Research Progress Workshop
Department of Cognitive Science
Central European University
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Event Hall, Ground Floor
Október 6. utca 7.
Budapest 1051
Program:
Chair: Mikołaj Hernik
9:00 Pavel Voinov
When two heads are better than one? Inter-personal integration of spatial information in an object location task
9:30 Laura Schmitz
Using non-verbal communication to support coordination
10:00 Luke McEllin
Investigating signalling of task relevant information in teaching and coordination contexts
— Coffee break
Chair: Erno Teglas
10:45 Rubeena Shamsudheen
Referring to kinds: Delineating the role of labels and ostension in infant-directed communication
11:15 Adam Boncz
Communicating action
11:45 Nazli Altinok
“Why do you do it that way?” Exploring 14-month-old infants’ sensitivity to group-relevant ways of acting
— Lunch break
Chair: Cordula Vesper
13:00 Agota Major
The structural organization of belief representations
13:30 Martin Freundlib
Evidence for spontaneous visuospatial perspective-taking during social interaction
14:00 Dora Kampis
Infants’ representation of others’ beliefs regarding multiple objects, absent objects and object identity
— Coffee break
Chair: Veronica Ramenzoni
14:45 Sara Jellinek
On the representation of summary statistics in space and time
15:15 Johannes Mahr
The role of episodic recollection in communicative interaction: Qualifications and extensions of a functional hypothesis
15:45 Eszter Szabo
Understanding verbal negation in 18-month-olds
— Coffee break
Chair: John Michael
16:30 Denis Tatone
Bookkeeping and the relational mind: How infants represent transfer-based interactions, and what it reveals about efficiency and naive sociology
17:00 Andras Molnar
How people predict others’ economic choice: The simulate-and-adjust model and an investigation of beliefs in dictator games
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Workshop this October in Copenhagen, DenmarkPsycho- and Neurolinguistic
Approaches to the Grammar-Lexicon Distinction
The workshop will be held October 1-3, 2015 at the University of Copenhagen
The distinction (or lack thereof) between lexical and grammatical knowledge
can be traced all the way back to Aristotle. Nowadays it is being explored
from many different perspectives with many different methodological
approaches. The aim of this multi-disciplinary workshop is to bring
together psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, linguistics and other
disciplines to examine grammar and lexicon in the mind and brain. The
workshop will cover:
- Various experimental methods for studying grammar and lexicon (e.g.
behavioural, EEG/ERP, fMRI, TMS, other...)
- Both receptive and expressive aspects of grammar/lexicon, across
modalities (writing, speaking, reading, listening)
- Grammar and lexicon in both unimpaired and impaired populations (e.g.,
Specific Language Impairment, dyslexia, autism, Alzheimer’s disease,
Parkinson’s disease, aphasia, other...).
We invite abstracts for 20 minute presentations (+ 10 minutes for
discussion).
Submission guidelines for abstracts:
· 500 word limit to abstract (exclusive of references and figures)
· Extended deadline for sending abstracts: June, 1st 2015
· Notification of acceptance: June, 22nd 2015
· Submission and contact address: Violaine Michel Lange:
msd879(a)hum.ku.dk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','msd879(a)hum.ku.dk');>
· Abstracts must be submitted in .doc format and with full author
lists (not anonymized).
In addition to the 20 minutes presentations, there will be several keynote
speakers:
· *F.-Xavier Alario, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS &
Aix-Marseille Université.*
· *Roelien Bastiaanse*, University Groningen.
· *David Caplan*, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General
Hospital.
· *Gesa Hartwigsen*, Kiel University.
· *Yury Shtyrov*, Aarhus University.
· *Michael Ullman*, Georgetown University.
Organizing Committee:
Violaine Michel Lange
Byurakn Ishkhanyan
Kasper Boye
*Contact: *msd879(a)hum.ku.dk
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More information can be found on the workshop website:
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/grammar-vs-lexicon/
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NEMETH, Dezso (PhD)
Institute of Psychology
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
27 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Ádám Tamás Tuboly
Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Pécs
Beyond Russell, Wittgenstein and the Circle - The cultural background of
Carnap's principle of tolerance
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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
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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
Dear All, Sorry for reposting but the system, again, brought in an older email to the Simon Kirby talk announcement. Here is the corrected version:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Simon Kirby
University of Edinburgh
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~simon
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
The Cultural Origins of Structure
Language is striking in its systematic structure at all levels of description. By exhibiting combinatoriality and compositionality, each utterance in a language does not stand alone, but rather exhibits a network of dependencies on the other utterances in that language. Where does this structure come from? Why is language systematic, and where else might we expect to find this kind of systematicity in nature?
In this talk, I will propose a simple hypothesis that systematic structure is the inevitable result of a suite of behaviours being transmitted by iterated learning. Iterated learning is a mechanism of cultural evolution in which behaviours persist by being learned through observation of that behaviour in another individual who acquired it in the same way. I will survey a wide range of lab studies of iterated learning, in which the cultural evolution ofsets of behaviours is experimentally recreated. These studies include everything from artificial language learning tasks and sign language experiments, to more abstract behaviours like slide whistle imitation and sequence learning, and have recently even been extended to other species. I will conclude by suggesting that these cultural evolution experiments provide clear predictions about where we should expect to see structure in behaviour, and what form that structure might take.
See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-20/departmental-colloquium-d…
We're looking forward to see you there! (Oktober 6 street 7, room 101)
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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Dear Cognitive Folks,
The next Fluencia Party will be on the 21th May (Thursday) starting at 8pm
at Élesztő,
Tűzoltó utca 22.(close to Corvin).
Fluencia is a monthly organized informal "jamboree" for cogsci-,
psychology-related students (undergrads, grads), professors, researchers
from many different universities in Hungary. The idea and motivation is to
facilitate interactions, communication, collaboration among researchers
working here, get to know others and others' interests, topics, etc. And,
of course, to have some drinks and fun in a friendly environment.
Everybody is welcome to attend! If you have any further questions, do not
hesitate to ask.
All the best,
Dezso
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NEMETH, Dezso (PhD)
Institute of Psychology
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Memory and Language Lab:
http://www.memory-and-language.com
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Simon Kirby
University of Edinburgh
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~simon
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 - 17:00-18:30
Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments
Daniel C. Richardson
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London
During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience member to take part in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game simultaneously using their smart phones or tablets. We can collect responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a laboratory cubicle.
Audience members will explore the behaviour and decision making of groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and take difficult decisions. Our eventual goal is to address a range of theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or in competition, with a room full of people?
- See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d…
Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments�
Daniel C. Richardson
Department of Experimental Psychology
University College London
�
During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience member to take part� in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game simultaneously using their� smart� phones or tablets. We can collect responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a laboratory cubicle.
Audience members will explore the behaviour and� decision making of� groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and take difficult decisions.� Our� eventual� goal is to� address a range of theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or in competition, with a room full of people?�
- See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d…
The Cultural Origins of Structure
Language is striking in its systematic structure at all levels of description. By exhibiting combinatoriality and compositionality, each utterance in a language does not stand alone, but rather exhibits a network of dependencies on the other utterances in that language. Where does this structure come from? Why is language systematic, and where else might we expect to find this kind of systematicity in nature?
In this talk, I will propose a simple hypothesis that systematic structure is the inevitable result of a suite of behaviours being transmitted by iterated learning. Iterated learning is a mechanism of cultural evolution in which behaviours persist by being learned through observation of that behaviour in another individual who acquired it in the same way. I will survey a wide range of lab studies of iterated learning, in which the cultural evolution ofsets of behaviours is experimentally recreated. These studies include everything from artificial language learning tasks and sign language experiments, to more abstract behaviours like slide whistle imitation and sequence learning, and have recently even been extended to other species. I will conclude by suggesting that these cultural evolution experiments provide clear predictions about where we should expect to see structure in behaviour, and what form that structure might take.
See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-20/departmental-colloquium-d…
We're looking forward to see you there! (Oktober 6 street 7, room 101)
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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Kedves kollégák!
Az MTA BTK Filozófiai Intézete szeretettel vár minden érdeklődőt
Bryan Roberts (LSE) “New directions for passing time” c. előadására
2015 május 20-án (szerdán) 16h kezdettel az MTA Országház u. 30 alatti
épületében a Pepita teremben. Az előadás absztraktja alább olvasható.
Üdv,
B.
Bryan W. Roberts (LSE), “New directions for passing time”
Abstract: The problem of passing time is that it is a pervasive part
of our experience, and yet seems to have no natural description in our
best scientific theories. After introducing this problem I will point
out a new way forward using the concept of ‘time observables’, and
then indicate some further applications such as for the
characterisation of the direction of time.
--
Balazs Gyenis
Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
http://hps.elte.hu/~gyepi
Dear all,
>From Monday-Wednesday next week we will be hosting a workshop in the Cognitive Science department on the topic 'Modelling Self on Others'. This will feature talks and discussion sessions from several influential academics in the field, as well as a poster session for researchers within the department to present their work (please see programme attached). This workshop is open to anyone who would like to attend. If you would like to attend, please send me an email (MilwardS(a)ceu.edu) so that we can get an idea of numbers.
Hope to see you there!
Sophie
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Dr Sophie Milward
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Social Mind and Body Group
http://somby.info/index.html
Room 117, Oktober 6 utca. 7
Department of Cognitive Science
Central European University
Budapest 1051
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to remind you that the BCCCD16 symposia, paper, and poster
submissions will open shortly (June 1st)
.
Please visit the conference website at http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd
for more information about the program and submission instructions. Don't
forget: we have set up a Facebook page for potential symposium participants
to find each other.
Please visit the BCCCD16 symposium finder at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/192549250851825/
Best,
The BCCCD16 Organizing Committee