koglist December 2024

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium by Thibaud Gruber - THURSDAY, 28 November - QS D-002 Tiered

by Andrea Jenei

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk. Speaker: Thibaud Gruber<https://www.unige.ch/cisa/center/members/gruber-thibaud/> <https://www.unige.ch/cisa/center/members/gruber-thibaud/> Title: An affective, behavioral and cognitive story of the evolution of communication and culture in humans and other great apes The studies of the evolution of language and culture are intertwined. Often, the same mechanisms – including the usual suspects such as imitation – are argued to be at the heart of the evolution of both. In addition, in the last decades, research on social learning in non-humans vs humans has largely focused on behavioral and cognitive processes, while research on non-human vs human communication has often opposed cognitive processes to emotional ones. These two approaches sometimes fall in the pitfall of looking for the one characteristic that makes us unique amongst other animals. In this talk, I want to focus on the commonalities between animal and human social learning, with the goal to braid together literature from social learning, affective development, and the evolution of communication. All three domains can be unified in an ABC model of social learning, which aims to provide a combined Affective, Behavioral and Cognitive approach to the acquisition of knowledge in a broad sense. Affect, for example through motivation or emotions, indeed colors our quest for knowledge and for knowledge transmission. I will rediscuss classic examples of the animal literature such as the vervet alarm call system or the acquisition of tool use in chimpanzees. The ABC framework also allows introducing continuity between so-called simple and complex cognitive processes, which makes it a more realistic pathway for their attribution to animals or non-verbal infants. As such it opens new avenues of research to resolve the debates on the evolution of communication and culture, particularly in our lineage. Thibaud Gruber is a primatologist and a comparative psychologist whose has been working over 15 years on the topics of the evolution of culture and communication in great apes and humans. After a Master in Cognitive Sciences at the ENS, Paris, he pursued a PhD in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, UK in 2011. He then obtained his Habilitation in Cognitive Sciences at the ENS, Paris, in 2018. He has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Zürich, Neuchâtel and Geneva, funded by the Fyssen Foundation, the Marie Curie initiative of the European Commission, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2020, thanks to an Eccellenza Fellowship from the SNSF, he has set up his own lab, the eccePAN lab (Ecology, Cognition, Communication, Emotion), at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, at the University of Geneva, with a joint position at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences. Time: 16:00, Thursday, 28 November 2024 Location: Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Room : QS D-002 Tiered Zoom: Meeting ID: 984 1754 5209<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98417545209?pwd=909i0Oc5aydidvanERaSfHkbKzEZmh.1> Passcode: 041432 Hosts: Thomas Ganzetti and Günther Knoblich Best regards, Andi ______________________________________________ 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 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] talk by Francesco Guala on ‘BELIEF-LESS COORDINATION' - Thursday, Nov 14, 2024- 4pm (CET)

by Fanni Takatsy

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Speaker: Francesco Guala<https://sites.unimi.it/guala/> (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Time: 4pm (to 6 pm) CET Date: THURSDAY, 14th November 2024 Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97497562931?pwd=QyM6f1EIAyxLEa7MjQOmdWOubziToZ.1 Meeting ID: 974 9756 2931 Passcode: 382039 Chair: Thomas Wolf Title: BELIEF-LESS COORDINATION Abstract: Meta-representation does not always facilitate social interaction. I illustrate this claim focusing on the case of coordination in Hi-lo games, and conjecture that people coordinate using a mode of reasoning that does not require the representation of others’ beliefs. I compare this sort of belief-less reasoning with theories that appeal to limited meta-representation, and present evidence indicating that people employ both – with meta-representation being used less frequently in coordinative than in competitive tasks. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Fanni ------------------------------------------------ FANNI TAKÁTSY Lab Manager/Research Coordinator, Social Mind Center ------------------------------------------------ [cid:42067b17-4991-4d34-9c89-2f5005166125] CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51. | 1100 Vienna, Austria takatsyf(a)ceu.edu<mailto:jeneia@ceu.edu> http://socialmind.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

3 months

[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

3 months, 2 weeks

[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] CANCELLED!!! - Florent Meyniel (NeuroSpin -CEA/Inserm) Thursday, December 5th, 4 pm: `Learning and representing probabilities in the human brain `

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, I am sad to inform you that the today extraordinary talk (at 4 pm) of Florent Meyniel is cancelled. Thank you for your understanding! Best regards, Reka From: Gyorgyne Finta Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2024 12:03 PM To: 'talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu (talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu)' <talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu> Subject: Florent Meyniel (NeuroSpin -CEA/Inserm) Thursday, December 5th, 4 pm: `Learning and representing probabilities in the human brain ` Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Florent Meyniel<https://florentmeyniel.weebly.com/> (NeuroSpin -CEA/Inserm) Time: 4 pm CET Date: Thursday, December 5th, 2024 (Note the extraordinary day please) Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93252928825?pwd=Qsh89KMhKPfzOim9lwoO3bNjzuAXku.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93252928825?pwd%3DQs…> Meeting ID: 932 5292 8825 Passcode: 610963 Chair: Jozsef Fiser Learning and representing probabilities in the human brain Florent Meyniel NeuroSpin (CEA-Saclay campus) and Institute for Neuromodulation (Sainte Anne Hospital), Paris, France The brain has an internal probabilistic model of its environment that is useful for many aspects of cognition, such as decision making, planning, perception and social interactions. Learning, in particular statistical learning, is a key process by which the probabilities that make up this internal model are estimated. It is now well established that learning is an incremental process driven by surprising events (i.e. events that deviate from the expectations derived from the internal model). In recent years, it has become clear that the confidence (or, conversely, the uncertainty) associated with the estimation of this internal model is another key component of the learning process. I will briefly review behavioural, theoretical and neural (MRI, MEG) data suggesting that confidence regulates the learning process. I will argue that while the neural representations of these two key aspects of learning, surprise and confidence, are now reasonably well understood, the neural representations of what is being learned, the probabilities, remain quite elusive. I will report the results of a recent 7T fMRI study which suggests that probabilities are not linearly encoded in fMRI activity (as is the case for surprise and confidence, which covary with fMRI activity in many brain regions), but are instead encoded in fMRI activity in a highly non-linear manner. Best, Reka [Central European University] Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of Cognitive Science Pronouns: she/her | szabor(a)ceu.edu<mailto:szabor@ceu.edu> | +43 1 25230 5138 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> [signature_4100317087]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3650446863] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2213595878] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_973538284] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [signature_3302971874] <https://twitter.com/ceu> ______________________________________________ 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, 3 months

[Koglist] Fwd: Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at Central European University

by Gergely Csibra

From: Jonathan Kominsky <KominskyJ(a)ceu.edu> Subject: Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science at Central European University Date: 16 December 2024 at 13:45:07 GMT+1 To: Jonathan Kominsky <KominskyJ(a)ceu.edu> Reply-To: Jonathan Kominsky <KominskyJ(a)ceu.edu> Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) The PhD Program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU), Austria invites applications for doctoral students to start in fall 2025. Our department conducts research in the areas of infant development, joint action, visual cognition and learning, behavioural economics, computational modeling of cognition and brain functioning, causality, active learning, language and cognition, and culture and cognition. We are unique in that we provide full financial coverage for our enrolled students and both an American and Austrian accredited degree at the completion of the thesis. All the information about the application process is in the attached flyer and our deadline for application is February 4, 2025. If you are aware of any finishing Masters or even very bright undergraduate students in your environment who would be interested in research of cognitive science we would like to ask you to please call their attention to our program. More information, including about upcoming Q&As for prospective students, can be found on our website: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Sincerely, Jonathan F. Kominsky ———————— Dr. Jonathan F. Kominsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science PI: Causal Cognition Lab (he/him) Phone: +43 125230 7541 [cid:7288f3a0-096f-4b57-8477-ba07912dafa9@eurprd08.prod.outlook.com] Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Wien | Austria

1 year, 4 months

[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Joseph Sonnleitner (online)

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. Meeting link (new!): http://lps.elte.hu/lps-online 13 December (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Joseph Sonnleitner (online) Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest Wilcke's 'Machine Learning on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs' ______________________________ Abstract is available from the seminar website: 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. Organizers: Márton Gömöri and Zalán Molnár

1 year, 4 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER CDC Seminar: Patricia A. Ganea (University of Toronto), Wednesday, December 11, 4pm

by Anna Kispal

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Patricia A. Ganea<https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/23831-patricia-ganea> (University of Toronto) Title: Mechanisms underlying counterfactual reasoning in development Abstract: Counterfactual reasoning is the ability to think of alternative representations to what we know to be true about the world, by imagining what would have happened had a situation been different. The ability to contemplate changes to reality is a fundamental aspect of human cognition involved in learning and decision-making. To date, the developmental literature has focused mostly on when children become capable of reasoning counterfactually, with little attention to how or why children reason the way they do. Conclusions about when children begin to reason counterfactually are also mixed and are underlined by different theoretical assumptions. In this talk I will present a process-based account of counterfactual reasoning by highlighting the processes it shares with other hypothetical abilities and by characterizing the factors that influence children’s counterfactual judgements. Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D001-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Ágnes Kovács *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhAH…> to get access to the lecture hall. Best, Anna ______________________________________________ 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, 5 months

[Koglist] Fwd: Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium - Save the date!

by István Winkler

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium - Save the date! Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:39:34 +0100 From: Francesco Pavani <francesco.pavani(a)unitn.it> Dear friends and colleagues, The Cognition Across the Senses (CAtS) group@ CIMeC (University of Trento) is proud to announcethe MAPS conference <https://webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento/cimec/122185/maps-metacognition-agin…>: *Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium*, to be held in Rovereto (Trentino, Italy) in September 2025. International conferences on metacognition are not that common and we are very honoured to host an impressive list of speakers for a timely update on this important topic. Save the date! The call for papers will open in January 2025. *I would be most grateful if you could help me disseminate this announcement.* Best regards, Francesco Università di Trento <http://www.unitn.it/> *Francesco Pavani* Professor of Experimental Psychology Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC Università degli Studi di Trento Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy Telefono: + 39 0464 80 8674

1 year, 5 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*

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