A reminder of the talk tomorrow.
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>, pw: xfhq44
Chair: Ágnes Kovács
Speaker: Dima Amso<https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/dima-amso> (Columbia University)<https://www.emilyliquin.com>
Title: Infant learning and memory systems and impact on attention orienting
Abstract: Visual attention both guides and is guided by learning and memory systems. A great deal of research has shown that what is attended, and the development of visual attention, is critical for what is learned from a complex environment in infancy. In this talk, I will focus on the learning and memory mechanisms that in turn impact attention orienting. I will present data on reward learning and hierarchical rule learning in infancy. I will end with the idea that a multiple-memory systems approach offers a useful organizational structure for research on interactions between attention and memory.
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Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>, pw: xfhq44
Chair: Ágnes Kovács
Speaker: Dima Amso<https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/dima-amso> (Columbia University)<https://www.emilyliquin.com>
Title: Infant learning and memory systems and impact on attention orienting
Abstract: Visual attention both guides and is guided by learning and memory systems. A great deal of research has shown that what is attended, and the development of visual attention, is critical for what is learned from a complex environment in infancy. In this talk, I will focus on the learning and memory mechanisms that in turn impact attention orienting. I will present data on reward learning and hierarchical rule learning in infancy. I will end with the idea that a multiple-memory systems approach offers a useful organizational structure for research on interactions between attention and memory.
Let me know if you would like to schedule an online meeting with the speaker.
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by Eszter Körtvélyesi and Rachel Dudley | BCCCD 2023 Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce that the submission window for the 13th annual BCCCD meeting (BCCCD23) is now open. BCCCD23<https://bcccd.org/> will take place in Budapest, Hungary from January 5-7, 2023.
INVITED SPEAKERS
H. Clark Barrett<http://www.hclarkbarrett.com/> (University of California, Los Angeles)
Anne Christophe<https://lscp.dec.ens.fr/fr/member/623/anne-christophe> (CNRS & Ecole normale supérieure – PSL, Paris)
Kang Lee<https://www.kangleelab.com/> (University of Toronto)
Alongside our invited program, we welcome symposium, paper and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive development. Previous BCCCD meetings featured a wide range of topics, such as communication, pragmatics, social cognition, conceptual development, language acquisition, numeracy, object cognition, perceptual learning, inductive learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, cognitive bases of culture, and comparative cognition.
New this year, we have a much earlier deadline for submission of talks and symposia in order to accommodate our expanded reviewer pool (while still maintaining our traditional late submission deadline for poster presentations). We are also welcoming proposals for half-day pre-conference events, such as workshops or tutorials, that would be relevant to the BCCCD audience.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission window open: May 15, 2022
Talk submission deadline: July 31, 2022 midnight CEST (GMT+1)
Symposia submission deadline: July 31, 2022 midnight CEST (GMT+1)
Poster submission deadline: October 1, 2022 midnight CEST (GMT+1)
Pre-conference event submission deadline: October 1, 2022 midnight CEST (GMT+1)
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2022
Registration opens: November 1, 2022
Despite the unpredictable development of global health conditions in the past years, we are optimistic that BCCCD23 can take place in Budapest as in pre-pandemic times, with hybrid online formats available for those who cannot join us in person. However, we are prepared to transition to a fully online format (as in 2021 and 2022) if necessary, and we will keep you apprised of any developments as they occur.
While CEU has been facing the challenge of relocating most operations to Vienna, we reassure all prospective participants that we are committed to maintaining the tradition of the Budapest campus of CEU as the site of BCCCD meetings in 2023 and beyond.
For more information, please visit https://bcccd.org/.
Eszter Körtvélyesi and Rachel Dudley
BCCCD23 Chairs on behalf of the Program Committee
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Dear all,
just a reminder of Andrea Halpern's talk tomorrow (Monday, May 23). The
talk will take place in-person at the Izabella Street building of ELTE.
Please register by sending an email to nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu if
you would like to attend.
*Time and date:* 14:00 (CET), Monday, 23. 05. 2022
*Location: *Room 101, Izabella utca 46., 1064 Budapest
*Speaker:* Andrea Halpern (Bucknell University)
*Title:* Memory for Music: For Better or Worse
*Abstract:* Memory for some aspects of music is surprisingly good...and
in other ways it is surprisingly bad! In this talk I will review a wide
variety of older and newer research projects that contrast the
difficulties with encoding new music into memory (even for musicians),
contrasting with situations in which some aspects of already-learned
music are very well preserved, even over long time periods or neural
challenges. I will offer some ideas about how these two situations might
also have some elements in common but also reasons for why they differ,
and how examining memory for music can illuminate general principles of
memory.
If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email
(nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu).
We look forward to seeing you there,
Zsuzsanna Nemecz
Réka Schvajda
organizers
ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology
Dear all,
We would like to invite you to the following talk by Andrea Halpern
(Bucknell University), organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar
series. The talk will take place in-person at the Izabella Street
building of ELTE. Please register by sending an email to
nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu if you would like to attend.
*Time and date:* 14:00 (CET), Monday, 23. 05. 2022
*Location: *Room 101, Izabella utca 46., 1064 Budapest
*Speaker:* Andrea Halpern (Bucknell University)
*Title:* Memory for Music: For Better or Worse
*Abstract:* Memory for some aspects of music is surprisingly good...and
in other ways it is surprisingly bad! In this talk I will review a wide
variety of older and newer research projects that contrast the
difficulties with encoding new music into memory (even for musicians),
contrasting with situations in which some aspects of already-learned
music are very well preserved, even over long time periods or neural
challenges. I will offer some ideas about how these two situations might
also have some elements in common but also reasons for why they differ,
and how examining memory for music can illuminate general principles of
memory.
If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email
(nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu).
We look forward to seeing you there,
Zsuzsanna Nemecz
Réka Schvajda
organizers
ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology
A reminder of the talk tomorrow.
Time: 4pm (to 5:30pm) Budapest/Vienna time
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>, pw: xfhq44
Chair: Gergo
Speaker: Melissa Kibbe<https://www.bu.edu/cdl/developing-minds-lab/> (Boston University)<https://www.emilyliquin.com>
Title: Computations underlying "arithmetic" over non-symbolic representations of quantity
Abstract: Infants and young children can solve "arithmetic-like problems" using non-symbolic representations of quantity (e.g. solving "one object" + "one object"), and these early non-symbolic abilities are thought to support the acquisition of formal mathematics in school. How do untutored children perform non-symbolic "arithmetic-like" computations? Formal symbolic arithmetic is defined by function rules that specify how operators operate over inputs to produce outputs, and these function rules allow for the principled combination and manipulation of numerals. In this talk, I will present recent research from my lab that suggests that human's early, non-symbolic "arithmetic" abilities are much more computationally limited. Our results provide new insights into the computations underlying early numeracy abilities, and suggest computational limitations on early non-symbolic numerical competencies that could limit their effectiveness as scaffolding for the acquisition of formal arithmetic knowledge.
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As a reminder, the following talk by Nora S. Newcombe (Temple
University) will take place tomorrow at 4pm, organized as part of the
ELTE Cognitive Seminar series.
*Time and date:* 16:00 (CET), Tuesday, 10. 05. 2022
*Speaker:* Nora S. Newcombe (Temple University)
*Title:* Charting Our Way in Space and Time
*Abstract:* Episodic memory and navigation are two adaptive functions
that share some neural substrates and that develop in humans from
fragile beginnings in the first two years to mature competencies (with
individual differences) by early adolescence. But how are they related,
both in development and maturity? In this talk, I will discuss the two
developmental trajectories, and some possible answers to that question.
*Zoom link:*
https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/97494506030?pwd=N1RkbXVYYS8vN2N5VmZ0YjVFMmVRZ…
<https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/99679798942?pwd=eDMvWDF1Y0tkSW5zemVMZ2plRzRrU…>
*Meeting ID:* 974 9450 6030
*Passcode:* 337102
If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email
(nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu).
We look forward to seeing you there,
Zsuzsanna Nemecz
Réka Schvajda
organizers
ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology
Time: 4pm (to 5:30pm) Budapest/Vienna time
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>, pw: xfhq44
Chair: Gergo
Speaker: Melissa Kibbe<https://www.bu.edu/cdl/developing-minds-lab/> (Boston University)<https://www.emilyliquin.com>
Title: Computations underlying "arithmetic" over non-symbolic representations of quantity
Abstract: Infants and young children can solve "arithmetic-like problems" using non-symbolic representations of quantity (e.g. solving "one object" + "one object"), and these early non-symbolic abilities are thought to support the acquisition of formal mathematics in school. How do untutored children perform non-symbolic "arithmetic-like" computations? Formal symbolic arithmetic is defined by function rules that specify how operators operate over inputs to produce outputs, and these function rules allow for the principled combination and manipulation of numerals. In this talk, I will present recent research from my lab that suggests that human's early, non-symbolic "arithmetic" abilities are much more computationally limited. Our results provide new insights into the computations underlying early numeracy abilities, and suggest computational limitations on early non-symbolic numerical competencies that could limit their effectiveness as scaffolding for the acquisition of formal arithmetic knowledge.
Let me know if you would like to schedule an online meeting with the speaker.
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A reminder of the talk tomorrow.
Time: 4pm (to 5:30pm) Budapest/Vienna time
Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Venue: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>, pw: xfhq44
Chair: Bálint Varga
Speaker: Emily Liquin<https://www.emilyliquin.com> (New York University)<https://www.emilyliquin.com>
Title: How curiosity guides us towards good explanations
Abstract: Curiosity motivates exploration and is beneficial for learning, but curiosity is not always experienced when facing the unknown. Why do humans experience curiosity in some circumstances but not others? And how does this change across development? In this talk, I will present my recent work investigating whether explanation-seeking curiosity — curiosity about a "why" or "how" question — is selective in a way that is tuned to the epistemic aims of explanation. If curiosity is selective in this way, we would expect learners to be most curious when they are most likely to learn useful and generalizable explanations. Our results show that curiosity motivates explanation search selectively towards explanations that a learner believes hold promise for learning. However, in ongoing work, we find that the triggers of curiosity change between childhood and adulthood. Broadly, this research sheds light on how human learners across the lifespan decide when to seek information and what questions to ask.
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Dear all,
We would like to invite you to the following talk by Nora S. Newcombe
(Temple University), organized as part of the ELTE Cognitive Seminar series.
*Time and date:* 16:00 (CET), Tuesday, 10. 05. 2022
*Speaker:* Nora S. Newcombe (Temple University)
*Title:* Charting Our Way in Space and Time
*Abstract:* Episodic memory and navigation are two adaptive functions
that share some neural substrates and that develop in humans from
fragile beginnings in the first two years to mature competencies (with
individual differences) by early adolescence. But how are they related,
both in development and maturity? In this talk, I will discuss the two
developmental trajectories, and some possible answers to that question.
*Zoom link:*
https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/97494506030?pwd=N1RkbXVYYS8vN2N5VmZ0YjVFMmVRZ…
<https://ppk-elte-hu.zoom.us/j/99679798942?pwd=eDMvWDF1Y0tkSW5zemVMZ2plRzRrU…>
*Meeting ID:* 974 9450 6030
*Passcode:* 337102
If you have questions about the event, please contact us via email
(nemecz.zsuzsanna(a)ppk.elte.hu or reka.schvajda(a)ppk.elte.hu).
We look forward to seeing you there,
Zsuzsanna Nemecz
Réka Schvajda
organizers
ELTE Department of Cognitive Psychology