koglist January 2025

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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] European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Sept 2-5 Warsaw: call for papers

by Dora Kampis

*EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY* *CALL FOR PAPERS* 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Warsaw, Poland September 2-5, 2025 Conference website: https://espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl *Keynote Speakers* Emma Borg (Institute of Philosophy, University of London) Cameron Buckner (Department of Philosophy, University of Florida) Nora Newcombe (Psychology & Neuroscience, Temple University) Petra Schumacher (Linguistics, University of Cologne) *Call for Submissions* The Society invites the submission of papers, posters and symposia. Submissions are refereed and selected on the basis of quality and relevance to psychologists, philosophers and linguists. If you have any questions, contact us by writing an email to espp2025(a)gmail.com. *Travel scholarships for PhD Students * Thanks to support from IFiS/GSSR, via the NAWA grant *PROM Short-term academic exchange* (in Polish, *PROM- Krótkookresowa wymiana akademicka; * BPI/PRO/2024/1/00020/DEC/1), we can award up to 10 travel grants for PhD students at universities outside Poland to attend the conference and present a talk or poster. Please see the conference website for the Call for Applications for these scholarships, which promotes equal opportunity for people with disabilities, and adequate gender representation. Successful applications will be selected on the basis of: (i) quality of the proposed talk or poster, as judged by the ESPP expert reviewers’ report on the anonymised abstract you submit when applying to speak at the conference; (ii) NAWA PROM’s eligibility rules (see the Call for Applications). *Submission instructions for papers, posters and symposia* The deadline for all submissions is 3rd March 2025. Submissions should be made online via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=espp2025 Papers should be designed to be presentable within 20 minutes (for a total 30 minutes session). Submissions should consist of a long abstract of up to 1000 words (excluding bibliography). If required, an additional page of tables and/or graphs may be included. A submission for a poster presentation should consist of a 500-word abstract. When submitting your paper or poster online, please first indicate the primary discipline of your paper (philosophy, psychology, or linguistics) and whether your submission is intended as a paper or a poster. Submitted papers may also be considered for presentation as a poster if space constraints prevent acceptance as a paper or if the submission is thought more suitable for presentation as a poster. All paper and poster submissions (whether abstracts or full papers) should be in .doc or PDF-format and should be properly anonymized in order to allow for blind refereeing. Each person may present only one paper during the conference’s parallel sessions, though you may be a co-author of more than one paper. If you submit multiple single-authored papers only one will be accepted. This includes contributions to submitted symposia. Symposia are allocated a two-hour slot and consist of a set of four linked papers on a common theme or three linked papers with an introduction. Symposia should include perspectives from at least two of the three disciplines represented in the society (philosophy, psychology and linguistics). Submissions should be made by symposium organizers (not speakers). When submitting a symposium proposal online, your submissions should include the following three elements in a single PDF: (1) A list of 3 or 4 speakers which indicates representation of at least two disciplines (individual speakers may also represent multiple disciplines). (2) A general abstract of up to 500 words, laying out the topics to be addressed and indicating connections among the talks (3) Individual abstracts of up to 500 words and provisional titles for each talk. Please do not submit more than one PDF file per symposium. *General Aim* The aim of the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology is to promote interaction between philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern. Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and biologists are encouraged to report experimental, theoretical and clinical work that they judge to have philosophical significance; and philosophers are encouraged to engage with the fundamental issues addressed by and arising out of such work. In recent years ESPP sessions have covered such topics as theory of mind, attention, reference, problems of consciousness, introspection and self-report, emotion, perception, early numerical cognition, spatial concepts, infants’ understanding of intentionality, memory and time, motor imagery, counterfactuals, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, comparative cognition, minimalism in linguistic theory, reasoning, vagueness, mental causation, action and agency, thought without language, externalism, hypnosis, and the interpretation of neuropsychological results. *Programme Committee* Philosophy: James Stazicker (Kings College London) Psychology: Dora Kampis (University of Copenhagen) Linguistics: Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh) Programme assistant: Chloe Dow (University of Stirling) *Main Local Organiser* Dr hab. Marcin Miłkowski, prof. (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) *Local organizing team* Dr. Przemysław R. Nowakowski (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) Dr. Krystian Bogucki (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) Anna Jędraszkiewicz (University of Warsaw) Wiktor Rorot (University of Warsaw) Wiktor Lachowski (Graduate School for Social Research) Jakub Matyja (Graduate School for Social Research) Natalia Skipietrow (IFiS PAN)

1 year, 3 months

[Koglist] Re: Work in Progress 2024/25 - Ph.D. progress report (Cognitive Psychology program)

by Ginter Zsófia

Dear All, I am sending attached the final program for the WIP mini conference scheduled for next Thursday, 30/01/25, 9:30 AM, IZU room 101. I will be in touch early next week to discuss sharing your presentations, formats etc. in advance, but please feel free to contact me with any requests or questions regarding the event. Best regards, Zsofia Ginter ________________________________ From: Király Ildikó <kiraly.ildiko(a)ppk.elte.hu> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2024 5:11 PM To: Kis Hunor <kis.hunor(a)ttk.hu>; Laskay-Horváth Claudia <laskay-horvath.claudia(a)ppk.elte.hu>; Magzel Carlos <carlos.magzel(a)ppk.elte.hu>; Anita Jojic <anitajo92(a)gmail.com>; Bumin Feride Belma <belmabumin(a)student.elte.hu>; Borbála Emese Varga <varga.borbala.emese(a)gmail.com>; Kelemen Alexandra <alexandra.stonem(a)gmail.com> Cc: zsófi ginter <ginterzsofi(a)gmail.com>; Ginter Zsófia <ginter.zsofia(a)ppk.elte.hu>; Tolmár Fanni <tolmar.fanni(a)ppk.elte.hu> Subject: Work in Progress 2024/25 - Ph.D. progress report (Cognitive Psychology program) Dear All, We are organizing the annual Work in Progress meeting, which serves as the progress report forum for the Ph.D. students of the Cognitive Psychology program. The event is scheduled for Thursday, January 30, 2025, at the Institute of Psychology. Please inform us if you are only able to attend online. You may present completed studies, pilots, or research plans, with a 10-minute time limit for completed studies and a 5-minute limit for pilots and research plans. Zsófia will send you the official invite and the link for the application form shortly. Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation. Happy Holidays Ildikó

1 year, 3 months

[Koglist] Research Associate Position and PhD students

by Vera Konok

Dear All, The ELTE TTK Alpha Generation Lab (Department of Ethology) is looking for a research associate and 2 PhD students. Please find attached the job descriptions. The research fellow can be a foreigner, but the PhD students (due to communication with children and parents) must speak Hungarian." Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, Thank you, Vera Konok -- Konok Veronika / Veronika Konok www.alfageneracio.hu www.alphageneration.eu

1 year, 3 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER Online CDC Seminar: Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota), Wednesday, January 22, 4 pm

by Anna Kispal

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following online talk. Melissa Koenig<https://icd.umn.edu/melissa-koenig> (University of Minnesota) Title: Children’s Testimonial Learning: Early Judgments of Epistemic and Moral Agency Abstract: Children’s testimonial learning involves a sophisticated conception of human agency. Developmental research on children’s testimonial learning opened a window onto a form of reasoning aimed at identifying the intentions of epistemic and moral agents. Children’s testimonial reasoning takes both a critical interest in the reliability of sources, as well as a cooperative view of another person and her acts of communication. In this talk, I will focus on the role that social groups play in children’s epistemic judgements and discuss ongoing work in our lab that examines the epistemic and interpersonal trust children place in familiar others as marked by race, friendship and school contexts. Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2024 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Ágnes Kovács 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, 3 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Online CDC Seminar: Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota), Wednesday, January 22, 4 pm

by Anna Kispal

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