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News from Science & Consciousness Review

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear member of this list, Science & Consciousness Review ( http://psych.pomona.edu/scr ) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ EDITORIAL REVIEW --- THIRD COMMENTARY ON CRICK & KOCH The Missing Self, or: 10 Ways How To Be A Zombie - by John G. Taylor The article by Crick and Koch is undoubtedly a first: for Nature to cave in so spectacularly to the so-called Framework proffered to them in the name of neuroscience. But unfortunately the Framework gets nowhere fast, since it has no real teeth to get at the underlying phenomenon of consciousness itself. The Framework needs to feel right from the inside consciousness is surely about our inner experience Full text at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/editorials/20030203.html In February, Science & Consciousness Review publishes editorial commentaries on Crick & Koch's recent article in Nature Neuroscience. _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT - Multiple routes to memory - Mapping the brain - Brain imaging study sheds light on inner workings of human intelligence See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Integration in the brain at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/news/articles/20021002.html Automaticity, unconsciousness and speech production at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/news/articles/20020501.html Touching what is out there at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/news/articles/20020903.html Visit our archives at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/archive.html _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

23 years, 3 months

RELIGION, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

by david smith

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.

23 years, 3 months

Glover/Separate Visual Representations: BBS Call for Commentators

by Barbara Finlay - Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay Editor Jeffrey Gray Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 3 months

Fw: Cognitive Science Society Virtual Colloquium

by Krajcsi Attila

----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Markman" <markman(a)psyvax.psy.utexas.edu> To: <acl(a)aclweb.org>; <chi-Announcements(a)acm.org>; <cogdop(a)lsv.uky.edu>; <cogpsy(a)listserv.tamu.edu>; <Cognitive.Neuroscience.Society(a)Dartmouth.EDU>; <cogsci(a)umich.edu>; <connectionists(a)cs.cmu.edu>; <distributed-ai-request(a)mailbase.ac.uk>; <empiricists-request(a)unagi.cis.upenn.edu>; <evolutionary-computing-request(a)mailbase.ac.uk>; <hybrid-list(a)cs.ua.edu>; <info(a)aaai.org>; <info-childes(a)childes.psy.cmu.edu>; <linguist(a)tamvm1.tamu.edu>; <ml(a)ics.uci.edu>; <mlnet(a)csd.abdn.ac.uk>; <cogling(a)ucsd.edu>; <MPSYCH-L(a)lISTSERV.BROWN.EDU>; <neron-request(a)cattell.psych.upenn.edu>; <news-announce-conferences(a)uuunet.uu.NET.cs.cmu.edu>; <nipsinfo(a)salk.edu>; <owner-info-psyling-digest(a)gla.ac.uk>; <psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk>; <soar-requests(a)cs.cmu.edu>; <soar-group(a)umich.edu>; <linguist(a)listserv.linguistlist.org>; <rasmusse(a)cs.rutgers.edu>; <BWanchisen(a)apa.org> 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

23 years, 3 months

Glover/Separate Visual Representations: BBS Call for Commentators

by Barbara Finlay - Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay Editor Jeffrey Gray Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 3 months

REMINDER: IJCAI workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions

by Ron Sun

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 ------------------------------------------------------------ See the workshop Web page at: http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/wsp03.html =================================================================== 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, 3 months

Conference on Narrative: Art and Mind

by Francesca Happe

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

23 years, 3 months

Szekely Anna Ph.D. vedese

by Szekely Anna

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

23 years, 4 months

Categorization: Summer Institute; June/July Montreal

by Stevan Harnad

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.

23 years, 4 months

Announcement of Erice School on Cortical Dynamics 31 Oct - 6 Nov 2003

by Erdi Peter

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 **** **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.**

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