THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
25 June 4:00 PM Room 208 (Muzeum krt. 4/i)
Miklos Lehmann
Department of Social Science
Faculty of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training
Eotvos University, Budapest
Mentalis reprezentaciok: kiserlet a fogalom tisztazasara
(Mental representation: an attempt to clarify the concept)
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007/June/#4
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The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
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TITLE: The Shared Circuits Model: How Control, Mirroring and Simulation Can Enable
Imitation, Deliberation, and Mindreading
AUTHOR: Susan Hurley
ABSTRACT: Imitation, deliberation, and mindreading are characteristically human
sociocognitive skills. Research on imitation and its role in social cognition is
flourishing across various disciplines; it is here surveyed under headings of behavior,
subpersonal mechanisms, and functions of imitation. A model is then advanced within which
many of the developments surveyed can be located and explained. The shared circuits model
explains how imitation, deliberation, and mindreading can be enabled by subpersonal
mechanisms of control, mirroring and simulation. It is cast at a middle, functional level
of description, between the level of neural implementation and the level of conscious
perceptions and intentional actions. The shared circuits model connects shared
informational dynamics for perception and action with shared informational dynamics for
self and other, while also showing how the action/perception, self/other and
actual/possible distinctions can be overlaid on these shared informational dynamics. It
avoids the common conception of perception and action as separate and peripheral to
central cognition. Rather, it contributes to the situated cognition movement by showing
how mechanisms for perceiving action can be built on those for active perception.
The shared circuits model is developed heuristically, in five layers that can be combined
in various ways to frame specific ontogenetic or phylogenetic hypotheses. The starting
point is dynamic online motor control, whereby an organism is closely attuned to its
embedding environment through sensorimotor feedback. Onto this are layered functions of
prediction and simulation of feedback, mirroring, simulation of mirroring, monitored
inhibition of motor output, and monitored simulation of input. Finally, monitored
simulation of input specifying possible actions plus inhibited mirroring of such possible
actions can generate information about the possible as opposed to actual instrumental
actions of others, and the possible causes and effects of such possible actions, enabling
strategic social deliberation. Multiple instances of such shared circuits structures
could be linked into a network permitting decomposition and recombination of elements,
enabling flexible control, imitative learning, understanding of other agents, and
instrumental and strategic deliberation. While more advanced forms of social cognition,
which require tracking multiple others and their multiple possible actions, may depend on
interpretative theorizing or language, the shared circuits model shows how layered
mechanisms of control, mirroring and simulation can enable distinctively human cognitive
capacities, for imitation, deliberation and mindreading.
KEYWORDS: Keywords: action, active perception, control, embodied cognition, imitation,
instrumental deliberation, isomorphism, mindreading, mirroring, mirror neurons, shared
circuits, simulation, social cognition
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TITLE: The Shared Circuits Model: How Control, Mirroring and Simulation Can Enable
Imitation, Deliberation, and Mindreading
AUTHOR: Susan Hurley
ABSTRACT: Imitation, deliberation, and mindreading are characteristically human
sociocognitive skills. Research on imitation and its role in social cognition is
flourishing across various disciplines; it is here surveyed under headings of behavior,
subpersonal mechanisms, and functions of imitation. A model is then advanced within which
many of the developments surveyed can be located and explained. The shared circuits model
explains how imitation, deliberation, and mindreading can be enabled by subpersonal
mechanisms of control, mirroring and simulation. It is cast at a middle, functional level
of description, between the level of neural implementation and the level of conscious
perceptions and intentional actions. The shared circuits model connects shared
informational dynamics for perception and action with shared informational dynamics for
self and other, while also showing how the action/perception, self/other and
actual/possible distinctions can be overlaid on these shared informational dynamics. It
avoids the common conception of perception and action as separate and peripheral to
central cognition. Rather, it contributes to the situated cognition movement by showing
how mechanisms for perceiving action can be built on those for active perception.
The shared circuits model is developed heuristically, in five layers that can be combined
in various ways to frame specific ontogenetic or phylogenetic hypotheses. The starting
point is dynamic online motor control, whereby an organism is closely attuned to its
embedding environment through sensorimotor feedback. Onto this are layered functions of
prediction and simulation of feedback, mirroring, simulation of mirroring, monitored
inhibition of motor output, and monitored simulation of input. Finally, monitored
simulation of input specifying possible actions plus inhibited mirroring of such possible
actions can generate information about the possible as opposed to actual instrumental
actions of others, and the possible causes and effects of such possible actions, enabling
strategic social deliberation. Multiple instances of such shared circuits structures
could be linked into a network permitting decomposition and recombination of elements,
enabling flexible control, imitative learning, understanding of other agents, and
instrumental and strategic deliberation. While more advanced forms of social cognition,
which require tracking multiple others and their multiple possible actions, may depend on
interpretative theorizing or language, the shared circuits model shows how layered
mechanisms of control, mirroring and simulation can enable distinctively human cognitive
capacities, for imitation, deliberation and mindreading.
KEYWORDS: Keywords: action, active perception, control, embodied cognition, imitation,
instrumental deliberation, isomorphism, mindreading, mirroring, mirror neurons, shared
circuits, simulation, social cognition
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2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Orlando, Florida
August 12-17, 2007
See the program details at:
http://www.ijcnn2007.org
We invite participation to the 2007 International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007),
sponsored by the International Neural Network Society and co-
sponsored by the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It is the premier event in
the field of
neural networks. It covers all topics in neural network theories and
applications.
IJCNN 2007 will feature plenary speakers, special sessions, moderated
panel
discussions, pre-conference tutorials, post-conference workshops,
regular
technical sessions, poster sessions, and social functions.
For further information. see:
http://www.ijcnn2007.org
(click on "technical program", "plenary speakers", etc.)
General Chair:
Jennie Si
Arizona State University
Program Chair:
Ron Sun
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Professor Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, NY 12180, USA
phone: 518-276-3409
fax: 518-276-3017
email: rsun(a)rpi.edu
web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
18 June 4:00 PM Room 208 (Muzeum krt. 4/i)
Gergely Szekely
Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
A conceptual analysis of the relativistic clock paradox
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007/June/#3
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The Forum is open to everyone, including students,visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes!
Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60
minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian.
A printable poster is available from here:
http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007/June/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos University
Room 208 Monday 4:00 PM Muzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
Web site: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf
18 June 4:00 PM Room 208 (Muzeum krt. 4/i)
Gergely Szekely
Algebraic Logic, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
A conceptual analysis of the relativistic clock paradox
Abstract: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007/June/#3
___________________________________
The Forum is open to everyone, including students,visitors, and faculty
members from all departments and institutes!
Format: 60 minute lecture, 10 minute coffee break, followed by a 30-60
minute discussion. The language of presentation is English or Hungarian.
A printable poster is available from here:
http://phil.elte.hu/tpf/2007/June/poster.pdf
Please feel free to post it in your institution!
The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo
(leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu)
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L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo
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5th Worskhop on "Methods for Modalities" (M4M-5)
http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M5
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
November 29-30
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Scope
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The workshop ``Methods for Modalities'' (M4M) aims to bring together
researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods
and tools based on modal logics. Here the term ``modal logics'' is
conceived broadly, including temporal logic, description logic,
guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc.
To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a
number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations
aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of
system demonstrations.
We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers
and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools
which are related to modal logics.
More information about the previous editions can be found at
http://m4m.loria.fr/
Paper Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit papers in the following three
categories.
- Regular papers up to 15 pages, describing original results,
work in progress, or future directions of research.
- System descriptions of up to 12 pages, describing new systems or
significant upgrades of existing ones.
- Presentation-only papers, describing work recently published
or submitted (no page limit). These will not be included in the
proceedings, but pre-prints or post-prints can be made available to
participants.
Submissions should be made via Easychair at the following address:
http://www.easychair.org/M4M5/
Final versions of accepted papers will be published online
in an Elsevier ENTCS volume. A preliminary version of the proceedings
will also be available at the workshop.
Invited speakers
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Ahmed Bouajjani (University of Paris 7)
Patricia Bouyer (OUCL, Oxford - LSV, ENS Cachan)
Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam)
Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool)
Important dates
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Deadline for submissions: September 7th, 2007
Notification: October 10, 2007
Camera ready versions: November 5, 2007
Workshop dates: November 29-30, 2007
Program Committee
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Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham
Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair)
Philippe Balbiani, IRIT,
Nicole Bidoit, Universite Paris-Sud
Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine
Torben Brauner, Roskilde University
Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan (co-chair)
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Valentin Goranko, University of the Witwatersrand
Rajeev Gore, ANU, NICTA
Carsten Lutz, Dresden University of Technology
Nicolas Markey, ENS de Cachan
Angelo Montanari, University of Udine
Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester
Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University / FIRST
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester
Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam/ Stanford University
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INRIA Researcher fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79
e-mail: carlos.areces(a)loria.fr
INRIA Lorraine. www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces
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