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
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Andi
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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.
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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…>
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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.
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by Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the submissions for the 16th BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 15-17, 2026) are now open for symposia, talks, and posters.
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
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
For Individual Talks and Posters:
• Submit a 300-word abstract plus a one-page PDF of supplemental material (visible only to reviewers and not included in the final program) at: BCCCD26 Submission Portal<https://www.openconf.org/BCCCD26>
For Symposia:
• Individual talks in the symposium should be submitted in the same format as regular talks, with a field
for the symposium title in the submission form.
• Submit a unifying statement of less than 500 words via this form: Symposia Submission Form<https://forms.office.com/e/e31gJNndUd?origin=lprLink>
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More Information:
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• To contribute by reviewing abstracts, contact us for instructions.
CONFERENCE DETAILS
• Dates: January 15-17, 2026
• Location: Central European University, Budapest
• Website: BCCCD Website<https://bcccd.org/welcome.htm>
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)
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*For authors requiring a visa to attend, we can provide a supporting letter shortly after the submission deadline.
We look forward to your submissions and participation!
Warm regards,
Anna Kispál and Bartuğ Çelik
BCCCD26 Conference chairs
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following talk.
Time and date: Friday, June 20, 2025, 5:00 PM
Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 103.
Speaker: Xaq Pitkow (Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, CMU)<https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/xpitkow.html>
Title: Interpreting neural dynamics by modeling beliefs
Abstract: Complex behaviors are often driven by an internal model, which integrates sensory information over time and facilitates long-term planning to reach subjective goals. We interpret behavioral data by assuming an agent behaves rationally --- that is, they take actions that optimize their subjective reward according to their understanding of the task and its relevant causal variables. We apply a new method, Inverse Rational Control (IRC), to learn an agent's internal model and reward function by maximizing the likelihood of its measured sensory observations and actions. Technically, we define an animal's strategy as solving a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), and we invert this model to find the task and subjective costs that have maximum likelihood. This is a generalization of both Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control. Our mathematical formulation thereby extracts rational and interpretable thoughts of the agent from its behavior. We apply this method to behavioral data from primates catching fireflies in virtual reality, and use it to understand properties of the mental model monkeys use to navigate by optic flow.
The thoughts imputed to the animal can then serve as latent targets for neural analyses. Using these targets, we provide a framework for interpreting the linked processes of encoding, recoding, and decoding of neural data in light of the rational model for behavior. We first demonstrate the merits of this approach on synthetic neural data during a foraging task. We then analyze real neural activity in primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to discover computations relevant to foraging tasks. In PFC, we find that reward dynamics are represented in a subspace of the high-dimensional population activity, and predict animal’s subsequent choice better than either the true experimental variables or the raw neural responses. In PPC, we find representations of latent navigation-relevant variables, and find that task manipulations alter the coupling between neurons, suggesting that these interactions reflect the mental model used to perform task-relevant computations. Overall, our approach may identify explainable structure in complex neural activity patterns. This framework lays a foundation for discovering how the brain chooses to act using dynamic beliefs about the uncertain world.
Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, University of Cambridge)
Zoom Meeting ID: 995 7581 0673<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99575810673?pwd=iCAk9h82KCXurpjbbmal4TAo4HzbSp.1>
Passcode: 635375
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Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following two talks on June 19 and 20:
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Time and date: Thursday, June 19, 2025, 5:00 PM
Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 106.
Speaker: Constantin A. Rothkopf<https://www.pip.tu-darmstadt.de/members_pip/publications.en.jsp>
Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt; Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany
Title: Human navigation as path-planning in belief-space
Abstract: Goal-directed navigation requires continuously integrating uncertain self-motion and landmark cues into an internal sense of location and direction, concurrently planning future paths, and sequentially executing motor actions. We provide a unified account of these processes with a computational model of probabilistic path planning in the framework of optimal feedback control under uncertainty. This model gives rise to diverse human navigational strategies previously believed to be distinct behaviors and predicts quantitatively both the errors and the variability of navigation across numerous experiments. This furthermore explains how sequential egocentric landmark observations form an uncertain allocentric cognitive map, how this internal map is used both in route planning and during execution of movements, and reconciles seemingly contradictory results about cue-integration behavior in navigation. Finally, we show, how moment to moment interactions of sensory, cognitive, and action uncertainty give rise to gaze behavior shifting from active learning to active sensing. Taken together, the present work provides a parsimonious explanation of how patterns of human goal-directed sensorimotor navigation behavior arise from the continuous and dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties in perception, cognition, and action.
Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, Cambridge)
Zoom Meeting ID: 992 4543 3354<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99245433354?pwd=iH9CZSVwTjJ8r8invTjrHDQQLxAByd.1>
Passcode: 326339
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Time and date: Friday, June 20, 2025, 5:00 PM
Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 103.
Speaker: Xaq Pitkow (Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, CMU)<https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/xpitkow.html>
Title: Interpreting neural dynamics by modeling beliefs
Abstract: Complex behaviors are often driven by an internal model, which integrates sensory information over time and facilitates long-term planning to reach subjective goals. We interpret behavioral data by assuming an agent behaves rationally --- that is, they take actions that optimize their subjective reward according to their understanding of the task and its relevant causal variables. We apply a new method, Inverse Rational Control (IRC), to learn an agent's internal model and reward function by maximizing the likelihood of its measured sensory observations and actions. Technically, we define an animal's strategy as solving a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), and we invert this model to find the task and subjective costs that have maximum likelihood. This is a generalization of both Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control. Our mathematical formulation thereby extracts rational and interpretable thoughts of the agent from its behavior. We apply this method to behavioral data from primates catching fireflies in virtual reality, and use it to understand properties of the mental model monkeys use to navigate by optic flow.
The thoughts imputed to the animal can then serve as latent targets for neural analyses. Using these targets, we provide a framework for interpreting the linked processes of encoding, recoding, and decoding of neural data in light of the rational model for behavior. We first demonstrate the merits of this approach on synthetic neural data during a foraging task. We then analyze real neural activity in primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to discover computations relevant to foraging tasks. In PFC, we find that reward dynamics are represented in a subspace of the high-dimensional population activity, and predict animal’s subsequent choice better than either the true experimental variables or the raw neural responses. In PPC, we find representations of latent navigation-relevant variables, and find that task manipulations alter the coupling between neurons, suggesting that these interactions reflect the mental model used to perform task-relevant computations. Overall, our approach may identify explainable structure in complex neural activity patterns. This framework lays a foundation for discovering how the brain chooses to act using dynamic beliefs about the uncertain world.
Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, Cambridge)
Zoom Meeting ID: 995 7581 0673<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99575810673?pwd=iCAk9h82KCXurpjbbmal4TAo4HzbSp.1>
Passcode: 635375
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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.
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Best,
Reka
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*POSITION: BIOSTATISTICS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (with a Clinical Focus)*
The Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology Research Group at the
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research
Centre for Natural Sciences, is seeking a motivated postdoctoral
researcher with a strong background in biostatistics (or a related
field) to join our team. The successful candidate will play a central
role in conducting advanced statistical analyses of clinically relevant
data, contributing to projects focused on mental health,
neurodevelopment, and related domains. The position is based in
Budapest, Hungary.
*Key Responsibilities:*
-Conduct statistical analyses of complex, longitudinal, and/or
multilevel datasets:
o*Primary data analysis* of large, rich, longitudinal datasets that
include behavioral/clinical, genetic, and electrophysiological (EEG/ERP)
data.
o*Secondary data analysis* of datasets from international collaborations
and publicly available datasets.
-Contribute to manuscript preparation and the dissemination of research
findings.
-Assist in the design and refinement of future research studies.
*Qualifications:*
-PhD in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Neuroscience, Psychology
(Quantitative), Computer Science, or a related field.
-Demonstrated experience with advanced statistical modeling (e.g., SEM,
mixed models, machine learning).
-Proficiency in R, Python, or similar environments.
-High proficiency in both verbal and written English.
-Ability to work independently and collaboratively within an
interdisciplinary team.
*Preferred Attributes:*
-Experience analyzing electrophysiological, genetic, or neuroimaging data.
-Interest in psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders research.
*Salary:* 600,000–900,000 HUF/month + benefits (commensurate with
experience and performance; full-time).
*We offer:*
-A collaborative, supportive research environment.
-Opportunities to engage in impactful clinical research.
-Flexible working arrangements: The position includes a combination of
in-office and remote work, with the specific arrangement to be
determined in consultation with the group leader.
-The length of the position and part-time or full-time status are
flexible and will be tailored to fit the selected candidate’s
availability and career goals.
*To apply: *
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a CV, a brief cover
letter highlighting their experience and research interests and contact
information for references.
*Letters should be addressed to Nóra Bunford* and sent to:
bunford.nora(a)ttk.hu
For further information, see: https://www.bunfordlab.com/
Applications are welcome until the position is filled.
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk.
Yuyan Luo<https://psychology.missouri.edu/people/luo> (University of Missouri)
Title: Exploring variation in infant cognition
Abstract: Research on infant cognition has yielded a wealth of findings suggesting that infants start with initial knowledge of several core domains that capture critical aspects of the world, e.g., physical, psychological, sociomoral domains. In each domain, such core knowledge includes some early emerging concepts and/or principles (e.g., concepts of objects, force, agents, social agents and/or moral principles) that help point infants in the right directions for rapidly learning about the world. Most of the work so far has been on infants’ group-level performance, e.g., in looking-time tasks. I will present ours and others’ work that start to examine how individual characteristics and experiential factors may (or may not) impact infant knowledge about the physical and the social world. This will help us achieve a better understanding of variation in infant cognition and allow for evaluations of claims on the origins and development of early knowledge.
Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D-002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712)
Chair: Ágnes Kovács
Best,
Anna
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