koglist May 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] Meghívó Andrea Protzner előadására 2024.06.06.

by Gaál Zsófia Anna

Tisztelt Kollégák! Ezúton szeretném meghívni Önöket az alábbi előadásra: The Functional Relevance of Individual Differences in Functional Connectivity: Examples from Major Depression and its Treatment Andrea Protzner, PhD, University of Calgary Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the impact of individually unique and common features of brain network organization relative to the more commonly examined group differences, using fMRI and EEG. I demonstrate that there are large individual differences in whole-brain functional connectivity in both neurotypical and psychiatric populations. These differences have practical relevance, as they can be linked to individual variation in behaviour, cognition, and disease state. Overall, the research suggests that we may need to rethink our approaches for identifying brain correlates of behavior in neurotypical individuals, and well as brain biomarkers in conditions such as major depression. Az előadás időpontja: 2024. június 6. (csütörtök) 11:00 Az előadás helyszíne: HUN-REN TTK KPI tárgyaló, D4.09C 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. Szeretettel várunk minden érdeklődőt! Üdvözlettel, Gaál Zsófia Anna -- Zsófia Anna Gaál, PhD Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences Tel.: +36-1-382-6817 1519 Budapest, POB 286. http://www.ttk.hu/en/phonebook/zsofia-anna-gaal

1 year, 11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum, 22 May 5 PM, Nikola Milićević

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: Nikola Milićević, Pennsylvania State University Title: Sensory systems and combinatorial neural codes Abstract: Neural activity in sensory areas of the brain is shaped both by the stimulus and by the internal neural dynamics. When the stimulus space is known we can compute receptive fields of neurons. Receptive fields of individual neurons are convex in a number of brain regions (such as the hippocampus, and the visual cortex). The combinatorial neural code are the subsets of co-active neurons for some input to the neural network. Not any combinatorial code is compatible with convex receptive fields. This raises a natural question: how do recurrent networks produce convex codes? Towards this end, we study a recurrent neural network with the Dale’s law architecture. We describe the combinatorics of equilibria and steady states of neurons in threshold-linear networks that satisfy Dale's law. The combinatorial code of a Dale network is characterized in terms of two conditions: (i) a condition on the network connectivity graph, and (ii) a spectral condition on the synaptic matrix. In the weak synaptic coupling regime, the combinatorial code depends only on the connectivity graph, and not on the synaptic strengths. Moreover, we prove that the combinatorial code of a weakly coupled network is a sublattice, and we provide a learning rule for encoding a sublattice in a weakly coupled excitatory network. Surprisingly, we find that the architecture of a Dale network “enforces” convex code output, in both strong and weak coupling regimes. Finally, we introduce a method inspired by game theory for inferring receptive fields, when the stimulus space is unknown or at least no consensus has been reached as in the case of olfactory systems. Time: 17:00, Wednesday, 22 May, 2024. Location: CEU Budapest (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N13. room 118*. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person must RSVP to vargai(a)ceu.edu get access to the lecture hall. Zoom: Meeting ID: 924 6832 6063<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92468326063?pwd=ZTgxYmk4WUFQaXZvbFZGNUhaTFNwZz09> Passcode: 764846 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:504c9e33-b62b-49d0-8ebc-c0cd5b5a6437] 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, 11 months

[Koglist] {Filename?} Asszisztensi állás a budapesti CEU-n

by Gergely Csibra

Lásd: <https://www.ceu.edu/job/research-assistant-3> Research Assistant | Central European University<https://www.ceu.edu/job/research-assistant-3> ceu.edu<https://www.ceu.edu/job/research-assistant-3> [favicon.ico]<https://www.ceu.edu/job/research-assistant-3>

1 year, 12 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER: Gary Marcus May 15, 11 am - RSVP needed!!! - ``What kind of AI world do we want?``

by Gyorgyne Finta

Dear All, Gary Marcus <http://garymarcus.com/> is visiting CEU and is going to have a talk on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm in CEU Vienna QS Auditorium Title: What kind of AI world do we want? Registration required (here<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhPe…>)! The event is not going to be Zoomed out but a recording will be made. This event is jointly supported by the Knowledge in Crisis<https://philosophy.ceu.edu/knowledge-crisis-project> Cluster of Excellence and the Department of Cognitive Science<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>. GARY MARCUS is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience. An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes's 7 Must Read Books in AI. Abstract: Generative AI (transcribed as "dinner AI" when I dictated this abstract) is just one possible flavor of AI among many, but fully dominant right now. Is it actually the kind of AI that we want? I will argue the generative AI is morally and technically inadequate, and that we need to foster the development of more trustworthy approaches. https://events.ceu.edu/2024-05-15/gary-marcus-what-kind-ai-world-do-we-want Kind regards, Reka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01DA9C84.3F61A170] 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> [Image removed by sender.] 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

1 year, 12 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Online CDC Seminar: Tyler Knowlton (University of Pennsylvania), 4 pm on Wednesday May 15

by Salih Bartug Celik

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Tyler Knowlton (University of Pennsylvania) Learnability and linguistic meanings: the case of conservativity Cross-linguistic universals (features present in all languages) can often be informative about learning biases. The most well-known universal in the domain of meaning is the generalization that all determiners (words like “every”, “some”, “no”, "most", “the”, “a”, and the like) have ‘conservative’ meanings. Intuitively, the observation is that in a sentence like "every/some/no/the fish swims", one doesn't need to look beyond the fish to determine whether the sentence is true. Put another way, those sentences are about the fish (and their properties); the larger class of swimming things is irrelevant. This might seem obvious, but it rules out many hypothetical 'non-conservative' determiners. For instance, no language has a word "equi" such that "equi fish swims" would mean “the fish and the swimmers are numerically equivalent” (here, both fish and swimming things matter, so "equi" fails to be conservative). This robust cross-linguistic generalization has long been thought to reflect a fact about the architecture of the language faculty, as opposed to general cognitive constraints, communicative pressures, or historical accident. If true, then non-conservative determiners are predicted to be unlearnable: human minds should be ill-equipped to pair non-conservative meanings with members of the syntactic category determiner. But evidence bearing out this bold prediction has proven elusive. With this in mind, I'll present a series of word learning experiments showing that adult participants fail to learn novel non-conservative meanings for nonce determiners, even when explicitly taught, but succeed at learning their conservative counterparts. And since conservativity is a property tied to a specific syntactic category, this effect disappears, as predicted, when the same non-conservative meanings are paired with verbal syntax instead of determiner syntax. I have recently begun to extend these findings to children. This body of results suggests that the conservativity universal is related to learnability, and supports theories on which this generalization reflects a deep fact about the human language faculty. Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09> (passcode: 471712) Chair: Rachel Dudley 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

1 year, 12 months

[Koglist] Meaning, Truth, and Physics – Conference in honour of László E. Szabó

by Gömöri Márton

Dear All, We cordially invite you to the conference *Meaning, Truth, and Physics* organized on the occasion of the 70th birthday of László E. Szabó. *Time*: 7 June, Friday, 9.30am *Venue*: Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7th floor, Trapéz room (B.7.16) For the detailed *program* see: https://eszabo70.blog/ Best regards, Gábor Szabó, Márton Gömöri

1 year, 12 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Lindsey Powell (UC San Diego), Wednesday, May 8, 4pm

by Salih Bartug Celik

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Lindsey Powell (UC San Diego) Early reasoning about social relationships Social interactions often involve one person responding to another’s goals or experiences. The nature of these responses vary across interactions. We can help others or hinder them; we can empathize with others or not. As observers, people reason about such social responses as products of both individual dispositions (e.g. “She is nice”) and interpersonal relationships (e.g. “They are friends”). In this talk, I will present experiments that test how human infants and children reason about relationships and dispositions as causes of social behavior and emotions. The results suggest that humans possess an early developing ability to learn about specific relationships and use them to predict both helping behaviors and empathic emotions. Date: Wednesday, May 8, 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/e/sViXBm2VqU> 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

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