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[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium 6 Dec. BUDAPEST Damian Blasi: Language diversity from individual-level biases

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Please note that this event will be held at CEU Budapest site! Speaker: Damian Blasi (Harvard University) Language diversity from individual-level biases In this talk I’ll critically revisit the idea that individual-level biases shape language diversity. The idea is straightforward: the distribution of language structures in the world approximately follows the marginal payoff they provide to humans, in the form of ease of production, learnability, expressivity, and the like. I will discuss a number of cases from across linguistic domains but will ultimately focus on the role of learnability (as evidenced in individual-level experiments). In this regard there are multiple related hypotheses, including the notions that language structures which are (1) easier to acquire by children, (2) easier to acquire by adults and (3) easier to retain by adults, are overrepresented across the world’s languages. The main evidence I’ll use is the history and the nature of languages which instantiate almost ideal case studies for each of the hypotheses described above, accordingly: (1) Creole languages (Blasi, Michaelis & Haspelmath 2017 Nat Hum Beh), (2) languages spoken by large populations (Scherbakova et al. to appear in Sci Adv), and (3) surviving languages (i.e. languages that are no longer transmitted to newer generations, Blasi et al. in prep). I will conclude that the evidence for a direct pipeline between individual-level biases and social-level language structures is surprisingly less robust than widely assumed across the cognitive and language sciences, and I will discuss some future research directions. Date: Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 Time: 4 PM (to 5:30 PM) CET Venue: CEU BUDAPEST site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N13 room 118.* and Zoom (meeting ID: 977 8672 8334<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97786728334?pwd=SXpVTkM2eFJsTUZTQU96dVVVTzFwZz09>, passcode: 425757) Chair: Eva Wittenberg *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Budapest must RSVP to vargai(a)ceu.edu to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:5c74b692-b124-40ef-9c2e-6ee9d52ef77d] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 http://www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/> ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium 6 Dec. BUDAPEST Damian Blasi: Language diversity from individual-level biases

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Please note that this event will be held at CEU Budapest site! Speaker: Damian Blasi (Harvard University) Language diversity from individual-level biases In this talk I’ll critically revisit the idea that individual-level biases shape language diversity. The idea is straightforward: the distribution of language structures in the world approximately follows the marginal payoff they provide to humans, in the form of ease of production, learnability, expressivity, and the like. I will discuss a number of cases from across linguistic domains but will ultimately focus on the role of learnability (as evidenced in individual-level experiments). In this regard there are multiple related hypotheses, including the notions that language structures which are (1) easier to acquire by children, (2) easier to acquire by adults and (3) easier to retain by adults, are overrepresented across the world’s languages. The main evidence I’ll use is the history and the nature of languages which instantiate almost ideal case studies for each of the hypotheses described above, accordingly: (1) Creole languages (Blasi, Michaelis & Haspelmath 2017 Nat Hum Beh), (2) languages spoken by large populations (Scherbakova et al. to appear in Sci Adv), and (3) surviving languages (i.e. languages that are no longer transmitted to newer generations, Blasi et al. in prep). I will conclude that the evidence for a direct pipeline between individual-level biases and social-level language structures is surprisingly less robust than widely assumed across the cognitive and language sciences, and I will discuss some future research directions. Date: Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 Time: 4 PM (to 5:30 PM) CET Venue: CEU BUDAPEST site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N13 room 118.* and Zoom (meeting ID: 977 8672 8334<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97786728334?pwd=SXpVTkM2eFJsTUZTQU96dVVVTzFwZz09>, passcode: 425757) Chair: Eva Wittenberg *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Budapest must RSVP to vargai(a)ceu.edu to get access to the lecture hall. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:d0e37c00-e1ec-43c2-98b9-8962bcea9292] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 http://www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/> ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] ELTE Cognitive Seminar - talk by Bahar Köymen, 2023.12.05. 17:15 (CET)

by Réka Schvajda

Dear all, We would like to invite you to the following talk by Bahar Köymen (University of Manchester), organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series. Time and date: 17:15 (CET), Tuesday, 5. December 2023. Speaker: Bahar Köymen Title: Young children’s reason-giving and meta-talk in collaborative decision making Abstract: During collaborative problem solving, partners might disagree, so have to convince one another why their proposals/claims are better than the other by giving reasons. This kind of reason-giving is termed “meta-talk” through which speakers discuss standards of reasons; comparing reasons or giving reasons about reasons. This ability has been mostly observed with older children. I will present and discuss some recent evidence about how young children and children speaking different languages are capable of producing meta-talk in the context of collaborative decision making. Zoom link: https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/93020480092?pwd=TkM2L05yeVRDVy9mT09wWW0xS2VOQ… Meeting ID: 930 2048 0092 Passcode: 211920 If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email ( alexastonem(a)student.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu). We look forward to seeing you at the event, Schvajda Réka Alexandra Kelemen organizers ELTE Kognitív Pszichológiai Tanszék

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Postdoc position

by Dr. Zsidó András Norbert

Dear All, The PTE Visual Cognition and Emotion Lab is looking for a postdoc research fellow (for up to 4 years). Topic: The role of attentional control in the aetiology and maintenance of phobias Earliest start: January 2024. More details on the flyer attached to this email! Please forward our job advertisement to those interested. Thank you! Best regards, Andras Zsido ----- András Norbert ZSIDÓ, PhD FPsyS Senior Research Fellow Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs Principal Investigator: Visual Cognition and Emotion Lab Website: https://vicelab.btk.pte.hu/ Editorial Board member: Scientific Reports [cid:e98737d1-7202-481a-ada8-e3c9beddeac7] ________________________________ A PTE Zöld Egyetem programja jegyében kérem, ne nyomtassa ki ezt az e-mail-t, kivéve, ha szükséges. Green University - Please do not print this e-mail unless it's necessary.

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium TUESDAY 28 November in C323: Joan Ongchoco

by Jonathan F. Kominsky

Hello everyone, The next Cognitive Science department colloquium will be on Tuesday, 28 November (note different day!) at 4pm in C323 (note different room!) Speaker:Joan Ongchoco, UBC Vancouver The continuous vs. the discrete in mental life: Studies in perception, attention, and decision-making The raw material of perception is a continuous wash of light and sound. But what we perceive are often discrete individuals -- *objects* (due to segmentation in space) and *events* (due to segmentation in time). I will present five case studies that collectively explore how discrete object and event representations have a powerful impact on many forms of perception and cognition -- and in particular, how they interact with other processes including attention, imagery, enumeration, time perception, and decision-making. Throughout this work, I will show how these interactions are relatively spontaneous and inescapable aspects of how the mind works. In the first two case studies, I will introduce the phenomenon of "scaffolded attention", and will show how attention effectively creates discrete object representations even in the absence of all sensory cues -- in a sort of "everyday hallucination". In the next two case studies, I will show how dynamic event segmentation has important consequences for the perception of other seemingly foundational properties, including number and time. And in the final case study, I will move from seeing to thinking, and show how visual event structure may have surprisingly direct connections for higher-level thought and decision-making. Together, these studies show how discrete object and event representations have profound consequences for our mental lives. Date: TUESDAY, 28 November (Note different day!) Time: 4pm-5:30pm Location:QSC-323 (Note different room!) Zoom link: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94614125194?pwd=bUpJdWRZM3JPRGJVWEFaZ2dEbGVIQT09 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94614125194?pwd%3DbU…> Meeting ID: 946 1412 5194 Passcode: 899075 Chair: Jonathan Kominsky *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall. Sincerely, Jonathan -- Dr. Jonathan F. Kominsky Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science PI: Causal Cognition Lab (he/him) Office: Room D504 Phone: +43 125230 7541 Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Wien | Austria This message is intended for the individual named above and is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender. Central European University (CEU) is an undergraduate- and graduate-level private university accredited in the United States, Austria, and Hungary. CEU’s educational activities in Austria are performed at Central European University Private University by CEU GmbH, a private limited-liability company having its seat in Vienna, under the address Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, and is registered at the Vienna Commercial Court under registration number FN 502313 x. CEU’s educational activities in Hungary are performed by Közép-európai Egyetem, at Nádor utca 9., 1051 Budapest, under registration number FI 27861. CEU is accredited in the US, with a registered address at 224 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA. ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology: The Formation of Mod

by Csaba Pleh

Propagaljátok kérlek https://www.routledge.com/Laying-the-Foundations-of-Independent-Psychology-…

2 years, 5 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Judit Gervain (Uni of Padua, Italy/CNRS & Université Paris Descartes), 4 pm on Wednesday Nov 15

by Salih Bartug Celik

Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk: Judit Gervain (University of Padua, Italy/CNRS & Université Paris Descartes) Neural oscillations in the service of speech processing and language development The talk will present a series of neuroimaging studies with young infants investigating how embedded neural oscillations, the neural architecture argued to be responsible for speech processing in adults (Giraud & Poeppel 2012), emerges during early development. Specifically, the studies investigate the hypothesis that prenatally heard speech, strongly low-pass filtered by the intrauterine environment, already align slower oscillations, delta and theta, with the rhythms of the language heard prenatally, while the full-band speech signal experienced post-nasally aligns the faster gammas oscillations. As a result the hierarchy of neural oscillations found in adults emerges as a result of the chronology of infants’ early experience with speech. Furthermore, the talk will suggest that it is possible to find the neural signatures of learning and attuning to the native language already at birth in the temporal dynamics of newborn infants’ electrophysiological responses. To conclude, the talk will discuss how this may lay the foundations for later language development. Date: Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: Auditorium* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784, passcode: 471712) Chair: Ernő Téglás *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.microsoft.com/e/qAPuca2PQ2> to get access to the lecture hall. If you want to schedule a meeting with Dr. Gervain, indicate your interest and availability here<https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/e7AwKAjb> (via doodle). Best, Bartu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

2 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] reminder - Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum - Nov. 15. András Ecker

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invites you to the upcoming meeting of the Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum<https://ccc.ceu.edu/budapest-computational-neuroscience-forum>. Speaker: András Ecker, EPFL Long-term plasticity induces sparse and specific synaptic changes in a biophysically detailed cortical model Abstract: Synaptic plasticity underlies the brain's ability to learn and adapt. This process is often studied in small groups of neurons in vitro or indirectly through its effects on behavior in vivo. Due to the limitations of available experimental techniques, investigating synaptic plasticity at the microcircuit level relies on simulation-based approaches. Although modeling studies provide valuable insights, they are usually limited in scale and generality. To overcome these limitations, we extended a previously published and validated large-scale cortical network model with a recently developed calcium-based model of functional plasticity between excitatory cells. We calibrated the network to mimic an in vivo state characterized by low synaptic release probability and low-rate asynchronous firing, and exposed it to 10 different stimuli. We found that synaptic plasticity sparsely and specifically strengthened synapses forming spatial clusters on postsynaptic dendrites and those between populations of co-firing neurons, also known as cell assemblies: among 312 million synapses, only 5% experienced noticeable plasticity and cross-assembly synapses underwent three times more changes than average. Furthermore, as occasional large-amplitude potentiation was counteracted by more frequent synaptic depression, the network remained stable without explicitly modeling homeostatic plasticity. When comparing the network's responses to the different stimuli before and after plasticity, we found that it became more stimulus-specific after plasticity, manifesting in prolonged activity after selected stimuli and more unique groups of neurons responding exclusively to a single pattern. Taken together, we present a plasticity rule that leads to sparse change and analyze the rules governing those changes. Time: 17:00, November 15., 2023. Location: CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 203. and Zoom (Meeting ID: 957 1381 9303<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/95713819303?pwd=SzM0b1NIU0ZUbzBOUkRpeVc0ME1kQT09> Passcode: 367015) Should you have any inquiries about the series, please contact Mihály Bányai<mailto:mihaly.s.banyai@gmail.com>. Best regards, Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science [cid:3bf470d1-2d75-47ef-9e46-25fb128b3b05] H-1051 Budapest Nador u. 15. FT room 404 tel: +36-1 327-3000 2941 http://www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/> ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

2 years, 6 months

[Koglist] 30 év

by Gergely Csibra

Kedves Kogtársak, Ma 30 éves a Koglist (pontosabban nyáron volt, de ma 30 éve került egy megbízható rendszerre). Eddig 5674 üzenetet közvetített, tehát átlagosan kétnaponta egyet. Jelenleg 342 tagunk van, sokan közülük fiatalabbak, mint maga a lista, de vagyunk néhányan, akik a kezdetektől itt ragadtunk. A Koglist volt az egyik első magyar email levlista, és talán az egyetlen, amely 30 éve folyamatosan működik. Éljen soká!

2 years, 6 months

[Koglist] ELTE Cognitive Seminar: Stella Xu - 2023.11.21. 17:00 (CET)

by Réka Schvajda

Dear all, We would like to invite you to the following talk by Stella Xu (Department of Psychology and Human Development, IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society), organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series. Time and date: 17:00 (CET), Tuesday, 21. November 2023. Speaker: Stella Xu (UCL) Title: Mathematical Development in Individuals with Williams syndrome Abstract: Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic syndrome that results in an uneven cognitive profile, where individuals with WS have relatively better language skills than visuospatial abilities. Many individuals with WS are also delayed in their mathematical abilities. This PhD project aims to investigate the individual differences in strengths and difficulties related to mathematics among individuals with WS. It examines the performance of different mathematical tasks and explores the factors that might influence the development of mathematics over time, such as those aspects of mathematics that rely more on language and those that rely more on visuospatial skills. This project is innovative in that it uses both novel and existing cross-sectional and longitudinal data by combining data from various labs in the WiSDom database, such that it is able to incorporate data from more than 200 individuals spanning from 4 months to 70 years of age. The findings are of particular interest to parents, teachers, and researchers who would like to understand and support the mathematical development of individuals with WS. Zoom link: https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/99673891387?pwd=Q09tdjhHWVdHTlBlVzJiU0t5ZFcwd… Meeting ID: 996 7389 1387 Passcode: 620387 If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email ( alexastonem(a)student.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu). We look forward to seeing you at the event, Schvajda Réka Alexandra Kelemen organizers ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology

2 years, 6 months

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