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by Nemeth Dezso

Kedves Kognitiv-Népek! A Szegedi Tudományegyetem Kognitv Munkacsoportja mindenkit vár szeretettel az őszi kognitiv kurzusokon. A kurzuskínálatot csatoltam. udv. Németh Dezső SZTE Pszichológia Tk. ---------------------------------------------------------- NEMETH Dezso University of Szeged, Department of Psychology Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu Web: www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd

23 years

Human Ethology in Debrecen

by L�szl� Nemes

23 years

Context 2003 - Call for partecipation

by Roberta Ferrario

[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ****************************************************************** ****************** Call for participation ****************** ****************************************************************** +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online. Please, follow this link to formalize your registration: http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/ You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips. TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION Monday June 23, 2003 -------------------- 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake (Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA) 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I * Robert Porzel Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and Situational Coherence * Hugo Liu Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design * Martin Trautwein Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts * Mark Whitsey Discourse Context and Indexicality 12:30-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning * Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy Varieties of Contexts * John Bell A Common Sense Theory of Causation 15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I * Rolf Nossum A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction * Luciano Serafini Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database Coordination 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling * Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus Explanation as Contextual Categorization * Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties * Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context 18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden. Tuesday June 24, 2003 --------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford University, USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations * Claudia Bianchi How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context * Roger Young Demonstratives, Reference and Perception * Horacio Arlo-Costa A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives * Isidora Stojanovic What to Say on What Is Said 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II * Richmond Thomason Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an Application * Sasa Buvac A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic * Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms * Valeria de Paiva Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-18:30 Poster Session 20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees). Wednesday June 25, 2003 ----------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon (LIP 6, University Paris 6, France) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications * Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations * Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network * Lucas Paletta Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection * Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II * Nobo Komagata Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory * Kavita Thomas Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue * David Ahn Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III * Dominic Widdows A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning * Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching 16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks CONFERENCE CHAIR Fausto Giunchiglia (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK) Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dikran Karagueuzian (dikran(a)roslin.stanford.edu) Michele King (mking(a)csli.stanford.edu) John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Keith Devlin (devlin(a)csli.stanford.edu) Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti(a)psych.stanford.edu)

23 years

ASSC7: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

by Geraint Rees

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 7TH ANNUAL MEETING University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. May 30 - June 2, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The seventh meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held from May 30th to June 2nd, 2003, at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. This is the final call for participation. Invited plenary speakers and symposia will address current empirical and theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, focusing on the theme of models and mechanisms of consciousness. The conference will explore the many connections between models of consciousness and their psychological and neurobiological mechanisms, from the perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science, cognitive ethology, and artificial intelligence. Plenary symposia will include - Global Workspace Theory - Computational models of consciousness - Binocular rivalry and the NCC - The role of feedback and re-entrant mechanisms in consciousness - Animal consciousness Confirmed plenary speakers include: Igor Aleksander, Bernard Baars, Sarah T Boysen, Ned Block, Axel Cleeremans, Peter Carruthers, Daniel Dennett, Vince Di Lollo, Bill Fields, Stan Franklin, Walter J Freeman, Christof Koch, Victor Lamme, David Leopold, Lionel Naccache, Alva Noe, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Aaron Sloman, Petra Stoerig & Frank Tong. For the program, please check the conference website: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/ ASSC7 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific study of consciousness, and as in previous years a significant portion of the program will be set aside for concurrent sessions of submitted talks. ASSC7 will provide an excellent opportunity for the presentation of new empirical findings or novel theoretical perspectives in an atmosphere that will promote discussion and debate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration fees: Non-members USD 225 ASSC members USD 190 Students USD 125 Student ASSC members USD 90 The early membership deadline (April 15, 2003) has now passed. To register, please follow the instructions available from the conference website as they become available: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/ Address all enquiries about registration to assc7(a)memphis.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- All meetings and poster presentations will be held at the University of Memphis campus. Accommodations will be available both at local hotels at discounted rates and at air-conditioned single/double dormitories. Please check the conference website for further information about the meeting, including information about paper and poster submissions; registration and submission forms; information about travel to Memphis and accommodation; and information about the scientific program of the meeting: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~assc7/. The site will be continually updated to reflect the latest information. To enquire about any aspect of the conference, please write to assc7(a)memphis.edu <mailto:assc7@klab.caltech.edu> To find out more about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult: http://assc.caltech.edu/ The ASSC publishes two scientific journals about which further information is available from the following websites: Consciousness & Cognition: http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/cc.htm PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ <http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSC7 Program Committee: Bernard Baars, David Chalmers, Axel Cleeremans, Stan Franklin (chair), Thomas Metzinger, Geraint Rees, Ron Sun, Patrick Wilken. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years

Science & Consciousness Review - Travis: Beyond ordinary consciousness

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Science & Consciousness Review (www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ NEWS Beyond ordinary consciousness - by Fred Travis Self-reports of integration of the transcendent with waking and sleeping states correlate with objective reports of the integration of different EEG patterns. As science earlier quantified the physiological markers of waking, sleeping, and dreaming, so now research has begun to quantify the experience of states beyond ordinary waking. Full text: http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030501.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition - Autobiographical Memory and Conceptions of Self - JOURNAL: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - Representation of Change - SUGGESTED LINK: McCormick Lab See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES News: Atoms of thought - The microstate hypothesis of conscious states http://www.sci-con.org/news/articles/20021202.html News: Recent Advances in Understanding Attention http://www.sci-con.org/news/articles/20020603.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

23 years

a new book: Duality of the Mind

by Ron Sun

Announcing a new book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. http://www.erlbaum.com/ D U A L I T Y O F T H E M I N D A Bottom-up Approach toward Cognition by Ron Sun Synthesizing situated cognition, reinforcement learning, and hybrid connectionist models, a cognitive architecture focused on situated involvement and interaction with the world is developed in this book. The architecture notably incorporates the distinction between implicit and explicit processes. The work described in the book demonstrates the cognitive validity of the architecture, by ways of capturing a wide range of human learning data. Computational properties of the architecture is explored with experiments that manipulate implicit and explicit processes to optimize performance in a range of domains. Philosophical implications of the approach, on situated cognition, intentionality, symbol grounding, and consciousness, are also explored in detail. In a nutshell, this book motivates and develops a framework for studying human cognition, based on an approach that is characterized by its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, implicit and explicit cognition. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more details, go to http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/book6-ann.html To order the book, go to https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-3880-5 =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun, Ph.D James C. Dowell Professor CECS Department, 201 EBW phone: (573) 884-7662 University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882-8318 Columbia, MO 65211-2060 email: rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun ===================================================================

23 years

plakat- Balatonvilagos- can distribute it.

by Dr. Kovács Gyula

Dr. Kovács Gyula Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem / Technical Univ. Budapest Kognitiv Tudományi Központ / Center for Cognitive Sciences --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H-1111 Budapest Műegyetem rkp. 9 R. II/203 T:+36-1-463-1176 F:+36-1-463-1072 http://www.itm.bme.hu/ktk/gyula/index.htm

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News from Science & Consciousness Review: Seth

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ NEWS What's the difference between an invisible face and an invisible face? - by Anil K. Seth Plenty, according to a recent study published in PNAS. It is reported that invisible stimuli gives much information about what happens when a visual image is consciously perceived. The study provides an original, useful, and subjectively arresting methodology for teasing apart the relationship between sensation and perception. Full text: http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030501.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - Naturalizing consciousness: A theoretical framework - Synaesthesia - NEW ISSUE: Trends in Cognitive Sciences - RADIO: Neuroscience - the New Philosophy See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES News: Recovering consciousness: A timeline http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020904.html News: Knowing more than you see http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020902.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

23 years, 1 month

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, J a n o s T a n a c s

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu 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 Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 19 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 J á n o s T a n á c s Philosophy and History of Science, Technical University of Budapest Jelentésváltozás versus jelentésállandóság a geometria axiómarendszerei közötti átmenetben (Change versus invariance of meaning when switching between different axiomatic systems of geometry) Az előadásban a geometria három, egymással szoros összefüggésben álló axiómarendszerének szemantikai problémáit vizsgálom. A három vizsgált axiómarendszer a Bolyai-féle abszolút geometria (AGB) axiómarendszere, valamint a kiterjesztéseivel kapott euklideszi (EG), illetve Bolyai-Lobacsevszkij-féle hiperbolikus (nemeuklideszi, NEG) geometria axiómarendszerei. A kérdés első lépésben az, hogy vajon a három axiómarendszer formálisan azonos alapfogalmai azonos jelentésűek-e is egyben? Ugyanez a kérdés a definiált fogalmak szintjén is felvethető. Az előadásban két, egymással ellentétes nézőpont rekonstruálásra és konfrontálására teszek kísérletet. Az egyik nézőpont Tóth Imre modellelméleti megfontolásokra alapozott érvelése, amely az alapfogalmak szemantikai invarianciáját képviseli. A másik álláspont értelemszerűen az alapfogalmak szemantikai varianciáját állítja, méghozzá olyan megfontolások alapján, amelyet szemantikai holizmusnak nevezhetünk. Ezt az álláspontot, többek között, David Hilbert neve fémjelzi. Röviden összegzem az axiómák szemantikai felfogásával kapcsolatos Frege-Hilbert vitát; a vita középpontjában az axiómák ?implicit definíciókként" történő felfogása állt. Megmutatom, hogy Hilbert az axiómarendszerekkel összefüggésben, a várakozásokkal ellentétben, nem ?szuperformalista" álláspontot tett magáévá (amely az axiómákat minden jelentést nélkülöző jelek halmazának tekinti), hanem mind elvi síkon, mind konkrétan, választott példáival a szemantikai holizmust, és az alapfogalmak szemantikai varianciáját képviselte. A szemantikai invarianciát, illetve varianciát képviselő álláspontok hátterében álló jelentésfelfogások legfontosabb ismérveinek vázolását követően a definiált fogalmak szintjén előálló problémák vizsgálata felé fordulok. Evert W. Beth és Alfred Tarski definiálhatósággal/definiálhatatlansággal kapcsolatos eredményeit felhasználva a definiált fogalmak szemantikai holizmusa mellett érvelek. Beth és Tarski módszerét elemezve kiderül, hogy az alapfogalmak jelentésének invarianciáját képviselve a definiált fogalmak szintjén a szemantikai varianciát és a definiált fogalmak szemantikai holizmusát kell képviselnünk az axiómarendszerek közötti átmenetben. Ez az alapfogalmak szemantikai invarianciáját képviselő álláspontok, például Tóth Imre álláspontjának inkoherens jellegét mutatja, amely így hátrányba kerül a másikkal szemben: mást képvisel az alapfogalmak, és mást a definiált fogalmak szintjén. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion.The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.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 H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

Soltis/Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying by Joseph Soltis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/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 Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying Joseph Soltis National Institutes of Health ABSTRACT: In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. There is not strong evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, however, but infant cries may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry pitch. Caregivers may use this acoustic information, together with other cues, to guide care-giving behavior. Serious pathology, on the other hand, results in chronically and severely abnormal cry acoustics. Such abnormal crying may be a proximate cause of adaptive infant maltreatment, in circumstances in which parents cut their losses and reduce or withdraw investment from infants with low survival chances. An increase in the amount of crying during the first few months of life is a human universal, and excessive crying, or colic, represents the upper end of this normal increase. Potential signal functions of excessive crying include manipulation of parents to acquire additional resources, honest signaling of need, and honest signaling of vigor. Current evidence does not strongly support any of these hypotheses, but the evidence is most consistent with the hypothesis that excessive early infant crying is a signal of vigor that evolved to reduce the risk of a reduction or withdrawal of parental care. KEYWORDS: colic, crying, early infant crying, honest signaling, infanticide, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, separation call, vocalization. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/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. 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