The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Natalie Sebanz & Günther Knoblich (Psychology/Donders Nijmegen)
Joint action: How people share actions, tasks, and memories
Abstract
Dancing together, building a house, or jointly preparing a meal:
people's ability to coordinate their actions with each other is a
fundamental aspect of human society. What kinds of processes and
representations make joint action possible? This talk will focus on
action planning and temporal coordination as two key aspects of joint
action. Studies on action planning reveal that people have a strong
tendency to share tasks and memories. Studies on coordination suggest
that motor simulation, nonverbal coordination signals, and entrainment
serve to predict and align actions in time. Future challenges concern
the role of inter-individual and inter-group relations, as well as the
experiences emerging in joint action.
Wednesday, May 5, 5.00pm
CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyuhaz, Level 3, Hattyu u. 14., 1015 Budapest
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Ágnes M. Kovács
Marie Curie Research Fellow-DISCOS
MTA PKI
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
&
CEU, Cognitive Development Centre
Budapest
Hungary
tel: +3612796095
DISCOS: International conference on Intersubjectivity and the Self’
Budapest, 17-19 June, 2010
During the last decade, philosophical, psychological and
neurobiological approaches to the
self have increasingly overcome their disciplinary constraints and
entered into a productive
dialogue. Different levels of self-awareness such as the ‘core’ or
’minimal self’ and the
’extended’ or ’narrative self’ have been distinguished and
investigated from a
phenomenological, developmental and neurocognitive perspective. In
this context, disorders
of self-experience have also attracted growing attention. This
integrative and interdisciplinary
approach is well represented by the European Marie-Curie Research
Training Network
entitled “Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self” (DISCOS), a
consortium of 10
European research facilities which organizes this present conference.
The aim of the conference is to create an interdisciplinary forum for
the exchange of ideas on
the themes of intersubjectivity, self-awareness and its disorders.
Special emphasis will be
placed on the interplay of biological and social factors that are
crucially important for
establishing self-coherence, assuming that intersubjectivity and the
development of the self
are inherently related. Thus, exploring the self from different
perspectives will elucidate and
enrich our understanding of the mechanisms underlying
intersubjectivity and self-other
differentiation.
Main Speakers
Developmental Science - Renée Baillargeon, Hannes Rakoczy, György
Gergely
Neuroscience – Julie Grezes, Gergely Csibra, Kai Vogeley, Vittorio
Gallese
Philosophy – Shaun Gallagher, Dan Zahavi, Pierre Jacob
Psychiatry – Efraim Bleiberg, Louis Sasse, Josef Parnas/Andrea
Raballo,
Thomas Fuchs/Hanne De Jaegher
Organisers: György Gergely, Ágnes Kovács, Ernő Téglás, Andrea
Schrök
Venue: Hotel President, Budapest
Further information: www.discos-2010.com
Contact: gergelygy(a)ceu.hu (scientific issues), schroka(a)ceu.hu (program
issues)
Further information: www.discos-rtn.eu
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
May Program
5 May (Wed) 5:00 PM Room 226 (Múzeum krt. 4/i)
Márta Ujvári
Philosophy, Corvinus University, Budapest
Fajták és kontinuáló dolgok: az eliminativista törekvések kudarca
(Kinds and Continuants: the Failure of Eliminativist Efforts)
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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)
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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
Special Lecture at Central European University
Organized by the Cognitive Development Center and the Department of
Gender Studies
Speaker:
Elizabeth Spelke
Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Title:
Gender, Math and Science: Perspectives from Cognitive Development
Abstract:
Why are there more men than women in the fields of science,
technology, and mathematics? Here I consider three reasons why men
might predominate in these fields: because they have higher aptitude
for science and mathematics on average or at the highest levels;
because they have greater motivation for hard and extended work in
these fields; or because biased patterns of evaluation tend to enhance
the progress of male scientists, relative to females. Drawing on
research in human cognitive development, I suggest that the third
factor is the most important one, and also that it is likely to change.
About the speaker:
Elizabeth Spelke is the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology
and the co-Director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies, both
at Harvard. Elizabeth Spelke studies the cognitive capacities of human
infants, in relation to those of non-human primates, human children,
and adults from different cultures. Her current research focuses on
the origins and development of knowledge of objects and their motions,
of other people and their social interactions, and of two domains at
the foundations of formal mathematics: number and geometry.
Date:
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 6.00 pm
Location:
Toth Istvan Gyorgy room
Central European University
Nádor u. 11.
Budapest 1051
Contact:
Andrea Schrök: schroka(a)ceu.hu
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Elizabeth Spelke will also give a talk on "Core Social Cognition" the
same day at 10.30 am in the Cognitive Development Center of CEU.
The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Natalie Sebanz & Günther Knoblich (Psychology/Donders Nijmegen)
Joint action: How people share actions, tasks, and memories
Abstract
Dancing together, building a house, or jointly preparing a meal –
people’s ability to coordinate their actions with each other is a
fundamental aspect of human society. What kinds of processes and
representations make joint action possible? This talk will focus on
action planning and temporal coordination as two key aspects of joint
action. Studies on action planning reveal that people have a strong
tendency to share tasks and memories. Studies on coordination suggest
that motor simulation, nonverbal coordination signals, and entrainment
serve to predict and align actions in time. Future challenges concern
the role of inter-individual and inter-group relations, as well as the
experiences emerging in joint action.
Wednesday, May 5, 5.00pm
Kedves Kollegák!
Az MTA 180. közgyűléséhez kapcsolódóan az a megtiszteltetés ért
minket, hogy a Biológiai Tudományok osztályának rendezésében
Kutyák, gyerekek, robotok: Az összehasonlító viselkedéskutatás
elmélete és gyakorlata címmel tarthatunk tudományos ülést,
amelyen minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk.
Tisztelettel Miklósi Ádám
tanszékvezető egyetemi docens
Etológia Tanszék
Időpont: 2010. május 6, 10-13 óra között, szünet nélkül
MTA Székház Nagyterme (II. emelet)
Elnök: Csányi Vilmos, akadémikus (MTA)
10.00-10.30 Kampis György: A határokon át: Módszertani problémák és új
eszközök
10.30-11.00 Miklósi Ádám: Az avatar jegyében: Ki legyen robot?
11.00-11.30 Korondi Péter: Milyen érzései lehetnek egy mechatronikai
rendszernek?
11.30-12.00 Haller József: Komplex pszichiátriai kórképek
modellezésének lehetőségei
12.00-12.30 Kubinyi Enikő: Kutyagenetika a fimóta tünetcsoport
megismeréséhez
12.30-13.00 Topál József: A humán szociális kogníció nem főemlős
modellje: Az "emberszabású" kutya
--
Dr Adam Miklosi
Department of Ethology
Eötvös University
Budapest, Pázmány P. s 1c
1117 Hungary
Tel: +36 1 381 21 79
Fax: +36 1 381 21 80
Web pages for interest:
http://familydogproject.elte.huhttp://etologia.aitia.ai
My first book on dogs is out! http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199295852
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw; Society for
Interdisciplinary Studies on Language and the Distributed
Language Group have a pleasure to invite you to:
LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL COORDINATION:
AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
Warsaw, 16-18 September 2010
The conference emphasizes the biological nature of language,
underscoring its coordinative function. The aim of the
conference is to 1) show continuity of natural language with
other informational systems in biology; 2) show that
language arises from and is crucial for human co-action.
Taking an evolutionary and comparative perspective, will
draw attention to the kinds of social coordination that
arise without (human-like) language, and that contribute to
the background used by (and present in) linguistic
communication. By so doing, it will be easier to appreciate
the qualitatively different types of co-ordination that are
specific to humans and language-dependent.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
* John Collier, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
* Terrence Deacon, University of California at Berkeley
* Merlin Donald, Queen's University, Kingston
* Don Favareau, National University of Singapore
* Bruno Galantucci, Yeshiva University, New York
* Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham and
University of Cape Town
* John Schumann, University of California, Los Angeles
* Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome papers from biology, linguistics, psychology,
communication science, philosophy, anthropology and
artificial intelligence in a joint effort to provide a
theoretical ground for such a view of language, and - even
more importantly - to provide empirical data clarifying the
mechanisms of language functioning and emergence. For more
information please visit our webpage:
www.psych.uw.edu.pl/lasc
Abstracts of 250-500 words length should be sent to
LaSC_Warsaw2010(a)psych.uw.edu.pl or raczasze(a)psych.uw.edu.pl
Deadline for abstracts: May 15th, 2010
Abstract notification: May 28th, 2010
Early Registration: May 28th - August 15th, 2010
Late Registration: After August 15th, 2010
Call for papers
Beyond Dichotomies
The DiAGram research group in functional linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Hungarian (Budapest) is inviting linguists to the international conference 'Beyond Dichotomies', due to take place in Budapest, 25-26 October 2010.
The conference is aimed primarily at functional cognitive linguists. Its key topic (intended as a point of orientation rather than as a limitation) is the general trend in functionalism to relativize or eliminate strict dichotomies, whether at an abstract theoretical level or in the minute details of grammatical description (cf. fuzzy edges, continua, etc.). To name but the most wide-ranging examples, functional linguists typically deny that a neat and principled distinction can be made between
. semantics and pragmatics
. grammar and lexicon
. linguistic knowledge and language use
. synchrony and diachrony
. the individual-mental and the social dimensions of language.
These issues correspond broadly to research on cognitive grammar, construction grammar, usage-based grammar, grammaticalization, etc., and linguists working in these fields are strongly encouraged to participate. The organizers also have a typological focus on agglutinative languages; however, linguists with a different research interest are also more than welcome.
The language of the conference is English.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University
Susanne Niemeier, University of Koblenz-Landau
The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max one page including data and references) is June 10, 2010. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the address of the organizing committee: diagram(a)btk.elte.hu. Send your abstract as attachment to an e-mail message (in both .pdf and .doc formats). Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. The abstracts will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Participants will be notified about acceptance by July 10, 2010.
The body of the e-mail should include the following information (preferably in this order):
1) Name of the participant
2) Title of presentation
3) Affiliation
4) E-mail address
5) Choice of paper or poster presentation
The book of abstracts will be published on the conference website, at www.diagram.elte.hu.
The organizers at Eötvös Loránd University:
Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy
Krisztina Laczkó
Szilárd Tátrai
Mária Ladányi
Nóra Kugler
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The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center seminar series at
the CEU will be given by
Ori Friedman (Psychology, Waterloo)
Pretense and acquiring general knowledge
Wednesday, April 28, 5.00pm
Abstract: Young children need to be able to acquire general knowledge about
absent things. I report a series of experiments suggesting that one way
children can acquire such knowledge is by sharing in pretend-play. This work
highlights a new means by which children can learn about the world, and may
help explain some distinct features of pretense. I will also discuss
explanations for why children learn from pretense, and suggest that
children’s ability to do so may provide support for the view that
recognizing pretense involves theory of mind.
