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[Koglist] Fluencia Party on 9th February (Friday)

by Dezso Nemeth

Dear Cognitive Folks, The next Fluencia Party will be on 9th February (Friday) starting at 8.00pm in Élesztő (Tűzoltó utca close to Corvin metro station). Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2013110232260580/ Fluencia is a monthly organized informal "jamboree" for cogsci-, psychology-related students (undergrads, grads), professors, researchers from many different universities in Hungary. The idea and motivation are to facilitate interactions, communication, collaboration among researchers working here, get to know others and others' interests, topics, etc. And, of course, to have some drinks and fun in a friendly environment. Everybody is welcome to attend! If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask. All the best, Dezso -------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (PhD) Brain, Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com Phone: +36-1-4614500/3565, +36-1-4614500/3519

1 year, 8 months

[Koglist] BCCCD20

by Paula Fischer and Barbu Revencu | BCCCD 2020 Chairs

Dear Colleagues, The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the 10th annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 9-11, 2020). We welcome symposium and poster submissions from all fields of cognitive development. The regular conference will be preceded by a 10-year Anniversary Workshop<https://cdc.ceu.edu/anniversary_workshop> to celebrate the establishment of the Cognitive Development Center at CEU in 2010. While CEU has been facing the challenge of relocating most of its operations to another city<https://www.ceu.edu/article/2018-12-03/ceu-forced-out-budapest-launch-us-de…>, we would like to reassure all prospective participants that both the conference and the pre-conference workshop will take place in the Budapest campus of CEU. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development 2020 (BCCCD20) Conference Dates: January 9-11, 2020 Pre-Conference Anniversary Workshop: January 8-9, 2020 Location: Central European University, Budapest<https://goo.gl/maps/r9VjtsYjmEN2> Website: http://bcccd.org Facebook: Event<https://www.facebook.com/events/359891007935132> Symposium finder<https://www.facebook.com/groups/192549250851825/> (where participants can find each other to create a potential symposium for BCCCD) INVITED SPEAKERS Susan Carey (Harvard University)<https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/susan-e-carey> Susan Gelman (University of Michigan)<https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/gelman.html> Michael Tomasello (Duke University)<https://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people/michael-tomasello> DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS Symposia & papers: September 8, 2019 midnight CET (GMT+1) Posters: October 8, 2019 midnight CET (GMT+1) NOTIFICATIONS OF ACCEPTANCE Symposia & papers: September 30, 2019 Posters: October 31, 2019 FOLLOW US CEU Cognitive Development Center on Facebook: Cognitive Development Center at CEU<https://www.facebook.com/CognitiveDevelopmentCenteratCEU/> CEU Cognitive Development Center on Twitter: @CogDevCeu<https://twitter.com/cogdevceu?lang=en> CEU Cognitive Development Center on YouTube: Cognitive Development Center CEU<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1u_m6zHrcXZPL9pyNLAVw> Best, Paula Fischer & Barbu Revencu BCCCD20 Chairs

6 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to workshop on 'Alignment and Social Bonding' // June 7, 9.30 - 12.00

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to attend our event: [cid:image003.jpg@01D516F8.36F19480] Workshop: Alignment and Social Bonding Time: Friday, 7th June, 9.30 - 14.00 Place: October Hall, October 6 utca 7, 1051 Budapest Program: 9.30-10.30 Alignment at different levels during dialogue Simon Garrod, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 How we connect: From shared attention to social networks Thalia Wheatley, Center for Social Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, US 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.00 Molecular imaging of the human social bonding circuit Lauri Nummenmaa, Turku PET Centre, Finland *************************************** Talk abstracts Alignment at different levels during dialogue (Simon Garrod<https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/staff/simon…>, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK) Cooperative joint activities such as dialogue present a challenge for monadic cognitive science, because they involve more than one individual at the same time. This talk will present a non-monadic Shared Workspace framework for interpreting such activities and show how it applies to dialogue. The framework captures distributed properties of joint activities such as alignment of representations and synchronization. Alignment in dialogue has two dimensions. The first concerns the content of the aligned representations which can be linguistic or based on dialogue models. Linguistic representations relate to the sound, meaning and grammar as well as the para linguistic features of utterances (e.g., gestures). Dialogue models are of two kinds. Interlocutors have a situation model representing what they are discussing and a game model representing their current dialogue game - the interactive device (e.g., question plus answer) used to achieve the current goal of the dialogue (e.g., seeking information from your partner). The second dimension of alignment concerns time-scale which can be short-term (focal alignment) or long-term (global alignment). I will argue that global linguistic alignment is the residue of successive focal alignments based on 'automatic' priming mechanisms. Similarly, global alignment of situation models reflects successive focal alignments on situation models. And focal alignment of linguistic representations contributes to focal alignment of situation models. The goal of dialogue as a cooperative joint activity is to achieve alignment in relation to the topic of discussion. Therefore, interlocutors monitor their joint contributions to the shared workspace for such alignment. In turn, they use the outcome of the monitoring to produce positive or negative commentaries which help to keep the dialogue on track. How we connect: From shared attention to social networks (Thalia Wheatley<https://pbs.dartmouth.edu/people/thalia-wheatley>, Center for Social Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, US) The human brain evolved to be massively interactive with its social environment. A deep understanding of human thought and behavior will therefore require research that incorporates the context of others. In this talk I will present behavioral and brain research from my lab that shows the utility of conversation to align people's mental models and how this alignment across brains predicts friendship and influence in real world social networks. I will also highlight recent advances in the field that are increasingly affording the study of how and why minds connect. Molecular imaging of the human social bonding circuit (Lauri Nummenmaa<http://emotion.utu.fi/people/>, Turku PET Centre, Finland) The endogenous opioid and dopamine systems support appetitive, motivational, and social behaviour in humans and animals. In this talk I discuss our recent work on mapping the role of the μ-opioid receptor (MOR) and type 2 dopamine receptor system (D2R) systems in human social and emotional behaviour using fusion imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and in vivo positron emission tomography (PET) with agonist radioligands [11C]carfentanil and [11c]raclopride selective for MORs and D2Rs, respectively. Both activation studies and cross-sectional work show that MORs are associated with sociability. Social grooming and social laughter modulate central opioidergic activity, and multiple aspects of prosociality measured by laboratory tasks and questionnaires are positively associated with MOR expression in the frontal cortex. Conversely, antisocial traits such as psychopathy are negatively associated with MOR expression in the limbic system. Finally, MOR (but not D2R) expression is associated with BOLD-fMRI responses during vicarious pain perception confirming the contribution of MOR system in empathy. Altogether these results suggest that particularly the opioid system plays a major role in in human reward processing and sociability. Central opioid release during social interaction may act as a safety signal, promoting establishment and maintenance of social relationships. Consequently, malfunction of the opioid system may predispose individuals to developing disorders involving abnormal hedonic and socioemotional processing. ______________________________________________ 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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Adam Boncz, Department of Cognitive Science, June 6th, 2 pm

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis Communication as Joint Action: The role of cognitive alignment and coupling by Adam Boncz PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Gunther Knoblich (CEU) SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Thalia Wheatley (Dartmouth College) Members of the Dissertation Committee: Gergely Csibra, Chair, CEU Simon Garrod, external examiner, University of Glasgow, and Lauri Nummenmaa, external examiner, University of Turku abstract | Human communication is a multi-faceted phenomenon. Here we focused on communication in a joint action framework and aimed to answer three questions. First, we asked if people communicate efficiently in helping situations where signals can have a direct effect on task performance. We tested this question in four experiments using a precueing version of a reaction time task, where a helper participant's action provided a cue for a helpee participant. We found that helpers communicated efficiently but helpees did not utilize helpers' signals as much as they could. While helpers traded their own effort for helpees' performance gain, helpees avoided relying on helpers' communication, leading to a tension on the pair level. Second, we tested if alignment in verbal interactions is modulated by interactivity and individual goals, contrasting predictions of the interactive alignment model and automatic imitation accounts. Interactivity and goal overlap were modulated in a joint storytelling scenario and alignment was captured at multiple linguistic levels. We found independent effects of interactivity and individual goals: prosodic alignment (in terms of temporal structure) was affected only by the goal manipulation, while syntactic, lexical and semantic alignment was mostly modulated by interactivity. Our results suggest that interactivity increases high-level linguistic alignment, but prosodic alignment is unaffected by it. Third, we tested if interactivity elicits stronger brain-to-brain coupling using an fMRI hyperscanning setup. Employing the joint storytelling task we found evidence for stronger predictive coupling in an interactive condition relative to a non-interactive condition, potentially linked to temporal predictive processes. In sum, our work emphasizes the importance of studying communication from a broad, integrative perspective and by employing a variety of techniques. The defense will take place at Oktober 6 street 7, Room 101, on Thursday, June 6, at 2 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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Colloquium: 'The interface between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance ' by Diana Mazzarella - Jun 5, 5pm

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by Diana Mazzarella<https://www.unine.ch/islc/home/collaborateurs/professeurs/Diana%20Mazzarell…> (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 17:00-18:30 Location: CEU, Oktober 6. Street 7, room 101 The interface between pragmatics and epistemic vigilance Speakers have two distinct goals: to be understood and to make the hearer think or act according to what is to be understood. As a result, when receiving a piece of incoming information, the hearer needs to interpret it (by inferring the speaker meaning based on linguistic and contextual cues) and evaluate it (by assessing the reliability of its source and the plausibility of its content). While the former task pertains to pragmatics, the latter is carried out by epistemic vigilance mechanisms (Sperber et al., 2010). In this talk, I will show that these two tasks are closely intertwined. I will make this case by focusing on two distinct phenomena: speaker commitment and irony comprehension. Previous research has shown that speaker commitment increases the likelihood that a message is accepted as true (see, e.g., Vullioud et al., 2017). Committed speakers are judged as reliable informants as their commitment puts their reputation at stake. I will discuss the way in which the attribution of speaker commitment can be modulated by pragmatic cues and provide empirical evidence that speakers are taken to be less committed to what they implicate than to what they presuppose or assert. Finally, I will focus on a specific pragmatic phenomenon, irony comprehension, and its relation with epistemic vigilance. Current accounts of irony all converge on the assumption that one of its defining features is the expression of a dissociative attitude towards the proposition literally expressed (see, e.g., Clark & Gerrit, 1984; Recanati, 2004; Wilson & Sperber, 2012). I will suggest that the recognition of this implicit dissociative attitude requires the exercise of 'second-order' epistemic vigilance and show how this proposal can shed light on the 'developmental puzzle' of irony comprehension. 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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: CEU Departmental Colloquium, May 29: Stephen Butterfill (Warwick University) - A Developmental Puzzle about Goal Tracking

by CDC

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Prof. Stephen Butterfill (Warwick University) [web<http://www.butterfill.com/>] Title: A Developmental Puzzle about Goal Tracking Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019 Time: 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 101 Abstract: Sensitivity to others’ actions is essential for social animals like humans and a fundamental requirement for any kind of social cognition. Unsurprisingly, it is present in humans from early in the first year of life. But what processes underpin infants’ sensitivity to others’ actions? Any attempt to answer this question must solve twin puzzles about the development of goal tracking. Why does some, but not all, of infants’ goal tracking appear to be limited by their abilities to represent the observed action motorically at the time it occurs? And why does their sensitivity to action sometimes manifest itself differently in dishabituation, pupil dilation and anticipatory looking? Solving these twin puzzles is critical for understanding humans’ earliest sensitivity to others’ actions. After introducing the puzzles, this paper argues that solving them may require identifying multiple, distinct processes for tracking the targets and goals of actions. We are looking forward to see you. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Thomas Wolf, Department of Cognitive Science, May 30th, 10 am

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis Joint Music-Making and Temporal Coordination in Joint Action by Thomas Wolf PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Gunther Knoblich SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Natalie Sebanz Members of the Dissertation Committee: Erno Teglas, Chair, CEU Stephen Butterfill<http://www.butterfill.com/>, external examiner, Warwick, and Peter Keller<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/our_team/researchers/professor_peter…>, external examiner, Western Sydney University abstract | When humans engage in joint action, they bring about changes in the environment together by coordinating in space and time. Even such simple joint actions as shaking hands require sophisticated temporal coordination. This is even more obvious for complex forms of joint action, such as joint music-making. Indeed, joint music-making is a domain that demands an exquisite degree of precision in temporal coordination. It also poses additional challenges, which arise from the need to predict and adapt to each other's actions - often on different instruments and with different skill levels - while performing extraordinarily complex patterns and adhering to context-dependent aesthetic criteria and performance targets. In this thesis, I present three studies in which I investigated how expert and novice musicians deal with three such challenges. The findings illuminate the basic mechanisms underpinning humans' remarkable ability to coordinate the timing of their actions both in musical and in non-musical joint actions. In the first study, I investigated expert pianists' ability to adjust their temporal predictions to the systematic, but suboptimal, timing deviations of novice pianists. In a music coordination task, expert pianists had access to different pieces of information about their co-performer and the co-performer's part. The results indicate that experts use information about the novice's performance style during easier passages and information about the novice's part (i.e. the score) during passages that are difficult to perform. In the second study, I asked participants to adapt to an unusual coordination pattern under various coordination conditions. The primary question was whether the weaker coupling between limbs in interpersonal coordination (e.g., the two hands of two different individuals) during joint performances allows for better adaptation to difficult coordination patterns than the stronger coupling between limbs in intrapersonal coordination (e.g., the two hands of one person). The results show that while strong coupling between limbs facilitates precise coordination in simple coordination patterns, this advantage disappears in more difficult patterns. The third study focuses on a particular performance bias, namely the tendency to gradually increase tempo during joint music-making ('rushing'). The central question was whether this bias is specific to joint performance, or whether it also occurs during solo music-making. The results indicate that rushing is indeed specific to joint performance. Various hypotheses concerning the underlying mechanisms of rushing are discussed and tested. Of these mechanisms, the findings speak in favor of a combination of human-specific period correction mechanisms, and evolutionarily ancient synchronization mechanisms found even among distantly related species of chorusing insects. In this thesis, I treat the domain of joint music-making as a microcosm in which to study humans' remarkable ability to precisely coordinate their actions in time. The three studies focus on some of the challenges that humans face when trying to coordinate their actions in time during joint music-making, but the findings also have broader significance: they provide us with new insights into the general mechanisms of temporal coordination in humans, and offer new starting points and constraints for research on joint action. The defense will take place at Oktober 6 street 7, Oktober Hall, on Thursday, May 30, 10 am 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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Thomas Wolf, Department of Cognitive Science, May 30th, 10 am

by Gyorgyne Finta

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CEU Departmental Colloquium, May 29: Stephen Butterfill (Warwick University) - A Developmental Puzzle about Goal Tracking

by Denis Tatone

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Prof. *Stephen Butterfill *(Warwick University) [web <http://www.butterfill.com/>] Title: *A Developmental Puzzle about Goal Tracking* Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019 Time: 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 st. 7, room 10 Abstract: Sensitivity to others’ actions is essential for social animals like humans and a fundamental requirement for any kind of social cognition. Unsurprisingly, it is present in humans from early in the first year of life. But what processes underpin infants’ sensitivity to others’ actions? Any attempt to answer this question must solve twin puzzles about the development of goal tracking. Why does some, but not all, of infants’ goal tracking appear to be limited by their abilities to represent the observed action motorically at the time it occurs? And why does their sensitivity to action sometimes manifest itself differently in dishabituation, pupil dilation and anticipatory looking? Solving these twin puzzles is critical for understanding humans’ earliest sensitivity to others’ actions. After introducing the puzzles, this paper argues that solving them may require identifying multiple, distinct processes for tracking the targets and goals of actions. We are looking forward to see you. Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] CogStat 1.8-as kiadása

by Krajcsi Attila

Kedves Mindenki, Elérhető a CogStat, automatikus elemző szoftver legújabb kiadása. Az újdonságok közt elérhetőek új diagram témák; bekerültek további hipotézis tesztek; a kimeneten további optimalizálások történtek, hogy az eredmények még könnyebben áttekinthetőek legyenek; a szoftver kipróbálást demó adatok segítik; egyszerűbbé vált a Mac és a Linux változat telepítése. További részletek a levelem alatt. A szoftver letölthető a www.cogstat.org oldalról. Üdv, Attila 1.8.0 <https://github.com/cogstat/cogstat/blob/master/changelog.md#new-features-1>New features - Charts - Use themes for the charts - Set theme in CogStat > Preferences menu - Various chart refinements - New hypothesis tests - Dunn's post hoc test after significant Kruskal-Wallis test - Single case test for slope index - Numerical results - Display mean estimations numerically in group comparison and in repeated measures comparison - Display standardized effect sizes separately - Various smaller refinements - Output improvements - In warning massages add links to pages with more information about fixing the issue - Various smaller output refinements - Sample data - Add sample data files - Add menu to open sample data files (Data > Open demo data files...) - Graphical user interface improvements - Add text zooming option to Results menu (Results > Increase text size, Results > Decrease text size) - Add splash screen - Simpler installation - Simpler Mac installation (thanks to Márton Nagy, Anna Rákóczi and András Csép) - Simpler Linux installation - New localizations - Slovak (Katarína Sümegiová) - Thai (Jinshana Praemcheun) <https://github.com/cogstat/cogstat/blob/master/changelog.md#fixes-1>Fixes - [image: warning] Fix single-case modified t-test - Various bugfixes - Mac specific bug fixes (thanks to Márton Nagy, Anna Rákóczi and András Csép) ------------------------------------------- Attila Krajcsi https://www.thenumberworks.org

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