koglist February 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

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] 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] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Manuel Bohn (Max Plank Institute/Leuphana University Lüneburg), Wednesday March 6, 4 pm

by Salih Bartug Celik

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Manuel Bohn (Max Plank Institute/Leuphana University Lüneburg) Grounding socio-communicative development in everyday experience: an individual differences perspective Social cognition and communication are defining aspects of what it means to be human. In this talk, I want to present our research program that studies the driving forces behind socio-communicative development. Our goal is to understand how everyday social interactions influence development. To get there, we will have to overcome numerous theoretical and methodological hurdles. I will present the steps we have taken in recent years towards this goal, which include computational models of the cognitive processes underlying aspects of socio-communicative development, tasks to measure cognitive abilities on an individual level, methods to capture and quantify everyday experiences and international collaborations to probe the generalisability of findings. Much of our work is still in the early phases, so I am very much looking forward to feedback. Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D002* (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.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhAH…> to get access to the lecture hall. If you want to schedule a meeting with Manuel, please indicate your availability here<https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/avmBr5ge>! 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, 2 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] SUN courses 2024 - application deadline extension!

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, The application deadline for the CEU Summer University courses has been extended! Could you please forward the calls about the below relevant courses to your researchers and students? The Human Mind and The Open Society<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2024/human-mind-and-open-society> Extended deadline: March 6 The Ethics of Attention<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2024/ethics-attention> (untill all places are filled). Application here: Welcome | CEU Summer University<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/> Thank you very much and Kind regards, Gyorgyne Finta **** Sarolta Szabo Program Coordinator CeU Summer university Nádor utca 11. office #404 | 1051 Budapest, Hungary szabos(a)ceu.edu<mailto:szabos@ceu.edu> https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/> Subscribe to our notification list for updates: https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/mailinglist CEU is committed to energy and environmental sustainability<http://www.ceu.hu/sustainability> ______________________________________________ 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, 2 months

[Koglist] DUCOG 2024 – Submissions reminder

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear Colleagues, We remind you that abstract submissions for the XV. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science will be accepted until 28 February 2024 (next week on Wednesday). The conference is devoted to Memory, space, and language and will take place between 23 and 26 May 2024 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. We invite poster submissions from all areas of cognitive science. Both theoretical and empirical posters are welcome. You may submit your poster abstract here: https://ducog.cecog.eu/submit Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 15 March 2024. For more information, please visit https://ducog.cecog.eu/ or email us at ducog(a)cecog.eu. On behalf of the organisers, Attila Keresztes - Conference chair __________________________________________________________ INVITED SPEAKERS: 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

2 years, 2 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Tomorrow: Departmental Colloquium: Hugh Rabagliati (The University of Edinburgh) - February 21st at 4 pm, QS D-001

by socialmind

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Language Comprehension Lab<https://lcl.ceu.edu/> invites you to the following talk: Hugh Rabagliati<https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/hugh-rabagliati> (The University of Edinburgh) Biased language and the double-edged sword of efficient communication Natural language contains and communicates a variety of social biases, a fact that increasingly impacts human activity. Biases in language are typically assumed to reflect biases and prejudices in how we think about social groups, but here I’ll discuss evidence for an additional psychological cause, in which linguistic biases arise as a consequence of the automatised mechanisms that we use to communicate efficiently. Psycholinguistic and developmental experiences document that, when describing events, speakers show a “like me” bias to highlight the perspectives of their own social groups, a fact that holds across demographic categories, linguistic backgrounds, and age. Psycholinguistic manipulations pinpoint that the bias is not caused by attitudes or social goals, but instead by greater efficiency in retrieving words that refer to in-group members. These data provide a new cognitive explanation for why people produce biased language, and highlight how detailed cognitive theories can also have fundamental social implications. Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna) Topic: Colloquium: Hugh Rabagliati Time: Feb 21, 2024 04:00 PM Budapest Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93056812576?pwd=eFBNQUt3b2lxdnFQYU9RRmpoVlpRQT09 Meeting ID: 930 5681 2576 Passcode: 052633 Chair: Eva Wittenberg *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP<mailto:socialmind@ceu.edu> to get access to the lecture hall. Please note that we might make a video recording of the lecture, store the record for an unlimited period of time under CEU’s Panopto account, and share the link with CEU students, staff and faculty. 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:2294e31e-c5da-4650-a5bd-24382418cc43] 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, 2 months

[Koglist] Change the Date of ELTE Cognitive Seminar: György Gergely - 2024.02.20. 17:00

by Kelemen Alexandra

Dear All! We would like to inform you that the date of György Gergely's talk has been changed. The new date is: 17:00 (CET), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 Location: 1064 Budapest, Izabella 46, 101 room Speaker: György Gergely (Cognitive Development Center, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University - Private University Vienna) Title: The Pragmatic Stance: Infants’ Naïve Theory of Communicative Action Abstract: According to the standard view humans’ species-specific adaptation for linguistic communication relies on two kinds of evolved mechanisms for information transfer: (i) a system of code-based arbitrary symbols (words) and syntactic combinatorial devises for encoding and decoding the literal meaning of verbal utterances, and (ii) pragmatic Inferential and mindreading mechanisms for inferring the speaker’s intended meaning from the verbal utterances used in the given communicative context. Recent evolutionary-based cognitive theories of communication (such as relevance theory, Sperber & Wilson, 1986, 2002, and natural pedagogy theory, Gergely & Csibra, 2006, Csibra & Gergely, 2011) proposed that humans’ communicative competence is an early and independent cognitive adaptation selected for recognizing ostensive communicative actions and interpreting the communicative and informative intentions they manifest. On this view, even before and independently of acquiring linguistic skillsthe ‘pragmatic stance’ enables an ostensively addressed human agent to recover from purely non-verbal ostensive communicative action manifestations the relevant information that the communicating partner intends to convey in the given communicative context. In my talk I’ll focus on our recent studies exploring the hypothesis that young preverbal infants’ can recognize contingent turn-taking exchange of unfamiliar signal sequences as an informative cue indicating ostensive communicative transfer of new and relevant information between cooperating epistemic agents. First, I’ll summarize evidence from natural pedagogy theory demonstrating preverbal infants’ evolved sensitivity to certain behavioral signals (such as eye-contact, or motherese) that are interpreted as ostensive communicative acts and induce assumptions of referential intention, presumption of relevance, and special interpretive biases in the infants about the intended informative contents conveyed by non-verbal ostensive manifestations. Similarly, 8- and 10-month-olds recognize an unfamiliar entity’s contingent reactivity at a distance as an ostensive cue indicating a communicative agent acting with communicative and referential intentions. When the contingently reactive agent performed a subsequent object-directed orientating action infants reacted with a referential gaze following response to identify the intended referent indicated. Following up on these findings our new studies were designed to test the further hypothesis that young infants may also possess evolved sensitivity to abstract structural constraints on the serial organization of signals that the turn-taking exchange of signal sequences must satisfy to sanction infants’ interpretation that they serve (and indicate) communicative transmission of new and relevant information between the ostensively communicating epistemic agents. We presented infants with two unfamiliar entities engaged in a repeated turn-taking exchange of unfamiliar (non-speech) sound sequences (triplets of melodic sounds or morse beeps) in three conditions to compare infants’ reactions to three types of serial dependency structure that characterized the exchanged signal sequences. The ‘communicative information transfer’ condition was designed to present infants with repeated turn-taking exchanges of sequences of (non-speech) vocal signals characterized by an algebraic non-local serial dependency structure (satisfying the structural constraint on linguistic signal sequences of natural languages that support syntactic rules of a context-free phrase-structure grammar). The turn-taking exchange of these partially co-dependent and partially variable signal sequences was contrasted with two control conditions characterized either by exchanging (i) perfectly contingent repetitions of identical signal sequences or by exchanging (ii) fully unrelated random series of vocal signals (neither of which could support communicative transmission of novel information). Our third control study compared the ‘communicative information transfer’ condition with a single agent condition in which the structural constraints characterizing the partially co-dependent and partially variable signal sequences was left intact while the condition of turn-taking exchange between two distally interacting agents was violated as only a single agent produced the very same series of vocal signals. These studies employed a violation-of-expectation looking time paradigm with 10- and 13-month-old infants to test our predictions about infants’ context-based pragmatic inferences and communicative mindreading abilities. In sum, the results provide converging evidence showing that the (as yet largely preverbal) infants could recognize the abstract structural cue of partial variability of signal sequences exchanged by two turn-taking agents. They selectively restricted their attribution of ostensive communication and communicative transfer of relevant information to the condition that satisfied both of the two essential criteria for diagnosing conversational information exchange: (i) Partial co-dependence and partial variability of the signal sequences that are exchanged by (ii) Two distally interacting turn-taking agents in a temporally contingent manner I’ll end by briefly discussing the multiple implications of these findings for a) preverbal infants pragmatic inferential and communicative mindreading abilities, and (b) preverbal infants’ preparedness to identify and extract the abstract serial structural properties of signal sequences that satisfy the structural constraints that characterize the syntactic properties of natural languages, which is likely to play an essential role both in the acquisition of word meanings and the syntactic structure of natural languages. If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email (kelemen.alexandra(a)ppk.elte.hu<mailto:kelemen.alexandra@ppk.elte.hu> or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu<mailto:reka.schvajda@ppk.elte.hu>). We look forward to seeing you at the event, Alexandra Kelemen Réka Schvajda organizers ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology

2 years, 3 months

[Koglist] Change the Date of ELTE Cognitive Seminar: György Gergely - 2024.02.20. 17:00

by Kelemen Alexandra

2 years, 3 months

[Koglist] ELTE Cognitive Seminar: György Gergely - 2024.02.13. 17:00

by Kelemen Alexandra

Dear all, We would like to invite you to the following talk by György Gergely organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series. Time and date: 17:00 (CET), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 Location: 1064 Budapest, Izabella 46, 101 room Speaker: György Gergely (Cognitive Development Center, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University - Private University Vienna) Title: The Pragmatic Stance: Infants’ Naïve Theory of Communicative Action Abstract: According to the standard view humans’ species-specific adaptation for linguistic communication relies on two kinds of evolved mechanisms for information transfer: (i) a system of code-based arbitrary symbols (words) and syntactic combinatorial devises for encoding and decoding the literal meaning of verbal utterances, and (ii) pragmatic Inferential and mindreading mechanisms for inferring the speaker’s intended meaning from the verbal utterances used in the given communicative context. Recent evolutionary-based cognitive theories of communication (such as relevance theory, Sperber & Wilson, 1986, 2002, and natural pedagogy theory, Gergely & Csibra, 2006, Csibra & Gergely, 2011) proposed that humans’ communicative competence is an early and independent cognitive adaptation selected for recognizing ostensive communicative actions and interpreting the communicative and informative intentions they manifest. On this view, even before and independently of acquiring linguistic skillsthe ‘pragmatic stance’ enables an ostensively addressed human agent to recover from purely non-verbal ostensive communicative action manifestations the relevant information that the communicating partner intends to convey in the given communicative context. In my talk I’ll focus on our recent studies exploring the hypothesis that young preverbal infants’ can recognize contingent turn-taking exchange of unfamiliar signal sequences as an informative cue indicating ostensive communicative transfer of new and relevant information between cooperating epistemic agents. First, I’ll summarize evidence from natural pedagogy theory demonstrating preverbal infants’ evolved sensitivity to certain behavioral signals (such as eye-contact, or motherese) that are interpreted as ostensive communicative acts and induce assumptions of referential intention, presumption of relevance, and special interpretive biases in the infants about the intended informative contents conveyed by non-verbal ostensive manifestations. Similarly, 8- and 10-month-olds recognize an unfamiliar entity’s contingent reactivity at a distance as an ostensive cue indicating a communicative agent acting with communicative and referential intentions. When the contingently reactive agent performed a subsequent object-directed orientating action infants reacted with a referential gaze following response to identify the intended referent indicated. Following up on these findings our new studies were designed to test the further hypothesis that young infants may also possess evolved sensitivity to abstract structural constraints on the serial organization of signals that the turn-taking exchange of signal sequences must satisfy to sanction infants’ interpretation that they serve (and indicate) communicative transmission of new and relevant information between the ostensively communicating epistemic agents. We presented infants with two unfamiliar entities engaged in a repeated turn-taking exchange of unfamiliar (non-speech) sound sequences (triplets of melodic sounds or morse beeps) in three conditions to compare infants’ reactions to three types of serial dependency structure that characterized the exchanged signal sequences. The ‘communicative information transfer’ condition was designed to present infants with repeated turn-taking exchanges of sequences of (non-speech) vocal signals characterized by an algebraic non-local serial dependency structure (satisfying the structural constraint on linguistic signal sequences of natural languages that support syntactic rules of a context-free phrase-structure grammar). The turn-taking exchange of these partially co-dependent and partially variable signal sequences was contrasted with two control conditions characterized either by exchanging (i) perfectly contingent repetitions of identical signal sequences or by exchanging (ii) fully unrelated random series of vocal signals (neither of which could support communicative transmission of novel information). Our third control study compared the ‘communicative information transfer’ condition with a single agent condition in which the structural constraints characterizing the partially co-dependent and partially variable signal sequences was left intact while the condition of turn-taking exchange between two distally interacting agents was violated as only a single agent produced the very same series of vocal signals. These studies employed a violation-of-expectation looking time paradigm with 10- and 13-month-old infants to test our predictions about infants’ context-based pragmatic inferences and communicative mindreading abilities. In sum, the results provide converging evidence showing that the (as yet largely preverbal) infants could recognize the abstract structural cue of partial variability of signal sequences exchanged by two turn-taking agents. They selectively restricted their attribution of ostensive communication and communicative transfer of relevant information to the condition that satisfied both of the two essential criteria for diagnosing conversational information exchange: (i) Partial co-dependence and partial variability of the signal sequences that are exchanged by (ii) Two distally interacting turn-taking agents in a temporally contingent manner I’ll end by briefly discussing the multiple implications of these findings for a) preverbal infants pragmatic inferential and communicative mindreading abilities, and (b) preverbal infants’ preparedness to identify and extract the abstract serial structural properties of signal sequences that satisfy the structural constraints that characterize the syntactic properties of natural languages, which is likely to play an essential role both in the acquisition of word meanings and the syntactic structure of natural languages. If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email (kelemen.alexandra(a)ppk.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu). We look forward to seeing you at the event, Alexandra Kelemen Réka Schvajda organizers ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology

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