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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] Invitation: Work in Progress Symposium - April 17, 2026

by Hanna Asbóth

//English below// Kedves Kollégák! Ezúton szeretnénk mindenkit meghívni az ELTE Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék szervezésében idén is megrendezésre kerülő Work in Progress Szimpóziumra. A felhívás a csatolmányban található, jelentkezni az alábbi linken lehet: *https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9n_PZAejVdPaedbp6AcDf9N-6rCbVnAfXAONqXCZOz4u4Ng/viewform?usp=publish-editor <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9n_PZAejVdPaedbp6AcDf9N-6rCbVnAf…>* *Időpont: 2026. április 17. (péntek), 8 óra* *Helyszín: *ELTE PPK Pszichológiai Intézet, 1064 Budapest, Izabella u. 46., *P3-as terem* *Jelentkezési határidő: 2026. április 7. (kedd) 23:59* Minden PhD fokozatot még nem szerzett hallgató jelentkezését várjuk (MA/MSc hallgatókat is), kognitív témájú kutatásával. Üdvözlettel, Asbóth Hanna ___________________________________________________________ Dear Colleagues, We invite you to the Work in Progress Student Symposium 2026, organized by the Cognitive Department of ELTE. The call with further details is attached. Application is available on the link below: *https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9n_PZAejVdPaedbp6AcDf9N-6rCbVnAfXAONqXCZOz4u4Ng/viewform?usp=publish-editor <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9n_PZAejVdPaedbp6AcDf9N-6rCbVnAf…>* *Date: 17th April 2026 (Friday), 8:00 AM* *Location: *ELTE Psychology Institute, 1064 Budapest, Izabella u. 46., *Room P3* *Application deadline: 7th April 2025 (Tuesday), 11:59 PM* Participation is open for any student who has not yet received their Ph.D. degree. We invite submissions from all areas of Cognitive Science. Kind regards, Hanna Asbóth

3 weeks, 6 days

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science, Domonkos Inges

by Gömöri Márton

1 month, 2 weeks

[Koglist] Data analysis and statistics symposium 09.23. PÉCS

by Dr. Zsidó András Norbert

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that this year, the 5th Best Approaches in Data Analysis and Statistics Symposium will be held at the University of Pécs (in person) on September 23, 2026. Please find attached a flyer for the event, and feel free to share it. We look forward to seeing you at the conference, either as a presenter or a participant. Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2026. Submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDsQqs7NbnGhbJkTQpeS7qSyN4YezApe6… You can register as a participant after June 16, 2023. There is no registration fee. More information and registration: https://www.cogstat.org/best_approaches_symposium/ Best regards, Andras Zsido, Attila Krajcsi, Zsolt Palatinus organizers Facebook: https://fb.me/e/4XPbwvskT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/fifthbestapproachesindataanalys744001628107… ----- András Norbert ZSIDÓ, PhD habil. FPsyS DSc 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:87119a30-bf39-4de3-bb8e-e0fe2e749f09] ________________________________ 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.

1 month, 3 weeks

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tibor Papp (in Hungarian)

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 March (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE Tibor Papp Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Logic Title: Introduction to Universal Logic *The talk will be in Hungarian.* _____________________________________________ ABSTRACT: The first part of my doctoral thesis is a self-developed metalogical theory, called Universal Logic (UL). The doctoral thesis outlines UL as follows: *There is a hidden internal architecture of logic that is obscured by the implicit paradigms governing syntax, semantics, and consequence. By explicating and reformulating these paradigms in two distinct directions, this hidden architecture becomes visible.First, modern (post-Fregean) logic has typically approached traditional (pre-Fregean) logic by reformulating its categories within modern logical frameworks. To make the internal architecture of logic visible, however, this direction must be reversed: modern logic must be reconstructed on the basis of the categorical distinctions already present in traditional logic.Second, the internal architecture of logic has typically been sought through its algebraisation. Yet algebraic abstraction, while structurally powerful, necessarily suppresses certain features specific to logical construction, and therefore cannot render the full internal architecture of logic visible. To make this architecture fully explicit, it is not logic that must be algebraised, but algebra that must be logified.As a result of this reformulation, the completeness theorem emerges in a new light. It is a universal property of the internal architecture of logic itself, rather than a result tied to particular logical calculi, and it can be formally proved within the new paradigms that make this architecture explicit. In other words, the absence of a completeness theorem in higher-order logics does not reflect an intrinsic limitation of logic itself; it reveals instead that the implicit paradigms governing syntax, semantics, and consequence are insufficient to support completeness in higher orders.* Of course, I cannot present the entire UL during the seminar lecture, as it is a mathematical construction of over 100 pages. The aim of the lecture is to show the basic ideas on which UL is based. Finally, an important note: I will give the lecture* in Hungarian*. _____________________________________________ 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

1 month, 3 weeks

[Koglist] {Disarmed} [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Catherine Crockford (Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Lyon), 4 pm on Wednesday March 18

by Anna Banki

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Catherine Crockford (CNRS Lyon)<https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/catherine-crockford/> Chimpanzees show protracted vocal utterance development with implications for language evolution theories. Theories of language evolution depend in part upon accurate empirical and comparative assessment of animal communicative capacities. One problem, demonstrated by recent discoveries, is that we still do not know how complex animal communication is. Ontogenetic analyses are helping to change this. Only one natural communication system is considered combinatorially complex with respect to mapping complex structure to complex meaning. This is human language. With a limited sound set, we combine words into utterances, generating endless new and relational meanings. Most animals have a limited sound set that is largely fixed from birth, and per species produce few multi-signal utterances in which the meaning shifts compared to the composing signals. However, recent studies delving into vocal sequence production suggest a dramatically different pattern in chimpanzee vocal production. Chimpanzees demonstrate highly flexible abilities to combine calls with ordering and recombinatorial properties. Vocal combinations which show compositional-like structures, such that calls combined into utterances may disambiguate, add or generate new meanings compared to the composing calls. Like humans but unlike African monkeys, ontogenetic development is protracted, with utterance length and diversity dramatically increasing until 10 years of age. Such a developmental trajectory, in combination with population differences documented in sequence structure, are both suggestive of social learning capacities. Social learning is also indicated by population and community differences in the form and usage of some gestural signals. Taken together, our results place chimpanzee combinatorial capacities between those of humans and African monkeys, with implications for brain evolution, including changes to reorganization of human language tract homologues and for evolution of language theories. Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D001-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Prof. Gergely Csibra *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOG…> to get access to the lecture hall. Looking forward to seeing you then! All the best, Anna Banki [Image] Anna Bánki Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Cognitive Science, Causal Cognition Lab bankia(a)ceu.edu<mailto:bankia@ceu.edu> | +43 1 25230 7584<tel:+431252307584> | My Research<https://research.ceu.edu/en/persons/anna-banki/> CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY D501 | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> [signature_3158993977]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_2768390545] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [Image] <https://www.youtube.com/CentralEuropeanUniversityChannel> [signature_1775138830] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/?originalSubdom…> [signature_1119877248] <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

1 month, 4 weeks

[Koglist] DUCOG26 - Adaptations across different timescales - Late-breaking abstract submission until 20 March!

by DUCOG - Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Dear All, We are pleased to announce the *late-breaking abstract submission* for the XVII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science devoted to Adaptations across different timescales until 20 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 include: - Laura Bringmann (University of Groningen) - Judith R. Homberg (Radboud University) - Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) - Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) - Katalin Oláh (Eötvös Loránd University) 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 late-breaking bstract submission is 20 March 2026. Registration fees: CECOG member: 270 EUR, Non-member: 350 EUR, Late (after May 1): 420 EUR Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 27 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 (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & Donders Institute) & Levente Rónai (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University & University of Szeged) - Conference chairs

1 month, 4 weeks

[Koglist] Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Hongkai Yin

by Gömöri Márton

2 months

[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

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