koglist June 2019

koglist@maillist.ttk.hu

11 participants
19 discussions

Start a nNew thread

[Koglist] Pszichológiatörténet konferencia program

by Csaba Pleh

Kedves Kollégák ! Mindenkit szeretettel várunk. Pléh Csaba

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] 2 Postdoc and 1 PhD position on early social cognition at the Max Planck Institute CBS, Leipzig

by Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann

* 2 Postdoc and 1 PhD position on the neural basis of social cognition in early childhood * The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany is currently searching for 2 postdoc and a PhD student in the Research Group Milestones of Early Cognitive Development (https://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/early-cognitive-developm…). The Research Group investigates the cognitive and neural basis of social cognition in early childhood, using functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), EEG, MRI, eye-tracking, and infant behavioral methods. A particular focus of the group lies on the development of Theory of Mind and self-concept throughout infancy and preschool-age. One postdoc and one PhD position will be part of a bigger project by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the DFG Research Unit “Crossing the Borders: The Interplay of Language, Cognition, and the Brain in Early Human Development” (https://crossing-project.de/). The PhD project will focus on early Theory of Mind development with fNIRS. The postdoc project will be based in the Department of Neuropsychology and focus on brain-structural MRI assessment in relation with language, action, and Theory of Mind in early childhood. The second postdoc will work on projects according to their own interests within the scope of the research group, preferably involving fNIRS and/or EEG. The full job advertisements can be found at https://www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/open-positions and application is via our online system. ** Application deadline is the 30 June 2019, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. ** In case of questions please contact Dr. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann (wiesmann(a)cbs.mpg.de) https://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/early-cognitive-developm…

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] Álláshirdetés - Kísérleti Pszichológia MTA TTK KPI

by János Horváth

PÁLYÁZATI FELHÍVÁS A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Természettudományi Kutatóközpont főigazgatója Fiatal kutatói álláshelyet hirdet a Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet, Kísérleti Pszichológiai Kutatócsoport „tudományos segédmunkatárs” közalkalmazotti munkakörének betöltésére A munkakörbe tartozó lényeges feladatok: - Téma: A szándékos cselekvés, az észlelés-cselekvés interakció pszichológiai törvényszerűségeinek vizsgálata kísérleti pszichológiai és kognitív idegtudományi módszerekkel - A fiatal kutató feladata / munkájának célja: A szakmai módszertan (többek között EEG/ERP, szemmozgáskövetés) elsajátítása és alkalmazása, a téma nemzetközi irodalmának nyomon követése, kísérlettervezés, kísérleti elrendezések programozása, adatfelvétel, adatelemzés, kéziratkészítés, az eredmények publikálása nemzetközi szaklapokban, valamint a kutatáshoz kapcsolódó szervezési és adminisztratív feladatok. Pályázati feltételek: - Egyetemi diploma (elsősorban, de nem kizárólagosan pszichológia, kognitív tudomány területén) - Középfokú „C” típusú angol nyelvvizsga - A fiatal kutatók felső korhatára 30 év (kivételes esetben 35 év), a 10 éven aluli gyermeket nevelő kutatónők esetében a korhatár gyermekenként 2 évvel meghosszabbodik és ez vonatkozik a gyermeküket egyedül nevelő kutatókra is. Előnyt jelent: - Kísérleti pszichológia, kognitív idegtudomány területén szerzett kutatási tapasztalat; - Programozási, statisztikai ismeretek; - A fiatal kutatók alkalmazása során a magyar állampolgárságú, illetve a határon túli magyar fiatalok elsőbbséget élveznek A jogállására, illetményére és egyéb juttatásaira a „Közalkalmazottak jogállásáról szóló” többször módosított 1992. évi XXXIII. törvényben előírt rendelkezések az irányadók. A fiatal kutatói álláshelyek pályázati formában történő betöltéséről a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia elnökének 2/2017. (I.10.) számú határozata érvényes. A közalkalmazotti jogviszony jellege, időtartama: A kinevezés teljes munkaidőben, határozott időre (2 év) szól: 2019. szeptember 01. – 2021. augusztus 31. A munkavégzés helye: MTA Természettudományi Kutatóközpont (TTK) Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. A pályázat részeként benyújtandó iratok, igazolások: - fényképpel ellátott szakmai önéletrajz - az iskolai végzettséget, szakképzettséget tanúsító okiratok, dokumentumok másolata - nyilatkozat arról, hogy a pályázati anyagot az elbírálásban résztvevő személyek megismerhetik A pályázat benyújtásának határideje: 2019. június 26. A pályázat elbírálásának határideje: 2019. július 05. A munkakör betölthetőségének időpontja: 2019. szeptember 01. A pályázatok benyújtásának módja: A pályázatot egy példányban, postai és elektronikus úton juttassa el az MTA TTK, Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudósok körútja 2. címre, valamint elektronikusan, egyetlen PDF dokumentum formájában a következő e-mail címre: horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu Visszajelzést csak a személyes beszélgetésre behívott pályázók kapnak. A személyes beszélgetés egy szakmai prezentációt is magában foglal. Felvétel esetén a munkakör betöltése 90 napnál nem régebbi hatósági erkölcsi bizonyítványhoz kötött. A pályázattal kapcsolatos további felvilágosítást ad: Dr. Horváth János; tel.: +36 1 382 6815. Budapest, 2019. május 15. Dr. Pokol György főigazgató -- János Horváth, PhD DSc Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1519 Budapest, P.O.B. 286, HUNGARY Phone: +36 1 382 6815 Web: https://sites.google.com/site/janoshorvathphd/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0147-4518

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] TOMORROW: 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@01D51C7F.9AFD3F10] 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] ``Punishment: one tool, many uses `` by Nichola Raihani (UCL) on Wednesday, June 12, 2019

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its next week talk by: Nichola Raihani (UCL)<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/person/nichola-…> Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Christophe Heintz Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Punishment: one tool, many uses Punishment involves paying a cost to harm others and is thought to operate as a tool to convert cheaters into cooperators. In stylized laboratory games, humans willingly punish their co-players, and this proclivity for punishment is frequently invoked to explain why humans are so extraordinarily cooperative. In this talk, I will critically assess the assumption that punishment is used as a tool to convert cheaters into cooperators. I will first present evidence from the cleaner fish-client mutualism, showing data that support this assumption. I will then discuss the picture in humans, which seems to be more complicated. In humans, punishment often prompts retaliation, rather than cooperation. Furthermore, punishment decisions often reflect the desire to equalise or elevate payoffs relative to targets, rather than the desire to enact revenge for harm received or to deter cheats from reoffending in future. For example, negative gossip - one obvious real-world expression of punitive sentiment - is arguably more likely to serve a competitive, rather than a deterrent function. Together, these converging strands of evidence cast serious doubts on the assumption that the sole function of punishment in humans is to convert cheating individuals into cooperators. I will outline a competing hypothesis: punishment has a competitive function, that allows punishers to equalise or elevate their own payoffs and/or status relative to targets independently of any change in the target's behaviour. Indeed, the commonly-used 1:3 fee-to-fine ratio in experimental games is competitive by default since it costs less to inflict punishment than to receive it. Finally, I will discuss how institutions that reduce or remove the possibility that punishers are motivated by relative payoff or status concerns might offer a way to harness these competitive motives and render punishment more effective at restoring cooperation. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2019-06-12/departmental-colloquium-… We look forward to seeing 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://www.ceu.edu/> http://cognitivescience.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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Saso Zivanovic

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 5 June (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Sašo Živanović Department of Comparative and General Linguistics University of Ljubljana Towards a cognitively plausible deductive system _______________________________ 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

6 years, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Reminder: 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:image002.jpg@01D51AFA.5FD88830] 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] REMINDER: 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] ESHHS 2019 Budapest: Program online!

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pléh distinguished visiting professor, CEU Department of Cognitive Science Budapest, Nádor u. 9 1051 Hungary office: Oktober 6 street 7, 104 vispleh(a)ceu.edu Hungarian mobile: 0036303493735 Homepage: http://plehcsaba.eu/ review editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology member of HAS and Academia Europaae ________________________________ From: ESHHS <eshhs(a)googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 2:14 PM To: ESHHS Subject: ESHHS 2019 Budapest: Program online! Dear colleagues, the program for the next ESHHS conference in Budapest is now finalized! You can find it attached to this email. For those who have not registered yet and would like to come to Budapest, please follow this link to our registration form: http://www.eshhs.eu/wordpress-3.3.1/wordpress/?page_id=1291 Looking forward to see you in Budapest, Martin Wieser Communications officer of the ESHHS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESHHS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to eshhs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:eshhs+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to eshhs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:eshhs@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/eshhs. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/eshhs/2d313886-729b-41f6-9dbb-ed123efee68…<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/eshhs/2d313886-729b-41f6-9dbb-ed123efee68…>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

6 years, 11 months

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

koglist June 2019