Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of
Children's Social Understanding within Social Interaction
by
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/Referees/
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Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social
Understanding within Social Interaction
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Simon Fraser University
Charlie Lewis
Lancaster University
ABSTRACT: Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to
emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation,
or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories
must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social
interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an
alternative account, according to which the development of children's social
understanding occurs within triadic interaction involving the child's
experience of the world as well as communicative interaction with others
about their experience and beliefs (Chapman, 1991, 1999). It is through such
triadic interaction that children gradually construct knowledge of the world
as well as knowledge of other people. We contend that the extent and nature
of the social interaction children experience will influence the development
of children's social understanding. Increased opportunity to engage in
cooperative social interaction and exposure to talk about mental states
should facilitate the development of social understanding. We review
evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually
in the context of social interaction. Thus, we need a theory of development
in this area that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does
not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge, but
rather children construct an understanding of mind within social
interaction.
KEYWORDS: Language; Piaget; Social interaction; Theories of mind; Vygotsky;
Wittgenstein.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/Referees/
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Constructing an Understanding of Mind:
The Development of Children's Social Understanding
within Social Interaction
by
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/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
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=======================================================================
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Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children's Social
Understanding within Social Interaction
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Simon Fraser University
Charlie Lewis
Lancaster University
ABSTRACT: Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to
emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation,
or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories
must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social
interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an
alternative account, according to which the development of children's social
understanding occurs within triadic interaction involving the child's
experience of the world as well as communicative interaction with others
about their experience and beliefs (Chapman, 1991, 1999). It is through such
triadic interaction that children gradually construct knowledge of the world
as well as knowledge of other people. We contend that the extent and nature
of the social interaction children experience will influence the development
of children's social understanding. Increased opportunity to engage in
cooperative social interaction and exposure to talk about mental states
should facilitate the development of social understanding. We review
evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually
in the context of social interaction. Thus, we need a theory of development
in this area that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does
not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge, but
rather children construct an understanding of mind within social
interaction.
KEYWORDS: Language; Piaget; Social interaction; Theories of mind; Vygotsky;
Wittgenstein.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Carpendale/Referees/
=======================================================================
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Advanced Interdisciplinary Workshop
on
Constructive Memory: Data and Models
Sofia, New Bulgarian University, July 12-14, 2003
The aim of the workshop will be to challenge our current understanding of
human memory by integrating data with theoretical and computational models
and by bringing researchers from a variety of domains together.
The workshop topics will include:
* False Memory and Memory Illusions
* Interaction between memory and reasoning, between memory and
imagination
* Autobiographical memory
* Spatial Memory
* Memory for Actions and Events
* Memory for Faces and Objects
* WM and constructive processes
* Context-Sensitivity of Human Memory
* Collective memory
The workshop is deliberately interdisciplinary and will cover a variety of
methods:
* lab experiments
* field studies
* computer simulations
* mathematical models
* brain imaging
* brain lesions
The workshop program will consist of invited key speaker talks which will
be challenged by discussants, short talks by regular participants, and
numerous discussions and working groups.
In parallel to the workshop an International Summer School in Cognitive
Science will take place.
Key talks
· Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emergence of
Theory-like Knowledge from Experience: A Parallel-Distributed Processing
Account
· Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA) - False Memories
and Other Mind Changes
· Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK) - Constructive Processes
in Working Memory
· Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) - The Seven Sins of
Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
· Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada) Remote Memory,
Consolidation and Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction: Evidence from the
Laboratory and Clinic.
· Robert Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork (University of California, Los
Angeles, USA) - The Role of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the
Construction and Distortion of Memories
· Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA) - Inhibitory
Processes and the Regulation of Awareness
· Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK) & Amanda Barnier
(University of New South Wales, Australia) - On the Accessibility of
Autobiographical Memories: Shaping the Self
· Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany) - What is
Special about Memory for Actions?
· William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) The
Construction of a Collective Memory
· Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) -
Towards a General Theory of Human Memory
· Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - The AMBR Model of
Episodic Memory Construction and Distortion: Interaction between Memory and
Reasoning
Call for Papers
Potential participants are invited to submit papers in electronic form (MS
Word or PDF format) for presentation during the workshop. The papers should
be not longer than 10 single spaced pages, including tables, figures,
references, and appendices and use Times New Roman Font size 10. The papers
may address any of the topics described above. Interdisciplinary work is
especially welcome. Priority will be given to papers that open up new
issues, challenge the current understanding of human memory, present new
models or data.
Papers should be sent by April 1st 2003 to the following address:
memory(a)cogs.nbu.bg
Program Committee
Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA)
Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK)
Robert Bjork (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK)
Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany)
William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) - Co-Chair
Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Co-Chair
Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA)
Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA)
For more information look at:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/workshop.html
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618
phone: 955-75-18
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.bg
memory(a)cogs.nbu.bg
Radostina Belcheva
Administrative manager
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
Svetlana Petkova
Administrative manager
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue
by
Martin J. Pickering & Simon Garrod
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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
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commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate,
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=======================================================================
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Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue
Martin J. Pickering
University of Edinburgh
Simon Garrod
University of Glasgow
ABSTRACT: Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive
almost entirely from the study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic
form of language use is dialogue. As a result, these accounts may only offer
limited theories of the mechanisms that underlie language processing in
general. We propose a mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive
alignment account, and use it to derive a number of predictions about basic
language processes. The account assumes that, in dialogue, the linguistic
representations employed by the interlocutors become aligned at many levels,
as a result of a largely automatic process. This process greatly simplifies
production and comprehension in dialogue. After considering the evidence for
the interactive alignment model, we concentrate on three aspects of
processing that follow from it. It makes use of a simple interactive
inference mechanism, enables the development of local dialogue routines that
greatly simplify language processing, and explains the origins of
self-monitoring in production. We consider the need for a grammatical
framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than
monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account.
KEYWORDS: dialogue, language processing, common ground, dialogue routines,
language production, monitoring.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/Referees/
=======================================================================
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Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue
by
Martin J. Pickering & Simon Garrod
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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
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Associates is available at this location to help you select a name:
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Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
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=======================================================================
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indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list,
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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.
=======================================================================
=======================================================================
Toward a Mechanistic Psychology of Dialogue
Martin J. Pickering
University of Edinburgh
Simon Garrod
University of Glasgow
ABSTRACT: Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive
almost entirely from the study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic
form of language use is dialogue. As a result, these accounts may only offer
limited theories of the mechanisms that underlie language processing in
general. We propose a mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive
alignment account, and use it to derive a number of predictions about basic
language processes. The account assumes that, in dialogue, the linguistic
representations employed by the interlocutors become aligned at many levels,
as a result of a largely automatic process. This process greatly simplifies
production and comprehension in dialogue. After considering the evidence for
the interactive alignment model, we concentrate on three aspects of
processing that follow from it. It makes use of a simple interactive
inference mechanism, enables the development of local dialogue routines that
greatly simplify language processing, and explains the origins of
self-monitoring in production. We consider the need for a grammatical
framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than
monologue, and discuss a range of implications of the account.
KEYWORDS: dialogue, language processing, common ground, dialogue routines,
language production, monitoring.
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Garrod/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
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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
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BAA #02-21
Cognitive Information Processing Technology
Proposer Information Pamphlet
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Cognitive Information Processing Technology
SOL BAA 02-21 Abstracts Due: April 4, 2003
Proposals Due: Friday, June 6, 2003
POC: Dr. Ronald J. Brachman, Mr. Zachary J. Lemnios, DARPA/IPTO
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Elnezest...
Lorincz Andras
Discussion begins today, January 27, 2003.
You are invited to comment on the following paper (and others) at:
http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/6
Back to the Oral Tradition
Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought
Stevan Harnad
From the origin of human language 100,000 years ago until the
invention of writing 5000 years ago the oral tradition had been the
principal creator, conserver and communicator of human knowledge. Our
brains are biologically adapted to the tempo of oral interaction in
real time. Lapidary writing lost all of that, but soon skywriting
will again catch up with the speed of thought.
Discussion begins today, January 27 2003.
http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/language/en
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) often selects its
research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process.
The BAA will be posted directly to FedBizOpps.gov, the single government
point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities
over $25,000. The following information is for those wishing to respond
to the Broad Agency Announcement.
The DARPA Information Technology Processing Office (IPTO) is soliciting
innovative research proposals in the area of information technology for
a new class of cognitive systems that can be characterized simply as
follows: a cognitive system is one that, among other things,
Ø can reason in a variety of ways, using substantial amounts of
appropriately represented knowledge;
Ø can learn from its experiences so that its performance improves
as it accumulates knowledge and experience;
Ø can explain itself and can accept direction;
Ø can be aware of its own behavior and reflect on its own
capabilities; and
Ø can respond in a robust manner to surprises.
Architecturally, a cognitive information processing system is likely to
comprise three types of processes: reactive processes, where system
responses are provided with low latency in direct response to inputs;
deliberative processes, where planning and other reasoning processes are
carried out, including those that deal thoughtfully with natural
language and other forms of communication; and reflective processes that
operate based on observations made about the system itself. Complete
and capable cognitive information processing systems and their
underlying processes are likely to be implemented in some combination of
novel software and hardware, and are further likely to be augmented with
memories of various sorts (long-term, short-term, etc.) and with
associated modules for perception and taking action, as appropriate for
the end application. Given their abilities to process knowledge and to
reflect on their own behavior, cognitive systems might be best
characterized as systems that know what they are doing.
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