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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

5 days, 3 hours

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University): Reasoning with concepts: Conceptual spaces as a framework, Febr 11, 2026

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Peter Gärdenfors<https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lucat/user/dd34d43676316d332664e1351eb21a47> (Lund University) Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97165515876?pwd=2qTerE3Gq2qel2QAUAajCa61r1QoNl.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97165515876?pwd%3D2q…> Meeting ID: 971 6551 5876 Passcode: 896134 Chair: József Fiser Title: Reasoning with concepts: Conceptual spaces as a framework Abstract: I present models of "informal logic" based on my theory of conceptual spaces. I will consider reasoning with expectations, induction, generics, and analogies. The models explain much of the psychological experiments that have been performed in these areas. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must reply here<https://forms.office.com/e/FJ1q8wKj0G> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Jozsef know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka [cid:image001.png@01DC9687.55FBF800] Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of Cognitive Science Pronouns: she/her | szabor(a)ceu.edu<mailto:szabor@ceu.edu> | +43 1 25230 5138 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> [signature_4100317087]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3650446863] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2213595878] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_973538284] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [signature_3302971874] <https://twitter.com/ceu> ______________________________________________ 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 weeks, 6 days

[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] Álláshirdetés - Job advertisement PTE

by Dr. Zsidó András Norbert

Kedves Kollégák, Dear Colleagues, Új munkatársat keresünk a PTE BTK Kognitív és Evolúciós Pszichológia Tanszékére teljes, határozatlan idejű kinevezéssel. Viszonylag tág lehetőségünk van a felvételre, így tanársegédtől tanárig bárki jelentkezését szívesen vesszük. Oktatás szempontjából elsődlegesen kognitív pszichológiai, neuropszichológiai vagy képességmér fókuszú tárgyak és módszertani kurzusok (pl. kutatásmódszertan, statisztika, pszichometria, laborgyakorlat) oktatása BA és MA szinten, angolul és magyarul. Ugyanakkor kutatásmódszertani jártasság és kutatási, pályázati előzmények előnyt jelentenek. Segítségeteket kérném a csatolt hirdetés terjesztésében, potenciális érdeklődőkhöz való eljuttatásában. Részletek a .pdf-ben találhatók. Kérdés, jelentkezés esetén közvetlen nekem írjatok. Beadási határidő 2026. március 30. Kezdés 2026. szeptember 1. We are looking for a new colleague for the Department of Cognitive and Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Pécs Faculty of Humanities with a full-time, permanent position. We are relatively flexible in terms of recruitment, so we welcome applications from anyone, from assistant lecturers to professors. In terms of teaching, the primary focus is on cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, or ability assessment-focused subjects and methodology courses (e.g., research methodology, statistics, psychometrics, laboratory practice) at the BA and MA levels, in English. At the same time, proficiency in research methodology and previous research and grant application experience are an advantage. I would appreciate your help in distributing the attached advertisement and forwarding it to potentially interested parties. Details can be found in the .pdf file. If you have any questions or would like to apply, please contact me directly. The deadline for applications is March 30, 2026. The earliest start date is September 1, 2026. Köszönettel, Thanks, András ----- András Norbert ZSIDÓ, PhD habil. FPsyS Senior Research Fellow Head of Cognitive and Evolutionary Psychology Department Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs Director: Visual Cognition and Emotion Lab Website: https://btk.pte.hu/en/vicelab Editorial Board member: Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychiatry [cid:11bc9e78-8784-476f-bed4-fe7cec013da5] ________________________________ A PTE Zöld Egyetem programja jegyében kérem, ne nyomtassa ki ezt az e-mail-t, kivéve, ha szükséges. Green University - Please do not print this e-mail unless it's necessary. ________________________________ JOGI NYILATKOZAT: Az e-mailben továbbított információ kizárólag a címzett vagy az általa képviselt szervezet számára készült, és bizalmas, valamint jogilag védett információkat tartalmazhat. Az információ bármilyen áttekintése, továbbítása, terjesztése, más módon történő felhasználása vagy arra való hivatkozás a címzettől eltérő személyek vagy szervezetek számára szigorúan tilos. Amennyiben ezt az üzenetet tévesen kapta, kérjük, értesítse a feladót, és haladéktalanul törölje az üzenetet és annak esetleges mellékleteit az összes eszközéről. Az e-mailben szereplő üzeneteket és mellékleteket vírusellenőrzésnek kell alávetni. A Pécsi Tudományegyetem nem vállal felelősséget semmilyen számítógépes vírus által okozott kárért, sem az e-mail vagy mellékletei továbbításából eredő adatvesztésért vagy egyéb hibákért. DISCLAIMER: The information transmitted in this email is intended solely for the recipient or the entity they represent and may contain confidential and legally privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of, or reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it, along with any attachments, from all devices immediately. Emails and attachments should be scanned for viruses. The University of Pécs accepts no liability for any damage caused by computer viruses, nor for any data loss or errors resulting from the transmission of this email or its attachments.

2 months, 1 week

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Febr 27, 10 AM Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum, Morten L Kringelbach and Gustavo Deco

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invite you to the upcoming event of the Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum<https://ccc.ceu.edu/budapest-computational-neuroscience-forum>. Please note that there will be two talks consecutively. Speakers: Morten L Kringelbach<https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/mlk> (University of Oxford) and Gustavo Deco<https://www.upf.edu/web/cns/gustavo> (Pompeu Fabra University) Titles and abstracts: Whole-brain modelling. Cartography of eudaimonia and flourishing in the human brain In order to survive, the brain must constantly extract, predict and recognise the essential spacetime features of complex environments. This distributed computation of information relies on having a hierarchy of optimal information transfer across the whole brain at the lowest possible metabolic cost. Suboptimal brain orchestration has been linked to mental illness, yet the fundamental principles of brain orchestration over fast and slow timescales are still not well understood. I will show how significant progress has been made using whole- brain modelling of neuroimaging data using new frameworks based on stochastic thermodynamics and turbulence. A series of studies have already furthered our understanding of human flourishing using data from experiments including music, food, social interactions, meditation and psychedelics. Overall, this new evidence has given rise to a deeper understanding of experiences that can give rise to both flourishing and suffering, providing meaning and purpose to life, and may eventually help to find novel ways to rebalance the brain in neuropsychiatric disorders. The computing brain: Explaining cognition through a realistic whole-brain anatomically constrained-reservoir model The perhaps most important unsolved problem in neuroscience is how the brain survives in a complex world by performing a rich repertoire of computation on a minimal energy budget. The brain is much better at adapting to the multiplicity of stimuli and outcomes than current generations of computers, artificial neural deep learning and reservoir model architectures. Yet, at first glance the brain appears to use a fixed anatomical architecture to perform the necessary huge variety of computations. But evolution’s boldest trick is that in fact the brain’s effective connectivity is constantly being updated through neuromodulation to allow the rich repertoire of computation. Inspired by this, we created a whole-brain model using empirical neurotransmitter maps modulating the underlying local regional dynamics. This NEMO (neurotransmission modulated) whole-brain model is able to flexibly compute the full task repertoire and associated functional connectivity of the neuroimaging data from 971 healthy participants. For each individual we defined a measure of ‘brain computability’ as the fitting of the NEMO whole-brain model to all tasks performed by the individual. Importantly, brain computability correlates with both behavioural performance on individual tasks and with a general behavioural measure of intelligence. Overall, our proposed unifying NEMO framework offers a natural way to sculpt different brain dynamics in a fixed brain architecture to compute the rich repertoire of tasks required for surviving and thriving. Date and time: February 27, Friday, 10:00 am Location: CEU Budapest Site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) room 101. Quantum Zoom Meeting ID: 944 5722 1783<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94457221783?pwd=57tog3a8IKMn80SucqCZKadP9GFObM.1> Passcode: 239091 Should you have any inquiries about the series, please contact Mihály Bányai<mailto:mihaly.s.banyai@gmail.com>. 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's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [cid:3e14a0f6-95ec-4bc7-9678-0c1f175c9400] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<https://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_1906114050]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3665215332] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_650608483] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/?originalSubdom…> [signature_3553604353] <https://www.threads.com/@weareceu> [signature_74125338] <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

2 months, 2 weeks

[Koglist] DUCOG2026 - Submission deadline extended to 7 March!

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that abstract submission for the *XVII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science* devoted to *Adaptations across different timescales *has been* extended to 7 March*! The conference is going to take place on 21-24 May 2026, in the Center for Advanced Studies of Dubrovnik, Croatia, located by the Adriatic sea at the foot of the old city of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO world heritage site. Adaptation is a defining feature of living systems, from immediate adjustments to long-term developmental and societal changes. Here, we will explore adaptation and its limits across multiple scales, asking how individuals, groups, and societies adjust to shifting internal and external demands, and what this means for personality and mental health. We will be interested in how cognition is adjusted to cope with more immediate challenges like scarcity, threat, or turmoil. On top of that, effects of the environment during sensitive developmental periods can leave enduring marks on information processing and behavioural tendencies. In this vein, we will consider whether cognitive correlates of personality traits and psychopathology can be seen as generalized adaptations to the past, or as obstacles to meeting challenges in the present. In this conference, we will bring together researchers who address this broad question from various angles such as experimental psychology, genetics and neuroscience, or clinical & personality psychology, and use diverse tools such as computational cognitive modelling and time series analysis of daily life data. *Invited speakers will include:* Laura Bringmann (University of Groningen) Philip Corlett (Yale Unviersity) Judith R. Homberg (Radboud University) Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) We invite *poster submissions* from* all areas of* cognitive science. Both theoretical and empirical posters are welcome. You may submit your poster abstract here: https://ducog.cecog.eu/submit *The deadline for abstract submission is 7 March 2026.* Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 15 March 2026. For more information please visit https://ducog.cecog.eu or email us at: ducog(a)cecog.eu On behalf of the organisers, *Bertalan Polner (Donders Institute & ELTE Eötvös Loránd University) & Levente Rónai (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & University of Szeged)- Conference chairs*

2 months, 2 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Fw: REMINDER: TALK starting in 30 MINUTES - Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University – New Brunswick): How the linguistic context scaffolds the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives, Febr 17, 2026

by Fanni Takatsy

________________________________ From: Dept <dept-bounces(a)cogsci.ceu.edu> on behalf of Gyorgyne Finta <Szabor(a)ceu.edu> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2026 12:32 PM To: 'dept(a)cogsci.ceu.edu' <dept(a)cogsci.ceu.edu> Subject: [Cogsci Dept] REMINDER: Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University – New Brunswick): How the linguistic context scaffolds the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives, Febr 17, 2026 Dear All, This is a kind reminder about the tomorrow (Tuesday) extraordinary talk by Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University – New Brunswick), starting at 2 pm in room D002. Kind regards, Reka From: Gyorgyne Finta Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2026 9:41 AM To: 'talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu' <talks(a)cogsci.ceu.edu<mailto:talks@cogsci.ceu.edu>> Subject: Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University – New Brunswick): How the linguistic context scaffolds the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives, Febr 17, 2026 The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University – New Brunswick<https://sites.rutgers.edu/kristen-syrett/about/> Date: TUESDAY February 17, 2026 Time: 2 pm (to 3:30 pm) CET (MIND the unusual starting time please!) Venue: D002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92587555406?pwd=3wouq7fOCkfPPbQ2AnMrYla4qChxaN.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92587555406?pwd%3D3w…> Meeting ID: 925 8755 5406 Passcode: 894093 Chair: Ernő Téglás Title: How the linguistic context scaffolds the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives Abstract: A perennial question guiding our investigations as linguists and cognitive scientists is how young children acquire the meaning of words, given the vast range of possible interpretations in any given discourse context and the limited and error-ridden input to which children are exposed. The challenge is amplified for those words whose meanings have no stable physical correlate. One popular and successful proposal is that children can look to the syntactic structure of the utterance in which a word appears to inform our understanding of that word’s semantic representation. This ‘syntactic bootstrapping’ process hinges upon a tight relation between syntax and semantics, and children’s knowledge of it, for children to engage in a sentence-to-world mapping in order to narrow the hypothesis space of meanings. In recent years, researchers have extended this process to mental state (or propositional attitude) verbs, which take clausal complements to signal a subject/agent’s beliefs, desires, and preferences about the world. Interestingly, verbs are not the only words that take syntactic arguments: some adjectives do as well. Moreover, some of these adjectives—those that denote emotions or mental states—place additional semantic restrictions on their subject, requiring it to be an animate experiencer that has the capacity to be, e.g., sad, happy, curious, anxious, surprised, or confident. In this talk, I present collaborative work with Misha Becker documenting that not only are these distributional cues about subject animacy and syntactic complementation present in the speech to which children are exposed at significant frequencies, young children systematically recruit these cues and display knowledge of these selectional constraints in an experimental setting. This work thus demonstrates a wider applicability for syntactic bootstrapping across grammatical categories, and illustrating how the linguistic context supports the acquisition of word meaning even for those meanings that are internal and abstract. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must reply here<https://forms.office.com/e/QFQM1rR8ic> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Ernő know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka [cid:image001.png@01DC9F40.4F00AD40] Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of Cognitive Science Pronouns: she/her | szabor(a)ceu.edu<mailto:szabor@ceu.edu> | +43 1 25230 5138 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> [signature_4100317087]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3650446863] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2213595878] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_973538284] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [signature_3302971874] <https://twitter.com/ceu> ______________________________________________ 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, 3 weeks

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, János Balázs Ivanyos

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. Zoom link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84594385686?pwd=a7KPWoNLrPg11xNTi5Ug91YR5mHmmS.1> 20 February (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE János Balázs Ivanyos Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University Algebraic characterisation of pseudo-elementary and second-order classes _____________________________________________ Abstract is available from the seminar website: https://lps.elte.hu/lps/2025-2026/February The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, discussion. Organizers: Márton Gömöri and Zalán Molnár _____________________________________________ LPS - Logic and Philosophy of Science (Student and Faculty Seminar) Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös University Budapest http://phil.elte.hu/lps ______________________________________________ LPS - Logic and Philosophy of Science (Student and Faculty Seminar) Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eotvos University Budapest http://phil.elte.hu/lps

2 months, 3 weeks

[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] DUCOG2026 - Submissions now open!

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that abstract submission for the *XVII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science* devoted to *Adaptations across different timescales *is now open! The conference is going to take place on 21-24 May 2026, in the Center for Advanced Studies of Dubrovnik, Croatia, located by the Adriatic sea at the foot of the old city of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO world heritage site. Adaptation is a defining feature of living systems, from immediate adjustments to long-term developmental and societal changes. Here, we will explore adaptation and its limits across multiple scales, asking how individuals, groups, and societies adjust to shifting internal and external demands, and what this means for personality and mental health. We will be interested in how cognition is adjusted to cope with more immediate challenges like scarcity, threat, or turmoil. On top of that, effects of the environment during sensitive developmental periods can leave enduring marks on information processing and behavioural tendencies. In this vein, we will consider whether cognitive correlates of personality traits and psychopathology can be seen as generalized adaptations to the past, or as obstacles to meeting challenges in the present. In this conference, we will bring together researchers who address this broad question from various angles such as experimental psychology, genetics and neuroscience, or clinical & personality psychology, and use diverse tools such as computational cognitive modelling and time series analysis of daily life data. *Invited speakers will include:* Laura Bringmann (University of Groningen) Philip Corlett (Yale Unviersity) Judith R. Homberg (Radboud University) Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) We invite *poster submissions* from* all areas of* cognitive science. Both theoretical and empirical posters are welcome. You may submit your poster abstract here: https://ducog.cecog.eu/submit *The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2026.* Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 15 March 2026. For more information please visit https://ducog.cecog.eu or email us at: ducog(a)cecog.eu On behalf of the organisers, *Bertalan Polner (Donders Institute & ELTE Eötvös Loránd University) & Levente Rónai (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & University of Szeged)- Conference chairs*

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