The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
as part of the Departmental Colloquium series
by
Kiley Hamlin (University of British Columbia)
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2016 – 17:00-18:30
Host: Gergely Csibra
The infantile origins of human moral judgment: studies with preverbal infants and toddlers
How do humans come to have a “moral sense”? Are adults’ conceptions of which actions are right and which are wrong, of who is good and who is bad, who deserves praise and who deserves blame wholly the result of experiences like observing and interacting with others in one’s cultural environment and explicit teaching from parents, teachers, and religious leaders? Do all of the complexities in adult’s moral judgments reflect hard-won developmental change coupled with the emergence of advanced reasoning skills? This talk will explore evidence that, on the contrary, infants’ and toddlers’ social behaviors and social preferences map surprisingly well onto adults’ moral ones. Within the first year of life, infants prefer those who help versus harm third parties, those who reward prosocial individuals and punish wrongdoers, and even focus on the intentions that drive others’ actions rather than the outcomes that result from them. In the second year of life, toddlers are motivated to engage in both prosocial and antisocial behaviors toward third parties; these behaviors are informed by those third parties’ past prosocial and antisocial acts. Finally, male infants' performance on infant and toddler tasks predicts parent-reported social and moral functioning in preschool. These results suggest that the human moral sense is supported, at least in part, by extremely early-developing mechanisms for social evaluation and action.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-02-22/colloquia-talk-kylie-ham…
We are looking forward to see you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Katalin Illes
Coordinator
Cognitive Development Center
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Central European University
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
H-1051 Budapest,Oktober 6 u. 7.
tel: (36-1) 328-3674
mail: IllesK(a)ceu.edu<mailto:IllesK@ceu.edu>
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Dear all,
We would like to kindly remind you that the deadline to submit your
abstracts for the 9th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science is February
20. We welcome poster submissions within any field of cognitive science.
The conference will take place on 25-28 May 2017. For more information
please see the details below or visit the conference website at
http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php
Apologies for cross posting.
*IX. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
<http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php>*
*Intuitive Sociologists: Representing Social Relations and Social
Categories*
*25-28 May, 2017*
*Dubrovnik *
*Participants are invited to submit their work as a poster*
*Abstract submission is open
<http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_submission.php>*
*Abstract submission deadline: February 20th Acceptance notices will be
e-mailed by: March 15*
*We invite posters from all areas of cognitive science.*
*Invited speakers*
*Gil Diesendruck*
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*Alan Fiske*
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
*David Pietraszewski*
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Germany
* Nicola Raihani *
University College London, UK
*Olivier Mascaro*
CNRS, France
* Lotte Thomsen*
University of Oslo, Norway
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*Nazli Altinok*
Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science
Central European University
REMINDER:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
as part of the Departmental Colloquium series
by
Nausicaa Pouscoulous, UCL
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2016 – 17:00-18:30
Host: Christophe Heintz
Pragmatics is child’s play
Recent developmental research on social cognition indicates that pragmatics play a grounding role in the development of children's communicative skills even before they utter their first words. Much evidence in language acquisition also suggests that young children could not learn to speak without impressive pragmatic abilities. In stark contrast with this picture, linguistic pragmatic inferences (e.g., reference assignment, implicatures, metaphors, presuppositions and irony) appear to develop later than other linguistic abilities.
Pragmatic inferences, such as those involved in understanding implicit and non-literal meaning, require the ability to recognise communicative intentions, as well as to take into account common ground (or mutual knowledge). Empirical findings suggest that prelinguistic children already master these skills. Words and syntax, it seems, are all there is left to learn for children to become perfect little ‘Gricean’ comprehenders. What, then, makes linguistic pragmatic phenomena so difficult to grasp for preschoolers?
This talk tries to reconcile the development of pre-linguistic and linguistic pragmatic abilities by presenting data on three phenomena: scalar implicatures, presupposition and metaphor. I will discuss evidence showing these phenomena might be understood much earlier than prior results suggest, and that several factors – independently of children’s pragmatic abilities per se – may explain children’s apparent struggle with pragmatic inferences.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
See more at:
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-02-15/departmental-colloquium-…
We are looking forward to see you there!
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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
as part of the Departmental Colloquium series
by
Nausicaa Pouscoulous, UCL
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2016 – 17:00-18:30
Host: Christophe Heintz
Pragmatics is child’s play
Recent developmental research on social cognition indicates that pragmatics play a grounding role in the development of children's communicative skills even before they utter their first words. Much evidence in language acquisition also suggests that young children could not learn to speak without impressive pragmatic abilities. In stark contrast with this picture, linguistic pragmatic inferences (e.g., reference assignment, implicatures, metaphors, presuppositions and irony) appear to develop later than other linguistic abilities.
Pragmatic inferences, such as those involved in understanding implicit and non-literal meaning, require the ability to recognise communicative intentions, as well as to take into account common ground (or mutual knowledge). Empirical findings suggest that prelinguistic children already master these skills. Words and syntax, it seems, are all there is left to learn for children to become perfect little ‘Gricean’ comprehenders. What, then, makes linguistic pragmatic phenomena so difficult to grasp for preschoolers?
This talk tries to reconcile the development of pre-linguistic and linguistic pragmatic abilities by presenting data on three phenomena: scalar implicatures, presupposition and metaphor. I will discuss evidence showing these phenomena might be understood much earlier than prior results suggest, and that several factors – independently of children’s pragmatic abilities per se – may explain children’s apparent struggle with pragmatic inferences.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
See more at:
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-02-15/departmental-colloquium-…
We are looking forward to see you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
February Program
22 February (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Christopher GaukerDepartment of Philosophy, University of Salzburg A
Third Concepiton of the Normativity of Meaning
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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.
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
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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
REMINDER:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
as part of the Departmental Colloquium series
by
Keith Jensen, (University of Manchester)
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Christophe Heintz
The (sometimes) prosocial primate
That humans cooperate with unrelated individuals on a scale not seen in other species pretty much goes without saying (although it is said a lot). The fact that you will be sitting together with other members of your species just to listen to someone say so is already quite remarkable. However, in addition to cooperating and behaving prosocially in ways that might be fundamentally different to what we see in other species, humans are also remarkably antisocial. We compare ourselves to others, we are averse to inequity to the point of behaving irrationally (at least as far as standard economic models are concerned), we punish noncooperators, we compete spitefully and we take pleasure in them misfortunes of others. The claim that humans are unique in our social behaviour has been challenged on several fronts, with some people suggesting that nonhuman primates (and possibly other animals) help others, share resources, show a sensitivity to unfairness, punish noncooperative behaviour and so on. Here, I will present work on chimpanzees and children that challenges these challenges. In particular, I will look at whether chimpanzees help others, as has sometimes been claimed, and whether they punish uncooperative behaviour. I hope to suggest that a key factor underlying differences in social behaviour between our closest living relatives and humans is motivational, namely other-regarding concerns.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
See more at:
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-02-08/departmental-colloquium-…
We are looking forward to see you there!
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Dear All,
You are cordially invited to attend a talk by Mathieu Charbonneau (CEU) entitled: Materiality and knowledge: Towards an epistemology for the material culture of science
When? February 7th, 2017 - 17:30 - 19:00
Where? Nador u. 15, Room: 103
https://philosophy.ceu.edu/events/2017-02-07/materiality-and-knowledge-towa…
Abstract:
Recently, some philosophers of science have argued that epistemology should be extended in order to encompass scientific instruments as material forms of knowledge. One line of argument for this position has consisted in drawing a strong analogy between the traditional concept of knowledge as justified true belief and to argue that what makes the alliance of these three components into proper knowledge can and is satisfied by scientific instruments. Consequently, scientific instruments are not just conductive to scientific knowledge, they are --literally-- scientific knowledge. A materialistic epistemology would then be one that takes seriously the fact that scientific instruments are material objects, the very materiality of which gives them special epistemic properties that traditional epistemology fails to capture.
In contrast, I argue that a materialistic epistemology is better served by adopting a naturalistic approach to knowledge production. More specifically, once we adopt the framework of distributed cognition, the materiality of scientific instruments is amenable to an epistemology of its own and leads to interesting novel insights about how scientific knowledge is produced, used, and justified, while avoiding the difficulties of the analogy-based line of argumentation.
See you there!
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1051 Budapest
Oktober 6 utca 7.
tel: (36-1) 887-5138
fax: (36-1) 887-5010
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Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:07 PM
Subject: [Timing Research Forum] TEX2017 on Time in the Brain
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Hello!
Can I kindly ask you to advertise the summer school below?
Many thanks!
Domenica
The Trieste Encounters on Cognitive Science (TEX) are a yearly summer
initiative by SISSA aiming at bringing together scientists from all
over the world at all levels of their careers to enjoy science, but
also sunshine, food & wine.
This years edition focuses on time in the brain. By looking at tim=
e
as percept but also as mechanism for perception, TEX 2017 will offer a
broad and multifaceted view on the neuroscience of time. To this
purpose we gather scientists who are studying time in the brain from
different perspectives (e.g. how time shapes our perception, how
information is processed over time, how time is perceived or
misperceived) and using distinct methodological approaches (from
animalelectrophysiology to human neuroimaging, from computational
modelling to psychophysics).
TEX 2017 is a summer school for PhD students and Post-Docs. The idea
is to have classes on fundamentals provided by eight invited speakers
who will give talks on the established concepts and body of evidence
in their own field but to also have room for students and post-docs
talks. You can apply by clicking on the the following link
https://indico.sissa.it/event/13/overview
<https://indico.sissa.it/event/13/overview>
TEX2017 will take place between Monday June 12 and Friday June 16,
2017. It will be held at SISSA main campus, via Bonomea 265, Trieste.
Information on how to reach us can be found here
http://www.sissa.it/how-reach-us <http://www.sissa.it/how-reach-us>.
TEX2017 will feature
Marco Cicchini (Pisa), Ayelet Landau (Jerusalem), Stefano Panzeri
(Trento), Warrick Roseboom (Sussex), Marshall Shuler (Baltimore),
Virginie van Wassenhove (Paris), Hedderik van Rijn (Groningen).
We look forward to meeting you in Trieste next summer!
Domenica Bueti, Mathew Diamond and the TEX2017 team
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PÁLYÁZATI FELHÍVÁS
A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Természettudományi Kutatóközpont
főigazgatója
kutatói/ügyintézői álláshelyet hirdet
a Kognitív Idegtudományi és Pszichológiai Intézet
Kísérleti Pszichológiai Kutatócsoport
„tudományos segédmunkatárs/ügyintéző”
közalkalmazotti munkakörének betöltésére
A munkakörbe tartozó feladatok:
- Téma: Az észlelés-cselekvés interakció vizsgálata kísérleti
pszichológiai és idegtudományi módszerekkel
- Feladatok: Az eseményhez kötött potenciálok módszerének
elsajátítása és alkalmazása, kísérleti adatfelvétel, valamint
a kutatáshoz kapcsolódó szervezési és adminisztratív feladatok.
A pályázati feltételek:
- B.A. vagy B.Sc. diploma, megkezdett M.A. vagy M.Sc. tanulmányok
elsősorban, de nem kizárólagosan, pszichológia, kognitív tudomány
vagy biológia szakon
- Angol nyelvtudás (legalább középfokú komplex típusú nyelvvizsga).
- Alapvető számítógépes ismeretek
Jogállására, illetményére és egyéb juttatásaira az 1992. évi XXXIII.
törvényben előírt rendelkezések alkalmazandók.
A közalkalmazotti jogviszony időtartama:
Határozott idejű közalkalmazotti jogviszony 1 éves kinevezéssel,
3 hónapos próbaidő kikötésével.
Foglalkoztatás jellege:
Részmunkaidős foglalkoztatás (napi 4 óra)
A munkavégzés helye:
MTA Természettudományi Kutatóközpont (TTK) Kognitív Idegtudományi
és Pszichológiai Intézet; 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2.
A pályázat részeként benyújtandó iratok:
- A pályázó szakmai életútját részletesen bemutató, fényképes szakmai
önéletrajz, motivációs levél, valamint a végzettséget igazoló
okiratok és nyelvvizsga bizonyítványok fénymásolatai.
- 90 napnál nem régebbi hatósági erkölcsi bizonyítvány
- nyilatkozat arról, hogy a pályázati anyagot az elbírálásban
résztvevő személyek megismerhetik
A pályázat benyújtásának határideje: 2017. február 25.
A pályázat elbírálásának határideje: 2017. február 28.
A munkakör betölthetőségének időpontja: 2017. március 1.
A pályázatok benyújtásának helye és módja:
A pályázatot egy példányban, elektronikus úton, egyetlen pdf file
formájában juttassa el a következő e-mail címre:
horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu.
Kérjük az e-mail tárgyában feltüntetni, hogy
„Pályázat - Kísérleti Pszichológia”.
A pályázat elbírálásának rendje:
A pályázat elbírálása a beérkezés után azonnal történik.
Visszajelzést csak az állásinterjúra behívott jelentkezők kapnak.
A pályáztatott munkakörrel kapcsolatban további felvilágosítást ad:
Dr. Horváth János; tel: +36 1 382 6815.
Budapest, 2017. január 31.
Dr. Pokol György
főigazgató
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Janos Horvath, PhD
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1519 Budapest, P.O.B. 286, HUNGARY
Phone: +36 1 382 6815
E-mail: horvath.janos(a)ttk.mta.hu
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/janoshorvathphd/