ELNEZEST A TOBBSZOROS PELDANYOKERT
Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh
Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group
Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology
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Szeged
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Hungary
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Kedves Kollegak!
Napjaink egyik legjelentosebb emlekezetkutatoja
ALAN D. BADDELEY
A Bristoli Egyetem Professzora tart eloadasokat:
Budapesten:
Aprilis 19 (szerda) 17h: Does Working Memory Need An Episodic Buffer?
Az eloadasban Baddeley bemutatja legujabb koncepciojat a munkamemoriaval kapcsolatban, amelyet szamos uj klinikai vizsgalat eredmenyekent alakitott. ki. Ezek a nagy szakmai viszhangot kivalto vizsgalatok a skizofren es Alzheimeres betegek emlekezeti teljesitmenyerol tartak fel fel uj, izgalmas adatokat.
Az eloadas helyszine: Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Szentharomsag u. 2 (a varban).
Szegeden:
Aprilis 17 (hetfo) 11h. Clinical Application of the Psychology of Memory.
Alan Baddeley az elmult 30 ev egyik vezeto amnezia kutatoja, eloadasaban bemutatja azokat a neuropszichologiai vizsgalomodszereket es rehabilitacios eljarasokat, amelyeket az altala hosszu ideig vezetett Cambridge Applied Psychology Unit munkatarsai dolgoztak ki.
Aprilis 18 (kedd) 11h What is New in Working Memory?
Az eloadas bemutatja Alan Baddeley es munkatarsainak kutatasait a munkamemorianak a megismeresben betoltott szereperol. Az eloadas elsosorban a legujabb elmeleti modelleket es ezek gyakorkati kovetkezmenyeit mutatja be, tobbek kozott a verbalis munkamemoria es a nyelvfejlodes kapcsolataban.
A szegedi eloadasok helyszine:
SZAB Szekhaz, Somogyi B. u.7., Kisterem
Az ELTE valamint a KLTE Kognitiv Pszichologiai PhD hallgatoi a harom eloadast osszevont kredit-kent vehetik fel.
Mindenkit szeretettel varunk!
A szervezok neveben. Racsmany Mihaly es Pleh Csaba
Tisztelt Kollegak!
Dr. Karadi Kazmer vagyok, a Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem Magatartastudomanyi
Intezeteben vezetem a Kognitiv Laboratoriumot. Jelenleg egyutt dolgozok
prof. Lee Ellis-el, akivel egy konyvet szerkesztunk. A konyv cime:
Sourcebook for gender differences. A konyv atfogna 2005-ig az eddig
megjelent minden olyan cikk eredmenyeit ami a nemi kulonbseggel
foglalkozik. Prof Ellis szeretne ha a nem angol szakirodalom eredmenyei
is szerepelnenek a konyvben. En vagyok az a szemely aki gyujti azokat a
cikkeket ami magyarul irodott a nemi kulonbsegekrol.
Ellis szerint, ha a konyv elkeszul 10 000 citaciot remelnek. A munka
oriasi ivu es szerintem erdemes a magyar eredmenyeket is kozze tenni.
Ezert kerek minden olyan kollegat, aki valamikor is megjelentetett magyar
nyelvu cikket a nemi kulonbsegek temakoreben az kuldje el nekem a cikk
masolatat. Az eredmenyeket kodolom es szerepelni fog a konyvben.
Segitseguket elore is koszonom!
Tisztelettel:
Karadi Kazmer
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NATURALIZING PHENOMENOLOGY
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENOLOGY
AND
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Edited by
Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy
Stanford University Press
This work aims to shed a new light on the relations between
Husserlian phenomenology and present-day efforts towards a scientific theory
of cognition. Its primary goal is not to present a new interpretation of
Husserl's writings. Rather, the contributors consider how
Husserlian phenomenology might contribute to specific contemporary
theories, either by complementing or by questioning them. What clearly
emerges is that Husserlian phenomenology cannot become instrumental to
cognitive science without undergoing a substantial transformation.
Therefore, the book's central concern is not only the progress of
contemporary theories of cognition but also the reorientation of Husserlian
phenomenology.
Because a single volume could not encompass the numerous facets
of this wide-ranging interrogation, the contributors focus on the issue of
naturalization.This perspective is far-reaching enough to allow for the
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mathematical modeling of their phenomenological descriptions, to the
founding epistemological and ontological principles of cognitive science
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scientific theory of cognition that fills the explanatory gap between the
phenomenological mind and brain.
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1. Beyond the Gap: An Introduction to Naturalizing Phenomenology
Jean-Michel Roy, Jean Petitot, Bernard Pachoud, and Francisco J. Varela
PART ONE:
INTENTIONALITY, MOVEMENT, AND TEMPORALITY
INTENTIONALITY
2. Intentionality Naturalized?
David Woodruff Smith
3. Saving Intentional Phenomena: Intentionality, Representation, and
Symbol
Jean-Michel Roy
4. Leibhaftigkeit and Representational Theories of Perception
Elisabeth Pacherie
MOVEMENT
5. Perceptual Completion: A Case Study in Phenomenology and Cognitive
Science
Evan Thompson, Alva Noe, and Luiz Pessoa
6. The Teleological Dimension of Perceptual and Motor Intentionality
Bernard Pachoud
7. Constitution by Movement: Husserl in Light of Recent
Neurobiological Findings
Jean-Luc Petit
TEMPORALITY
8. Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science
Tim Van Gelder
9. The Specious Present: A Neurophenomenology of Time Consciousness
Francisco J. Varela
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FORMAL MODELS
1O. Truth and the Visual Field
Barry Smith
11. Morphological Eidetics for a Phenomenology of Perception
Jean Petitot
12. Formal Structures in the Phenomenology of Motion
Roberto Casati
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13. G=F6del and Husserl
Dagfinn F=F8llesdal
14. The Mathematical Continuum: From Intuition to Logic
Giuseppe Longo
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Ronald Mcintyre
16. The Immediately Given as Ground and Background
Juan-Jos=E9 Botero
17. When Transcendental Genesis Encounters the Naturalization Project
Natalie Depraz
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18. Sense and Continuum in Husserl
Jean-Michel Salanskis
19. Cognitive Psychology and the Transcendental Theory of Knowledge
Maria Villela-Petit
20. The Movement of the Living as the Originary Foundation of
Perceptual Intentionality
Renaud Barbaras
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21. Philosophy and Cognition: Historical Roots
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
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Kedves Kollegak:
Kovacs Ilona es Kaldy zsuzsanna majus 15 es 19 kozott kurzust tartanak a
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem Soros alapitvany tamogatta kognitiv programjai
keretben.
A tema: A ketfeju latas,
azaz a kettos rendszerek a latas szervezodeseben.
A pontos helyet es idoket kesobb kuldjuk el. Addig is, a mellekelt
reszletes tematika alapjan akit erdekel, keressen. Termeszetesen mas
varosbol jovoknek majd igyekszunk segiteni szallast szerezni is.
Mint a melleklt program is utal ra, olvaskonyv is lesz, kerem ezzel
kapcsolatos igenyeiteket is juttassatok el hozzam.
Mindenkit szeretettel varunk.
Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh
Megismerestudmanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group
Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology
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A KETFEJU LATAS Kovacs Ilona es Kaldy Zsuzsa kurzusa 2000, majus 15-19
Az orak helyerol es idejerol pontos informaciot kesobb kozlunk. A
kurzushoz szoveggyujtemeny keszult. Kerem, aki mintegy 1000 ft-os
terites mellett igenyli, az jelentkezzen aprilis 20-ig Pleh Csabanal,
pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Mindenkit szeretettel varunk.
Eloadas
Nem anatomiai abnormalitas, hanem normalis allapot: agyankent ket
latorendszer! A specialkollegium a latas ket alrendszererol
(koztudottan: "Mi az" ill "Hol van"; anatomiailag: ventralis illetve
dorzalis kergi latoteruletek) szol. Anatomiai, fiziologiai,
neuropszichologiai, pszichofizikai es fejlodesi adatokat fogunk
targyalni. Kozelebbrol megvizsgaljuk azt a hipotezist mely szerint a
ventralis teruletek az un. tudatos erzekelesben vesznek reszt, s a
dorzalis teruletek inkabb a cselekves iranyitasaban (lasd Goodale
konyvet). Pszichologusok, biologusok, medikusok, s meg nyelveszek is
erdekeltek lehetnek.
1. Bevezetes: Latas biologiai szemszogbol irodalom: A. D. Milner & M. A.
Goodale "The visual brain in action" (Oxford University Press, 1997) 1.
fejezet
2. Parhuzamos feldolgozas a retinatol az agykeregig irodalom: A. D.
Milner & M. A. Goodale "The visual brain in action" (Oxford University
Press, 1997) 2. fejezet
3. Mi is a latas funkcioja? Neuropszichologiai adatok irodalom: A. D.
Milner & M. A. Goodale "The visual brain in action" (Oxford University
Press, 1997) 4., 5. fejezet
4. Percepcio vs. cselekvesiranyitas: pszichofizikai adatok irodalom: A.
D. Milner & M. A. Goodale "The visual brain in action" (Oxford
University Press, 1997) 6. fejezet
5. Mit latnak a gyerekek? irodalom: Bachevalier J, Hagger C, Mishkin M
Functional maturation of the occipitotemporal pathway in infant rhesus
monkeys. In: Lassen NA, Raichle ME & Friberg L (eds) Brain work and
mental activity, Alfred Benzon Symposium 31: 231-240 (Copenhagen:
Munksgaard) 1991 I. Kovacs, P. Kozma, A. Feher, G. Benedek "Late
maturation of visual spatial integration in humans" Proc Natl Acad Sci,
96(21) 12204-12209, 1999. P. M Thompson, J. N. Gledd, R. P. Woods, D.
MacDonald, A. E. Evans & A. W. Toga "Growth patterns in the developing
brain detected by using continuum mechanical tensor maps" Nature, 404,
190-193, 2000. Kovacs " Human development of perceptual organization"
Vision Research, in press.
Szeminarium
Az eloadashoz kapcsolodo tovabbi irodalom feldolgozasa. A Goodale-Milner
hipotezis urugyen nehany alapveto modszertani tema es problema
megvitatesa (kuszobmeres, pszichometriai gorbe, "staircase" eljaras).
Miert erdekes az Ebbinghaus-illuzio? A ket vizualis agy elkepzeles
fejlodespszichologiai szempontbol.
Irodalom: M.A. Goodale and A. Haffenden: Frames of Reference for
Perception and Action in the Human Visual System. Neurosci and Behav
Reviews, 1998, 22, 161-172. V. H. Franz, K.R. Gegenfurtner, H.H.
Bulthoff & M.Fahle: Grasping Visual Illusions, in press in Psychological
Science A.M. Haffenden & M.A. Goodale: The effect of a pictorial
illusion on prehension and perception. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(1),
122-136, 1998. I. Faillenot, I.Toni, J.Decety, M.C. Gregorie & M
Jeannerod " Visual pathways for object-oriented action and object
recognition: functional anatomy with PET" Cerebral Cortex, 7, 77-85,
1997
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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Április 3
12:30
6. em. 6.54
B a r r y L o e w e r
Rutgers University
Collegium Budapest
Many World and Many Mind Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
After sketching the measurement problem -or what Philip Pearle more
aptly calls "the reality problem"- for quantum theory I show how Everett
and his successors attempt to deal with the problem by reinterpreting
the quantum state as describing many simultaneously existing worlds. I
will argue that the interpretation has many attractive features but
ultimately fails in providing an appropriate account of quantum
mechanical probabilities. An even stranger interpretation called "Many
minds" (due to Albert and Loewer) solves that problem but may be too
weird to be believable.
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
Keds kollegak !
Fiser Jozsef (University of Rochester, N.Y.)
a szegedi kognitiv Soros program vendegtanara
2000. marcius 29-en, szerdan 12 orakor eloadast tart sajat kutatasairol
Gyors gain kontroll vs. figyelem vezerelt hangolas: A targyfelismeres
alacsony es magasszintu adaptacios folyamatainak osszekapcsolasa
cimmel.
Az eloadas helye: a szegedi kognitiv csoport laboratoriuma. Szeged,
Boldogasszony sugarut 4, foldszint.
FIGYELEM: bejarat az udvar felol !!!!
Mindenkit szerettel varunk,
udvozlettel
Pleh CsaBA
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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Marcius 27
12:30
6. em. 6.54
S z e g e d i P e t e r
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
PTOLEMAIOSZ-KOPERNIKUSZ(-KEPLER)
(Review)
Szeminariumaink soraban egy uj mufajjal kiserletezunk, a
"felkert"eloadassal, ami nem azt jelenti, hogy felkerunk egy eloadot -
hiszen ez termeszetes -, hanem azt, hogy egy adott temara kerjuk fel. Az
eloado tehat nem kutatasainak legujabb eredmenyeit ismerteti, es talan
nem is szakertoje az adott targynak. A tema viszont olyan, hogy azzal -
vagy analogonjaval - mindenki talalkozhat munkaja soran, azaz altalanos
erdeklodesre tarthat szamot. Az adott esetben az eloado a
tudomanytortenet tanitasa soran szembesult a problemaval, es
rakenyszerult - mint ez sokunkkal megeshet - hogy kialakitson valamilyen
elkepzelest vele kapcsolatban. Mi is a problema? Egy hires csillagasz
szerzo a kovetkezokeppen vezeti be: "Kezdettol fogva vilagosan kell
latnunk, hogy a bolygok mozgasanak leirasa szempontjabol tokeletesen
mindegy, vajon a Foldet vagy a Napot tekintjuk a naprendszer
kozeppontjanak. Mivel csak viszonylagos mozgasrol van szo, vegtelenul
nagy szamu, kulonbozo kozeppontokra vonatkozo, tokeletesen azonos leiras
letezik - elvben barmilyen pont megfelel, a Hold is, a Jupiter is ...
Igy hat azok a szenvedelyek, amelyeket Kopernikusz konyve, a De
revolutionibus ... szabaditott ra a vilagra, logikai ertelemben
indokolatlanok voltak ..."Es gondolatmenetet a kovetkezokeppen fejezi
be: "Ma semmifele jozan fizikai megfontolas alapjan nem jelenthetjuk ki,
hogy a kopernikuszi elmelet 'helyes', es a ptolemaioszi elmelet
'helytelen'. A ket elmelet ... fizikai ertelemben egyenerteku."(Fred
Hoyle: Stonehenge-tol a modern kozmologiaig. Magveto, 1978. 63. es
136-7. o.) Az eloadas tehat azzal foglalkozik, hogy mi a
tudomanytorteneti helye, jelentosege, egymashoz viszonyitott szerepe a
cimben szereplo szerzoknek, az idezetben hivatkozott "minden idok egyik
legkevesbe ismert es olvasott konyve"-nek (Arthur Koestler: Alvajarok.
Europa, 1996. 250. o.). Az eloado nem fogja megallni, hogy ne beszeljen
e szerzok ismert es lehetseges motivacioirol is. Az ajanlott irodalom
Ptolemaiosz Almagesztje, Kopernikusz emlitett konyve, Keplertol mondjuk
A vilag harmoniaja, valamint masodlagos irodalomkent Kuhn: The
Copernican Revolution c. munkaja (amely A tudomanyos forradalmak
szerkezete elotanulmanyanak tekintheto).
A szeminarium szervezoje: E. Szabo Laszlo
--
Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32.
Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671
Fax: (36-1)372-2509
Home: (36-1)200-7318
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
****** Evolution of Language Conference ******
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we
seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives
with those of modern Darwinism.
The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists,
anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists,
neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the
question of the origin and evolution of language.
All useful information (scientific programme, registration information)
can be found at the following address:
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We invite you to consider sending your registration before March 15 to
benefit from reduced rates (155 Euros, instead of 230 Euros after this
date). The number of available places is limited, and priority will be
given to early registrations.
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Conference : The Evolution of Language
April 3rd - 6th , 2000
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
Paris - France
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The 4 target article whose abstracts appear below have recently
appeared in PSYCOLOQUY, a refereed online journal of Open Peer
Commentary sponsored by the American Psychological Association.
OPEN PEER COMMENTARY on these target article is now invited.
Qualified professional biobehavioural, neural or cognitive
scientists should consult PSYCOLOQUY's Websites or send email
(below) for Instructions if not familiar with format or acceptance
criteria for commentaries (all submissions are refereed).
To submit articles or to seek information:
EMAIL: psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu
URLs: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc
1.
Place, Ullin T. (2000) The Role of the gand in the Evolution of
Language. Psycoloquy: 11(007) Language Gesture (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.007
THE ROLE OF THE HAND IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
Target Article on Language Origins
Ullin T. Place
School of Philosophy
University of Leeds
School of Psychology
University of Wales,
Bangor, Wales
UK
ABSTRACT: This target article has four sections. Section I sets
out four principles which should guide any attempt to reconstruct
the evolution of an existing biological characteristic. Section II
sets out thirteen principles specific to a reconstruction of the
evolution of language. Section III sets out eleven pieces of
evidence for the view that vocal language must have been preceded
by an earlier language of gesture. Based on those principles and
evidence, Section IV sets out seven proposed stages in the process
whereby language evolved: (1) the use of mimed movement to indicate
an action to be performed, (2) the development of referential
pointing which, when combined with mimed movement, leads to a
language of gesture, (3) the development of vocalisation, initially
as a way of imitating the calls of animals, (4) counting on the
fingers leading into (5) the development of symbolic as distinct
from iconic representation, (6) the introduction of the practice of
question and answer, and (7) the emergence of syntax as a way of
disambiguating utterances that can otherwise be disambiguated only
by gesture.
2.
Crow, Timothy J. (2000) Did Homo Sapiens Speciate on the y
Chromosome?. Psycoloquy: 11(001) Language sex Chromosomes (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.001
DID HOMO SAPIENS SPECIATE ON THE Y CHROMOSOME?
Target Article on Language-Sex-Chromosomes
Timothy J. Crow
POWIC
University of Oxford
Department of Psychiatry
Warneford Hospital
Oxford OX3 7JX
United Kingdom
tim.crow(a)psychiatry.oxford.ac.uk
ABSTRACT: It is hypothesised that the critical change (a
"saltation") in the transition from a precursor hominid to modern
Homo sapiens occurred in a gene for cerebral lateralisation located
on the Y chromosome in a block of sequences that had earlier
transposed from the X. Sexual selection acting upon an X-Y
homologous gene to determine the relative rates of development of
the hemispheres across the antero-posterior axis ("cerebral
torque") allowed language to evolve as a species-specific mate
recognition system. Human evolution may exemplify a general role
for sex chromosomal change in speciation events in sexually
reproducing organisms.
3.
Burling, Robbins (1999) The Cognitive Prerequisites for Language.
Psycoloquy: 10(032) Language Prerequisites (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.032
THE COGNITIVE PREREQUISITES FOR LANGUAGE
Target Article on Language-Prerequisites
Robbins Burling
Department of Anthropology
1020 LSA Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA
rburling(a)umich.edu
ABSTRACT: The first use of words by our early ancestors probably
depended on four cognitive capacities: A rich conceptual
understanding of the world around us; the ability to use and
understand motivated signs, both icons and indices; the ability to
imitate; the ability to infer the referential intentions of others.
The latter three capacities are rare or absent in nonprimate
mammals, but incipient in apes and well developed in modern humans.
Before early humans could have begun to use words these capacities
would have needed further development than is found in modern apes.
It is not clear why selection favoured these skills more strongly
in our ancestors than in the ancestors of apes.
4.
Bichakjian, Bernard H. (1999) Language Evolution and the Complexity
Criterion. Psycoloquy: 10(033) Language Complexity (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.033
LANGUAGE EVOLUTION AND THE COMPLEXITY CRITERION
Target Article on Language-Complexity
Bernard H. Bichakjian
Department of French
University of Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
Bichakjian(a)let.kun.nl
http://welcome.to/bichakjian
ABSTRACT: Though it is increasingly accepted in the behavioral
sciences, the evolutionary approach is still meeting resistance in
linguistics. Linguists generally cling to the idea that alternative
linguistic features are simply gratuitous variants of one another,
while the advocates of innate grammars, who make room for evolution
as a biological process, exclude the evolution of languages. The
rationale given is that today's languages are all complex systems.
This argument is based on the failure to distinguish between
complexities of form and function. The proper analysis reveals
instead that linguistic features have consistently decreased their
material complexity, while increasing their functionality. A
systematic historical survey will show instead that languages have
evolved and linguistic features have developed along a Darwinian
line.
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We would like to remind you that the deadline for application is April 3rd.
7th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, New Bulgarian University, July 10 - 30, 2000
Courses:
=85 Distributed representations and gradual learning processes in
cognition =
-
Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
=85 Connectionist models of language processing - Jeff Elman (University of
California, San Diego, USA)
=85 Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli (Stanford
University)
=85 Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (University of Queensland)
=85 The Human Conceptual System - Lawrence W. Barsalou (Emory University)
=85 Topics in Vision Science - Stephen E. Palmer (University of California,
Berkeley)
=85 Cognitive Science: A Basic Science for an Applied Science of
Learning -
John T. Bruer (James S. McDonnell Foundation)
=85 Psychological Scaling - Encho Gerganov (New Bulgarian University)
=85 Research Methods in Psycholinguistics - Elena Andonova (New Bulgarian
University)
=85 Research Methods in Memory and Thinking - Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian
University)
Organised by
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Bulgarian
Society for Cognitive Science
Sponsored by the Open Society Institute in Budapest - HESP Program
International Advisory Board
Participation
Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee on the bases of
their submitted documents:
=85 application form (see at the Web page),
=85 CV,
=85 statement of purpose,
=85 copy of diploma; if student - academic transcript
=85 letter of recommendation,
=85 list of publications (if any) and short summary of up to three of them.
Apply as soon as possible since the number of participants is restricted.
=46or more information look at:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2000.html
Housing and Fees
The Organizing Committee has been able to sign a contract with a
hostel/dormitory and is able to provide accommodation at very favorable
prices. However, the participants have to pay the whole sum in advance to
the organizing committee. This fee includes accommodation and full board
for the period July 9-31, as well as participation in all courses,
participant symposia, panel discussions, student sessions. We will offer
alternative possibilities for accommodation in single rooms in 2 and 3 star
hotels at higher prices.
The meals for all participants will be together independently of the
accommodation choice thus allowing for better social interactions and
continuation of the discussions started in classes.
The registration fee which includes accommodation and meal for 3 weeks
(from the evening of July 9 till the Morning of July 31st), two bus trips,
reception, teaching materials and tuition are the following:
=85 hostel "CIURK" USD 630
=85 **Hotel USD
=85 ***Hotel USD
=46inancial Support
Soros' Open Society Institute - Budapest has kindly provided support for
young faculty members from Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Rumania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia,
Albania, Macedonia) as well as from the former Soviet Union (Russia,
Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Armenia, Uzbekistan,
Kazahstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Kirgistan, Azarbedgian, Moldova). The
scholarships cover tuition, travel, and living expenses. Participants from
other countries should find locally support for their participation.
Deadline for application: April 3rd
Notification of acceptance: April 24th.
Methods of Payment
Bank transfer to:
New Bulgarian University - CogSci2000,
Bank account 11-600-52-913,
Raiffeisen Bank, Sofia, 18-20 Gogol Street,
Bank code: 155-91-550,
SWIFT: RZBBBGSS
(transfer fees should be prepaid).
Check made payable to New Bulgarian University (add USD10 processing fee)
Pay in cash (in USD only) at on site registration, in this case add USD100
for late registration.
Cancellations and Reimbursement
If you cancel your registration before June 30 you will be refunded with a
15% reduction, afterwards no refunding will be possible.
