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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CCC Colloquium: Joseph Sommer - Tuesday, April 22, 3 PM

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following online talk titled: Updating, Evidence Evaluation, and Operator Availability: A Framework for Understanding Belief Speaker: Joseph Sommer (Princeton)<https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/joseph-sommer> Abstract: How does human belief work? In contrast to the normative assumption that people update their beliefs via Bayes’ rule, psychologists have documented belief phenomena which appear at odds with Bayesian updating. Moreover, the fact that people often arrive at disparate beliefs in domains from politics to science may seem difficult to account for on the assumption that beliefs aim at truth. Such considerations have led to the postulation of irrational, a-rational, and instrumentally rational belief processes to explain human belief. In this talk, I suggest that conclusions of non-Bayesian updating are too hasty. I argue that beliefs are the outputs of multiple cognitive processes and, as such, understanding belief requires distinguishing between updating, narrowly construed, and a series of additional psychological processes involved in human belief. I introduce a novel framework which situates these processes in three levels of nested influence. At Level 1, belief updating is suggested to be approximately Bayesian and more sensitive to evidence than it is usually given credit for. At Level 2, an additional set of processes evaluates evidence and determines what information is presented to Level 1 for updating. Level 2 processes share two characteristics: they are necessarily heuristic and fallible, as well as cognitively penetrable (Pylyshyn, 1999) to desires and goals. Finally, at Level 3, factors including information representation and individual differences imply different operators (Newell & Simon, 1972) to evidence evaluation processes at Level 2. By manipulating Level 2 processes, people may “steer” their updating mechanisms toward particular subsets of evidence and thereby alter the beliefs they come to possess. This framework offers a nuanced and principled account of human belief which specifies where and under what circumstances irrationality may enter the picture. Chair: József Fiser Time and date: Tuesday, April 22, 3 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 101. Quantum. Zoom Meeting: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93615526968?pwd=Ct5B3XyvNeUM4zxnLoUJCHTahk0HLv.1 Meeting ID: 936 1552 6968 Passcode: 431804 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 PU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [Central European University] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36-1 327-3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_752373752]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3291570502] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2028194004] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_2667470835] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [cid:cf17f539-fb37-4e17-bcf2-e9e42af7fee8] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ 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] TOMORROW: CCC Colloquium: Zoltan Nadasdy, Tuesday, April 15, 3 PM

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following talk: “On the patterns of the brain” Speaker: Zoltan Nadasdy 1 Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 2 Department of Neurology, Dell School of Medicine, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 3 Zeto, Inc., Santa Clara, CA Abstract: In this lecture, I will argue that the brain leverages its intrinsic capacity to spontaneously generate diverse activity patterns as a foundation for constructing internal models of the world. In contrast to conventional models of cognition, these building blocks are not derived from sensory input. I will posit that neuronal representations are not validated through correspondence with external reality, but rather through internal consistency and reproducibility. To support this perspective, I will review the role of spike sequences and the replay model of memory in the hippocampus and present evidence from the spontaneous emergence of stereotyped activity in cortical tissue cultures. I will then introduce the phase coding model and provide empirical support for its manifestation in the dynamics of grid cells in the human entorhinal cortex. Finally, I will outline a revised framework for neural coding that integrates these findings into a generative perspective on brain function. Chair: József Fiser Time and date: Tuesday, April 15, 3 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 202. Zoom Meeting: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99066589927?pwd=4ChIlJdFnaK5HkmF1tVAbyaksjiBwh.1 Meeting ID: 990 6658 9927 Passcode: 809944 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 PU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [Central European University] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36-1 327-3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_752373752]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3291570502] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2028194004] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_2667470835] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [cid:7cbac74b-ed4e-4203-b745-fd6801cf1a77] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ 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] CCC Colloquium: Zoltan Nadasdy, Tuesday, April 15, 3 PM

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following talk: Speaker: Zoltán Nádasdy <https://brainstim.psy.utexas.edu/?page_id=19> (ELTE, UT Austin) Zoltan Nadasdy is a Research Scientist at the NeuroTexas Institute of St. David’s Hospital and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UT, whose main interest is to understand the fundamental mechanisms of neural coding, in particular the relationship between intrinsic oscillations and spike patterns. He developed these ideas over the years of studying Neuroscience at the Rutgers University (Ph.D.) and during his post-doctoral trainings in electrophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the California Institute of Technology. His research areas are spike sequences, neural coding, neural correlates of conscious visual perception and the function and dysfunction of neuronal oscillations in the brain. Currently he is working in the field of human electrophysiology in collaboration with clinical groups at the St. David’s hospital, Dell Children’s Hospital and University Medical Center at Brackenridge. His clinical research areas are epilepsy, seizure localization, Parkinson’s disease, spatial navigation, memory, visual perception and consciousness. Title and Abstract: to be announced Chair: József Fiser Time and date: Tuesday, April 15, 3 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 202. Zoom Meeting: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99066589927?pwd=4ChIlJdFnaK5HkmF1tVAbyaksjiBwh.1 Meeting ID: 990 6658 9927 Passcode: 809944 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 PU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [Central European University] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36-1 327-3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_752373752]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3291570502] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2028194004] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_2667470835] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [cid:f95e596f-912d-434a-8221-a38771cfa9ae] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ 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] Announcing the 16th annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary, January 8-10, 2026

by Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development

Dear Colleagues, The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the 16th annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 8-10, 2026). INVITED SPEAKERS Amanda Seed<https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychology-neuroscience/people/ams18/> (University of St Andrews) Lisa Feigenson<https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/lisa-feigenson/> (Johns Hopkins University) Luca Bonatti<https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17630/luca-bonatti/> (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Alongside our invited program, we welcome symposium, talk, and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive development. Previous BCCCD meetings featured a wide range of topics, such as communication, pragmatics, social cognition, conceptual development, language acquisition, numeracy, object cognition, perceptual learning, inductive learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, cognitive bases of culture, and comparative cognition. We will have a single deadline for all symposium, talk, and poster submissions. Authors can elect to have talk submissions considered for posters as well. You can find the timeline of the submission and review process below or at this link: https://bcccd.org/timeline.htm We also welcome proposals for half-day pre-conference workshops or tutorials relevant to the BCCCD audience. IMPORTANT DATES Submission opens: June 20, 2025 Submission deadline: September 5, 2025 Pre-conference workshop submission deadline: October 3, 2025 Notification of decision*: November 3, 2025 Registration opens: November 4, 2025 *For authors who require a visa to attend, we can provide a letter to support your visa application shortly after the submission deadline. We expect to hold BCCCD26 entirely in-person in Budapest. While CEU has relocated much of its operations to Vienna, we would like to reassure all prospective participants that we are committed to maintaining the tradition of the Budapest campus of CEU as the site of BCCCD meetings in 2026 and for the foreseeable future. We hope to see you there! Anna Kispál and Bartuğ Çelik BCCCD26 Conference chairs

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[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Andres Felipe Arenas Torres

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: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps 11 April (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Andrés Felipe Arenas Torres Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University Budapest Physical dispositions as binary relations ______________________________ 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.

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[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Andres Felipe Arenas Torres

by Gömöri Márton

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[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Andrej Jandrić

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: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps 4 April (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Andrej Jandrić Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade The Best System Account versus the Package Deal Account of the Laws of Nature ______________________________ 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.

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