Invitation
to the international symposium
States of Consciousness, Systems of Logic, and the Construction of Order
to be held at the
Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
10-13 September 2007
organized by
László Ropolyi
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
and
Guenther Fleck
Institute for Human and Social Sciences, National Defence Academy
Vienna, Austria
and
Austrian Society of Organismic-Systemic Research and Theory
Vienna, Austria
Schedule
Day of Arrival: 10 Sept. 2007
Symposium: 11-12 Sept. 2007
Day of Departure: 13 Sept. 2007
Venue
Eötvös University, Lágymányos campus, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány sétány 1
Tuesday: Northern building, Room 1.129 - Wednesday: Southern building,
Room 1.104
Program
Tuesday morning, 10:00 - 13:00, 11 September - Northern building, Room 1.129
Shulamith Kreitler (Tel-Aviv):
"The Four-Pronged Approach to Logic in Terms of the Meaning System"
Tomás Urbánek (Brno):
"On the Gottschalk-Gleser System of Thematic Content Analysis in
Comparison with Kreitlers' System of Meaning"
Miroslav Filip (Brno):
"On the Semantic Selection Test"
Tuesday afternoon, 15:00 - 18:00, 11 September - Northern building, Room
1.129
László Mérő (Budapest):
"Scientific Thought - Its Strengths and Limits"
Rainer Born (Linz):
"Persuasion vs. Acceptance: Some Investigations into the Relation between
Formal Logic and the Logic of Consciousness"
Oded Maimon (Tel-Aviv):
"Implicit Logic for the Construction of Order"
Wednesday morning, 10:00 - 13:00, 12 September - Southern building, Room
1.104
Katalin Varga (Budapest):
"The Possibilities of Suggestive Communication in Trance States of
Critically Ill"
Guenther Fleck (Vienna):
"Logic and Modes of Being: Exploring Multiple Realities"
Oded Maimon (Tel-Aviv):
"Experience with Indian Philosophies with Regard to Phases of consciousness"
Wednesday afternoon, 15:00 - 18:00, 12 September - Southern building,
Room 1.104
Egon Gál (Bratislava):
"The Role of Consciousness in Decision Making and Reasoning"
Antero Johansson (Helsinki):
"From Linguistic Relativity to Mental Models Relativity: Different
Languages, Different Logics"
László Ropolyi (Budapest):
"Mental and Material Pictures in the Communication"
Kedves Kollégák!
Csatoltam a Szegedi Megismeréstudományi és Neuropszichológia Programunk
2007. őszi kinálatát (PDF és doc file-ban).
További információk megújult (!) honlapunkon:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/
Várunk minden érdeklődőt sok szeretettel!
Dezso
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NEMETH, Dezso
University of Szeged, Department of Psychology
Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/
Cognitive Sciences at University of Szeged:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/english/
Psychology at University of Szeged:
http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/pszichologia/
MINISYMPOSIUM on
Computational Aspects of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases
to be held at the
KFKI RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
September 5th, 2007, Buliding III Meeting room
Programme
10.00
Péter Érdi: Opening
10.05
László Négyessy (Neurobiology Research Group at the Semmelweis
University):
Normal and impaired information flow in the cortex: the decisive role of
reciprocity
10.50 Vaibhav Diwadkar ( Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences
Wayne State University School of Medicine):
Associative learning, schizophrenia, fMRI studies: the need for an
integrative approach
11.40 Kriszta Szalisznyó (Computational Neuroscience Group, RINP HAS):
Dopamine-induced transitions: concepts and model studies
14.00
Brad Flaugher (Center for Complex System Studies, Kalamazoo College) and
Balázs Ujfalussy
(Computational Neuroscience Group, RINP HAS):
A computational model of cortical interaction during an associative
learning task
14.50
Trevor Jones (Center for Complex System Studies, Kalamazoo College) and
László Zalányi
(Computational Neuroscience Group, RINP HAS):
Analysis of fMRI data of cortical interaction during an associative
learning task
Everyone who is interested is welcome!
Péter Érdi
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
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TITLE: The relational reinterpretation hypothesis: Explaining the discontinuity between
human and nonhuman minds
AUTHORS: Derek Penn, Daniel J. Povinelli and Keith J. Holyoak
ABSTRACT: Over the last quarter-century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to downplay the
differences as one of degree and not of kind (Darwin 1871). In the present paper, we
argue that Darwin was mistaken: the profound biological continuity between human and
nonhuman animals masks an equally profound discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds.
To wit, there is a significant discontinuity in the degree to which human and nonhuman
animals are able to approximate the higher-order, systematic, relational capabilities of a
physical symbol system (Newell 1980). We show that this symbolic-relational discontinuity
pervades nearly every domain of cognition and runs much deeper than even the spectacular
scaffolding provided by language or culture alone can explain. We propose a
representational-level specification of where human and nonhuman animals abilities to
approximate a PSS are similar and where they differ. We conclude by suggesting that recent
symbolic-connectionist models of cognition shed new light on the mechanisms that underlie
the gap between human and nonhuman minds.
KEYWORDS: animals, causal reasoning, language of thought, propositional representations,
reinterpretation hypothesis, relational reasoning, theory of mind
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TITLE: The relational reinterpretation hypothesis: Explaining the discontinuity between
human and nonhuman minds
AUTHORS: Derek Penn, Daniel J. Povinelli and Keith J. Holyoak
ABSTRACT: Over the last quarter-century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to downplay the
differences as one of degree and not of kind (Darwin 1871). In the present paper, we
argue that Darwin was mistaken: the profound biological continuity between human and
nonhuman animals masks an equally profound discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds.
To wit, there is a significant discontinuity in the degree to which human and nonhuman
animals are able to approximate the higher-order, systematic, relational capabilities of a
physical symbol system (Newell 1980). We show that this symbolic-relational discontinuity
pervades nearly every domain of cognition and runs much deeper than even the spectacular
scaffolding provided by language or culture alone can explain. We propose a
representational-level specification of where human and nonhuman animals abilities to
approximate a PSS are similar and where they differ. We conclude by suggesting that recent
symbolic-connectionist models of cognition shed new light on the mechanisms that underlie
the gap between human and nonhuman minds.
KEYWORDS: animals, causal reasoning, language of thought, propositional representations,
reinterpretation hypothesis, relational reasoning, theory of mind
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MEGHIVO:
Szeretettel meghivunk minden erdeklodot a 13. Magyar Latas
Szimpoziumra amely iden 2007 augusztus 18-an, jovo szombaton kerul
megrendezesre a Debreceni Egyetem Orvos es Egeszsegtudomanyi Centrum
Anatomiai, Szovet- es Fejlodestani Intezet, Elettudomanyi Kozpontjaban.
A Szimpoziummal kapcsolatos minden informacio (program, eloadas
kivonatok, utazasi es egyeb logisztikai tajekoztato) az alabbi web
oldalon talalhato:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu/latasszimpozium/2007/index.htm
A program rovid kivonatat ezen meghivo vegen is kozoljuk.
Az erdeklodest elore is koszonjuk:
------------------- A Szervezok
TIZENHARMADIK MAGYAR LÁTÁS SZIMPÓZIUM
2007 augusztus 18
Debreceni Egyetem Orvos és Egészségtudományi Centrum, Anatómiai,
Szövet- és Fejlődéstani Intézet
Földszinti előadó (szám: F08-09)
Nagyerdei krt. 98. Debrecen
Tel: (52) 411717
PROGRAMTERV
9:40
MEGNYITO
Kérgi információ transzfer tulajdonságai
9:50
A reciprocitás meghatározó szerepe a kérgi információáramlásban
László Négyessy, Tamás Nepusz, László Zalányi, Fülöp Bazsó
MTA-Pazmany-SZOTE, KFKI, Polytechnical Enginéring College Subotica
10:10
Agykérgi axonok huzalozási ökönómiája
Budd, Julian M L 1, Kovács, Krisztina 2, Ferecskó, S. Alex 2,
Buzás, Péter 2, 3,
Eysel, Ulf T. 2, Kisvárday, Zoltán 2, 4
1 Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton
2 Department of Neurophysiology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
3 Élettani Intézet, Orvostudományi kar, Pécsi Tudományegyetem
4 Anatómiai, Szövet- és Fejlődéstani Int., Debreceni Egyetem
10:30
SZUNET
Kortikális és nem kortikális fiziológia
10:50
A neuronális válasz latencia meghatározása kettős-csúszóablak
módszerrel
Berényi Antal, Benedek György, Nagy Attila
Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar, Élettani
Intézet
11:10
A 4. rétegi tüskés sejtek axonfa eloszlása és kapcsolata a macska
primer látókéreg reprezentációs térképeiben
Fuyuki Karube, Kisvárday, Zoltán
Debreceni Egyetem, Anatómiai, Szövet- és Fejlődéstani Intézet
11:30
A nucleus caudatus neuronok térbeli és időbeli vizuális
tulajdonságai
Márkus Zita, Paróczy Zsuzsanna, Benedek György, Nagy Attila
Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Általános Orvostudományi Kar, Élettani
Intézet
11:50
Az ingeridőtartam kódolása vadászgörény korai látókérgi
területein
Tompa Tamás, David Ericsson, Per Roland
SZTE ÁOK Élettani Intézet, Szeged
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
12:10
SZUNET
Alap attributomok pszichofizikája
12:30
Noradrenerg aktivitás hatása az ingermintázatok különbségeinek
felismerésére
Magos Tibor
OPNI
12:50
Humán orientáció információ feldolgozás természetes képekben
Fiser József, Henry Galperin, Peter J. Bex
Brandeis University, Schepens Eye Institute, Harvard Medical School
1:10
SZUNET
EBED
Illúziók
2:30
A Hermann rács foltjainak komputációs modellje
Geier János
Stereo Vision Ltd
2:50
A RadGrad modell alkalmazása a színes Hermann-rács foltjaira
Füzesiné Hudák Mariann, Geier János
ELTE PPK, Stereo Vision Ltd
3:10
A Chevreul-illúzió változása a háttér rámpa változtatásával
Séra László, Bernáth László, Geier János, Füzesiné Hudák
Mariann
KJF Pszichológia Tanszék, Székesfehérvár; ELTE PPK Pszichológiai
Intézet, Budapest; Stereo Vision Ltd, Budapest
3:30
SZUNET
Arc információ feldolgozás
3:50
Az időben visszafelé maszkolási hatás elektrofiziológiai
korrelátuma arcfeldolgozás-ban
Zimmer Márta, Zsadányi-Nagy Zsanett, Vidnyánszky Zoltán, Kovács
Gyula
BMGE, Kognitiv Tudományi Tanszék
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Információs Technológia Kar
4:10
Tökéletes rövid-távú memória kapacitás az emocionális
arckifejezések tárolására
Bankó Éva & Vidnyánszky Zoltán
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Információs Technológia Kar,
Neurobionikai Kutatócsoport, MTA, SZOTE
Magasabb vizuális funkciók
4:30
Vizuális memória – vizuális intelligencia
Czigler István
MTA Pszichológiai Intezet
4:50
A szubitizációs terjedelem növelése tanult alakzatokkal
Krajcsi Attila
Szegedi Tudományegyetem, BTK, Pszichológia Tanszék
5:10
SZIMPOZIUM ZÁRÁS
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Tisztelt Érdeklo"do"k:
A mellékelt e-mailben korábban jeleztem, hogy jul. 27-én 11 órakor két
elo"adás
hangzik el majd a Pszichológiai Kutatóintézetben (Szondi u. 83-85.)
A szervezést megkönnyítendo" kérem, hogy aki biztosan részt fog venni,
jelezzen nekem vissza egy rövid egyértelmu" e-mailben.
Köszönettel,
Molnár Márk
Tisztelt Érdeklo"do"k:
Júl. 27-én az MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézetében (Szondi. u. 83-85.) az
Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Department
of Empirical and Analytical Psychophysics (Freiburg) két kutatója 30-30
perces elo"adást tart 11 órai kezdettel. További részletek:
Jiri Wackermann: Global description of brain electrical activity:
assessment of the present state
Cartsten Allefeld: Detecting synchronization clusters in multivariate
time series
Minden érdeklo"do"t szívesen látunk!
Üdvözlettel,
Molnár Márk