Postdoctoral Positions in Experimental and Theoretical Cortical
Neurophysiology - Paris
I am looking to fill two postdoctoral positions, one experimental and
one theoretical, for a project aimed at characterizing the functional
impact of stochastic mechanisms in cortical physiology, funded by
HFSP.
The experimental position will focus on in-vivo whole cell patch
recordings in the cat and rat, including the development of several
novel protocols and methods.
The theoretical position will focus on
developing both analytical methods for the analysis of the stochastic
component of evoked and background activity from intracellular
recordings, as well as biophysically-detailed models of neurons and
networks.
Experience required. Interested candidates may send their c.v. and
two letters of recommendation to Dr. Lyle J. Graham, Neurophysique et
Physiologie du Systeme Moteur, CNRS, Universite Rene Descartes, 45 rue
des Saint-Peres 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. Informal inquiries also
welcome at lyle(a)cogni.iaf.cnrs-gif.fr
For those planning to attend the NIPS Workshops at Whistler (Dec
12-14) you can arrange to meet me there.
Kedves Barataim !
A KOGNITIV SZEMINARIUM sorozat ket ujabb ketenek bemutatojara kerul sor
DECEMBER 16-ÁN HÉTFŐN 17 ÓRAKOR
AZ OSIRIS KÖNYVESHÁZBAN, BP. VERES PÁLNÉ UTCA
Király Ildiko: KISGYERMEKEK EMLÉKEZETE ÉS AZ UTÁNZÁS
Bemutatja: Csibra Gergely
Szvetelszki Zsuzsa: A PLETYKA
Bemutatja: majd elpletykáljuk
Mindenkit szeretettel várunk,
úgy is mint sorozatszerkesztő
Pléh Csaba
Csaba Pleh, professor of psychology, Center for Cognitive Science
Budapest U.of Technology and Economics Budapest Muegyetem rkp 9. R-203
H-1111 T and Fax: 36-1-4631072 email: pleh(a)itm.bme.hu
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 H-2092 Hungary (36)(23)453933 Fax:932
Editor: Hungarian Review of Psychology
KEDVES BARATAIM !
a bme kOGNITV TUDOMANYI KZPNTJABAN, r EPULET 2003, A PETFOI HDNAL BEKE MONIKANAL UJRA KAPHATO
1000 fTERRT (bLTI AR 1600) A pLEH-pALOST_LORIK FELE NYELVFEJLODESI TESZTKONYV.
UGYANOTT VAN MEG:
AGY-TUDAT
Architektura es patologia a megismeresben
szinen kedvez arakon.
Udv Pleh csaba
Csaba Pleh, professor of psychology, Center for Cognitive Science
Budapest U.of Technology and Economics Budapest Muegyetem rkp 9. R-203
H-1111 T and Fax: 36-1-4631072 email: pleh(a)itm.bme.hu
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 H-2092 Hungary (36)(23)453933 Fax:932
Editor: Hungarian Review of Psychology
Please note (see attached) the availability of six new positions in the
Brain Science Program at Brown University that represent a significant
expansion of Brain Science at Brown University.
One position is targeted toward MR Physics/Neuroscience, while the remaining
five, including one for a Distinguished Faculty position in Brain Science
have foci across Brain Science.
Please post these advertisements and direct inquiries to the appropriate
source.
See: www.brainscience.brown.edu/positions
Thank you.
Jerome Sanes
Dear friends, here is the final CORRECTED VERSION OF OUR cHRISTMAS MEETING. .
Sorry fo making an error half an hour eralier, but someone erased all my comuter, thus I am working from my LTM.
Csaba Pleh, professor of psychology, Center for Cognitive Science
Budapest U.of Technology and Economics Budapest Muegyetem rkp 9. R-203
H-1111 T and Fax: 36-1-4631072 email: pleh(a)itm.bme.hu
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 H-2092 Hungary (36)(23)453933 Fax:932
Editor: Hungarian Review of Psychology
XI. MAKOG 2003 Konferencia Felhívás
A Magyar Kognitív Tudományi Alapítvány a következő évi kongresszusát Pécsett tartja.
Főtéma: A reprezentáció szintjei
Időpont: 2003 január 30 --- február 01.
Színhely: Pécs, Pécsi Akadémiai Székház (PAB) Pécs, Jurisics M. út 44.
(nagy mecseki panorámás büfé, 100 –fős előadóterem)
A fő témától eltérő előadásokat is szívesen látunk.
Regisztráció kezdete: 2002. december 10.
On-line regisztráció lesz a honlapon keresztül. Hagyományos postai levélváltást mellőzzük.
A MAKOGXI. Homepage már működik. Elérhető bárhonnan, de a Pszichológia Online-on és a KOGLIST-en keresztül is.
URL cím: HTTP://MAKOGXI.BTK.PTE.HU
A szakmai program tőletek függ. Várjuk a jelentkezéseket. Absztrakt – program füzet készül, ezért kérjük a füzetbe szánt egy oldal terjedelmű összefoglalókat 2003 január 6- ig a honlapon regisztrálni szíveskedjetek.
A meghívandó előadók felkérése folyamatban, a következő értesítés már tartalmazni fogja a nevüket és a bemutatandó témákat is.
Részvételi díj: (még nincs véglegesítve) várhatóan:
2000 Ft (kutatók, oktatók, PhD-s ek)
1000 Ft diákoknak
Étkezés: menü 380 Ft/adag a PTE Ifjúság úti Pacsirta étteremben
Szállás: Jó 7200 Ft/éj/szoba PAB vendégszoba
Jobb 2750 Ft/éjszaka Damjanich úti vendégház
Legjobb 1300 Ft/éjszaka Boszorkány Kollégium
Egyelőre a keretprogramok:
Január 30-án 18.00: a város szívében lévő Dante Cafe-ben (a Székesegyház és a Széchenyi tér közelében) összejövetel: Program: könnyed percek a szendvicses asztal körül, valamint bevezető ritmusok (zeneművészeti hallgatók rövid műsora)
Január 31-én 12.00 : A kongresszus helyszínén. „Érzés és gondolat”: a mentális reprezentáció különböző szintjének állapotairól. Képzőművészeti kiállítás megnyitója.
Számos fűtött taverna a hideg éjszakák ellen Pécs szerte.
Zenei és színházi program lehetőségeket majd melléklejük.
A szervezők nevében
Kállai János
jkallai(a)btk.pte.hu
Kérdésetek van, keressetek.
Dr. Kállai János egyetemi docens
PTE BTK Pszichológiai Intézet
Pécs, Ifjúság út 6
7624
tel/fax: 72 501 516
--
Best regards,
Tamas Makany
University of Pecs
Dept. of Psychology
Email: max(a)mailbox.hu
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory
by
Daniel S. Ruchkin, Jordan Grafman, Katherine Cameron, and Rita S. Berndt
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/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
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Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory
Daniel S. Ruchkin
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology
Program in Neurosciences
Baltimore, MD USA
Jordan Grafman
National Institutes of Health
Cognitive Neuroscience Section
NINDS
Bethesda, MD USA
Katherine Cameron
Washington College
Department of Psychology
Chestertown, MD USA
Rita S. Berndt
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Program in Neurosciences
Baltimore, MD USA
ABSTRACT: High-temporal resolution event-related brain potential (ERP) and
electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence studies of the neural substrate of
short-term storage in working memory indicate that the sustained
co-activation of both pre-frontal cortex and the posterior cortical
systems that participate in the initial perception and comprehension of
the retained information are involved in its storage. These studies
further show that short-term storage mechanisms involve an increase in
neural synchrony between pre-frontal cortex and posterior cortex, and
enhanced activation of the long-term memory representations of the
material held in short-term memory. This activation begins during the
encoding/comprehension phase and evidently is prolonged into the retention
phase by attentional drive from pre-frontal cortex control systems.
A parsimonious interpretation of these findings is that the long-term
memory systems associated with the posterior cortical processors provide
the necessary representational basis for working memory, with the property
of short-term memory decay being due to, primarily, the posterior system.
In this view, there is no reason to posit specialized neural systems whose
functions are limited to that of short-term storage buffers. Pre-frontal
cortex provides the attentional pointer system for maintaining activation
in the appropriate posterior processing systems. Limitations on the number
of pointers that can be sustained by the pre-frontal control systems
determines short-term memory capacity and phenomena such as displacement
of information in short-term memory.
KEYWORDS: Coherence; Event-Related Potentials; Short-Term Storage; Verbal;
Visuo-Spatial; Working Memory
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/Referees/
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(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
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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
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM
____________________________________
Deccember
2 December No seminar session!
instead you are invited to the following conference:
A
Minden filozófia 'nyelvkritika'
címu" OTKA-kutatás keretében, az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézete és a
Magyar Wittgenstein Társaság közös szervezésében nyelvfilozófiai
miniszümpóziumot rendezünk
2002. december 2-án, hétfõn délután 3 órai kezdettel
az MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézetében (1054 Bp. Szemere u. 10.).
Program:
15.00 Forrai Gábor: Locke versus Kripke-Putnam
16.00 Lehmann Miklós: A fényképek szerepe Wittgenstein filozófiájában
17.00 Pléh Csaba mutatja be Demeter Tamás: Az eszmék tipográfiája c. könyvét
Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk!
9 December 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English)
Williem Fouche
Department of Quantitative Management
University of South Africa
Quantum Computation
We begin with a discussion of the Turing-Church thesis and how it
relates to the Feynman-Deutsch conception of quantum computation. We
next discuss some simple, but conceptually interesting, quantum
algorithms. Finally we outline Shor´s quantum prime factorisation
algorithm. We focus on the the problem of estimating the phase of an
eigenvalue of a unitary transformation on quantum states having a finite
number of degrees of freedom. We conclude with a few open research
problems which are suggested by problems in cryptography.
16 December 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
Tamás Demeter
Trinity College, Cambridge
Philosophy, University of Miskolc
Szkepticizmus és szemantikai tudás
(Scepticism and semantic knowledge)
Az elo"adásban a jelentés-szkepticizmus Wittgenstein által inspirált és
Kripke által felvetett problémáját fogom megvizsgálni. 1) Elso" lépésben
Kripke szkepticizmusának természetét vizsgálom. A kihívást egyfelo"l
metafizikai, a jelentés mibenlétét érinto" kételyként értékelem, s
szembeállítom egy episztémikus szkepszis leheto"ségével. Másfelo"l
dialektikus szekpszisként mutatom be, s szembeállítom Quine
naturalisztikus szkepszisével. 2) Második lépésben Kripke szkeptikus
konklúzióhoz vezeto" stratégiáját rekonstruálom, és bemutatom az általa
kínált szkeptikus megoldást is. Itt egyfelo"l amellett fogok érvelni,
hogy Kripke szkeptikus konklúzióhoz vezeto" érvelése nem konklúzív,
másfelo"l pedig, hogy megoldási javaslata maga is sugallja egy általa nem
mérlegelt, nem-szkeptikus megoldás leheto"ségét. 3) Harmadik lépésben
Thomas Nagel megoldási javaslatát mutatom be és vizsgálom meg.
Konklúzióm ketto"s lesz: Nagel érvei egyrészt nem eléggé ero"sek ahhoz,
hogy a szkeptikust meghátrálásra késztessék, másrészt Nagel válasza
inkább értékelheto" a kérdés visszautasításaként mintsem valódi
válaszként. 4) Végül negyedik lépésben saját megoldási javaslatomat
reklámozom. Arra építek, hogy Kripke szkeptikus érvelése inkonkluzív, s
érvei célt tévesztenek, mihelyt nem ragaszkodunk ahhoz, hogy az 'úgy
értést' diszpozícióként értelmezo" felfogást kondicionálisok
terminusaiban mutassuk be, hanem megengedjük a diszpozíciók realista
értelmezését.
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The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a
30-60-minute discussion.
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The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó
<http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo> (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
Dear Dr. Qwerty,
Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article
Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory
by
Daniel S. Ruchkin, Jordan Grafman, Katherine Cameron, and Rita S. Berndt
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/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:
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(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
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If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your
Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to
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unaffiliated investigator.)
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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
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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.
=======================================================================
=======================================================================
Working Memory Retention Systems: A State of Activated Long-Term Memory
Daniel S. Ruchkin
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology
Program in Neurosciences
Baltimore, MD USA
Jordan Grafman
National Institutes of Health
Cognitive Neuroscience Section
NINDS
Bethesda, MD USA
Katherine Cameron
Washington College
Department of Psychology
Chestertown, MD USA
Rita S. Berndt
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Program in Neurosciences
Baltimore, MD USA
ABSTRACT: High-temporal resolution event-related brain potential (ERP) and
electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence studies of the neural substrate of
short-term storage in working memory indicate that the sustained
co-activation of both pre-frontal cortex and the posterior cortical
systems that participate in the initial perception and comprehension of
the retained information are involved in its storage. These studies
further show that short-term storage mechanisms involve an increase in
neural synchrony between pre-frontal cortex and posterior cortex, and
enhanced activation of the long-term memory representations of the
material held in short-term memory. This activation begins during the
encoding/comprehension phase and evidently is prolonged into the retention
phase by attentional drive from pre-frontal cortex control systems.
A parsimonious interpretation of these findings is that the long-term
memory systems associated with the posterior cortical processors provide
the necessary representational basis for working memory, with the property
of short-term memory decay being due to, primarily, the posterior system.
In this view, there is no reason to posit specialized neural systems whose
functions are limited to that of short-term storage buffers. Pre-frontal
cortex provides the attentional pointer system for maintaining activation
in the appropriate posterior processing systems. Limitations on the number
of pointers that can be sustained by the pre-frontal control systems
determines short-term memory capacity and phenomena such as displacement
of information in short-term memory.
KEYWORDS: Coherence; Event-Related Potentials; Short-Term Storage; Verbal;
Visuo-Spatial; Working Memory
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Ruchkin/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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