The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by
Vaughn Becker<http://www.public.asu.edu/~loids/> (Arizona State University)
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 17:00-18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101
Coevolutionary Psychology and the Embodied Social Brain: A Functionalist Approach to Social Signal Detection
"My research explores how social and emotional signals are detected and remembered, applying classic methods of cognitive science to real-world content and scenarios. I begin with the assumption that humans share a suite of fundamental Motivational and Emotional Systems (MES), designed to learn to pick up information about threats and opportunities relevant to our basic social goals. Experiments on threat detection illustrate both the biasing and sensitizing effects of such MES, including limits to threat-detection imposed by bottom-up properties of the signal. Related work on attention and memory suggest that even transitory activations of MES can enhance information pick-up in measurable ways. At a more theoretical level, these results suggest that dynamic internal simulations underlie both perception and action, providing a shared workspace in which MES maintain vigilance for goal-relevant stimuli and interact with one another when multiple conflicting goals arise. The central tendencies of these systems are like Jung's Archetypes, representational proclivities that span the gap between proximate online embodiment and ancient drives, grounding the symbolic and propositional models of traditional cognitive science. My research program is now seeking international collaborations in an effort to generalize our sense of how social signal detection works in the real world. Such cross-cultural work has the potential to uncover universal principles of emotion-cognition interactions lurking beneath culturally variable but functionally equivalent content."
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
April Program (modified)
5 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Gábor TasnádiDepartment of Philosophy, Central European University,
Budapest Historical and Externalist Compatibilism
19 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Fred MullerPhilosophy of the Natural Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy,
Erasmus University Rotterdam How to Discern Spacetime Points
26 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Márton GömöriInstitute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the
Humanities, Budapest Monty Hall on the Humean Mosaic
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Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web
site of the Forum:  http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post
the program in your institution!)
The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute
lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.Â
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
-- L a s z l o  E.  S z a b o
Professor of Philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
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L a s z l o  E.  S z a b o
Professor of Philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
April Program
5 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Gábor TasnádiInstitute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University
Budapest Kant's "Incompatibilistic compatibilism"
19 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Fred MullerPhilosophy of the Natural Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy,
Erasmus University Rotterdam How to Discern Spacetime Points
26 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PMÂ Â Room 226
Márton GömöriInstitute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the
Humanities, Budapest Monty Hall on the Humean Mosaic
_______________________________
Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web
site of the Forum:  http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post
the program in your institution!)
The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and
faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute
lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.Â
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--Â
L a s z l o  E.  S z a b o
Professor of Philosophy
DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science gently reminds about its tomorrow's
talk by:
*Renee Baillargeon (University of Illinois)*
*Date: *Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 – 17:00-18:30
*Host:* Gergely Csibra
*Infants’ Moral Compass*
How do infants evaluate individuals’ actions toward others? I will suggest
that the moral sensitivities that underlie these early evaluations are best
characterized as a moral compass, with distinct sociomoral principles
leading infants to form nuanced expectations about what actions are
acceptable or unacceptable in specific contexts. My talk will focus on two
principles in particular, fairness and ingroup support. With respect to
fairness, I will present evidence that even young infants possess an
abstract notion of equity. Next, I will present experiments on two
corollaries of the principle of ingroup support, ingroup care and ingroup
loyalty. These experiments indicate that when watching interactions among
unfamiliar adults in minimal groups, infants hold different expectations
for interactions within and between groups, in line with prior research
with older children and adults on ingroup favoritism in minimal groups.
*Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room
101.
See more at: *https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillargeon-university-illinois
<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillarge…>*
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
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Katarina Begus
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 327 3000 / 2777
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus
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Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
by:
*Renee Baillargeon (University of Illinois)*
*Date: *Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 – 17:00-18:30
*Host:* Gergely Csibra
*Infants’ Moral Compass*
How do infants evaluate individuals’ actions toward others? I will suggest
that the moral sensitivities that underlie these early evaluations are best
characterized as a moral compass, with distinct sociomoral principles
leading infants to form nuanced expectations about what actions are
acceptable or unacceptable in specific contexts. My talk will focus on two
principles in particular, fairness and ingroup support. With respect to
fairness, I will present evidence that even young infants possess an
abstract notion of equity. Next, I will present experiments on two
corollaries of the principle of ingroup support, ingroup care and ingroup
loyalty. These experiments indicate that when watching interactions among
unfamiliar adults in minimal groups, infants hold different expectations
for interactions within and between groups, in line with prior research
with older children and adults on ingroup favoritism in minimal groups.
*Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room
101.
See more at: *https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillargeon-university-illinois
<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillarge…>*
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
--
Katarina Begus
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 327 3000 / 2777
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus
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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to its talk by
Thomas Metzinger<http://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophieengl/institutes/theoretical-ph…> (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 17:30-19:00
Location: CEU, Nador 15, Room 103
Mental Autonomy and Mental Action
I will have two central goals in the first part of this talk, which explores the relevance of latest research on mind-wandering for theories of consciousness. First, conceptually, and in opposition to what many philosophers following Descartes and Kant traditionally have liked to believe, I will argue for the claim that conscious thought actually is a subpersonal process, only rarely a form of mental action, but rather an unintentional form of mental behaviour, and demonstrably for more than two thirds of our conscious life-time. The paradigmatic, standard form of conscious thought is non-agentive, it lacks veto-control, and involves an unnoticed loss of epistemic agency and goal-directed causal self-determination on the level of mental content. Second, I present an empirical hypothesis: There will be a detectable self-representational blink (SRB), a small time window I which we are blind to ourselves, namely, when shifting from one phenomenal self-model or "unit of identification" (UI) to the next. Alluding to the well-studied phenomenon of the attentional blink (Raymond, Shapiro, and Arnell, 1992, Shapiro, Raymond, and Arnell, 1997), the notion of a "self-representational blink" refers to the fact that we are typically not able to consciously experience the actual moment of transition from mindful, present-oriented self-awareness to the identification with the "protagonist" of a daydream, the content of the self-model in autobiographical planning, etc. Phenomenologically, the SRB is characterized by a brief loss of self-awareness, followed by an involuntary shift in the phenomenal UI; functionally, we can describe it as a failure of attentional and/or cognitive self-control. The empirical prediction is that subjects should be blind to self-related stimuli during the SRB, and my main hope is that the audience can help in developing novel experimental paradigms to test this hypothesis.
If time allows, I will also take a closer look at the concept of "mental action" in the second part. Can we conceptually accommodate mental actions under a predictive processing approach? My main positive claim will be that mental action is the predictive control of effective connectivity, where what is predicted is the epistemic value of states integrated into the phenomenal self-model under counterfactual outcomes.
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
Social Mind Center Events at CEU: http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events
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