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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

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Dávid Ádám Magas at the Department of Cognitive Science, Vienna, September 11, 4 pm CET

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis Representation of Uncertainty and Recall Precision in Long-Term Episodic and Semantic Memories by Dávid Ádám Magas THURSDAY, SepteMber 11, 4 P.M. CET Room C322 (CEU, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna) Join Zoom Meeting https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93244559610?pwd=24NXxnQ9bYEv3Pc7f26p70fvX2JoVF.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93244559610?pwd%3D24…> Meeting ID: 932 4455 9610 Passcode: 488643 PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: József Fiser (CEU) SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Máté Lengyel (CEU) Members of the Dissertation Committee: Ernő Téglás, Chair, CEU Professor Pernille Hemmer (Rutgers University)<https://ifh.rutgers.edu/faculty_staff/pernille-hemmer/> as External examiner Professor Timothy Brady (UC San Diego)<https://psychology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/tbrady.html> as External examiner *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?origin=NeoPortalPage&subpa…> to get access to the lecture hall. ABSTRACT |Episodic memory has often been characterized as detailed autonoetic awareness of one's past events. In my dissertation, I reconceptualize episodic memory as part of a general knowledge structure or long-term semantic memory. I offer a common framework in which the recall precision and the representation of uncertainty in short-term and long-term episodic and semantic memory can be investigated. As a result, my work bridges important gaps between perception, long-term episodic and semantic memory, and provides insights into the detailed form in which items in perception and long-term memory are encoded and recalled. In Chapter 2, I analyze recall precision and the representation of uncertainty in perceptual decision-making and in long-term episodic memories without any semantic regularity imposed on them. I show that items in perception and long-term episodic memory are encoded and recalled in a probabilistic manner. In Chapter 3, I organize episodic elements into simple scenes with both perceptual and semantic connections between the elements. I demonstrate that semantic connections are dominant as opposed to perceptual ones in increasing recall precision. Furthermore, I show that the structure in which scene elements are stored in long-term memory corresponds to the recurring input schema of the scenes. In Chapter 4, I introduce overarching semantic regularity into the input and analyze how it affects recall precision and the representation of uncertainty. I show that semantic regularity improves overall recall precision. In addition, I show that this increase was a result of true semantic learning, where people learnt the structure of the input and used that knowledge exclusively in several responses. Furthermore, I point out major individual differences in episodic and semantic learning ability across participants. Lastly, show that the fundamentally probabilistic representation of individual items does not change despite learning the overarching semantic regularity. In Chapter 5, I analyze the effect of attention on episodic and semantic learning and show that semantic but not episodic learning remains intact with divided attention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hosted by the Department of Cognitive Science [cid:image001.png@01DC1D9B.FCC6B6D0] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image002.jpg@01DC1D9B.FCC6B6D0] 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

2 months, 4 weeks

[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

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

by Gyorgyne Finta

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

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[Koglist] RePlay

by Gergely Csibra

Kedves kollegák! Pléh Csaba 80. születésnapjára egy egynapos mini-konferenciát rendezünk december 6-án a CEU-n. Ha érdekel, hová kerültek és min dolgoznak manapság Csaba egykori tanítványai az elmúlt 50 évből, meghallgathatjátok 30 tízperces mini-előadás formájában. Mellékeljük a részletes programot, ami egyébként az esemény honlapján is megtalálható. Minden érdeklődőt szívesen látunk (nem csak a kogtársakat). Terjesszétek az esemény hírét. Gergő, Judit és Kristóf

4 months

[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Gabor Hofer-Szabo

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: LPS seminar | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams <https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZWI4MjRmODktNWQ4NC00…> 12 December (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Gábor Hofer-Szabó Institute of Philosophy, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest Classicality and locality in Bell's inequalities ______________________________ 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

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[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Gabor Hofer-Szabo

by Gömöri Márton

5 months

[Koglist] DUCOG26 – Adaptations across different timescales

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce the *XVII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science* devoted to *Adaptations across different timescales*. The conference is going to take place on 21-24 May 2026, in the Center for Advanced Studies of Dubrovnik, Croatia, located by the Adriatic sea at the foot of the old city of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO world heritage site. Adaptation is a defining feature of living systems, from immediate adjustments to long-term developmental and societal changes. Here, we will explore adaptation and its limits across multiple scales, asking how individuals, groups, and societies adjust to shifting internal and external demands, and what this means for personality and mental health. We will be interested in how cognition is adjusted to cope with more immediate challenges like scarcity, threat, or turmoil. On top of that, effects of the environment during sensitive developmental periods can leave enduring marks on information processing and behavioural tendencies. In this vein, we will consider whether cognitive correlates of personality traits and psychopathology can be seen as generalized adaptations to the past, or as obstacles to meeting challenges in the present. In this conference, we will bring together researchers who address this broad question from various angles such as experimental psychology, genetics and neuroscience, or clinical & personality psychology, and use diverse tools such as computational cognitive modelling and time series analysis of daily life data. *Invited speakers will include:* Laura Bringmann (University of Groningen) Philip Corlett (Yale Unviersity) Judith R. Homberg (Radboud University) Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) 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 2026.* On behalf of the organisers, *Bertalan Polner (Donders Institute & ELTE Eötvös Loránd University) & Levente Rónai (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & University of Szeged)- Conference chairs*

5 months, 1 week

[Koglist] {Disarmed} [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Zsuzsa Kaldy (UMass Boston), 4pm on Wednesday Dec. 3rd

by Mariem Diane

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Zsuzsa Kaldy <https://www.umb.edu/directory/zsuzsakaldy/> (University of Massachusetts Boston) An ethological approach to working memory: The cost-based balancing of sampling and remembering Abstract: Typical visual working memory tasks involve many trials of rapid presentations of simple stimuli to be remembered across short delays. This is rarely how memory is used in the real world: we are almost always able to resample information by making an action just-in-time (eye or head movements) or preemptively (cognitive offloading). Deciding how often to resample versus how much to store in memory depends on the costs of each option. In five preregistered experiments with 4-8-year-old children using a naturalistic and gamified task (N = 298), I will show that the cost-based balancing of sampling versus remembering emerges around 5 years of age, and follows a similar (but not identical) pattern as in adults. These results demonstrate how attention and visual working memory interact in naturalistic goal-driven behavior. Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Agnes Kovacs *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOG…> to get access to the lecture hall. If you want to schedule a meeting with Zsuzsa on Wednesday, please write to me before Tuesday, 12pm. Best, Mariem ______________________________________________ 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

5 months, 1 week

[Koglist] {Disarmed} Fluencia Party on December 3 Wednesday at Élesztőház

by D. Németh

Dear Cognitive Folks, We’re excited to announce that the next Fluencia Party will take place on Wednesday, December 3, starting at 8:00 PM at Élesztőház (Tűzoltó utca 22). More details can be found here: https://m.facebook.com/events/1347075076882771/ Fluencia is a monthly, informal gathering designed for students (both undergraduate and graduate), professors, and researchers across cognitive science, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, and neuroscience. Attendees come from various universities and research institutes, though individuals from other institutions are always warmly welcome! The main goal of Fluencia is to foster interaction, collaboration, and communication among researchers in these related fields. It’s an excellent opportunity to meet new people, discuss your research interests, and, of course, enjoy a relaxing evening with drinks in a friendly atmosphere. Everyone is welcome! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there! Best regards, Dezső ---------------------------------------------- https://nemethlab.com/ <http://www.memory-and-language.com/>

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