Tovabbadom a levelet, hatha itt is erdekel valakit.
Czigler Istvan
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From: "Kovacs, Gyula" <gkovacs(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu>
Organization: Albert Szent-Gyoergyi Medical Univ.
To: ganglion(a)koki.hu
Date sent: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:54:39 MET
Subject: GANGLION -- Postdoc places in Canada
Priority: normal
Send reply to: "Kovacs, Gyula" <gkovacs(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu>
A minap ezt a levelet kapta egy kollegam, aki nekem is tovabbitotta.
Gondolom ez a legmegfelelobb forum szamara.
Udvozlettel,
Kovacs Gyula
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FROM: James I. Nagy, PhD
Dept of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
Basic Medical Sciences Building, RM 408
730 William Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3E 3J7
Tel: (204) 789-3767
FAX: (204) 789-3934
Email: nagyji(a)ms.umanitoba.ca
(...)
I wonder if you could help me regarding the following.
I have been thinking for some time now about the possibility of
attracting Hungarian scientists, specifically graduate students and
post-doctoral fellows to conduct studies in Canada and particularly at
our University here in Manitoba.
We keep getting floods of application from students in China and I
always wonder why no applicants from the former Eastern block
countries.
At the same time, I keep reading about the very dismal finical and
economic situation for scientists in Hungary. If this is true, then it
seems there must be many students and post-docs who would be willing
to take the opportunity to spend a few years conducting studies and
research outside of Hungary while the situation there becomes more
favorable.
I wonder if you could pass this message onto someone with whom I could
discuss the possibility of our University becoming a place where
Hungarians could come to undertake research training in physiology,
neuroscience, endocrinology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular
biology, etc. .
We already have a good community of Hungarian non-scientists here,
which could serve as a support group for visiting students and
scholars. What I envision is our University of Manitoba becoming a
haven or a home away from home for Hungarians wishing to obtain some
training outside their country.
How all this would be arranged, advertised, funded etc is open to
discussion. This is just my initial attempt to open a dialogue on the
subject.
Hope to hear from you soon
J.I. Nagy
PS. If you wish to know more about our University, Please check our
University of Manitoba home Page on the Internet.
http://www.umanitoba.ca
James I. Nagy, PhD
Dept of Physiology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Manitoba
Basic Medical Sciences Building, RM 408
730 William Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3E 3J7
Tel: (204) 789-3767
FAX: (204) 789-3934
Email: nagyji(a)ms.umanitoba.ca
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Gyula Kovacs, PhD
Dept. Physiology
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University
Szeged
H-6720
Dom ter 10
Phone:+36-62-45-53-73
Fax:+36-62-455-842
gkovacs(a)atlas.neuro.ki.se
gkovacs(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu
http://www.szote.u-szeged.hu/phys/frames/vision.htm
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Gabora: ORIGIN OF CULTURE
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RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING COMMENTARY: This target article presents a
model of cognitive origins to explain the transition from episodic
to mimetic/memetic culture (as outlined by Merlin Donald in
"Origins of the Modern Mind," 1991) using Stuart Kauffman's ideas
about how an information-evolving system can emerge through
autocatalysis ("Origins of Order," 1993). I would like to invite
commentary from cognitive anthropologists and archeologists on the
plausibility of the proposal, from neuroscientists on the
neurobiological aspects of this model, and from cognitive
psychologists on its compatibility with other dynamic models memory
(i.e. models of how one thought evokes another in a train of
associations.) I also invite discussion of the memetic perspective
of culture as an information-evolving system.
Full text of article available at:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?9.67
or
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/
psyc.98.9.67.origin-culture.1.gabora
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AUTOCATALYTIC CLOSURE IN A COGNITIVE SYSTEM:
A TENTATIVE SCENARIO FOR THE ORIGIN OF CULTURE
Liane Gabora
Center Leo Apostel
Brussels Free University
Krijgskundestraat 33
1160 Brussels
Belgium
lgabora(a)vub.ac.be
http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/
ABSTRACT: This target article presents a speculative model of the
cognitive mechanisms underlying the transition from episodic to
mimetic (or memetic) culture with the arrival of Homo Erectus,
which Donald (1991) claims paved the way for the unique features of
human culture. The model draws on Kauffman's (1993) theory of how
an information-evolving system emerges through the formation of an
autocatalytic network. Though originally formulated to explain the
origin of life, Kauffman's theory also provides a plausible account
of how discrete episodic memories become woven into an internal
model of the world, or world-view, that both structures, and is
structured by, self-triggered streams of thought. Social
interaction plays a role in (and may be critical to) this process.
Implications for cognitive development are explored.
KEYWORDS: abstraction, animal cognition, autocatalysis, cognitive
development, cognitive origins, consciousness, cultural evolution,
memory, meme, mimetic culture, representational redescription,
world-view.
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Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
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<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>TENNET X
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CALL FOR PAPERS
</bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>The
tenth annual conference on theoretical & experimental neuropsychology,
TENNET X, will be on June 1999, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the
Universite du Quebec, Montreal, Judith-Jasmin Bldg., Marie-Gerin-Lajoie
Hall.
The basic conference structure is (a) two thematic symposia of 3 hours
duration, followed by (b) refereed poster sessions. The poster papers
are discussed after the second symposium, each afternoon. This is the
first North American neuropsychology conference that is specifically
focussed on theoretical and experimental issues.
Participants may submit papers (up to 1600 words + 2 tables or figures)
for consideration. Since these are refereed submissions, accepted
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Cognition.
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Poster presentations should deal with a well-defined topic or problem
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history. Submissions are in two parts: (a) A 100-150 word abstract;
(b) A detailed description of the paper which will be refereed by the
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should include an introduction, methods, results, discussion and full
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UQAM
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Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
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Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
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> From: Dr. Jill Bepler <G.Bepler(a)hab.de>
> To: Katalin Neumer <h11104neu(a)ella.hu>; Larissa Juliet Taylor
<ljtaylor(a)colby.edu>; Lee Palmer Wandel <lwandel(a)ias.edu>; Luc Racaut
<lr1(a)st-andrews.ac.uk>; MARK GREENGRASS <M.Greengrass(a)sheffield.ac.uk>;
Merry Wiesner Hanks <merrywh(a)csd.uwm.edu>
> Subject: Barockkongress 2000
> Date: 1998. december 22. 15:44
>
>
> FOR YOUR INFORMATION - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO INTERESTED
> COLLEAGUES
>
> WOLFENBUETTELER BAROCKKONGRESS 2000
>
>
> Artes et scientiae. Repraesentation neuer und alter Sichtweisen von
> "Natur" in der fruehen Neuzeit
> Kongress in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel vom 5. bis 8.
> April 2000
> 10. Jahrestreffen des Wolfenbuetteler Arbeitskreises fuer
> Barockforschung
> Vorbereitung und Leitung des Kongresses: Barbara Bauer (Marburg), in
> Verbindung mit Wolfgang Behringer (Muenchen/York), Thomas Leinkauf
> (Muenster), Anselm Steiger (Heidelberg) und Friedrich Vollhardt
> (Giessen)
>
> Die Jahrtausendwende ist ein geeigneter Anlass, aus der Perspektive
> der Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften ueber die Wurzeln des
> neuzeitlichen Natur- und Wissenschaftsverstaendnisses nachzudenken.
> Vertreter der historischen Kulturwissenschaften sind sich darueber
> einig, dass es nicht mehr genuege, aus interner Sicht die
> Erfolgsgeschichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen zu
> schreiben und beispielsweise in den Werken von Nicolaus Copernicus,
> Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei und Isaac Newton die
> Gruendungsmanifeste der neuzeitlichen Physik und Astronomie
> aufzuspueren. Um aber zu pruefen, welche Rolle die "new sciences",
> die empirische Methode, die mathematische Fachsprache,
> Laborexperimente und neue technische Hilfsmittel im vielfaeltigen
> Panorama der kulturellen Praktiken im fruehneuzeitlichen Europa
> spielten, bedarf es der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Vertreteren
> verschiedener historischer Disziplinen. Dazu gehoeren: Kirchen- und
> Dogmengeschichte, Schul- und Universitaetsgeschichte, Kunst-, Musik-
> und Literaturgeschichte, Mediengeschichte und vergleichende
> Kulturanthropologie.
>
> Das Thema des internationalen Barock-Kongresses im April 2000 bietet
> Gelegenheit, darueber zu diskutieren, wie die Literatur und Kuenste,
> alte und neue Kommunikationsmedien an der Propagierung neuer
> wissenschaftlicher Ideen und Erfindungen beteiligt waren.
> Gleichzeitig soll aber auch geprueft werden, welche Mittel die
> Verteidiger traditioneller Wissensformen und bewaehrter Autoritaeten
> benutzt haben, um neue Deutungsansaetze und Verfahren der
> Naturforschung zu bekaempfen. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen 1.)
> die Bedeutung verschiedener Kommunikationsmedien, Darstellungsformen
> und Gattungstraditionen als Vehikel neuer Ideen ueber das
> Weltgebaeude und den Ort des Menchen, 2.) das Verhaeltnis der neuen
> Naturwissenschaften zu alternativen Praktiken der
> Wissenserweiterung, die aus heutiger Sicht als Pseudowissenschaften
> gelten, und 3.) der heikle Zusammenhang zwischen religioesem
> Bekenntnis und naturwissenschaftlichem Sachverstand, der im
> Kompetenzstreit zwischen Theologen und Fachwissenschaftlern ueber
> ihre Forschungsgegenstaende und Methoden zur Diskussion stand.
>
> Kongressplanung
>
> I. Plenarsitzungen
>
> Mittwoch, 5. April, abends
> Eroeffnungsvortrag
>
> Donnerstag, 6. April, Vormittag
> Das Verhaeltnis kirchlicher Institutionen zu den neuen Wissenschaften
> ebenso wie zu Magie und Wunderglauben
> - Jesuitische Kultur, Bibelexegese und new sciences
> - Protestantismus und neue Wissenschaften
> - Die Kirchen und die magischen Praktiken
>
> Freitag, 7. April, Vormittag
> Schulen, Akademien und Museen
> - Neue Ordnungen des Wissens und die traditionelle
> Disziplinenhierarchie an den Hochschulen in katholischen,
> protestantischen und reformierten Territorien
> - Konkurrierende Verstaendnisweisen von "Natur"
> - Sammlungen als Naturtheater und Laboratorien, ihre Besucher und
> Benutzer
> Abendveranstaltung:
> Vortrag ueber spekulative Musiktheorien und Musizierpraxis (mit
> Konzert)
>
> Samstag, 5. April, Vormittag
> - Neue Techniken, Exaktheitsideal und die Kuenste
> - Literarische Formen der Vermittlung neuer naturphilosophischer
> Ideen
>
> Abschlussdiskussion
>
>
> Ausschreibung - Call for Papers
>
> Referate in den Arbeitsgruppen (6. und 7. April, Nachmittage)
>
> In jeder Arbeitsgruppe sollen folgende Themen unter den Aspekten
> eines Wissensgebiets eroertert werden:
> - Koexistenz und Konkurrenz verschiedener Wissensformen und Praktiken
> - Rivalitaet zwischen akademischen Wissenschaftlern und Technikern,
> Ingenieuren und Tueftlern
> - Verhaeltnis zur christlichen Lehre und zum Bibeltext
> - Verhaeltnis zu den Scbulen, zum Hof und zu fuerstlichen,
> kaiserlichen, paepstlichen etc. Foerderern
> - Kritik an traditionellen Autoritaeten (v.a. Aristoteles) und Suche
> nach Alternativen (z.B. Hermetismus, Neuplatonismus, Paracelsismus
> u.ae.)
> - Methodenprobleme: Exaktheitsideal, mathematische Fachsprache,
> empirische Ueberpruefbarkeit, Experimente, Synthesis vs. Analysis
> - neue Ordnungen des Wissens, Hierarchie der Disziplinen
> - Darstellungsformen des Neuen in Literatur und Kuensten und die
> Selbstinszenierung der Wissenschaftler (als Magier, Revolutionaere,
> Kuenstler etc.)
>
>
> Geplante Arbeitsgruppen
>
> Arbeitsgruppe I
> Astronomie, Astrologie, Kosmologie
> (Fritz Krafft, Eberhard Knobloch)
>
> Arbeitsgruppe II
> Physik, Geographie und Geogonie, Naturgeschichte
> (Martin Mulsow, Paul R. Blum)
>
> Arbeitsgruppe III
> Alchemie
> (Wilhelm Kuehlmann, Bruce T. Moran)
>
> Arbeitsgruppe IV
> Psychologie, Entdeckung des Bewusstseins
> (Eckhard Kessler, Lino Bolzoni)
>
> Arbeitsgruppe V
> Wissenschaften und Kuenste, die den Koerper und "Koerperlichkeit"
> discourse of the body, gender difference) betreffen, also die
> Heilkunst (theoretische und praktische Medizin, Pharmakologie,
> Anthropologie)
> (Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Wolfgang Behringer)
>
> Arbeitsgruppe VI
> Entgrenzungen der bekannten Welt und Erfahrungen der Neuen Welt.
> (Wolfgang Neuber, Hans-Dieter Metzger)
>
>
> Anmeldung zum Barockkongress 2000 Ars et scientiae
>
> Anmeldungen fuer ein Referat (bis zu 20 Minuten) in einer der
> Arbeitsgruppen, samt einem Abstract von bis zu einer Seite, werden
> bis zum 22. Januar 1999 erbeten.
>
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> Gewuenschte Arbeitsgruppe:...........................................
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> Genauer Abfahrtort bei der Anreise zum Kongress im April
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IASS-AIS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE
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"SIGN PROCESSES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS"
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Dear Colleagues,
The 2nd Call for Papers for the 7th Congress of the IASS-AIS is
almost finished and will be distributed in the first weeks of
January. It will give many details concerning the Congress,
including the Invited Speakers and the Sections proposed so far.
IN ORDER TO GIVE MORE COLLEAGUES THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE,
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF _ABSTRACTS_ (300 words; for details
see below) HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO
--> 31 MARCH 1999.
PARTICIPANTS ARE ALSO INVITED TO SUBMIT _SESSION PROPOSALS_ BY
--> 31 JANUARY 1999.
THE PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE OFFICE OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITEE;
EVERY PROPOSAL HAS TO INCLUDE: THE TITLE, AN ABSTRACT (UP TO 500
WORDS) AND A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS.
All proposals will be examined by the Scientific Committee.
For introductory remarks to the title and the wide range of topics to
be covered in the Congress please visit the Congress website which
will be updated soon: "http://www.tu-dresden.de/sulifg/semiotics".
In case you don't have access to the Web and are not (yet) included
in our mailing lists (i.e. you have not received the 1st CfP) please
send your snail mail address to the Organizing Committee.
BELOW YOU FIND A SHORT VERSION OF ALL NECESSARY INFORMATIONS AND THE
RELEVANT ADDRESSES.
We want to remind you that the 7th International Congress of the
IASS-AIS is being organized in close association with:
--> The 4th International Congress of Federacion Latinoamericana de
Semiotica, La Coruna, 1999/09/27-10/02 on the general topic
"Fin de Siglo / Fin de Milenio" (for details contact the
organizers <agas(a)udc.es> or <jmpaz(a)udc.es>, or visit the website:
"http://www.udc.es/congremilenio")
and
--> The 9th Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies
DGS, to be held in Dresden October 3-6, 1999 on the general
topic "Machines and History" (for details contact the Dresden
Organizing Committee which is the same for the DGS and IASS-AIS
Congress: <semiotic(a)mailbox.tu-dresden.de> or visit the website:
"http://www.tu-dresden.de/sulifg/dgs").
If you intend to participate not only in the 7th Congress of the
IASS-AIS, but also in one or both of these congresses, please indicate
this on the registration form.
Please feel free to distribute this information among your colleagues.
Best wishes & Season's Greetings
Jeff Bernard & Gloria Withalm
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7th International Congress of the IASS-AIS
Title: "Sign Processes in Complex Systems"
"Semioses dans les Systemes Complexes"
"Significacion en Sistemos Complejos"
"Zeichenprozesse in komplexen Systemen"
Place: Dresden, Germany / University of Technology
Date: 1999, October 6-11
URL CfP "http://www.tu-dresden.de/sulifg/semiotics"
(incl. online registration)
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--> Abstracts:
The title of the proposed paper and an abstract of appr. 300 words
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Since the recent thread on "schemas," I have become mildly obsessed with trying
to understand the origins of the modern use of the word "schema." I have not
yet read William Brewer's papers on this (apparently they are both "in press"
still), but he has argued that the our modern usage began with Bartlett, who
obtained the idea from the neurologist, Henry Head. In his book _Remembering_
(1932), Bartlett is effusive in his praise for Head:
My debt to Sir Henry Head will be obvious to everyone who reads this
book. It was, indeed, largely through the inspiration of personal
contact with him that I began to see how the apparently tangled mass of
my experimental data revealed consistency and order in the working of
the human mind (p. xix; I am using a 1995 reissue of the book by the
Cambridge University Press)
On page 200, Bartlett stated that he was using Head's notion of schema to
develop his theory of remembering. In one of his posts, William Brewer
stated that, "Bartlett was probably being overly generous in giving Head
credit for the concept," but since I haven't read his paper yet, I don't yet
know the argument supporting this statement.
I looked a little more carefully at Bartlett's citations to Head's work. He
refers to Head's two-volume work, _Studies in Neurology_, published in 1920, as
the source for the word "schema." But it turns out that the first use of the
term by Head was in a paper he published with Gordon Holmes several years
earlier (Head & Holmes, 1911-1912, _Brain_, vol. 34, pp. 102-254). In fact, the
wording in his 1920 book (quoted on pages 199-200 of Bartlett), and in his
later work on aphasia, is very similar to the wording of this early paper (and,
in fact, explains the use of the pronoun "we" in these later works--works in
which there was only one author):
For this combined standard, against which all subsequent changes of
posture are measured before they enter consciousness, we propose the
word "schema." (p. 187)
Head and Holmes do not, however, cite any work that would explain why they
chose this word. In looking at the reference lists of Head's works, it seems
that his influences mostly came from within his field of neurology. So, I must
suppose that the word "schema" came from some other unmentioned influence
(perhaps he had read Kant?).
Bartlett, on the other hand, mentioned mostly psychologists and anthropologists
in his book. The founder and director of the lab in which he began his work was
C.S. Myers; and it seems that he was influenced strongly by the works of
various "social" psychologists--those psychologists who would have been most
likely to have read the works of Baldwin and his close friend Janet.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bartlett mentioned that Pierre Janet had
been an important influence on him, and that Janet had published a work in 1928
that had taken an approach very similar to that of Bartlett. Janet's close
friend was J. M. Baldwin, who had begun to use the term "schema" in 1906 to
refer to mental structures in a way very similar to Bartlett's eventual use of
the term.
Perhaps it was facts such as these to which Brewer was referring in his post.
But my point here is that the neo-Kantian movement of the late-nineteenth
century to which some members of this list referred perhaps gave rise to a way
of thinking about consciousness and memory that had a large influence on some
important psychologists (and neurologists) around the turn of the century.
These psychologists influenced not only the work of Jean Piaget but also (most
probably, in my still forming opinion) the work of Frederic Bartlett. Although
the lines of descent may then have continued separately after this point (in
the work of the Piagetians and the "Bartlettians"), they come together in the
same neo-Kantian pool of influences during the first decade of the 20th century.
Jeff Ricker
Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale AZ
ricker(a)sc.maricopa.edu
Az internet vilagaban ime eddig tartott a dolog:
Arbib fejezete a semakrol nalam van, koeszonet Erdi Peternek.
Aki keri, annak elkuldom, ez jogilag tiszta igy.
udv kgy
Kedves Holgyek es Urak!
Mint bizonyara emlekeznek:
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A Magyar Kognitv Tudomnyi Alaptvany most mar szokasos evi
konferenciajat
"Dinamika es megismeres" cimmel rendezzuk.
A konferencia ideje: 1999 februr 1 - 3.
Helye: Visegrad
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Eloadasokkal december 21 (hetfo) 17.00 oraig lehet jelentkezni. Ha valaki
szeretne a szervezok eletet (kisse) konnyebbe tenni, szabad nem a
legutolso napon jelentkezni. (termeszetesen tudjuk, hogy olyan elvetemult
nincs, aki a hatarido leteltevel jelentkezne.)
Szoval: ELOADASCIMEKET kerunk!!
(az igazi streber megmondja, hogy szallast es etkezeset is ker. Olyan is
van, hogy valaki nem ad elo, de a konferenican reszt vesz.
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O:rulne'nk, ha SOK DIA'K is jo:nne, eze'rt ke'rju:k az ido"sebb
kolle'ga'kat, hirdesse'k a konferencia't! U'gy gondoljuk, a
re'szve'teli di'j "felno"teknek" 2600Ft, dia'koknak 1200 Ft lesz.
A re'szve'teli di'je'rt a bankett, az elo"ada'skivonat, reme'lheto"leg
MAKOG triko', e's fu"to:tt elo"ado'terem ja'r. (Nem vicc, az ide'n sokkal
to:bb terembe'rt fizetu:nk mint tavaly.)
A sza'lla's e's e'tkeze's ko"ltse'ge naponta kb. 2000 Ft. Reme'lju:k az
ido"sebb kollega'k segi'tenek a dia'koknak a ko:ltse'gek
elo"teremte'se'ben. U'gy tudjuk, a dia'kok megki'se'relhetnek valamennyi
ta'mogata'st a HO:K-to"l kicsikarni.
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Minden jot!
Erdi Peter
Talan erdekelhetei a nepet a most mar 3. forduloju tistazas, honnan
is vettuk a "semat".
udv Csaba
Hi All,
Several folks on this list have questioned why I did not include Piaget
in my intellectual genealogy of the construct *schema* in current cognitive
psychology/cognitive science.
My basic reason was that examination of the texts shows that both the
citation trail and the actual construct being discussed follows the path as
I outlined it in the previous message: (Head)--Bartlett--Minsky--Rumelhart
and other cognitive psychologists. For me this seems the crucial point.
An interesting aspect of the line of descent of schemata is that it has a
very crooked path. Bartlett actually gathered the memory data on which he
based the schema construct during WWI. He tried to explain the data in the
1920's with the construct of "conventionalization" taken from anthropology.
He was unsatisfied with this and in the late 1920's while interacting with
Henry Head he developed the schema construct (roughly--unconscious mental
structures that represent generic knowledge in long term memory). The
schema construct had a large impact on British psychology. For example Burt
(1933) stated that Bartlett's book (Remembering, 1932) "is by far the most
important contribution to psychology that has appeared in this country
during recent years."
However, the schema concept fell on hard times so by the time of
Bartlett's death in 1969 the obituaries were uniformly negative on
Bartlett's schema construct. Oldfield (1972) wrote "efforts to clarify the
essential elements of the theory so as to make it applicable to further use
in empirical investigation and experiment were unsuccessful." Zangwill
(1972) wrote "[schema] theory in my view never very plausible, is perhaps
best forgotten."
Then in 1975 the computer scientist, Marvin Minsky, read Bartlett and
wrote a very influential paper on frames (his term for schemata) and from
this source the idea spread into current cognitive psychology where by the
1980's Bartlett's book, Remembering, was the second most cited work in the
area of human memory. (This little history should be good for the morale of
all of us who feel some aspect of our work has not been appreciated by the
rest of the field--its time may yet come!)
While I have argued against Piaget as being in the main line of
intellectual descent of the schema construct it would be interesting to
know what Piaget had in mind. However, this is not easily done. There is
enormous confusion in the developmental literature on both the word
*schema* and the construct *schema*. For example, Flavell (1977) made a
public apology for mistranslating the French *scheme* as *schema*. In his
later work Piaget (1970) himself made an explicit distinction between a
*scheme* construct and a *schema* construct. And Furth (1969) was harsh
about this issue. He wrote, "Is this use of the word schema [by American
developmentalists] perhaps another subtle indication of how Piaget's
expressions can become assimilated to a different cognitive framework with
the result of fundamental misconceptions about Piaget's position?" When a
conceptually deep student of Piaget says things like that, I for one, am
not willing to make a simple equation of Piaget's ideas with those of
Bartlett or those of current cognitive psychology. It will require serious
scholars and historians of Piaget & developmental psychology to sort this
one out.
Bill Brewer
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Prof. William F. Brewer, Dept. Psychology, U. of Illinois
603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820 USA
phone: (217) 333-1548 fax: (217) 244-5876 email: w-brewer(a)uiuc.edu
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~wbrewer/
Csaba Pleh
Department of Psychology
Attila Jozsef University, Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933
Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology
