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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] 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

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] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Antoine Soulas

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 (NEW!): LPS seminar | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams <https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZWI4MjRmODktNWQ4NC00…> 3 October (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Antoine Soulas Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna An interpretation-independent formulation of the measurement problem ______________________________ 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

7 months, 1 week

[Koglist] talk by Susanne E. Baumgartner

by Vera Konok

Dear All, We are pleased to invite you to an exciting talk by prof. Susanne E. Baumgartner (University of Amsterdam), an expert in the areas of media multitasking, the effects of digital media and digital well-being: *Elusive media effects? How to observe the effects of digital media on youth in real-life* Digital media play a profound role in the lives of children and adolescents. It is therefore crucial to understand potential beneficial and detrimental effects of digital media on youth. Yet, despite a growing body of research, empirical evidence is still limited, oftentimes contradictory and inconclusive. In this research talk, Susanne Baumgartner argues that we need innovative methodological approaches to adequately examine the impact of media in children’s everyday lives. Specifically, methods need to effectively assess media content and the dynamic interplay of media use and individuals. In this research talk, she will showcase a range of studies that employ innovative methodological approaches such as experience sampling, mobile phone tracking, data donations, and intervention studies. Date: *21 October 2025, 17:30-19:00 (CET)* Place: *Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, 7th floor, Room 7.110* You can also join the event* online via ZOOM.* *Registration is required *for both online and in-person participation! Register here:* https://forms.gle/9avZPMUamQ9ZeTN29 <https://forms.gle/9avZPMUamQ9ZeTN29>* Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1122357329432976?acontext=%7B%22event_actio… Webpage: https://www.alphageneration.eu/events/2025/10/digital-minds-speaker-susanne… Bests Vera -- Konok Veronika / Veronika Konok www.alfageneracio.hu www.alphageneration.eu

7 months, 2 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] [Cogsci Dept] CDC Seminar: Gregor Kachel (Leuphana University), Wednesday, September 24th, 4 pm

by Mariem Diane

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Gregor Kachel<https://gregorkachel.github.io/> (Leuphana University) Beyond Iconicity - young children’s comprehension of symbol-referent-relationships in the graphic domain. Children’s developing understanding of symbols in language, gesture or symbolic artefacts is central to their enculturation and demonstrates the growth of cognitive capacities that define the human mind. Language acquisition and literacy are arguably two of the most significant achievements in cultural learning. However, even prior to formal education, children may be highly competent in the graphic domain. In a multi-study project, children were presented with a picture-book-style symbolic object-choice-task in a cross-sectional between-subjects-design. At test, they received various graphic cues by a helpful and knowledgeable cartoon agent directing them at one of two choice options over 16 trials without feedback. Participants’ binary choices were modeled as a function of their absolute age using logistic Bayesian GLMMs to determine when group performance exceeds chance. Whereas previous work on graphic communication has focused almost exclusively on iconicity as a way of creating meaning and compared performance across binned age-groups, this project investigates a wide variety of mapping relationships and allows for a continuous modelling of development across the preschool years in a highly simple, coherent and comprehensive paradigm with robust samples. A first set of studies tested when children comprehend reference based in iconicity, pars-pro-toto, and analogies in shape (S1; N = 106), orientation and position (S2; N = 99) as well as number and size (S3, N = 99). To understand the interplay of cognitive abilities and enculturation, study 4 (N = 224, 48 to 60 months) combined the most reliable items from studies 1-3 with tasks evaluating children’s knowledge of conventional symbols, vocabulary and pragmatic abilities. An additional set of studies was devoted to when children understand arrows and markers (study 5; N = 72). Study 6 (N = 96) explored the interplay of direction and proximity in ambiguous arrow cues and study 7 (N = 48) established when children begin to generalize the tendency to an arrow-like reading to novel asymmetric shapes. Together with an additional investigation of children’s ability to interpret movement in graphic representations (study 8, N = 96), this project provides one of the most comprehensive and coherent investigations of young children’s understanding of symbols in the graphic domain to date. Date: Wednesday, September 24th, 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: Gergely Csibra *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOB…> to get access to the lecture hall. If you want to schedule a meeting with Gregor, please indicate your availability here<https://doodle.com/> by 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

7 months, 2 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Fw: Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Elisa Wiedemann at the Department of Cognitive Science, Vienna, September 15, 3 pm CET

by Fanni Takatsy

Dear All, This is kind reminder about Elisa's defense today starting at 3 pm in room D001: ________________________________ From: Gyorgyne Finta <Szabor(a)ceu.edu> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2025 3:30 PM To: Fanni Takatsy <TakatsyF(a)ceu.edu> Subject: Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Elisa Wiedemann at the Department of Cognitive Science, Vienna, September 15, 3 pm CET From: Talks <talks-bounces(a)cogsci.ceu.edu> On Behalf Of Gyorgyne Finta Sent: Monday, September 8, 2025 3:05 PM To: 'talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu' <talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu> Cc: Hamilton, Antonia <a.hamilton(a)ucl.ac.uk>; Tal-chen Straussman <talchens(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Elisa Wiedemann at the Department of Cognitive Science, Vienna, September 15, 3 pm CET The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis SELF-OTHER RELATIONS IN INTERPERSONAL SYNCHRONY by Elisa Wiedemann Monday, September 15, 3 P.M. CET Room D001 (CEU, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna) Join Zoom Meeting https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96089305421?pwd=CA0j7jIIlMX1x9ePnD9xh3rVoYZMWa.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96089305421?pwd%3DCA…> Meeting ID: 960 8930 5421 Passcode: 032055 PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Natalie Sebanz (CEU) SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Günther Knoblich (CEU) Members of the Dissertation Committee: Ernő Téglás, Chair, CEU Professor Tal Chen Rabinowitch<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TZ8DD4cAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…>, University of Haifa as External examiner Professor Antonia Hamilton<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vNqtGKcAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…>, UCL as External examiner *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must<https://forms.office.com/e/urY5rGpXgp> RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/e/urY5rGpXgp> to get access to the lecture hall. ABSTRACT |This thesis examines self-other relations in interpersonal synchrony. Taking an experimental approach, we investigated in a series of experiments whether performing the same movements at the same time as another person leads to an increase in self-other overlap, thereby enhancing affiliation. We found that interpersonal synchrony affects perceived, but not motor-level self-other overlap, suggesting that it is likely a social recategorization of the self in relation to others that gives rise to the effects of interpersonal synchrony. In a further qualitative study, we addressed the experience elicited by interpersonal synchrony in discrete and continuous movement contexts, finding that the experience of interpersonal coordination can be described as following a generic diachronic structure made up of three phases: an initial phase of starting, a phase of (non-)adaptation, and a phase of stable coordination. We also found evidence for some structural variations, such as the addition of a phase of experimenting, as well as inter-individual variation, particularly with respect to (non-)adaptation and experimenting. Finally, an experimental study with 18-month-olds considered the phenomenon of interpersonal synchrony in development, examining its effects of self-other alignment and its links to toddlers’ development of a self concept. This study showed that interpersonal (a-)synchrony highlights the (dis-)similarity between self and other but that toddlers’ responses to it differ between measures and with their self-concept development. Overall, the findings presented in this thesis suggest that interpersonal synchrony acts as a cue to group membership by prompting a social recategorization of the self in relation to one’s movement partner(s) and that the context in which interpersonal synchrony occurs affects the way people experience the interaction. Key words: interpersonal synchrony, joint action, subjective experience, development ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hosted by the Department of Cognitive Science [cid:image001.png@01DC1D9D.0CA8C3D0] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image002.jpg@01DC1D9D.0CA8C3D0] 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

7 months, 4 weeks

[Koglist] {Disarmed} [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Inbal Arnon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Wednesday, September 17, 4 pm

by Mariem Diane

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Inbal Arnon<https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/> (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Starting Big: the importance of whole-to-part learning in language learning Why are children better language learners than adults despite being worse at a range of other cognitive tasks? Understanding this can shed new light on the process of first language learning and how it differs from that of second language learning, while also providing us with additional tools for teaching second languages effectively. Many accounts focus on the cognitive or neurological differences between children and adults, which are in many ways irreversible. In my work, I focus instead on the way prior knowledge impacts the linguistic building blocks that children and adults use during learning, and how those early building blocks impact learning outcomes. I will present evidence for the Starting Big Approach: the idea that children's advantage is related to their greater engagement with whole-to-part learning. Specifically, I propose that children rely on both single words and multiword units during learning, while adults do so less (because of their prior knowledge of words), and that this difference can explain (some of) adults' difficulty in learning the relations between words. I draw on developmental, psycholinguistic and computational findings to show that multiword units are integral building blocks in language; that such units are facilitative for learning certain grammatical relations; and that adult learners rely on them less than children, a pattern that can explain differences between L1 and L2 learning. I will end by discussing implications for models of L1 and L2 learning and the possible role of whole-to-part learning in the emergence of linguistic structure. Date: Wednesday, September 17, 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: Gergely Csibra *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/24WRuC1nM8> to get access to the lecture hall. If you want to schedule a meeting with Inbal, please indicate your availability here<https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/a50ddc3e-912a-44b9-b5bd-d5ee33…>. 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

8 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Magdalena Roszkowski at the Department of Cognitive Science, Vienna, September 10, 3 pm CET

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis THE ACQUISITION OF PLURAL EXPRESSIONS How children learn to navigate the logical space in the realm of pluralities by Magdalena Roszkowski wednesday, SepteMber 10, 3 P.M. CET Room D001 (CEU, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna) Join Zoom Meeting https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98601131162?pwd=20mWML3KBxeyyJr0ksgSYy00O7R5dl.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98601131162?pwd%3D20…> Meeting ID: 986 0113 1162 Passcode: 010834 PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Ernő Téglás (CEU) SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: György Gergely (CEU) Members of the Dissertation Committee: Natalie Sebanz, Chair, CEU Professor Athulya Aravind<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pBeuruUAAAAJ&hl=en>, External examiner, MIT, Associate Professor of Linguistics Professor Jean-Remy Hochmann<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IciVLb4AAAAJ&hl=de>, External examiner, CNRS researcher at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod in Lyon *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/e/58fW2Sn2PU> to get access to the lecture hall. ABSTRACT |A longstanding and ever-fascinating puzzle is how children acquire language so rapidly and seemingly effortlessly, raising questions about the cognitive prerequisites that enable this process and the expectations that guide it. This dissertation investigates the acquisition of various constructions that involve plural expressions and the related notions of distributivity and cumulativity as well as homogeneity and (non-)maximality. It explores questions concerning children's early representational capacities, the relationship between linguistic representations and conceptual development and principles that support the mapping between language and the world. Specifically, it asks how children come to form complex semantic representations, which expectations about meaning they bring to the learning task and how the acquisition of expressions that encode plurality relates to more general abilities of reasoning about multitudes. The first part examines how children acquire abstract meaning representations in the domain of pluralities and addresses some fundamental questions regarding the acquisition of functional elements. By using a structural priming paradigm we investigate whether preschoolaged children are able to represent cumulative and distributive meanings of ambiguous plural sentences, even before they have mastered the truth-conditions of distributive universal quantifiers. The findings reveal priming effects for both cumulative and distributive interpretations in the absence of overt disambiguating elements, suggesting that children may have available certain logical representations prior to showing adult-like competence with the corresponding lexical items. The second part focuses on the relationship between language and thought and explores the possibility that the conceptual repertoire relevant for quantification is available at an early age. In particular, we investigate whether already preverbal infants are able to deploy the concept of exhaustivity, a notion that may later play a role in the acquisition of universal quantifiers. We present an eye-tracking study which involves a task that allows infants to learn a rule based on the quantificational properties of scenes featuring multiple agents. The results of this inquiry are inconclusive, leaving the question open of whether the concept of exhaustivity is available preverbally. The third part studies how children navigate uncertainty in the application of linguistic expressions. We examine how preschoolers interpret definite singular and plural expressions in scenarios that involve non-maximal and heterogeneous referents through a truth-value judgment task. The findings show that children are receptive to both types of violations, indicating an early sensitivity to the vague nature of language and gaps in the extension of natural language expressions. Taken together the results provide evidence for an early ability to form complex semantic representations and to deal with the uncertainty accompanying linguistic expressions, while also pointing to potential differences between linguistic and non-linguistic representations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hosted by the Department of Cognitive Science [cid:image001.png@01DC1C0D.1A4786C0] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image002.jpg@01DC1C0D.1A4786C0] 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. 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