koglist August 2019

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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] Meghívó - ünnepi ülés Prof. Molnár Márk 70. születésnapján

by Gaál Zsófia Anna

Tisztelt Kollégák! Az MTA TTK Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézete ünnepi ülést rendez Prof. Molnár Márk 70. születésnapja alkalmából. A rendezvény időpontja: 2019. szeptember 12. (csütörtök) 14 óra, helyszín: MTA TTK Konferenciaterem. További részletek a csatolt meghívóban olvashatók. Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk! Üdvözlettel, Gaál Zsófia Anna -- Zsófia Anna Gaál, PhD Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Tel.: +36-1-382-6817 1519 Budapest, POB 286. http://www.ttk.mta.hu/en/telefonkonyv/gaal-zsofia-anna/

6 years, 3 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] PhD defense at CEU: Eszter Szabó, 10am on September 6

by Gergely Csibra

The public defense<https://cdc.ceu.edu/events/2019-09-06/doctoral-defense-eszter-szabo> of the doctoral dissertation of Eszter Szabó<https://cdc.ceu.edu/people/eszter-szabo-0> Primary supervisor: Ágnes Melinda Kovács<https://cdc.ceu.edu/people/agnes-melinda-kovacs> Secondary supervisor: Gergely Csibra<https://cdc.ceu.edu/people/gergely-csibra> Dissertation Committee: György Gergely<https://cdc.ceu.edu/people/gyorgy-gergely> (Chair, CEU) Luca Bonatti<https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/luca-bonatti-498> (University Pompeu Fabra, external examiner) Véronique Izard<http://lpp.parisdescartes.cnrs.fr/people/veronique-izard/> (Paris Descartes University, external examiner) Time and date: 10am on September 6, 2019 Venue: Central European University, Room 809, Faculty Tower, Nádor utca 9, Budapest 1051 Title: The representation of absence of objects Abstract While linguistic negation is a fascinating tool to capture the absence of objects, we know little about how these thoughts emerge. In this work, first, we aimed to investigate the linguistic negation acquisition and the nature of the first meanings of the negative statements; second, we targeted language independent representations of presence/absence available for young infants and non-human animals. In Study 1 and 2 we inspected the development of negation comprehension between 15 and 24 month in human infants. In Study 1 we asked whether a domain general or alternatively, a limited conceptual understanding supports the initial understanding of negation expressing absence. We found a parallel development for understanding syntactically and functionally different negative utterances, supporting a common conceptual basis for negation already at 18 months. While in Study 1 infants were able to encode absence and use it to find the presence of an object, in Study 2, we tested negation comprehension when it does not evoke the implication of a positive alternative (i.e. the only implication is ‘nothing’). We found a more prolonged pattern for negation understanding in Study 2 compared to Study 1. In Chapter 3 we tested young domestic chicks’ encoding of the presence and the absence of an object. We found sex-dependent evidence in their looking behavior, suggesting a capacity for encoding absence. In Chapter 4 we measured the neural correlates of different types of object disappearances in 6-month-old infants. Object maintenance (of presence) evoked prefrontal and temporal activation when an object was occluded; in contrast no specific activation was found for objects that vanished or mingled among other identical objects. Our findings point to human infants’ readiness to understand negation expressing absence, likely based on domain general cognitive and linguistic tools. However, encoding absence is not language-dependent ability; such information is also available for pre- and non-linguistic creatures, but unlike encoding presence, it is not an automatic process. We propose that absence depends on categorical representations, and on possible mental structures expressing contrary concepts. ______________________________________________ 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, 8 months

[Koglist] 2nd International Conference on Heuristics, Balatonfüred augusztus 30 -szeptember 1.

by Benedek András

Tisztelt Kollégák! Az MTA Tudomány és Technikatörténeti Állandó Bizottságának megalapításra került Pólya György Heurisztikai Albizottsága és az MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpontja másodízben szervezi meg a Nemzeti Kulturális Alap támogatásával az alábbi konferenciát, melyre ezúton tisztelettel meghívjuk. 2nd International Conference on Heuristics: Motivating, Orienting and Modeling Invention Balatonfüred, August 30 - September 1, 2019 http://heurisztika.btk.mta.hu/programok A diákprogrammal egybekötött nemzetközi konferencia díjmentes, több napos rendezvény, melyet A konferencia fókuszában a heurisztika pszichológiai problémái, az innovatív magatartás motivációja, a felfedezés számítógépes támogatása és az innovatív gondolkodás modellálásának kérdései állnak. Csatoljuk a konferencia programját, a részleteket ld. a konferencia fenti honlapján. Tisztelettel, Dr. Benedek András, PhD, CSc Tudományos Főmunkatárs [cid:image001.png@01D55D27.D3CAAB00]

6 years, 8 months

[Koglist] Fluencia Party - September 4 Wednesday

by Dezso Nemeth

Dear Cognitive Folks, The next Fluencia Party will be held be on 4th September (Wednesday) starting at 7.30pm in Élesztő (Tüzoltó utca 22). Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/223986851876343/ 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

6 years, 8 months

[Koglist] {Disarmed} Fwd: Postdoc possibilities

by János TÓTH

Hátha vkinek van postdoc állása. Üdv, Tj ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Amirhossein Sadeghi Manesh <Amir(a)math.ku.dk> Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 11:02 AM Subject: Postdoc possibilities To: jtoth(a)math.bme.hu <jtoth(a)math.bme.hu> Dear Janos Toth, We met several times in different conferences (first time was in Mackie2017 in Budapest, and the last time was in Bern). I finished my PhD previous year and now I'm doing a short postdoc until the end of this December so now I'm looking for a new postdoc. I thought of writing to you and ask if you have any postdoc position or by any chance aware of any. I attached my CV to this email and wrote a bit about myself (the link to my thesis is also at the end of this email). I finished my PhD and a short 2 months postdoc at the end of October 2018 and now I'm spending another 8 months postdoc with my PhD supervisor (1st of May 2019-31st of December 2019). I studied my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in pure mathematics (specialized to algebraic geometry in master with thesis title: "*Resolution of singularities and Hironaka's theorem*"). Then I studied my PhD in applied algebraic geometry in biology under supervision of Elisenda Feliu, and my PhD thesis title was "*algebraic tools in the study of multistationarity of chemical reaction networks*". In my thesis I used parallel computation and programming with Maple and Python (I am using C++ and Julia during my current postdoc too). I introduced algorithms which solve the questions of interests faster than former existing algorithms, or need less memory. I used not only computational algebraic geometry, but also stochastic, statistics, numerical analysis, linear algebra and graph theory. Another thing about me is that I always like to participate conferences and use whatever new things I learn in the talks to attack the challenging questions in the topics that I work on them, even if they sound irrelevant at the beginning. As an example you can see the use of the Kac-Rice formula to do what CAD (cylindrical algebraic decomposition) can't do in algebraic geometry in practice. I also prefer to have applications for what I do and that was the reason I didn't continue my PhD only in the pure side and tried a topic with application in biology and chemistry, and you can see examples in my thesis such as gene-regulationary networks (like LacI-TetR), n-site phosphorylation or HK networks which have application in signal trasnduction passways and memory role in Eukaryotic and Prekaryotic cells respectively. Links to my PhD thesis and the two first papers of my thesis are below. A preliminary draft version of the third paper can be found in my thesis text. But the results are generalized in the current postdoc which are not in that draft. I also worked on speeding up the Monte-Carlo integrations needed in this work. Text: http://web.math.ku.dk/noter/filer/phd18ahs.pdf Cover: http://web.math.ku.dk/noter/filer/omslag/phd18ahs.pdf 1st paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2019.02.006 2nd paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-019-00612-1 Thanks for your time and reading my email Sincerely -- AmirHosein Sadeghimanesh Finished PhD in "Applied Algebraic Geometry in Biology" Postdoc in "Mathematics of Chemical Reaction Networks Theory" Under supervision of Elisenda Feliu University of Copenhagen -- Recently published: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493986415 <https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493986415> *Az Érintő legfrissebb, 2019. NYÁRI** száma:* http://www.ematlap.hu Olvasd, terjeszd, írd! https://scholar.google.hu/citations?user=_6V4DdoAAAAJ

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