Dear All,
We are kindly asking you to distribute the 2016/17 CEU Department of Cognitive Science Call for Application to your friends/contacts/colleagues/students.
The application deadline is February 4, 2016.
http://www.ceu.edu/admissions
With many thanks and kind regards,
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GyÖrgynÉ Finta (rÉka)
Department Coordinator
Department of Cognitive Science
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Central European University
Oktober 6 street 7. | Room 103
1051 Budapest, Hungary
Office: + 36-1-887-5138
szabor(a)ceu.edu
www.cognitivescience.ceu.edu
REMINDER
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invite you to its
talk by
Cong Yu (Department of Psychology and Peking-Tsingua Center for Life
Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China)
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Jozsef Fiser, Associate Professor
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
room 101.
Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective
Abstract: For many years perceptual learning (PL) researchers are
excited by the observations that PL is specific to the trained retinal
location and orientation, and regard these specificities as indications
of neural plasticity in the early visual cortex. However, we have
created a “double training” design to enable complete learning transfer
to untrained conditions, suggesting that PL is mainly a cognitive
learning process beyond the retinotopic visual areas. More recently we
studied why PL is specific in the first place, and what is really
learned in PL. In double training, PL becomes transferable if the
subjects are exposed to the untrained location or orientation through an
irrelevant task, indicating that learning specificity may be to do with
the untrained conditions. We used a continuous flash suppression
technique to create “bottom-up only” or “top-down only” exposure
stimuli. We found that bottom-up exposure of an untrained location or
orientation, or pure top-down influences, can both enable significant
and sometimes complete learning transfer. These results suggest that
learning specificities may result from neural under-activations at the
untrained conditions that receive insufficient bottom-up stimulation
and/or top-down attention during training.In addition, we demonstrated
that PL is a form of concept learning. We studied orientation learning
with orientation features defined by either luminance gratings or
symmetric dot patterns, and motion direction learning with first-order
luminance stimuli and second-order contrast stimuli. Each pair of
stimuli had distinctive physical properties that are encoded by
different neuronal mechanisms. Using a variation of the double training
method, we observed complete mutual transfer of learning between grating
and dot-pattern defined orientations, and between first- and
second-order motion directions. These results indicate that what is
learned in PL is the abstract concept of a trained visual feature, such
as orientation or motion direction.
See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-09-30/departmental-colloquium-c…
We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification 2015
October 16-17 2015
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Program
Friday, October 16, 2015
9.00 - 9.10
Welcome
9.10 – 10.10
INVITED TALK - Irina Sekerina: What Eye Movements Reveal About
Quantifier-Spreading
10.10 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.10
Ken Drozd: Children's cumulative construals of universally quantified
sentences
11.10 – 11.50
Asya Achimova, Viviane Déprez and Julien Musolino: The subject/object
asymmetry in questions with quantifiers: syntax or discourse?
11.50 - 12.30
Ayaka Sugawara, Martin Hackl, Irina Onoprienko and Ken Wexler: Acquisition
of quantifier scope: Evidence from English Rise-Fall-Rise
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.40
Elena Pagliarini, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Stephen Crain and Lyn Tieu:
Distributive inferences in child language
14.40 - 15.20
Natasa Knezevic and Hamida Demirdache: The distributive share quantifier
po in Serbian
15.20 - 16.00
Balázs Surányi and Gergő Turi: Focus and Givenness in quantifier scope
interpretation
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.10
Margaret Ka-Yan Lei and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee: Differentiating universal
quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children's command of
the affixal quantifier 'saai3'
17.10 - 17.50
Amanda Rizun and Jeremy Hartman: Acquisition of Exceptives in Quantified
Sentences
Saturday, October 17, 2015
9.10 - 10.10
INVITED TALK - Yosef Grodzinsky: Polarity, Numerosity, and Verification
Procedures: Experimental Explorations
10.00 – 10.40
Tasos Chatzikonstantinou and Michaela Nerantzini: On Nouwen's class A and
B quantifiers: Psycholingustic and sign-language data
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.40
Oliver Bott, Udo Klein and Fabian Schlotterbeck: Empty set effects during
online comprehension and verification of quantifiers
11.40 - 12.20
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke and Jakub Szymanik: Alternative
Representations in Proportional Quantifier Verification
12.20 - 13.00
Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi: The existential quantificational
force of pseudo-incorporated nominals and its effects on their anaphoric
uptake
13.00 - 14.20 Lunch
14.20 - 15.00 Poster session
Posters:
Barbara Tomaszewicz, Roumyana Pancheva and Joanna Blaszczak: Focus
association revealed in reading times (alternate)
Anna Balázs and Anna Babarczy: The interpretation of Hungarian preverbal
focus sentences by children and its correlation with some general
cognitive abilities
Ana Bosnic: Morpho-syntactic cues for distributivity in Serbian
Katalin É. Kiss, Lilla Pintér and Tamás Zétényi: Ostention effect in
experiments testing children's interpretation of quantification
Chorong Kang: Covert movement, audible in prosody
Petia Kojouharova and Attila Krajcsi: The Source of the Distance Effect in
an Artificial Number Sequence
Balázs Surányi and Levente Madarász: The distributive-collective
ambiguity: The effect of Information Structure
David Townsend: The Role of Pragmatics in Interpreting Universally
Quantified Frequency Modifiers
15.00 - 15.40
Adam Liter, Antoinette Huelskamp, Christopher C. Heffner and Cristina
Schmitt: Non-grammaticalized number entails an exclusive interpretation of
plural morphology
15.40 - 16.20
Caitlin Meyer, Sjef Barbiers and Fred Weerman: Getting your ducks in a
row: acquiring ordinals and ordinality
16.20 - 16.40 Coffee break
16.40 - 17.20
Benedict Vassileiou, Napoleon Katsos and Spyridoula Varlokosta: Logical
and inferred meaning of quantifiers in Williams Syndrome
17.20 - 18.00
Lynda Kennedy, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu and Raffaella Folli: Scope
ambiguity in Broca's aphasia: A comparative approach
Registration is open until September 30, 2015.
For further information, please see the conference website:
http://www.nytud.hu/lcq2015/index.html
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
October Program
7 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
György Darvas
Symmetrion, Budapest
Isotopic field-charges in the physical world-view
14 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Judit X. Madarász
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Principle of Relativity, Isotropy and Homogeneity
21 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Ákos Gyarmathy & Péter Neuman
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Effective causality: the emergence of causal anomalies in effective theories
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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)
--
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
First World Congress on Analogy, Puebla, Mexico, November 4-6, 2015
http://www.uni-log.org/analogy2015
This is the first world event dedicated to analogy in all its aspects.
This event wants to promote interdisciplinary. It is of interest for all
people dealing with analogy in one way or another: philosophers,
logicians, mathematicians, artists, computer scientists, linguists,
psychologists, etc.
This is an event jointly sponsored by the University of Puebla in Mexico
and the University Adam Mickiewicz in Poland.
We invite submissions for contributions on all aspects of analogy in
Science, Philosophy, Humanities and Art. Work of an interdisciplinary
nature are particularly welcome.
To submit a contribution send a one page abstract before September 30,
2015 to analogy2015(a)gmail.com
REMINDER:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk by
Ludwig Huber (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna)
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Natalie Sebanz, Head of Department
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
room 101.
How specific is human cultural learning?
How specific is human cultural learning? To answer this question we
need to know if nonhuman
animals learn culturally and if so, how. This requires us looking over
the fence. Since
I consider cultural learning being a subcategory of social learning, I
will review several
studies on social learning in non-human animals. Interestingly, these
studies share an
irritating feature, they don’t fit (easily) into the current (dominant)
theories of social learning
research. Red-footed tortoises show clear evidence of learning a
difficult spatial problem
(detour task) by observing a conspecific model despite the fact that
they are solitary. Archer
fish, lizards and common marmosets exhibit high fidelity copying of
movement patterns of a
conspecific model, thereby solving the correspondence problem of
imitation (transforming
visual information into matching motor acts). Dogs seem able to perform
— at least in
ostensive-communicative contexts — selective imitation; they copy a
conspecific’ actions
more often when those actions are the efficient solution to a problem
than when they are not.
However, the ability to interpret the ‘rational’ dimension of others
actions has been
considered a hallmark of human cultural learning. Together these data
challenge some
theories of social learning by suggesting that several core components
of human cultural
learning, such as high copying fidelity, intentional inhibition and
selectivity, are shared by
many species. What remains human-specific in social learning needs to
be specified.
See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-09-23/departmental-colloquium-l…
We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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Kedves Mindenki!
Szeretettel hívunk meg minden érdeklődőt a Kognitív Szeminárium következő
előadására, amelyet Racsmány Mihály adja elő:
*Kontroll és emlékezet szkizofréniában*
2015. szeptember 23., 15:00, Izabella utca 46, P3-as terem
Üdvözlettel,
Kojouharova Petia
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk by
Ludwig Huber (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna)
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Martin Freundlieb, 4th year PhD Student
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
room 101.
How specific is human cultural learning?
How specific is human cultural learning? To answer this question we
need to know if nonhuman
animals learn culturally and if so, how. This requires us looking over
the fence. Since
I consider cultural learning being a subcategory of social learning, I
will review several
studies on social learning in non-human animals. Interestingly, these
studies share an
irritating feature, they don’t fit (easily) into the current (dominant)
theories of social learning
research. Red-footed tortoises show clear evidence of learning a
difficult spatial problem
(detour task) by observing a conspecific model despite the fact that
they are solitary. Archer
fish, lizards and common marmosets exhibit high fidelity copying of
movement patterns of a
conspecific model, thereby solving the correspondence problem of
imitation (transforming
visual information into matching motor acts). Dogs seem able to perform
— at least in
ostensive-communicative contexts — selective imitation; they copy a
conspecific’ actions
more often when those actions are the efficient solution to a problem
than when they are not.
However, the ability to interpret the ‘rational’ dimension of others
actions has been
considered a hallmark of human cultural learning. Together these data
challenge some
theories of social learning by suggesting that several core components
of human cultural
learning, such as high copying fidelity, intentional inhibition and
selectivity, are shared by
many species. What remains human-specific in social learning needs to
be specified.
See more at:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-09-23/departmental-colloquium-l…
We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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Postdoctoral fellowship on canine cognitive neuroscience at ELTE Dept.
Ethology with Márta Gácsi open for applications. Please see the attached
document for details.
Kedves Mindenki,
John Casti professzor (TU Vienna es Stevens Insitute of Technology, NJ) eloadasa szept 24.-en 14:00 orakor lesz az ELTE TTK Kari Tanacstermeben - 1117 Bp, Pazmany Peter setany 1/A (Eszaki Tomb), 7. em. 7.21.
Az eloadas cime: Exploration of the Unknown Unknowns
http://www.bscs-us.org/documents/Casti--Exploration-of-the-Unknown-Unknowns…
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Udvozlettel: Kampis Gyorgy es a BSCS
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Dear All,
Professor John Casti (TU Vienna and Stevens Insitute of Technology, NJ) holds a lecture on Sept 24, 14:00pm in the Faculty Council Hall at ELTE Science - 1117 Bp, Pazmany Peter setany 1/A (North Bldg), 7.21.
The title is: Exploration of the Unknown Unknowns
http://www.bscs-us.org/documents/Casti--Exploration-of-the-Unknown-Unknowns…
All interested are welcome.
Regards George Kampis and BSCS