The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:
Emmanuel Dupoux, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Laboratoire
de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early
to ensure you get a seat! The talk will begin promptly at 5.
*Studying early cognitive development using Near Infrared Spectroscopy:
data and challenges*
Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) is becoming a popular technique to study
early neurocognitive development in infants. There are, however, still a
host of methodological stumbling blocks that need to be addressed to
improve the reliability of the data. In this talk, I address some of these
issues, illustrating them with recent data in language discrimination and
social cognition paradigms that we have been developing recently.
*Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events*
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Dear All,
The Department of Cognitive Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University invites
you to the next public lecture of Eötvös Loránd University Cognitive
Seminar Series by
Kenneth Hugdahl.
Title: Auditory laterality and cognition: From basic science to clinical
applications
Date: 17. 04. 2012. (Tuesday) 17:00-18:00
Venue: ELTE-PPK, Izabella u. 46., room 301.
(https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek)
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best regards,
Linda Garami
linda.garami(a)ppk.elte.hu
Department of Cognitive Psychology
Eötvös Loránd University
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
11 April (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Attila Molnár
Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University, Budapest
Possible Objects and Their Collisions in SpecRel with the Aid of Modal
Logic
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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: László E. Szabó
(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
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
by
Miljana Milojević (University of Belgrade)
on
`What are colours if not surface spectral reflectances?`
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 4.00 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Naturalistic theories of content determination have to answer the
question what constitutes representational content of mental states
about secondary and tertiary qualities, such as being red or being
pleasent. There are three typical views about the nature of non-primary
qualities: they are objective physical properties, subjective mental
properties, or dispositions of physical objects to produce appropriate
mental states. Although there are three possible anwers, objectivism
about secondary qualities was seen as only viable option for a
naturalistically inclined philosopher. In spite of this commonly held
opinion, it is possible to give a dispositionalist account about
non-primary qualities which is compatible with naturalistic theories of
content. This kind of dispositionalism has the advantage over
objectivism as it resolves some of the difficulties objectivists face;
it rejects dubious disjunctive properties as objects of representations,
objectivists were forced to endorse, and replaces them with particular
dispositions, and it gives a unified account about the nature of
secondary and tertiary qualities, which were handled separately by
objectivists about secondary qualities. Unfortunately, endorsement of
dispositionalism opens yet new problems such as: the impossibility of
misrepresentation, and the inclusion of normativity in otherwise
naturalized theory of representational content. These seemingly
difficult obstacles can nevertheless be surpassed by teleological
amandment to dispositionalist account, or so I will argue, which
simultaneously solves both problems – it naturalises assumed notion of
normativity and defines response-dependent dispositions in such a way
that binds them more tightly to the world and so surmounts the problem
of misrepresentation.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
Dear All,
The next talk in our Friday seminar series will be given by:
*Ma'te' Lengyel*
(Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engieering,
University of Cambridge)
*INTERNAL MODELS OF THE BRAIN: FROM BEHAVIOUR TO NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS*
Date: April 6, 13:30
Location: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, MTA-TTK,
Szondi u. 83-85, 1st floor
Abstract: Our percepts rely on an internal model of the environment,
relating physical processes of the world to inputs received by our senses,
and thus their veracity critically hinges upon how well this internal
model is adapted to the statistical properties of the environment.
However, the level of statistical sophistication with which such internal
models are adapted or learned has not been investigated systematically,
and their neural underpinning has also remained unknown. We conducted
behavioural and electrophysiological studies to address these issues.
Using a visual statistical learning paradigm, we have shown that humans
learn about the statistics of visual stimuli well beyond the level of
pair-wise associations, approximating the performance of a Bayesian ideal
learner (Orban et al, PNAS 2008). Using multielectrode recordings in awake
ferrets, we have argued that spontaneous activity in V1 represents a key
component of Bayesian inference: the prior distribution (Fiser et al, TICS
2010), and showed that this prior becomes gradually adapted to the
statistic of natural visual scenes over the course of development (Berkes
et al, Science 2011). [This is joint work with Gergo Orban, Pietro Berkes,
and Jozsef Fiser.]
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Kindest regards,
Tama's Bo"hm
The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:
Emmanuel Dupoux, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Laboratoire
de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive early
to ensure you get a seat! The talk will begin promptly at 5.
*Studying early cognitive development using Near Infrared Spectroscopy:
data and challenges*
Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) is becoming a popular technique to study
early neurocognitive development in infants. There are, however, still a
host of methodological stumbling blocks that need to be addressed to
improve the reliability of the data. In this talk, I address some of these
issues, illustrating them with recent data in language discrimination and
social cognition paradigms that we have been developing recently.
*Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events*
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> From: Linda Potchoiba <lpotchoiba(a)reesgroupinc.com>
> Date: April 2, 2012 3:16:38 PM EDT
>
> The International Neural Network Society's Awards Program is
> established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding
> contributions in the field of Neural Networks. Up to three awards,
> at most one in each category, are presented annually to senior,
> highly accomplished researchers for outstanding contributions made
> in the field of Neural Networks.
>
> The Hebb, Helmholtz and Gabor Awards:
> The Hebb Award - recognizes achievement in biological learning.
> The Helmholtz Award - recognizes achievement in sensation/perception.
> The Gabor Award - recognizes achievement in engineering/application.
>
> Young Investigator Awards:
> Up to two awards are presented annually to individuals with no more
> than five years postdoctoral experience and who are under forty
> years of age, for significant contributions in the field of Neural
> Networks.
>
> Nominations:
> 1. The Awards Committee should receive nominations of no more than
> two pages in length, specifying:
> -The award category (Hebb, Helmholtz, Gabor, or Young Investigator)
> for which the candidate is being nominated.
> -The reasons for which the nominee should be considered for the award.
> -A list of at least five of the nominee's important and published
> papers.
> 2. The curriculum vitae of both the nominee and the nominator must
> be included with the nomination, including the name, address,
> position/title, phone, fax, and e-mail address for both the nominee
> and nominator.
> 3. The nominator must be an INNS member in good standing. Nominees
> do not have to be INNS members. If an award recipient is not an INNS
> member, they shall receive a free one-year INNS membership.
> 4. Nominators may not nominate themselves or their family members.
> 5. Individuals may not receive the same INNS Award more than once
> All nominations will be considered by the Awards Committee and
> selected ones forwarded to the INNS Board of Governors, along with
> the Committee's recommendations for award recipients. Voting shall
> be performed by the entire BoG.
>
> Please email the 2013 nominations along with their attachments
> directly to the chair of the Awards Committee at leonid(a)seas.harvard.edu
> , with a copy to the Secretary of the Society at jonathan(a)sit.kmutt.ac.th
> by June 1, 2012. Please use the following subject line in the
> email: INNS award nomination.
>
> You may view this information at www.inns.org (under "Awards
> Program").
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President, International Neural Network Society
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Troy, NY 12180, USA
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