7w9st4aux8s> deadline is tonight, August 28, midnight! The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM : Brain mechanisms of navigation in physical and cognitive spaces on 2017 August 31 Thursday 2:30 - 4:45 PM Location:CEU Nador 15 - Auditorium ***************************************************************************** This is a special symposium with four outstanding scientist (three Nobel laureates and one Brain Prize winner) who share their broader view on how the brain solves the problem of representing real distances and spaces as well as abstract cognitive spaces and related knowledge by partially similar yet different mechanisms. *********************************************************************************** Program: 14:30 - Welcome notes: Michael Ignatieff 14:35 - John O'Keefe (University College London): Cognitive Maps, Exploration and Curiosity-Driven Learning 15:05 - Edvard Moser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Grid cells and the brain´s spatial mapping system 15:35 - 15: 45: Break 15:45 - May-Britt Moser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Grid cells, object representations, and memory 16:15 - György Buzsáki (New York University): From navigation to memory and planning 16:45 - Reception (Nador 13) ************************************************************** https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-08-31/neuroscience-symposium-b… Registration is kindly requested here<http://doodle.com/poll/z4t5c7w9st4aux8s>! Deadline is August 28, midnight. We are looking forward to see 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

8 years, 8 months

[Koglist] Talk on Tuesday

by Dezso Nemeth

The Brain, Memory and Language Lab cordially invites you to a talk by Eva Zita Patai, UCL Spatial Cognition Group, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL, London,UK "Long-term consolidation switches goal proximity coding from hippocampus to retrosplenial cortex" Date: Tuesday, Aug 29. 16.00 Location: Institute of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Magyar tudósok krt. 2. Ground level (földszinti kisterem) Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1443586492392858/ We're looking forward to seeing you there! Dezső -------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (PhD) Brain, Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com Phone: +36-1-4614500/3565, +36-1-4614500/3519

8 years, 8 months

[Koglist] 25. MAKOG - Program és Absztraktok

by Laszlo E. Szabo

A 25. MAKOG programja és az absztraktok. -- 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, 8 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Denis Tatone, Department of Cognitive Science, on September 5th, 2017

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis The naïve sociology of resource transfer An investigation of the inferential links between sharing behaviors and relational models in human infants by Denis Tatone Primary supervisor: Gergely Csibra Secondary supervisor: Dan Sperber Members of the Dissertation Committee: József Fiser, Chair, CEU Valerie Kuhlmeier, external examiner, Queens University Luca Surian, external examiner, University of Trento abstract | The ubiquitous occurrence of active transfer (giving) in the domain of nonkin interactions represents one of the most distinguishing features of the human sharing complex, and a striking departure from the sharing behavior of non-human primates, where giving occurs rarely and only in the presence of dependent offspring. The re-deployment of giving outside of parental-care contexts, we surmise, reflects human-unique selective pressures for the formation of cooperative partnerships to smooth the risks of high-variance foraging via reciprocal sharing. The co-variation between giving and reciprocally patterned relationships, we hypothesize, represented an evolutionarily recurrent feature of our ancestral social ecology, which has been captured in the human cognitive system in the form of an adaptive prior: an inbuilt propensity to infer from the occurrence of a giving-based interactions the existence of an underlying relationship regulated on reciprocal exchange. Borrowing from Fiske's (1992) Relational Models Theory, we characterize such relationship as conforming to the equality-matching (EM) model (i.e., a model governed by a directive standard of even balance). Building on these premises, the present work seeks to experimentally investigate such sensitivity to giving as cue of EM relationships in human infants. The dissertation is composed of five sets of studies (excluding the Appendix), which addressed this hypothesis at different levels: first, by assessing whether infants are capable of representing giving actions, and which are the minimal input conditions for inducing such representation (Chapters III and IV); second, by testing whether infants encode information functional for the bookkeeping of welfare imbalances (a socially relevant aspect of EM relationships) selectively for giving-based interactions (Chapters V and VI); and, third, by exploring whether infants expect equal resource division specifically for allocation procedures involving active distribution (Chapter VII). The findings produced by these studies convergently supported the hypothesis that the observation of giving primes the representation of EM relationships, additionally suggesting that superficially similar transferring actions (i.e., unresisted taking) may elicit fundamentally different inferences about the coordination rules adopted by the sharing partners. These results have two major implications for the research on early social cognition. Firstly, they demonstrate that infants are equipped with a rich conceptual repertoire of possession-related actions, which they exploit to infer different rules for regulating benefit exchange over time. Secondly, they suggest that, beyond the attribution of morally relevant dispositions and the representation of cooperative/competitive coalitions, infants' naïve sociology also encompasses the understanding and classification of social relationships on the basis of different rules of long-term exchange and benefit distribution. organized by the Department of Cognitive Science ______________________________________________ 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, 8 months

[Koglist] CEU CDC postdoctoral research position

by Katalin Illes

Dear Members of this Koglist, Below we advertise a great job possibility to our Cognitive Development Center at CEU, working with Ernő Téglás. We would appreciate if you could spread the news. https://hro.ceu.edu/vacancies/postdoctoral-research Thank you very much. Kind regards, Katalin Illes Coordinator Cognitive Development Center ------------------------------------------- Central European University [cid:886F305F-E695-4050-812F-CF271316DCA2] CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY H-1051 Budapest,Oktober 6 u. 7. tel: (36-1) 328-3674 mail: IllesK(a)ceu.edu<mailto:IllesK@ceu.edu> http://www.ceu.edu

8 years, 8 months

[Koglist] CEU Social Mind Center is looking for a Research Assistant.

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear Members of this KogList, Below we advertise a great job possibility to our Social Mind Center, working with Dan Sperber and Hanna Marno. We would appreciate if you could please spread this news to your students and colleagues! Thank you very much! Kind regards, Reka Dear All, we're looking for a part time Research Assistant to help Hanna Marno, from 1st October, for a year, with a possibility of extension of the contract. Please circulate the job ad among your friends and colleagues. Application deadline is 28 August. Please see the job ad here<https://hro.ceu.edu/vacancies/research-assistant-social-mind-center-0>. Thank you for sharing the job ad! Best regards, Eszter ------------------------------------------------ Eszter Salamon Coordinator, Social Mind Center ------------------------------------------------ [cid:SVTVOGOKDNYV.IMAGE_1.jpeg] Central European University Oktober 6 utca 7. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary + 36.1.887.5158 | SalamonE(a)ceu.edu<mailto:SalamonE@ceu.edu> http://socialmind.ceu.edu/ http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/ -------------------------------------------------

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