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[koglist] Call for posters: Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture

by Tamas Biro

Kedves Kollegak, Hadd osszam meg az alabbi felhivast a lista olvasoival. Ha valaki tud olyanrol, akit erdekelne, terjessze batran. Udvozlettel, Biro Tamas Call for Participation and Call for Posters: ============================================ Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture Workshop held at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society July 20, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts Short Summary: ============== Optimality Theory has been a very popular approach to linguistic phenomena, but how does it relate to (higher) cognition in general? Twenty-five years after the publication of Harmony Theory (Smolensky, 1986), and five years after The Harmonic Mind (Smolensky and Legendre, 2006), this half-day workshop at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society offers an opportunity to discuss the place of OT (and HG, and the ICS Architecture) within the cognitive sciences at large, as well as applications of OT to domains beyond linguistics. Longer description and Call for Posters: ======================================== Organizers: Tamas Biro and Judit Gervain Website: http://www.birot.hu/events/OTGCA/. Harmony Theory (Smolensky, 1986), introduced exactly 25 years ago, became one of the most popular current approaches to linguistics in the form of Optimality Theory (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993). While most people in the OT camp focus on particular linguistic problems, the underlying motivations of the theory warrant a constant connection between OT and the (computational) cognitive sciences. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the place of Optimality Theory (and related approaches: Harmony Grammar and the ICS Architecture) within the cognitive sciences at large. In The Harmonic Mind (2006), Smolensky and Legendre repeatedly allude to the possibility of applying their ICS Architecture to a broad spectrum of domains in (higher) cognition, while maintaining the connection between higher (abstract) level description and lower (neural) level processing. At the same time, some scholars have already adopted Optimality Theory to specific, non-linguistic phenomena, including culture and ethical decision making. Thirdly, experimental and computational OT research often tackle issues that fit nicely into the cognitive psychological tradition, thereby building new bridges between linguistics and other cognitive domains. Yet, it is sad to see the lack of opportunities for scholars working on OT as a general cognitive architecture to share their ideas. Even less collaboration is going on between the OT-camp and those employing utility function-based models in computational biology, psychology or economics. Therefore, the workshop offers a meeting point to those applying OT to non-linguistic domains, as well as an opportunity to discuss the place of OT, HG and ICS within the cognitive sciences. The half-day-long workshop consists of a key-note address by Paul Smolensky, as well as by papers delivered by Petra Hendriks, Lotte Hogeweg, Doug Jones, Geraldine Legendre and Giorgio Magri. Additionally, the workshop will also feature a poster session. We thus seek posters describing new results and addressing, primarily, though not exclusively, the following issues: * Optimality Theory and Harmony Grammar as general frameworks of (higher) cognition. * OT/HG-style analyses of phenomena belonging to (primarily, non-linguistic) domains that have not yet employed OT. * The connection of linguistic OT/HG to the study of other (higher) cognitive functions. * OT compared to HG, from theoretical-mathematical and cognitive-neuroscientific perspectives. * OT/HG-style formalisms compared to utility function-based approaches from a mathematical-computational perspective; their place in explaining the brain/mind. * Relating connectionist and symbolic approaches: the ICS Architecture and its eventual alternatives. * Ontogenetic aspects of OT/HG approaches (learnability). * Phylogenetic aspects of OT/HG approaches (including historical change, evolutionary models, etc.). 1-page-long abstracts are solicited by May 20, to be sent to Tamas Biro (t.s.biro(a)uva.nl). Notification of acceptance is due by May 31. Further information, including a longer description of the workshop is getting gradually available on the website of the workshop: http://www.birot.hu/events/OTGCA/. And a final note: One of the aims of the workshop is to gauge ongoing work and eventual interest in using OT beyond linguistics, either in other domains, or as a general cognitive architecture. Therefore, if you cannot join us in Boston for whatever reason, but you are nevertheless interested in contributing to the theme of the workshop, for instance in the form of a paper in an eventual volume coming out of the meeting, then you are still extremely welcome to contact us.

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[koglist] Emlékeztető: Kognitív Péntek

by Linda Garami

Kedves Érdeklődők, Emlékeztetőül az ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszékének következő Kognitív Péntek rendezvényére 2 nap múlva kerül sor: *Tompa Tamás: Az agy képei* Időpont: 2011. május 6. 14:00-15:00 Helyszín: ELTE-PPK Pszichológia Intézet, Izabella u. 46., 216. terem Absztrakt: https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek Ebben a tanévben ezen kívül még egy előadásra kerül sor: május 20-án Téglás Ernő lesz vendégünk. Előadásának címe: * *A kontingens reakciók észlelése és értelmezései csecsemőkorban. Szeretettel várunk Mindenkit! Üdvözlettel: Garami Linda ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] REMINDER: CDC Seminar - Sara Baker, THURSDAY, May 5, 5PM

by Marian Chen

The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by Sara Baker, University of Salford Date: THURSDAY, May 5th, 5 PM (Please note this talk is on a different day than usual!) Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor Individual differences in the expression of folk physical and folk psychological knowledge Abstract: Theories of cognitive development have moved away from the “one-stop shop” view, according to which a single developmental mechanism is responsible for change, and towards a “toolkit” view, whereby domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms interact to produce the behavior we observe. Still, a large amount of variability in cognitive development is not accounted for either in our methods or in our theories. Individual differences continue to represent a great challenge for the scientific study of developmental change. In this talk I will describe experiments which put both intra- and inter-individual variability at centre-stage. Drawing on examples from folk physics and folk psychology in 2- to 15-year-old children, I will discuss some ways in which individual differences contribute to our understanding of cognitive development. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu

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[koglist] PhD vedes- meghivo-Tisljár Roland

by NEMETH, Dezso

*MEGHÍVÓ* ** A Pécsi Tudományegyetem Doktori Bizottságának Pszichológia Szakbizottsága tisztelettel meghívja Önt TISLJÁR ROLAND *"A humor szerepe és szerveződése a társas kapcsolatokban. * *Evolúciós modellek tesztelése"* ** című doktori (PhD) értekezésének nyilvános védésére. ** *A védés ideje*: *2011. május 10. (kedd) 13.30* ** *Helye*: *PTE BTK* *Pécs, Ifjúság útja 6.* * A/434-es terem* ** *A disszertáció megtekinthető az alábbi honlapon: * *http://pszichologia.pte.hu/menu/59/21* ------------------------------

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[koglist] ESF Workshop on "Naturalistic Approaches to Culture?"

by Gergely Csibra

Balatonvilagos, Hungary 4-7 September 2011 Deadline for application: 16 May 2011, 12:00 (noon) CET. See http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=8346

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[koglist] Wendy Sandler - The Emergence of Prosody in Sign Language - Debrecen, majus 3.

by Alexa Bódog

Kedves Kollégák, föl szeretném hívni figyelmüket Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa) jövő heti előadására. A meghívót csatolva is megtalálják. We are happy to invite you to the lecture by Prof. Wendy Sandler Director, Sign Language Research Lab University of Haifa Date: Wednesday, May 4, at 11:00 Venue: Room 52 Main Building, Egyetem tér 1 University of Debrecen The Emergence of Prosody in Sign Language Abstract: All humans in every culture use gestures of the hands, face, and body to accompany and augment the linguistic stream. In sign languages of deaf communities, these signals are organized and conventionalized to form the substance of language itself. The focus of this talk is the way in which this occurs in the prosodic system of sign languages, especially the temporal delineation of prosodic constituents and the intonation of the face. While the presence of such a system in sign languages points to prosody as a universal property of human language, research on a new sign language in an insular Bedouin community shows that even universals do not arise overnight. Everyone welcome. HuComTech Research Group University of Debrecen

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[koglist] Dr. Stuart Shanker seminar and lecture at the Budapest Gazdasági Főiskola

by Gyorgyne Finta

FYI: Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1023 Budapest Frankel Leó út 30-34. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.hu http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu email: szabor(a)ceu.hu >>> Izsák Éva<eizsak(a)issa.hu> 4/28/2011 12:58 PM >>> Kedves Reka! Ahogy korabban emlitettem, a szeminárium után sor kerül egy mindenki számára nyilvános előadásra, aminek a hirdetését angolul és magyarul is csatolom. jó lenne, ha minél több érdeklődő jönne. Kérhetem abban a segítségüket, hogy ezt minél több lehetséges érdeklődőnek elküldik? Köszönöm, Éva

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[koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Miklos Lehmann

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 4 May (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Miklós Lehmann Department of Social Science, Faculty of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training, Eötvös University Közösségi tudat és web 2.0 (Common conscience and Web 2.0) ___________________________________ 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

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[koglist] [CDC Seminars] ANNOUNCEMENT: CDC seminar, Sara Baker, THURSDAY, May 5th, 5 PM

by Marian Chen

15 years, 1 month

[koglist] Kognitív Péntek

by Linda Garami

Kedves Érdeklődők, az ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszéke tisztelettel meghívja Önt a Kognitív Péntek sorozat következő rendezvényére: *Tompa Tamás: Az agy képei* Időpont: 2011. május 6. 14:00 Helyszín: ELTE-PPK Pszichológia Intézet, Izabella u. 46., 216. terem További részletes információk: https://sites.google.com/site/eltekognitiv/home/elte-kognitiv-pentek Ebben a tanévben ezen kívül még egy előadásra kerül sor: május 20-án Téglás Ernő lesz vendégünk. Szeretettel várunk Mindenkit! Üdvözlettel: Garami Linda ELTE-PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék

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