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Tisztelt Holgyem/Uram!
Ezuton ertesitjuk, hogy a Budapesti Nemzetkozi Konyvfesztival 1999 aprilis
23-tol aprilis 25-ig lesz a Kongresszusi Kozpontban.
A Typotex Kiado standjanak szama: 321 (Masodik emeleten a lepcsonel).
E jeles esemeny alkalmaval 20%-os engedmennyel adjuk konyveinket.
Bizonyara mas kiallitoknal is sok uj, jo konyvet fog talalni.
Megjelenesere szamitunk, szivelyes udvozlettel:
Votisky Zsuzsa
Subject:
Error Condition Re: PhD kurzus
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Tisztelt Kollegak!
Aprilis 23-an penteken egesz napos PhD kurzust tartunk "The neurobiology
of higher mental processes" cimmel a Debreceni orvostudomanyi Egyetemen. A
kurzussal kapcsolatos informacio a kovetkezo cimen erheto el:
http://www.biomedicine.dote.hu/courses/consc.html
A kurzusra minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Szivelyes koszontessel,
Balazs Gulyas
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute
S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Voice: +46 8 728 78 58 Fax: +46 8 30 85 72 or 30 90 45
Email: balazs.gulyas(a)neuro.ki.se
Web-site: fornix.neuro.ki.se/balazs/index.htm
Az MTA Filozofiai Intezete Nyelv- es Tudomanyfilozofiai Kutatocsoportja
kovetkezo vitajat
THOMAS KUHNROL
rendezi
Szekely Laszlo "Kopernikusz es a dogmatikus Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn
tudomanyfilozofiaja a legujabb tudomanytorteneti kutatasok fenyeben"
es
Laki Janos "Racionalizalt zsenialitas. A tudomanyos folfedezes fazisai"
cimu,
a Vilagossag 1999/1-es szamaban megjelent tanulmanyaibol kiindulva
aprilis 26-en, hetfon, 14 orai kezdettel az MTA Filozofiai Intezeteben
(Bp., V. Szemere u. 10.)
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article:
NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG by Paul L. Nunez
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 nominated 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 send EMAIL by May 14th to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to [PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY CHANGED ADDRESS]:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ECS: New Zepler Building
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and
commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
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TOWARD A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF LARGE SCALE
NEOCORTICAL DYNAMIC FUNCTION AND EEG.
Paul L. Nunez
Permanent Address:
Brain Physics Group,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Tulane University,
New Orleans,
Louisiana 70118
pnunez(a)mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Temporary Address (6/98 - 6/00):
Brain Sciences Institute,
Swinburne University of Technology,
400 Burwood Road,
Melbourne,
Victoria 3122,
Australia
pnunez(a)mind.scan.swin.edu.au
ABSTRACT: A conceptual framework for large-scale neocortical dynamic
behavior is proposed. It is sufficiently general to embrace brain
theories applied to different experimental designs, spatial scales
and brain states. This framework, based on the work of many
scientists, is constructed from anatomical, physiological and EEG
data. Neocortical dynamics and correlated behavioral/cognitive brain
states are viewed in the context of partly distinct, but interacting
local (regionally specific) processes and globally coherent
dynamics. Local and regional processes (eg, neural networks) are
enabled by functional segregation; global processes are facilitated
by functional integration. Global processes can also facilitate
synchronous activity in remote cell groups (top down) which function
simultaneously at several different spatial scales. At the same
time, local processes may help drive (bottom up) macroscopic global
dynamics observed with EEG (or MEG).
A specific, physiologically based local/global dynamic theory is
outlined in the context of this general conceptual framework. It is
consistent with a body of EEG data and fits naturally within the
proposed conceptual framework. The theory is incomplete since its
physiological control parameters are known only approximately. Thus,
brain state-dependent contributions of local versus global dynamics
cannot be predicted. It is also neutral on properties of neural
networks, assumed to be embedded within macroscopic fields.
Nevertheless, the purely global part of the theory makes
qualitative, and in a few cases, semi-quantitative predictions of
the outcomes of several disparate EEG studies in which global
contributions to the dynamics appear substantial. Experimental data
are used to obtain a variety of measures of traveling and standing
wave phenomena, predicted by the pure global theory. The more
general local/global theory is also proposed as a "meta-theory," a
suggestion of what large-scale quantitative theories of neocortical
dynamics may be like when more accurate treatment of local and
non-linear effects is achieved.
In the proposed local/global theory, the dynamics of excitatory and
inhibitory synaptic action fields are described. EEG and MEG are
believed to provide large-scale estimates of modulation of these
synaptic fields about background levels. Brain state is determined
by neuromodulatory control parameters. Some states are dominated by
local cell groups, in which EEG frequencies are due to local
feedback gains and rise and decay times of post-synaptic potentials.
Local frequencies vary with brain location. Other states are
strongly global, with multiple, closely spaced EEG frequencies, but
identical at each cortical location. Coherence at these frequencies
is high over large distances. The global mode frequencies are due to
a combination of delays in cortico-cortical axons and neocortical
boundary conditions. Many states involve dynamic interactions
between local networks and the global system, in which case observed
EEG frequencies may involve "matching" of local resonant frequencies
with one or more of the global frequencies.
KEYWORDS: EEG, neocortical dynamics, standing waves, functional
integration, spatial scale, binding problem, synchronization,
coherence, cell assemblies, limit cycles, pacemakers
____________________________________________________________
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.nunez.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.nunez
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.nunez
*** FIVE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ***
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(1) There have been some very important developments in the
area of Web archiving of scientific papers very recently.
Please see:
Science:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/science.html
Nature:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
American Scientist:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/amlet.html
Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v45/i04/04a02901.htm
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(2) All authors in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences are
strongly encouraged to archive all their papers (on their
Home-Servers as well as) on CogPrints:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
It is extremely simple to do so and will make all of our papers
available to all of us everywhere at no cost to anyone.
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(3) BBS has a new policy of accepting submissions electronically.
Authors can specify whether they would like their submissions
archived publicly during refereeing in the BBS under-refereeing
Archive, or in a referees-only, non-public archive.
Upon acceptance, preprints of final drafts are moved to the
public BBS Archive:
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/index.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/
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(4) BBS has expanded its annual page quota and is now appearing
bimonthly, so the service of Open Peer Commentary can now be be
offered to more target articles. The BBS refereeing procedure is
also going to be considerably faster with the new electronic
submission and processing procedures. Authors are invited to submit
papers to:
Email: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Web: http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukhttp://bbs.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/instructions.for.authors.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/instructions.for.authors.html
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(5) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review
In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal 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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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:26:33 +0300
From: CogSci Summer School <school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg>
To: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Subject: Summer School in CogSci 99
Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 99 14:25:25 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
Dear Csaba,
Please, find enclosed the Summer School announcement. I would like to ask
you to distribute it among young people who are eager to participate in it.
For participants from Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the former
Soviet Union there are scholarships available (provided by Soros' Open
Society Institute). They cover tuition, travel, and living expenses.
Thank you in advance,
Guergana Yantcheva,
administrative manager
CEE Center for Cognitive Science
6th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, New Bulgarian University
July 12 - 31, 1999
International Advisory Board
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
William HIRST (New School for Social Sciences, NY, USA)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Courses
Each participant will enroll in 6 of the 10 courses offered thus attending
4 hours classes per day plus 2 hours tutorials in small groups plus
individual studies and participation in symposia.
Brain and Language: New Approaches to Evolution and Developmet (Elizabeth
Bates, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA)
Child Language Acquisition (Michael Tomasello, MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Germany)
Culture and Cognition (Roy D'Andrade, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA)
Understanding Social Dependence and Cooperation (Cristiano Castelfranchi,
CNR, Italy)
Models of Human Memory (Richard Shiffrin, Indiana University, USA)
Categorization and Inductive Reasoning: Psychological and Computational
Approaches (Evan Heit, Univ. of Warwick, UK)
Understanding Human Thinking (Boicho Kokinov, New Bulgarian University)
Perception-Based Spatial Reasoning (Reinhard Moratz, Hamburg University,
Germany)
Perception (Naum Yakimoff, New Bulgarian University)
Applying Cognitive Science to Instruction (John Hayes, Carnegie-Mellon
University, USA)
In addition there will be seminars, working groups, project work, discussions.
Participation
Participants will be selected by a Selection Committee on the bases of
their submitted documents:
� application form,
� CV,
� statement of purpose,
� copy of diploma; if student - academic transcript
� letter of recommendation,
� list of publications (if any) and short summary of up to three of them.
For participants from Central and Eastern Europe as well as from the former
Soviet Union there are scholarships available (provided by Soros' Open
Society Institute). They cover tuition, travel, and living expenses.
Deadline for application: April 15tht
Notification of acceptance: April 30th.
Apply as soon as possible since the number of participants is restricted.
For more information contact:
Summer School in Cognitive Science
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
Tel. (+3592) 957-1876
Fax: (+3592) 558262
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
Web page: http://www.nbu.acad.bg/staff/cogs/events/ss99.html
Tisztelt Holgyem/Uram!
Szeretettel meghivom a Typotex Kiado 1999 aprilis 15-en csutortokon, 13
orakor a Muszaki Konyvaruhazban (1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc ter 9.)tartando
sajtobemutatojara.
A bemutatasra kerulo kiadvany:
Steven Pinker: A nyelvi oszton
A konyvrol Pleh Csaba, Bocz Andras es Komlosi Laszlo beszelget.
Megjelenesere szamitunk!
Udvozlettel: Votisky Zsuzsa
Igen olcson kiado fel lakas a nyari honapokra, juniustol szeptember
elejig Moszkva tertol 9 km-re.
Macska adja a tarsasagot.
Erdekelodeni az alabbi lakastelefonon.
Inexpensive summer sublet from June to September in the suburbs of
Budapest, with cat-care included.
Phone to the home number below.
Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:52:07 +0200
From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit(a)dfki.de>
To: Mailing Lists <hansu(a)dfki.de>
Subject: [E-Job] Jobs: Psycholinguistics in Saarbruecken
Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 99 17:13:07 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
Immediate Opening
TENURED POSITION IN PSYCHOLINGUISTCS
Computational Linguistics Program
of Saarland University at Saarbrücken
The Division of Modern Languages and Literature at
Saarland University has an immediate opening for
a position of
PROFESSOR (C3) in PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
The successful candidate shall cover the area of Psycholinguistics
in the Department 8.7 "General Linguistics" and participate in
teaching within the Diplom (MSc) degree programme "Computational
Linguistics". A research focus in computational modelling of
human language processing is desirable. Active participation in
the DFG Centre of Excellence (SFB 378) "Resource-Adaptive Cognitive
Processes" is expected.
Habilitation or indication of comparable scientific achievement
is required.
According to the measures of the agenda to promote women Saarland
University is working towards increasing the proportion of women
in this area and therefore particularly encourages qualified women
candidates to apply.
Handicapped persons with equal qualifications are granted
preferential status in the selection procedure.
Applicants are requested to send their application, full curriculum
vitae, list of publications and courses taught to the Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities by May 5th 1999 at the following address:
Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät
der Universität des Saarlandes,
Postfach 151150,
D-66041 Saarbrücken.
Information on the Departmental Section "General Linguistics"
and the Diplom degree programme "Computational Linguistics" are
available on the Internet at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/.
Saarbrücken, 10 March 1999
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Unauthorized background information on rank, conditions and pay:
A professor position at the C3 level usually is a tenured position
with civil servant (Beamten-) status. Gross salary depends on age,
marital status and number of children.
C3 is the second highest professor rank at German Universities,
roughly equivalent with Associate Professor.
The equivalent of a habilitation (German Second Doctorate) is
roughly comparable to fulfilling tenure requirements at an American
University.
Application papers may be submitted in English. The c.v. must
contain the birth date including year of birth. Application or c.v.
must contain full address information, including phone and fax
numbers.
German language proficiency is desirable but not required. In the
beginning of the employment, courses may be taught in English.
However, it is expected that the necessary language skills for
teaching in German will be acquired in due time.
_______________________________________________________
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
& Univ. of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics
D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
WWW: http://coli.uni-sb.de/~hansu/
Univ. phone + 49 (681) 302-4115 fax + 49 (681) 302-4700
DFKI phone + 49 (681) 302-5282 fax + 49 (681) 302-5338
personal email: hans(a)uszkoreit.net
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MEGHIVO
A Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag nyilvanos konferenciat rendez Szegeden
WITTGENSTEIN ES A TARSADALOMTUDOMANYOK
cimmel.
A konferencia idopontja es helye: 199. majus 21, pentek, 10.00
a Szegedi Akademiai Bizottsag szekhaza (Somogyi Bela u.7).
Tervezett program
10.00: Megnyito
10.15: Nyiri J. Kristof: A kepek Wittgensteinnnel
11.00 Eros Ferenc: Wittgenstein es a pszichoanalizis
11.45: Kampis Gyorgy: A behaviorista Wittgenstein
12.30-13.30: Ebed
13.30: Pleh Csaba: A szabaly Wittgensteinnel es a nyelveszetben
14.15: Szegedy-Maszak Mihaly: Wittgenstein es az irodalom
15.00: Mekis Peter: Wittgenstein es az esztetika
Ez termeszetesen elozetes ertesites, majusban meg kuldunk emlekeztetot.
A Tarsasag mindekit szeretettel var.
Erdeklodni lehet: Laczko Sandor fotitkarnal, laczkos(a)bibl.u-szeged.hu
Udvozlettel Pleh Csaba
Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
