koglist January 2026

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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium: January 21st at 4pm, Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania)

by Andrea Jenei

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk: Anna Papafragou<https://www.langcoglab.com/current-lab-members>, Language and Cognition Lab, University of Pennsylvania Dynamic events in mind and language Humans are surprisingly adept at interpreting what is happening around them and organizing this information in terms of dynamic events. Furthermore, across human communities, language is used to describe the events that we experience. But what, exactly, is an event? In this talk, I propose a theory of eventhood that combines insights from logico-philosophical analysis, cognitive psychology and linguistic theory. On this theory, the representational units of events in cognition rely on abstract underlying structure, including temporal boundaries. In that sense, events are similar to objects (since objects also involve abstract structure, including spatial boundaries). This proposal predicts systematic patterns in the way people spontaneously perceive unfolding events. It also explains otherwise mysterious similarities in how events and objects behave as cognitive entities. Finally, this proposal naturally accounts for the existence of a homology between the cognitive and linguistic structure of events. This framework opens up exciting possibilities for future research on how people represent, remember and talk about what happens. Date and time: Wednesday, 21st January 2026, 16:00 Venue: QS D-001 Tiered Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99674461408?pwd=OUeclRFRsjmIJRKeMivXHse68syPdH.1 Meeting ID: 996 7446 1408 Passcode: 075444 Host: Eva Wittenberg *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. 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] 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] Fwd: Meghívó Henry Hebron előadására

by Attila Keresztes

Tisztelt Kollégák! Ezúton szeretnénk meghívni minden érdeklődőt a HUN-REN TTK Agyi Képalkotó Központ által szervezett alábbi előadásra: Alpha Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation: Mechanistic investigations and application to sleep onset and memory retention. Henry Hebron, Ph.D. Sleep and Dreams Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands School of Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Surrey Sleep Research Section, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Az előadás időpontja: 2026. január 30. 11:00 óra Az előadás helyszíne: HUN-REN TTK földszinti kis konferenciaterme 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. Abstract: Alpha oscillations play a vital role in managing the brain’s resources and inhibiting neural activity, as a function of their phase and amplitude, and are changed in many brain disorders. Developing explicit models for the modulation of alpha rhythms by external means (e.g., sound) is therefore integral if we are to develop focused interventions. Here, across four independent experiments, I demonstrate that alpha oscillations respond to sound in a phase-dependent manner, and introduce Alpha Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation (αCLAS) as an EEG-based method to modulate and investigate these brain rhythms in humans with specificity and selectivity, using phase-targeted auditory stimulation. In addition to my mechanistic investigations, I also show the functional application of αCLAS to sleep onset and memory retention.There remains much to be explored, regarding the application of αCLAS to neural oscillation-dependent behaviours, but I contend that sound can provide more utility in this context than previously considered, particularly if stimulation is used to address the brain on its own terms, through closed-loop approaches. Várunk minden érdeklődőt! Üdvözlettel, Keresztes Attila

3 months, 1 week

[Koglist] {Spam?} call for papers: 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), 30th June – 3rd July 2026, Utrecht

by Dora K

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY CALL FOR PAPERS 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Utrecht University, Netherlands 30th June – 3rd July, 2026 https://espp2026.sites.uu.nl/ Keynote speakers: - Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh) on the biological basis of cognition - Isabelle Dautriche (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université) on conceptual operations before and outside language - Ira Noveck (CNRS, Université de Paris) on logical terms and ﬁgurative uses - Tadeusz Zawidzki (George Washington University) on mindshaping Each keynote talk will be followed by a related interdisciplinary symposium. 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 espp2026(a)gmail.com. <espp2026(a)gmail.com> Submission instructions The deadline for all submissions is the 2nd of February 2026. Submissions should be made online via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=espp2026 Papers should be designed to be presentable within 20 minutes (for a total 30-minute session). Submissions should consist of an abstract of up to 1000 words (excluding bibliography). If required, an additional page of tables and/or graphs may be included. Please note that, while 1000 words is the maximum, shorter abstracts are perfectly acceptable. For example, we ﬁnd that abstracts for papers which will report experimental studies can often convey the required information in 500 words. 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 only present one paper. This includes any paper that forms part of a submitted symposium. If you submit multiple papers and more than one is accepted, you will be asked to choose which you would like to present. Submitted symposia are distinct from the invited symposia attached to keynote talks, and may be on any topic relevant to the ESPP. They 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. In general, symposia should include perspectives from at least two of the three disciplines represented in the society (philosophy, psychology and linguistics), and they should not have exclusively male speakersIf there are speciﬁc reasons for not adhering to these norms in your proposed symposium, please explain this in your submission. 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, psychologists and linguists 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, King’s College London Psychology: Dora Kampis, University of Copenhagen Linguistics: Alex Lorson, University of Groningen Programme assistant: Chloe Dow, King’s College London Local Organisers Uwe Peters, Utrecht University Annemarie Kalis, Utrecht University Andrea Bertazzoli, Utrecht University

3 months, 2 weeks

[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] PhD program at CEU

by Gergely Csibra

A (bécsi) CEU Cognitive Science doktori programjára a jelentkezési határidő február 4. A részletek itt találhatók: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/call-application-2026 Érdeklődni lehet bármelyik oktatónál: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/faculty Csibra Gergely

3 months, 2 weeks

[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] Digital Minds lecture on deceptive UX patterns

by Vera Konok

Dear All, Next Thursday we will host our next *online *Digital Minds lecture! Vero Vanden Abeele (from the eMedia Research Lab and the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven) will talk about how digital platforms deploy motivational design to drive engagement and product-led growth, and how the same design choices can slip into deceptive user experience patterns that monetize attention, data, and spending. Please find the details and *registration link *here: https://www.alphageneration.eu/events/2026/01/digital-minds-speaker-vero-va… Please feel free to share the link with colleagues who would be interested. :) Happy New Year! -- Konok Veronika / Veronika Konok www.alfageneracio.hu www.alphageneration.eu <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Vírusmentes.www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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