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has no real teeth to get at the underlying phenomenon of consciousness
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2nd Annual Conference of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (NEI)
RELIGION, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
August 12-13, 2003
Eastland Park Hotel, Portland, Maine
At least since the great psychologist and philosopher William James, the issue of religious experience has been the subject of scientific investigation. The conference will apply empirical and theoretical findings from cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, including neuroscience, philosophy, and anthropology to explore the nature of religion and the religious experience from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
Conference Presentations:
Opening remarks
Nicholas Humphrey, Ph.D.
Religion and The Mental Instincts That Create It
Pascal Boyer, Ph.D.
Religion's Evolutionary Landscape: Counterintuition, Commitment, Compassion, Communion
Scott Atran, Ph.D.
The evolutionary origins of spiritual consciousness
Matthew Apler
Natural selection is non-denominational: why evolutionary models of religion should be more concerned with behavior than concepts
Jesse M. Bering, Ph.D.
Religious costs as adaptations signalling altruistic intention.
Joseph A. Bulbulia, Ph.D.
Cognitive psychology of 'original sin'
H. John Caulfield, Ph.D.
Religion, death and horror films: an evolutionary analysis
Hank Davis, Ph.D and Andrea Javor, Ph.D.*
Problem solving and religion in the EEA: an endorphin rush?
Christopher di Carlo, Ph.D.
Negation and doubt in religious representations
Bradley Franks, Ph.D. *
God talk: abstract schemata of deity in verbal narratives
Robert E. Haskell, Ph.D.
Why do people behave religiously?
Stephen W. Kercel, Ph.D. and Donald C. Mikulecky, Ph.D.
The capacity for religious experience is an evolutionary adaptation to warfare
Allen D. MacNeill, Ph.D.
The cognitive neuropsychiatry of religious belief
Ryan McKay, Ph.D.
With or without belief: a new evolutionary approach to the definition and explanation of religion.
Craig Palmer, Ph.D.and Lyle B. Steadman, Ph.D.
Categorizing the supernatural: an investigation of the relationship between conceptualization and belief
Andre W. Shtulman, Ph.D.
Religion, evolution and an immunology of cultural systems
Jespert Sørensen, Ph.D.
To register for the conference or to obtain further information visit our web page at www.une.edu/nei and click on the hyperlink for international conferences.
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article:
Separate Visual Representations in the Planning and Control of Action
by
Scott Glover
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Glover/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.
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Separate Visual Representations in the Planning and Control of Action
Scott Glover
University of Oxford
ABSTRACT: Evidence for a dichotomy between the planning of an action and its
on-line control in humans is reviewed. This evidence suggests that planning
and on-line control each serve a specialized purpose different from the
other, and utilize distinct visual representations. Evidence from behavioral
studies suggests that planning is influenced by a large array of visual and
cognitive information, whereas control is influenced solely by the spatial
characteristics of the target, including such things as its size, shape,
orientation, etc. Evidence from brain imaging and neuropsychology suggest
that planning and control are subserved by separate visual centers in the
posterior parietal lobes, each constituting part of a larger network for
planning and control. Planning appears to rely on phylogenetically newer
regions in the inferior parietal lobe, along with the frontal lobes and
basal ganglia, whereas control appears to rely on older regions in the
superior parietal lobe, along with the cerebellum.
KEYWORDS: action, apraxia, control, illusions, optic ataxia, planning, PET,
reaching
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Glover/Referees/
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Cognitive Science Society Virtual Colloquium
> The Cognitive Science Society is hosting a 2002-2003 virtual colloquium
> series presented live via the Internet, with the with the fourth talk
given
> by Dr. John Anderson. Register now to attend:
> www.ctaresource.com/CognitiveScience.
>
> Time: Friday February 28, 2003
> 1:00pm US Eastern Standard Time
>
> Presenter: Dr. John Anderson
> Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology
>
> Topic: Use of a Cognitive Architecture and fMRI to Mutually inform Each
> Other or A Tale of Three Buffers
>
> We will describe the interaction between cognitive modeling and brain
> imaging. Two fMRI studies will be described. The first was concerned
with
> the solution of algebraic equations. We tried to relate the brain regions
> discovered to components of a prior ACT-R model that had been developed.
A
> left posterior parietal region corresponded to the behavior of a module in
> ACT-R that maintains an image of the equation and performs mental
> transformations on it. A left prefrontal region corresponded to the
> behavior of a module that retrieves relevant information such as
arithmetic
> facts. A left motor region corresponded to the behavior of module that
> programs hand movements. We will describe how we were able to fit
precisely
> the BOLD functions obtained from these regions given the operation of the
> ACT-R model. To show that these regions were not specific to mathematics
and
> to turn our model-fitting exercise from postdiction to prediction we
> performed a second study using a more abstract symbol-manipulation task.
The
> model fits were equally good if not better, although we had to adjust our
a
> priori rehearsal assumptions. The second study identified an anterior
> cingulate particle whose behavior appears to correspond to the conflict
> resolution process in ACT-R. This research illustrates profitable back and
> forth that is possible between brain imaging and cognitive modeling. The
> basic methodology can be applied to help shape any information processing
> architecture, not just ACT-R.
>
> Further information about this talk, the colloquium series, a schedule of
> future talks, and an archive of previous talks are available at
> http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/colloquium
>
> Contact Janet Morrow, cta(a)aptima.com with any questions about registration
> for this seminar.
>
> Please forward this invitation to colleagues who would benefit from this
> seminar or the series.
>
> This series is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
>
> Sincerely,
> Art Markman
> markman(a)psy.utexas.edu
>
> Dr. Arthur B. Markman
> University of Texas
> Department of Psychology
> Austin, TX 78712
> 512-232-4645
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article:
Separate Visual Representations in the Planning and Control of Action
by
Scott Glover
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Glover/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.
=======================================================================
=======================================================================
Separate Visual Representations in the Planning and Control of Action
Scott Glover
University of Oxford
ABSTRACT: Evidence for a dichotomy between the planning of an action and its
on-line control in humans is reviewed. This evidence suggests that planning
and on-line control each serve a specialized purpose different from the
other, and utilize distinct visual representations. Evidence from behavioral
studies suggests that planning is influenced by a large array of visual and
cognitive information, whereas control is influenced solely by the spatial
characteristics of the target, including such things as its size, shape,
orientation, etc. Evidence from brain imaging and neuropsychology suggest
that planning and control are subserved by separate visual centers in the
posterior parietal lobes, each constituting part of a larger network for
planning and control. Planning appears to rely on phylogenetically newer
regions in the inferior parietal lobe, along with the frontal lobes and
basal ganglia, whereas control appears to rely on older regions in the
superior parietal lobe, along with the cerebellum.
KEYWORDS: action, apraxia, control, illusions, optic ataxia, planning, PET,
reaching
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Glover/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!).
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Workshop on
Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions
During IJCAI'2003
August 9, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico
Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate a wide
range of cognitive functionalities (such as a variety of
memory/representation, various types of learning, and sensory motor
capabilities) have been developed in both AI and cognitive science.
In AI, they appear under the rubric of intelligent agents and
multi-agent systems. In cognitive science, they are often known as
cognitive architectures. These strands of research provide useful
paradigms for addressing some fundamental questions in AI and
Cognitive Science.
Artificial intelligence started out with the goal of designing functioning
intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous difficulty of
the task, the focus has largely been on modeling specific aspects of
intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. Nevertheless, some
researchers have focused on putting the pieces together with the goal
of designing autonomous agents. More important, there is a growing interest in
multi-agent interactions that addresses issues of coordination and cooperation
among cognitive agents.
On the other side, traditionally, the main focus of research in cognitive
science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception,
memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modeling
of cognitive architectures provide new avenues for precisely specifying
complex cognitive processes in tangible ways, thereby addressing foundational
questions in cognitive science. Such developments need to be extended to
multi-agent interactions and there are promising developments in this regard
(see e.g. recent papers in this area in the journal Cognitive Systems Research).
Against this background, this workshop seeks to bring together cognitive
scientists and AI researchers, with a wide range of background and expertise,
to discuss research problems in understanding cognition at the individual
level as well as at the collective level.
The workshop is open to all members of the AI and CogSci research communities.
We invite submissions on all aspects of cognitive modeling of agents and
multi-agent interactions, including, but not limited to:
* Cognitive architectures of individual cognitive agents.
* Cognitive models of multi-agent interactions (e.g., communication,
cooperation, and negotiation, in relation to cognition).
* Cognitive models of multi-agent organizations (e.g., organizational
structure, economies, culture, and other coordination structures and
mechanisms, in relation to cognition).
* Cognitive models of co-learning of multiple cognitive agents.
* Computational models of evolution of cognition and behavior.
* Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for cognitive modeling
of agents and multi-agent interactions.
The discussions at the workshop will focus on the following issues,
among many others:
* What are the characteristics of the successful cognitive architectures for
modeling individual cognitive agents?
* What are the suitable characteristics of cognitive architectures for
modeling both individual cognitive agents and multi-agent interactions?
* What are the fundamental ways of understanding and modeling multi-agent
interactions? Can they be reduced to individual cognition?
* How can we best characterize and model social structures and organizations
in relation to cognition?
* How important is evolution in shaping individual cognition and collective
behavior? How can we model that aspect?
SUBMISSION
If you are interested in giving a presentation at the workshop, please submit
a full paper, 6-10 pages, in the IJCAI paper format. If you are only interested
in attending, submit a brief abstract (one page or less) describing your
interest.
Use the IJCAI paper format (and templates) for your papers.
See the IJCAI Web site: http://www.ijcai-03.org for details.
Electronic submission is required. Only the Postscript or PDF format is
accepted. Send your paper (in PS or PDF) as an email attachment.
In the body of your email, include (in plain ASCII): names of all authors,
their affiliations, their physical addresses, and their email addresses.
In addition, the same information should also be included in your paper itself.
All submissions should be sent to: rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu
Each paper will be reviewed for technical soundness, relevance, significance,
and clarity.
An edited book volume, as well as a special issue of the journal
Cognitive System Research, is planned for a selected subset of the papers of
the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
* Deadline for the submission of full papers (6 to 10 pages) or abstracts (1
page): March 1, 2003.
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 30, 2003.
* Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 1, 2003
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Ron Sun (Chair)
CECS Department, 201 EBW
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211-2060
rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun
Prof. Cristiano Castelfranchi
Department of Communication Sciences
University of Siena
Siena, Italy
castel(a)ip.rm.cnr.it
Prof. Jan Treur
Department of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
treur(a)cs.vu.nl
Dr. Robert L. West
Department of Psychology and Department of Cognitive Science
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
robert_west(a)carleton.ca
Dr. Christian Lebiere
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
cl(a)andrew.cmu.edu
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See the workshop Web page at:
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/wsp03.html
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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
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CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE: ART AND MIND
LOCATION: CUMBERLAND LODGE, WINDSOR GREAT PARK
DATES: FRIDAY MAY 30 - SUNDAY JUNE 1, 2003
Speakers include:
Simon Blackburn (Philosophy, Cambridge)
Noel Caroll (Philosophy, Wisconsin)
Greg Currie (Philosophy, Nottingham)
Tamar Szabo Gendler (Philosophy, Syracuse)
Peter Goldie (Philosophy, KCL)
Paul Harris (Graduate School of Education, Harvard)
Jon Jureidini (Child Psychiatry, University of Adelaide)
Jerrold Levinson (Philosophy, Maryland) Steven Mithen (Archaeology, Reading)
Keith Oatley (Psychology, Toronto) Gerard O'Brien (Philosophy, Adelaide)
Barbara Tversky (Psychology, Stanford)
An interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together leading figures
from philosophy and psychology to address fundamental questions about the
connections between narrative as an explanatory tool in the arts, and in
development and psychopathology.
· What can artistic theories of narrative tell us that would be useful in
assessing the psychological function of narrative?
· Can artistic theories of narrative themselves be assessed against
evidence from controlled psychological experiments?
· Are the elaboration of narratives and an awareness of narrative concepts
important features of psycho-social development.
· Can an impoverished, excessive or inappropriate narrative sense lead to
psychological disorder?
Traditionally, theories of narrative, within the arts as well as within
psychological theorizing, have drawn on Freudian and other psychodynamic
conceptions. These theories are often criticised for their a priori
approach to matters that are really empirical. More recently, cognitive
approaches to the arts have emphasised the requirement that theorising in
this area be informed by well-tested psychological theories; yet narrative
remains a theoretical tool largely uninfluenced by systematic experimental
work. The currently available body of experimental work on narrative
comprehension and on the reader/viewer's imagined location within the
space-time of the work is itself subject to various interpretations.
The conference will provide a much-needed opportunity for scholars in
philosophy and psychology to develop an approach to narrative that is
theoretically rich yet properly informed by empirical work.
Registration: £50. Bursaries are available for post graduate students, to
cover half of
registration, accommodation and travel.
Registration forms are available at:
<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/conference.htm>http://www.nottingham
.ac.
uk/philosophy/conference.htm
Or write to:
Andrea Hill
Dept of Philosophy
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK
Ezuton szeretnek mindenkit meghivni a jovo penteken esedekes Ph.D vedesemre
kognitiv pszichologia temakorben (lehetseges, hogy ezt a levelet valaki tobb
peldanyban kapja meg, ezt sajnos a levelezolistak hasznalata miatt nem
tudtam elkerulni).
A disszertaciom cime: "A LEXIKALIS ELOHIVAS INTERKULTURALIS KUTATASA
KEPMEGNEVEZESI HELYZETBEN"
A vedes ideje es helyszine: 2003. februar 21. (pentek) 10 ora. ELTE - BTK
alagsori tanacsterem. Budapest VIII. Muzeum krt. 4 / D epulet, alagsor
A hivatalos meghivo es a tezisek ezen a weboldalon tekinthetok meg:
http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/PhD/PhDvedes.html
Temavezetom: Dr. Vargha Andras, a pszichologiai tudomanyok kandidatusa
Opponensek: Prof. Dr. Goncz Lajos, a pszichologiai tudomanyok doktora
Dr. Mero Laszlo, a muszaki tudomanyok kandidatusa
Az ertekezes megtekintheto az ELTE BTK Pszichologiai Intezetenek
konyvtaraban
Budapest VI. Izabella u. 46.
Udvozlettel,
Szekely Anna
Second announcement
The Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al (UQ�M) will hold its first graduate
summer institute in cognitive sciences from June 30th to July 11th
2003. The theme will be 'categorisation' as seen from the point of view
of the following disciplines: cognitive anthropology, cognitive
computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and
psychology. The program is provided below. For more information,
consult our website: www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog. Registration at a lower
rate is available prior to March 1st.
International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello"
JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY
IIASS International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies and
EMFCSC Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture
8th Course:
Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics
31 Oct.- 6 Nov. 2003
Ettore Majorana Centre Erice (Sicily) ITALY
homepage: http://www.sa.infn.it/NeuralGroup/CorticalDynamicsSchool2003/
*Directors of the Course:*
Maria Marinaro (Dept. of Physics "E.R. Caianiello", Univ. of Salerno,
Italy)
Peter Erdi (Kalamazoo College, USA & KFKI Res. Inst. Part. and Nucl.
Phys. Hung. Acad. Sci. Hungary)
*Lecturers:*
Luigi Agnati - Dept. of Neuroscience Karolinka Inst.,Sweden & Modena Univ.
Italy
Peter Dayan - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK
Peter Erdi - CCSS Kalamazoo College USA & KFKI Hung. Accad.of Science
Hungary
Bruce P Graham - Dept of Computer Science and Mathematics, Univ. of
Stirling, UK
John Hertz - Nordita, DK
Zhaoping Li - Univ. College of London, UK
Ronen Segev - School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,
Israel
Ivan Soltesz - Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Univ. of California, USA
Misha Tsodyks - Dept. of Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science,
Israel
Ichiro Tsuda - Dept. of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Japan
Alessandro Treves - Sissa, Cognitive Neuroscience, Trieste, Italy
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**Scientific Program **
Recently the amount of experimental data available to computational
neuroscience community grows steadily, due to the development of new
experimental technique.The data obtained with these modern techniques
allows a
degree of comparison with modeling results that so far was not possible.
At
the same time new and stronger theoretical ideas are being developed from
all
over the world, borrowing ideas and tools from different fields of
science,
such as physics and mathematics.
The goal of the school is to present an up-to-date description of the
experimental and theoretical results and of the current efforts to
investigate
processing, transmission and imprinting of information in the brain,
focusing
on cortical area. Cortical areas play a key role in important functions
like
those related to the memory. A systematic description of cortical rhythms
and
cortical neural plasticity will be given, from its structural basis to its
functional significance.
The school is devoted to students with different scientific background
(physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, etc.) who wish to learn
recent developments in computational neuroscience and cortical dynamics.
The basic concepts will be introduced, with emphasis on the underlying
physical
concepts, common principles and connections between experimental data and
biophysically-based as well abstract models. Then cortical dynamics will
be investigated, focusing on recent developments and open problems.
**Registrations:**
Applications must be received before May 15 2003 in order to be considered
by
the selection committee. Registration fee of 900 Euro includes
accomodation
with full board. Application form and additional information are available
from http://www.sa.infn.it/NeuralGroup/CorticalDynamicsSchool2003/.
Applications should be sent by ordinary mail to the codirector of the
school:
Prof. Maria Marinaro
IIASS
Via Pellegrino 19,
I-84019 Vietri sul Mare (Sa)
Italy
or by fax to: +39 089 761 189 (att.ne: Prof. M. Marinaro)
or by electronic mail to: iiass.vietri(a)tin.it subject: summer school
**Location**
The "Ettore Majorana" International Centre for Scientific Culture takes
its
inspiration from the outstanding Italian physicist, after whom the Centre
was
named. Embracing 110 Schools, covering all branches of Science, the
Centre is
situated in the old pre-mediaeval city of Erice where three restored
monasteries provide an appropriate setting for high intellectual
endeavour.
These monasteries are now named after great Scientists and strong
supporters
of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre. There are living quarters in all
three Monasteries for people attending the Courses of the Centre.
**The John von Neumann (1903-1957) Centenary will be celebrated during the
meeting.**