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by Krisztina Biber

The Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a lecture by David Owens (University of Sheffield) on "The Right and the Reasonable" Wednesday, 12 November, 5.00 PM Zrinyi 14, room 412 DAVID OWENS (BA Cambridge, BPhil, DPhil Oxford) joined the Philosophy Department of the University of Sheffield in October 1993 from Cambridge, where he has held a variety of research fellowships, and after a period as a visiting lecturer at the University of Sydney. He has published papers on ethics, philosophy of mind, and the nature of explanation, and is the author of Causes and Coincidences (1992) and Reason Without Freedom (2000). ******************************************************** The Philosophy Department and the Hungarian Philosophical Association cordially invite you to the Annual HPA Lecture delivered by Anthony Long (Professor of Classics,University of California, Berkeley) on "Eudaimonism, Rationality and Divinity" Thursday, 13 November, 5.00 PM Gellner room (9. Nador str. Monument Building #103) ANTHONY A. LONG (B.A. and Ph.D. University of London) held various positions in New Zealand and England before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. Since then he has also been appointed Irving Stone Professor of Literature (1991) and Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric (1995). He has published seminal papers and monographs on the Presocratics and on Hellenistic philosophy, and (together with David Sedley) the fundamental two-volume collection of texts in Hellenistic philosophy with philosophical commentary. Selected Publications Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life (Oxford University Press 2002) The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy, ed. by A. A. Long (Cambridge University Press 1999) Stoic studies (Cambridge University Press 1996) Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, ed. with A.W. Bulloch, E.S. Gruen, A. Stewart (University of California Press, 1993) The Hellenistic Philosophers, , with D.N. Sedley (Cambridge University Press, 1987) vol. 1: The principal sources in translation with philosophical commentary; vol. 2: Greek and Latin texts with notes. Hellenistic Philosophy, Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (2nd ed.,Gerald Duckworth, University of California Press, 1986) Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu

22 years, 7 months

cognition at christmas /FACE PROCESSING/ conference at the Center for Cogntive Sciences, Technical Univ. Budapest

by Dr. Kovács Gyula

T. kollegak, szeretettel varunk mindenkit a lenti rendezvenyunkre. Udvozlettel, Pleh Csaba, Csibra Gergely, Kovacs Gyula Centre for Cognitive Sciences Cognition at Christmas III Symposium on Face Processing Friday, 19 December 2003 http://www.itm.bme.hu/ktk/cogchris/index.htm Programme Morning Session 9.00 - 10.00 Philippe Schyns University of Glasgow y Face perception: Relating brain and behavioral states 10.00 - 10.30 Ilona Kovács Rutgers University and Budapest University of Technology and Economics y What kids cannot learn at the age of five 10.30 - 11.00 Zsolt Cselényi University of Debrecen Gyula Kovács Budapest University of Technology and Economics Zoltán Vidnyánszky Semmelweis University, Budapest Péter Földiák University of St Andrews y Easy facial morphing technique *** 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break *** 11.30 - 12.00 Mark Johnson Birkbeck College, London y The development of the social brain 12.00 - 12.30 Teresa Farroni University of Padua y Perceiving and acting on eye gaze 12.30 - 13.00 György Gergely Institute for Psychological Research, Budapest y Social sensitisation to emotions: Contingency detection and the social biofeedback theory *** *** *** 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break *** *** *** Afternoon Session 14.00 - 14.30 Tamás Bereczkei and Norbert Meskó University of Pécs y Hair styles and female facial attractiveness 14.30 - 15.00 Gyula Kovács Budapest University of Technology and Economics Zoltán Vidnyánszky Semmelweis University, Budapest Andrea Antal University of Göttingen y Facial adaptation: An ERP study 15.00 - 15.30 Gilles Pourtois and Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva y Fearful faces call for attention: evidence from ERPs, source localization and spatial cluster analysis *** 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break *** 16.00 - 17.00 Beatrice de Gelder Tilburg University y Beyond face modularity: Interactions between identity and expression recognition in normal observers and prosopagnosics 17.00 - 17.30 András Lorincz Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest y Human communication interface (HCI) for persons with special communication needs 17.30 - 18.00 Annette Karmiloff-Smith University College London y Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The need to build developmental trajectories *** *** *** 19.00 - Dinner *** *** ***

22 years, 7 months

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m, V. Bekes

by Laszlo E. Szabo

22 years, 7 months

Behrendt & Young/A unifying model for hallucinations in brain disease: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Hallucinations in schizophrenia, sensory impairment and brain disease: A unifying model by Ralf-Peter Behrendt and Claire Young http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Behrendt-01042003/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Hallucinations in schizophrenia, sensory impairment and brain disease: A unifying model Ralf-Peter Behrendt and Claire Young ABSTRACT: Based on recent insight into the thalamocortical system and its role in perception and conscious experience, a unified pathophysiological framework for hallucinations in neurological and psychiatric conditions is proposed, which integrates previously unrelated neurobiological and psychological findings. Gamma-frequency rhythms of discharge activity from thalamic and cortical neurons are facilitated by cholinergic arousal and resonate in networks of thalamocortical circuits, thereby transiently forming assemblies of coherent gamma oscillations under constraints of afferent sensory input and prefrontal attentional mechanisms. If perception is based on synchronisation of intrinsic gamma activity in the thalamocortical system, then sensory input to specific thalamic nuclei may merely play a constraining role. Hallucinations can be regarded as underconstrained perceptions that arise when the impact of sensory input on activation of thalamocortical circuits and synchronisation of thalamocortical gamma activity is reduced. In conditions that are accompanied by hallucinations, factors such as cortical hyperexcitability, cortical attentional mechanisms, hyperarousal, increased noise in specific thalamic nuclei and random sensory input to specific thalamic nuclei may to a varying degree contribute to underconstrained activation of thalamocortical circuits. The reticular thalamic nucleus plays an important role in suppressing random activity of relay cells in specific thalamic nuclei and its dysfunction may be implicated in the biological vulnerability to hallucinations in schizophrenia. Combined with general activation during cholinergic arousal, this leads to excessive disinhibition in specific thalamic nuclei, which may allow cortical attentional mechanisms to recruit thalamic relay cells into resonant assemblies of gamma oscillations regardless of their actual sensory input, thereby producing an underconstrained perceptual experience. KEYWORDS: Charles Bonnet syndrome, gamma oscillations, hallucinations, Lewy-body dementia, perception, schizophrenia, thalamocortical system http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Behrendt-01042003/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Jeffrey Gray Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

22 years, 7 months

Behrendt & Young/A unifying model for hallucinations in brain disease: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Hallucinations in schizophrenia, sensory impairment and brain disease: A unifying model by Ralf-Peter Behrendt and Claire Young http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Behrendt-01042003/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Hallucinations in schizophrenia, sensory impairment and brain disease: A unifying model Ralf-Peter Behrendt and Claire Young ABSTRACT: Based on recent insight into the thalamocortical system and its role in perception and conscious experience, a unified pathophysiological framework for hallucinations in neurological and psychiatric conditions is proposed, which integrates previously unrelated neurobiological and psychological findings. Gamma-frequency rhythms of discharge activity from thalamic and cortical neurons are facilitated by cholinergic arousal and resonate in networks of thalamocortical circuits, thereby transiently forming assemblies of coherent gamma oscillations under constraints of afferent sensory input and prefrontal attentional mechanisms. If perception is based on synchronisation of intrinsic gamma activity in the thalamocortical system, then sensory input to specific thalamic nuclei may merely play a constraining role. Hallucinations can be regarded as underconstrained perceptions that arise when the impact of sensory input on activation of thalamocortical circuits and synchronisation of thalamocortical gamma activity is reduced. In conditions that are accompanied by hallucinations, factors such as cortical hyperexcitability, cortical attentional mechanisms, hyperarousal, increased noise in specific thalamic nuclei and random sensory input to specific thalamic nuclei may to a varying degree contribute to underconstrained activation of thalamocortical circuits. The reticular thalamic nucleus plays an important role in suppressing random activity of relay cells in specific thalamic nuclei and its dysfunction may be implicated in the biological vulnerability to hallucinations in schizophrenia. Combined with general activation during cholinergic arousal, this leads to excessive disinhibition in specific thalamic nuclei, which may allow cortical attentional mechanisms to recruit thalamic relay cells into resonant assemblies of gamma oscillations regardless of their actual sensory input, thereby producing an underconstrained perceptual experience. KEYWORDS: Charles Bonnet syndrome, gamma oscillations, hallucinations, Lewy-body dementia, perception, schizophrenia, thalamocortical system http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Behrendt-01042003/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Jeffrey Gray Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

22 years, 7 months

(Fwd) PhD position available

by István Winkler

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Dear colleagues, Could you please advertise in your department/institution and to your students the following position, which will be open in my lab for the next four years. Thanks in advance. Carles PhD position in Cognitive Neuroscience Neurodynamics Laboratory Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology University of Barcelona Catalonia-Spain A 4-years PhD position supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology will be soon available to participate in a research project aimed at investigating the cerebral mechanisms of the exogenous control of attention in human subjects, mainly by means of event-related brain potentials and magnetoencephalography. The candidate will join the University of Barcelona Neuroscience PhD program, and to a research team located in the Faculty of Psychology. Please, send your CV, including your academic marks and an outline of your experience and interests, as well as the contact details of two persons who can give references from you. Experience with ERP and/or MEG methods is also desirable but not necessary. Tentative starting date: January 1st, 2004 Duration: 4 years Deadline for application: November 110th, 2003 Contact details: *********************************************************** Carles Escera, PhD, Professor Neurodynamics Laboratory Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology University of Barcelona P. Vall d'Hebron 171 * 08035 Barcelona * Catalonia-Spain Tel:+34 933 125 048 * Cellular phone:+34 629 611 128 Fax:+34 934 034 424 * email: cescera(a)psi.ub.es *********************************************************** ------- End of forwarded message --------- ----------Note, phone and fax numbers have changed.------------ Istvan Winkler Mailing address: Institute for Psychology H-1394 Budapest, P.O.B. 398 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szondy u 83/85, HUNGARY Phone: (36-1) 3542-296 Fax: (36-1) 3542-416 e-mail: winkler(a)cogpsyphy.hu or winkler(a)psych.helsinki.fi

22 years, 7 months

Pothos - The Rules versus Similarity Distinction: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Rules versus Similarity Distinction by Emmanuel M. Pothos http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Pothos/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The Rules versus Similarity Distinction Emmanuel M. Pothos Department of Psychology University of Edinburgh ABSTRACT: The distinction between rules and similarity is central to our understanding of much of cognitive psychology. Two aspects of existing research have motivated the present work. First, in different cognitive psychology areas we typically see different conceptions of rules and similarity; for example, rules in language appear to be of a different kind compared to rules in categorization. Second, rules processes are typically modeled as separate from similarity ones; for example, in a learning experiment rules and similarity influences would be described on the basis of separate models. In the present work, we assume that the rules vs. similarity distinction can be understood in the same way in learning, reasoning, categorization, and language, and that a unified model for rules and similarity is appropriate. A rules process is considered to be a similarity one where only a single or a small subset of an objects properties are involved. Hence, rules and overall similarity operations are extremes in a single continuum of similarity operations. It is argued that this viewpoint allows adequate coverage of theory and empirical findings in learning, reasoning, categorization, and language, and also a reassessment of the objectives in research on rules vs. similarity. KEYWORDS: categorization, cognitive explanation, language, learning, reasoning, rules, similarity http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Pothos/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Jeffrey Gray - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

22 years, 7 months

Pothos - The Rules versus Similarity Distinction: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Rules versus Similarity Distinction by Emmanuel M. Pothos http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Pothos/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The Rules versus Similarity Distinction Emmanuel M. Pothos Department of Psychology University of Edinburgh ABSTRACT: The distinction between rules and similarity is central to our understanding of much of cognitive psychology. Two aspects of existing research have motivated the present work. First, in different cognitive psychology areas we typically see different conceptions of rules and similarity; for example, rules in language appear to be of a different kind compared to rules in categorization. Second, rules processes are typically modeled as separate from similarity ones; for example, in a learning experiment rules and similarity influences would be described on the basis of separate models. In the present work, we assume that the rules vs. similarity distinction can be understood in the same way in learning, reasoning, categorization, and language, and that a unified model for rules and similarity is appropriate. A rules process is considered to be a similarity one where only a single or a small subset of an objects properties are involved. Hence, rules and overall similarity operations are extremes in a single continuum of similarity operations. It is argued that this viewpoint allows adequate coverage of theory and empirical findings in learning, reasoning, categorization, and language, and also a reassessment of the objectives in research on rules vs. similarity. KEYWORDS: categorization, cognitive explanation, language, learning, reasoning, rules, similarity http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Pothos/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Paul Bloom - Editor Barbara Finlay - Editor Jeffrey Gray - Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

22 years, 7 months

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m, November

by Laszlo E. Szabo

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pázmány P. sétány 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Program: November 3 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 V er a B e k e s Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences A tudományos tudas 'pedagogiai kontextusa' es ritualis dimenzioi (The 'pedagogical context' and ritual dimensions of scientific knowledge) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2003/November/#1 10 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 G a b o r H o f e r- S z a b a Department of Phylosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics Reichenabch-i Kozos Ok Rendszerek (Reichenbachian Common Cause Systems) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2003/November/#2 17 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 C s a n a d C s a ji B a l a z s Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Tanulo es adaptiv rendszerek (Adaptive and learning systems) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2003/November/#3 24 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 T a m a s M i h a l y d e a k Institute for Philosophy, University of Debrecen A kompozicionalitás logikafilozofiai, logikai aspektusai (Logical and philosophical aspects of compositionality) Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2003/November/#4 ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium for the academic year 2003/2004: Miklós Rédei (email: redei(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o NIAS, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences phone:(31)70 512 2700 fax:(31)70 511 7162 http://www.nias.knaw.nl on leave from Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo

22 years, 7 months

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m, A. E r d e l y i

by Laszlo E. Szabo

P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pázmány P. sétány 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 27 October 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 A g n e s E r d e l y i Institute for Philosophy, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Az idealtipikus konstrukciok (The method of 'ideal types') Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2003/October/#4 ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium for the academic year 2003/2004: Miklós Rédei (email: redei(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o NIAS, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences phone:(31)70 512 2700 fax:(31)70 511 7162 http://www.nias.knaw.nl on leave from Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo

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