koglist October 2024

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Pascal Mamassian (CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Wednesday February 14, 4 pm: ``Measurements of perceived time of visual events``

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Pascal Mamassian<https://lsp.dec.ens.fr/en/member/647/pascal-mamassian>, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D001 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99828555100?pwd=S2Y4VnRMTEFHMitWeWk4bnB0SGdXQT09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99828555100?pwd%3DS2…> Meeting ID: 998 2855 5100 Passcode: 393080 Chair: Jozsef Fiser Title: Measurements of perceived time of visual events Abstract: Visual perception is not instantaneous. It takes a few milliseconds for light to be transduced in photoreceptors and tens of milliseconds more for neuronal spikes to occur at successive levels of the visual hierarchy. These delays necessarily impact our abiity to perceive time. I will present examples of human time perception from two classes of tasks, duration estimation and perceived time of an event. In duration estimation, we have shown that observers are able to estimate the duration of an interval even when the onset of that interval is not explictly provided. In perceived time, we have shown that the perceived time of an event is influenced by other events in their temporal proximity, and that this perceived time varies across the visual field. A better understanding of our sensitivity to and biases in the perception of time is important to fully appreciate how well we understand our sensory environment. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must reply here<https://forms.office.com/e/HjaP91n2ep> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Jozsef know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01DA59C4.C465A9F0] CEU GmbH - CEU Central European University private university Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, Room B502 Office: +43 125230 5138 cognitivescience.ceu.edu<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>| www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> See CEU story: www.youtube.com/ceuhungary<http://www.youtube.com/ceuhungary> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CEU is committed to energy and environmental sustainability www.ceu.hu/sustainability<http://www.ceu.hu/sustainability> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wJmntYV9xI46HE4vvhea1QVsjj…] Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail message, ask yourself whether you really need a hard copy. ______________________________________________ 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] Nikhil Chaudhary (University of Cambridge), Thursday February 8, 4 pm: ``Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health``

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Nikhil Chaudhary<https://www.nikhilchaudhary.co.uk/>, Evolutionary Anthropologist based at the University of Cambridge Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 (mind the unusual day please) Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D318 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd=VCt1WGZnd1F0MkZleGYvaDRpWEg3Zz09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd%3DVC…> Meeting ID: 944 8673 1045 Passcode: 328579 Chair: Christophe Heintz and Angarika Deb Title: Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our species' history. Therefore, research with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies can offer insight into the evolution of our psychology and physiology. Drawing on my fieldwork with BaYaka hunter-gatherers from Congo, I will discuss the selection pressures that have shaped human social cognition and behaviour. I will focus on the communal living arrangements, egalitarian social organisation, and extensive cooperation, particularly in the domain of childrearing, which are normative across contemporary hunter-gatherer populations. I will also discuss how deviations from these features of sociality, which are commonplace in high-income industrialised societies, may increase our vulnerability to mental health disorders due to evolutionary mismatch-when an organism faces conditions that differ from those that some trait of the organism is adapted to, resulting in pathology or maladaptation. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/e/jbHch9J0Am> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Christophe know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01DA4F88.CA108DC0] CEU GmbH - CEU Central European University private university Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, Room D502 Office: +43 125230 5138 cognitivescience.ceu.edu<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>| www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> See CEU story: www.youtube.com/ceuhungary<http://www.youtube.com/ceuhungary> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CEU is committed to energy and environmental sustainability www.ceu.hu/sustainability<http://www.ceu.hu/sustainability> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wJmntYV9xI46HE4vvhea1QVsjj…] Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail message, ask yourself whether you really need a hard copy. ______________________________________________ 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

10 months, 4 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum: József Konczer, 5 November, 17:30

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invites you to the upcoming event of the Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum<https://ccc.ceu.edu/budapest-computational-neuroscience-forum>. Speaker: József Konczer<https://konczer.github.io/> Title: Statistical Games, Playful approach to statistics Abstract: This work contains the mathematical exploration of a few prototypical games in which central concepts from statistics and probability theory naturally emerge. The first two kinds of games are termed Fisher and Bayesian games, which are connected to Frequentist and Bayesian statistics, respectively. Later, a more general type of game is introduced, termed Statistical game, in which a further parameter, the players' relative risk aversion, can be set. In this work, we show that Fisher and Bayesian games can be viewed as limiting cases of Statistical games. Therefore, Statistical games can be viewed as a unified framework, incorporating both Frequentist and Bayesian statistics. Furthermore, a philosophical framework is (re-)presented -- often referred to as minimax regret criterion -- as a general approach to decision making. The main motivation for this work was to embed Bayesian statistics into a broader decision-making framework, where, based on collected data, actions with consequences have to be made, which can be translated to utilities (or rewards/losses) of the decision-maker. The work starts with the simplest possible toy model, related to hypothesis testing and statistical inference. This choice has two main benefits: i.) it allows us to determine (conjecture) the behaviour of the equilibrium strategies in various limiting cases ii.) this way, we can introduce Statistical games without requiring additional stochastic parameters. The work contains game theoretical methods related to two-player, non-cooperative games to determine and prove equilibrium strategies of Fisher, Bayesian and Statistical games. It also relies on analytical tools for derivations concerning various limiting cases. Time: 17:30 Tuesday, 5 November 2024. Location: CEU Budapest (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 203. Zoom: Meeting ID: 976 1541 3014<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97615413014?pwd=BbaIDK56amazlaex84ukFP3MEurhMX.1> Passcode: 525888 Should you have any inquiries about the series, please contact Mihály Bányai<mailto:mihaly.s.banyai@gmail.com>. 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:ccecb7df-0ac9-4d85-9b7f-73dad69412e4] H-1051 Budapest Nádor 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

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Ferenc Csatari

by Gömöri Márton

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] DUCOG 2025 – Understanding the Self and the Other

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce the XVI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science devoted to Understanding the Self and the Other. The conference will take place between *22 and 25 May 2025* in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Distinguishing oneself from others is a precursor to the development of many social skills, including coordination and communication. Representing others’ perspectives, while still distinguishing it from our own is an essential part of human interactions, and therefore of our mental lives. This supports our understanding of ourselves and others around us – it helps us make sense of what we are doing, make predictions, and plan our subsequent actions appropriately. How do we learn to distinguish our bodies and minds from those of other people, and what are the mechanisms and relation between understanding ourselves and others? In this conference, we will bring together researchers that have attempted to address this broad question from different angles such as social-, developmental- and comparative cognition and philosophy, to explore the topic of how we understand and distinguish our own and others’ intentions, actions, thoughts, and ultimately, self and other. *Invited speakers will include:* Josep Call (University of St Andrews) Senay Cebioglu (MPI EVA) Arvid Guterstam (Karolinska Institutet) Marlene Meyer (Radboud University) Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, EHESS, ENS-PSL) Philippe Rochat (Emory University) 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 2025.* On behalf of the organisers, *Louise Goupil (CNRS / University Grenoble Alpes) & Dora Kampis (University of Copenhagen)* *- Conference chairs*

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] Fwd: Invitation - Katalin Balog: Consciousness, Illusion, and Value - 30 October, 12:30 p.m.

by Gergely Csibra

Begin forwarded message: From: Agnes Bendik <BendikAg(a)ceu.edu> Subject: Invitation - Katalin Balog: Consciousness, Illusion, and Value - 30 October, 12:30 p.m. Date: 21 October 2024 at 13:22:30 GMT+2 The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU is pleased to invite you to the next lecture in the Institute`s Wednesday Seminars Katalin Balog Senior Core Fellow at IAS CEU Consciousness, Illusion, and Value Wednesday, 30 October, 12:30 p.m. Nádor u. 15, Room 103 (Tiered Room) and online The belief that we are conscious is the last remnant of the premodern concept of the mind. Not so long ago, most people in the West thought of the body as mortal flesh commanded by the soul. They thought of the soul as immortal, free in its action, and exempt from the laws of nature. Creativity and intelligence were believed to be traits of the soul that no mere mechanism could replicate. But over the course of the last couple of hundred years, and especially in the 20th century, it has become common understanding that all of our behavior has a purely physical explanation and, as the principle of the causal completeness of physics became mainstream among philosophers and scientists, it also became common understanding that all of our behavior has a purely physical explanation. There is not much about the premodern conception that survived these changes except the view that we are conscious, i.e., that there is something it is like to be us, of which we can be directly aware. It is precisely this view that has come under attack lately by a movement that their adherents in philosophy, neuroscience, and AI call ‘illusionism’. According to illusionism, the qualitative character of our experience that we seem to be directly aware of is a mere illusion. It appears to be an innocent theoretical claim; however, I argue that it has potent practical consequences regarding what we value and how we relate to human beings that demand consideration. [image001.jpg] Image: Digital Asset Library, Rutgers University Katalin Balog is a philosopher of mind interested in the self, consciousness, subjectivity, and value, as well as the history of these concepts. She writes scholarly articles and essays for a general audience. Her public-facing work has appeared in The New York Times and in the magazine 3 Quarks Daily. Currently she is working on a book called What is left of the mind. She has come to the US to study philosophy from her native Budapest in 1989. Katalin Balog got her PhD at Rutgers, New Brunswick, she has been teaching at Rutgers University–Newark since 2010, before that, she taught at Yale for 10 years. RSVP Agnes Bendik at bendikag(a)ceu.edu<mailto:bendikag@ceu.edu> AGNES BENDIK Senior Administrative Officer [image002.png] [image003.png] OFFICE ADDRESS: Nador u.13., Fourth floor, Room 403 | 1051 Budapest, Hungary MAILING ADDRESS: IAS CEU, Nádor u. 9. | 1051 Budapest, Hungary PHONE: +36 1 327 3000/2596 | bendikag(a)ceu.edu<mailto:bendikag@ceu.edu> www.ias.ceu.edu<http://www.ias.ceu.edu/> | www.facebook.com/iasceu/<http://www.facebook.com/iasceu/>

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Ferenc Csatari

by Gömöri Márton

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Zoltan Sostai

by Gömöri Márton

Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224 _____________________________________________ P R O G R A M The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224) and online. Zoom Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/889933315?pwd=Q3U3V3VQdXpXckhJYWRrcWRiMUhhQT09 18 October (Friday) 4:15 - 6:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Zoltán Sóstai Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest Empirical Constraints and the Computational Unpredictability of Physical Systems: A Critical Examination of the Physical Church-Turing Thesis and the Halting Problem Abstract: The intersection of computational theory and the philosophy of science is explored, where I focus on the implications of the physical Church-Turing thesis (PCTT) and the halting problem which affects predictability of physical systems. The core argument examined posits that if the PCTT holds, there are physical processes whose outcomes cannot be predicted due to the uncomputability of the halting problem.The inability to predict certain computational processes, as claimed in the core argument, would make it impossible to consistently forecast or evaluate physical events, undermining the principles of empirical knowledge and the validity of scientific models. I critically analyze this core argument, which is based on three key suppositions: physicalism, the PCTT, and the uncomputability of the halting problem. It is shown through a counter-argument that these suppositions cannot hold simultaneously. We can demonstrate that when taking into account physical constraints and the meaningfulness of computations, the unpredictability posited by the core argument can be shown to be flawed and the claim of uncomputable physical decisions does not hold under closer empirical scrutiny. Nevertheless, it is also possible to show that a bounded, empirically constrained version of the core argument still holds, preserving some of the unpredictability under specific physical limitations. This offers a refined understanding of the limits of computability and prediction in physical systems. ______________________________ Seminar website (currently under construction): http://lps.elte.hu/lps The seminar 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 organizers: Márton Gömöri and Zalán Molnár

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Zoltan Sostai

by Gömöri Márton

1 year, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CCC Colloquium: Dominik Straub, Tuesday, 8 October, 5 PM

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following talk: Speaker: Dominik Straub<https://dominikstrb.github.io/> (TU Darmstadt) Title: Inverse optimal control for modeling continuous perception and action Abstract: Normative models of behavior strive to explain why behavior unfolds the way it does. These models have been highly successful in explaining many phenomena in neuroscience, cognitive science, and related fields. The power of these approaches derives from the combination of controlled experimental designs with their associated normative models, e.g. forced-choice psychophysics with Bayesian observer models. Unfortunately, these tasks do not have much in common with naturalistic behavior and require many trials with binary responses, often by highly trained participants. Continuous psychophysics is a recently developed experimental approach that abandons the rigid trial structure and replaces it with a more naturalistic and intuitive continuous tracking task. It produces more temporally fine-grained measurements and allow efficient data collection even with untrained participants. However, while highly controlled classical psychophysics tasks allow using normative models to estimate perceptual uncertainty, continuous tasks introduce additional cognitive and motor factors such as action variability, internal behavioral costs, and subjective internal models. In this talk, I will introduce a normative analysis framework based on Bayesian inverse optimal control that accounts for these factors. This approach enables estimating perceptual uncertainty, action variability, behavioral costs, and subjective beliefs about the task dynamics from behavior in a tracking task. I will then discuss the limitations of the method and show recent methodological extensions that address these limitations and allow applying inverse optimal control to a wider range of tasks including information-seeking behavior. In summary, these methods open up the possibility of fitting normative models to more naturalistic continuous behavior. Chair: József Fiser Time and date: 5 PM, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 101. Quantum Zoom Meeting: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96878075997?pwd=hQTHk0baU8S19Peavk94XLILP9Pmr0.1 Meeting ID: 968 7807 5997 Passcode: 393441 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 PU'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:272d8688-9f21-4326-9fd8-447155174517] H-1051 Budapest Nádor 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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