koglist December 2023

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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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Christos Makrodimitris and Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Jan 11 9:30 AM: Temporal connectives in child language

by Attila Balla

Dear All, The Language Comprehension Lab cordially invites you to the following talk by: Christos Makrodimitris and Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Date: Thursday, Jan 11, 2024 Time: 9:30 AM Venue: Language Comprehension Lab (D513) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93265095380?pwd=VmZtSWFmL01OQ2ZlWDZ0NFhRSTFNdz09 Meeting ID: 932 6509 5380 Passcode: 181164 The speakers will join online. Title: "Temporal connectives in child language" Abstract: The sequence of sentences frequently reflects the order of events encoded by the clauses, resulting in iconicity (Diessel 2008), which may be overtly marked by lexical cues (e.g., after in (1a), before in (1b)). We can sidestep iconicity, however, by using temporal connectives non-iconically ((1b) for after, (1a) for before). (1) a. After/before he ate an apple, he read a letter. b. He read a letter, after/before he ate an apple. Extending previous research on children’s comprehension of sentences with before and after (e.g., Clark 1971, de Ruiter et al. 2018), we tested 60 monolingual Greek-speaking children (aged 6–11) with a sentence-picture matching task manipulating Iconicity (iconic/non-iconic) and Conjunction (before/after), see (1). A GLMM with Iconicity and Conjunction as fixed effects revealed a main effect of Iconicity and an interaction of Iconicity*Conjunction. Tukey-adjusted pairwise comparisons showed differences between iconic and non-noniconic after (p=0.002) and between noniconic before and noniconic after (p<0.001). This pattern suggests that violation of iconicity negatively affected comprehension of after but not of before. We propose that this asymmetry regarding iconicity can be accounted for by an event-semantic kindergarten-path effect: in languages with clause-initial connectives like English or Greek, non-iconic after-sentences (1b) are more difficult than their iconic variant (1a), because the sentence-medial connective forces the listener to integrate a subordinate event into the—already processed—main clause event and to revise the initial event order. Non-iconic before-sentences (1a) are not harder than their iconic variant, because sentence-initial before serves as an early cue of the non-iconic order, so reanalysis of the event-representation is either not needed or happens early on. The event-semantic kindergarten-path effect predicts that children should master non-iconic before earlier than non-iconic after. This was borne out in our results; 23 children had mastered non-iconic before but not non-iconic after, whereas no child had mastered non-iconic after but not non-iconic before. Notably, monolingual German-speaking children and Greek-German bilingual children, who were tested with the same experimental design, showed the same interpretation pattern, with non-iconic after being most difficult. If our proposal applies to comprehension more generally, adults are expected to show an event-semantic kindergarten-path under the right conditions in reading. References: • Clark, E. V. (1971). On the acquisition of the meaning of before and after. J. of Verbal Learng. a. Verbal Beh., 10, 266–275. • De Ruiter, L. E., Theakston, A. L., Brandt, S., & Lieven, E. V. M. (2018). Iconicity affects children's comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences. Cognition. 171, 202–224. • Diessel, H. (2008). Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English. Cognitive Linguistics, 19(3), 465–490. Kind regards, Attila ______________________________________________ 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] Both volumes out Pléh Csaba

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pléh CEU Dept of Cognitive Science Budapest Nádor utca 9 room 406 0036303493735 Vispleh(a)ceu.edu plehcsaba.eu

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CCC Colloquium - Gašper Tkačik - Monday, 18 December

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invites you to the following talk. Speaker: Gašper Tkačik (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Statistical analysis, optimality, and efficient attentional modulation Abstract: This talk consists of two parts. In the first part, I will briefly outline a way to unify normative (optimization) theories of biological system function with statistical inference. This is achieved a coherent Bayesian framework that embeds a normative theory into a family of maximum-entropy ‘‘optimization priors.’’ This family defines a smooth interpolation between a data-rich inference regime and a data-limited prediction regime. I will use simple examples from neuroscience to show how this framework allows one to address a number of fundamental statistical challenges relating to inference in high-dimensional, biological problems. In the second part, I will present recent work on efficient sensory coding in systems with top-down feedback. In a normative model of dynamic population coding in visual cortex, a perceptual observer constantly and optimally tunes the sensory population to solve a perceptual inference task while maintaining coding efficiency. This optimal behavior leads to attention-like modulation and explains a number of seemingly disparate cortical phenomena. Time: 17:00, Monday, December 18., 2023. Location: CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 202. and Zoom (Meeting ID: 995 5149 4059<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99551494059?pwd=ekxKZVVpS3FNekFvUFJQRmpWTVBadz09> Passcode: 086066) Chair: Máté Lengyel Please, be informed that video/photo recording might take place at the event and the edited version of the video material might be published to communicate or promote CEU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:e022cb9a-e42a-416e-adba-f0259e74797b] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Elisabeth S. Spelke (Harvard University), 4 pm on Thursday Dec 14

by Salih Bartug Celik

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Elisabeth S. Spelke (Harvard University) From the lab to the field and back: Toward a synergy between research in developmental cognitive science and in the economics of education In developing countries like India, almost all children attend school, but many fail to learn up to their potential. In this talk, I ask two questions. First, can basic research in developmental cognitive science contribute to efforts to address this problem and promote Indian children’s learning in school? Second, can field research, using randomized designs to evaluate the impacts of curricula that aim to promote such children’s learning, such as the curricula tested in India, contribute to efforts, in developmental cognitive science, to gain a better understanding of human minds and how they grow and learn? Date: Thursday, Dec 14, 2023 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D001* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Gergley Csibra *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.microsoft.com/e/UqAWQUWy7T> to get access to the lecture hall. Best, Bartu ______________________________________________ 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

2 years, 4 months

[Koglist] Vol 1 is out...

by Csaba Pleh

2 years, 4 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CCC Colloquium - Gašper Tkačik - 18 December

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invites you to the following talk. Speaker: Gašper Tkačik (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Statistical analysis, optimality, and efficient attentional modulation Abstract: This talk consists of two parts. In the first part, I will briefly outline a way to unify normative (optimization) theories of biological system function with statistical inference. This is achieved a coherent Bayesian framework that embeds a normative theory into a family of maximum-entropy ‘‘optimization priors.’’ This family defines a smooth interpolation between a data-rich inference regime and a data-limited prediction regime. I will use simple examples from neuroscience to show how this framework allows one to address a number of fundamental statistical challenges relating to inference in high-dimensional, biological problems. In the second part, I will present recent work on efficient sensory coding in systems with top-down feedback. In a normative model of dynamic population coding in visual cortex, a perceptual observer constantly and optimally tunes the sensory population to solve a perceptual inference task while maintaining coding efficiency. This optimal behavior leads to attention-like modulation and explains a number of seemingly disparate cortical phenomena. Time: 17:00, Monday, December 18., 2023. Location: CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 202. and Zoom (Meeting ID: 995 5149 4059<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99551494059?pwd=ekxKZVVpS3FNekFvUFJQRmpWTVBadz09> Passcode: 086066) Chair: Máté Lengyel Please, be informed that video/photo recording might take place at the event and the edited version of the video material might be published to communicate or promote CEU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:dc33536a-7b6f-474c-aa0e-b1d8a3a84a2b] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 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

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum Dec. 12. Máté Lengyel

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invites you to the upcoming meeting of the Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum<https://ccc.ceu.edu/budapest-computational-neuroscience-forum>. Speaker: Máté Lengyel (CEU/University of Cambridge) Optimal information loading into working memory explains dynamic coding in prefrontal cortex Abstract: Working memory involves the short-term maintenance of information and is critical in many tasks. The neural circuit dynamics underlying working memory remain poorly understood, with different aspects of prefrontal cortical (PFC) responses explained by different putative mechanisms. By mathematical analysis, numerical simulations, and using recordings from monkey PFC, we investigate a critical but hitherto ignored aspect of working memory dynamics: information loading. We find that, contrary to common assumptions, optimal loading of information into working memory involves inputs that are largely orthogonal, rather than similar, to the late delay activities observed during memory maintenance, naturally leading to the widely observed phenomenon of dynamic coding in PFC. Using a novel, theoretically principled metric, we show that PFC exhibits the hallmarks of optimal information loading. We also find that optimal information loading emerges as a general dynamical strategy in task-optimized recurrent neural networks. Our theory unifies previous, seemingly conflicting theories of memory maintenance based on attractor or purely sequential dynamics, and reveals a normative principle underlying dynamic coding. Time: 17:00, Tuesday, December 12., 2023. Location: CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 203. and Zoom (Meeting ID: 982 9861 1033<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98298611033?pwd=UzR1Sm0wRFhuYlZWVE82Zmo5aTZqdz09> Passcode: 243903) Should you have any inquiries about the series, please contact Mihály Bányai<mailto:mihaly.s.banyai@gmail.com>. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:f4a73541-8b9f-45f0-9ea7-b6b1bd4568ab] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 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

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: Patric Bach (University of Aberdeen) - November 22nd at 4 pm, QS D-001

by socialmind

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center invites you to the following talk: Patric Bach<https://www.actionprediction.org/> (University of Aberdeen) Perceptual simulation as basis for understanding others Recent proposals argue that people’s understanding of other people’s behaviours relies on a top-down guided process that is able to “paint” one’s knowledge of the other person – their goals, beliefs, and perspective onto the environment – onto ones’ own perceptual system. I will report data from two experimental paradigms that support this view. These studies show, first, that people’s understanding of others’ behaviour is guided by perceptual anticipations of their forthcoming actions. These anticipations can be made visible as subtle distortions of a perceived action’s path towards those expectations. Second, they show that perceptual expectations of another’s sensory input also underlie people’s ability to take others’ perspective, providing a view how the world looks to them that can support own decision making. Together, these findings argue for a framework in which perceptual anticipations play a key role in social cognition and provide one with insights into others knowledge of the world and their future behaviour. Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna) Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93610300237?pwd=aDJXaml1S2I5cVZBMGxRekxiNzhNQT09 (Meeting ID: 936 1030 0237, Passcode: 919687) Chair: Natalie Sebanz *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Andi and Fanni This e-mail address is managed by the coordinators of the CEU Social Mind Center. https://socialmind.ceu.edu/ [cid:105b0ee0-665b-4156-9b5e-a6867f767607] Central European University Quellenstrasse 51 | 1100 Vienna, Austria ______________________________________________ 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

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] DUCOG 2024 – Memory, space, and language

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce the XV. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science devoted to Memory, space, and language. The conference will take place between 23 and 26 May 2024 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. DUCOG 2024 brings together researchers striving to understand what shared neural and cognitive mechanisms allow humans and non-human animals to represent and process memory, space, and language and how these mechanisms change across the lifespan. Our goal is to uncover synergies and opposing views of approaches from different levels of analysis, from cellular through systems level neuroscience to cognitive- and neuropsychology, in order to facilitate cross-talk between currently independent research fields to inspire novel research. Invited speakers will include: Helen Barron – University of Oxford, UK Melissa C. Duff - Vanderbilt University, USA Paul Frankland – University of Toronto, Canada Monika Schönauer - University of Freiburg, Germany Jelena Sučević - University of Oxford, UK For more information please visit https://ducog.cecog.eu or email us at: ducog(a)cecog.eu Poster abstract submissions will be open between 1 January and 28 February 2024. On behalf of the organisers, Attila Keresztes, Markus Werkle-Bergner - Conference chairs

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