Please Post- Oct, 28, 1997
**** NEW ANNOUNCEMENT-- SENIOR POSITION AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-(Newark Campus)
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***COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ***
Rutgers University-Newark Campus: The Department of Psychology
anticipates making one senior level appointment in Cognitive
Neuroscience. We seek applicants with a demonstrated program
of interdisciplinary research and teaching in areas such as
cognitive psychology, computation, imaging, or neuroscience.
Areas of research are open, however we hope to find candidates
that can expand potential connections with the nearby engineering
school (NJIT) and/or UMDNJ (with a focus on a fMRI research facility).
The position calls for candidates who are effective teachers
at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Review of applications
will begin on December 15, 1997. Rutgers University is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified women and minority
candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Please send current CV and three letters of recommendation to
Professor S. J. Hanson, Chair,
Department of Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience Search,
Rutgers University,
Newark, NJ 07102.
Lakatos's 75 Years. An Anniversary Meeting
October 30-31, 1997, Budapest
Partially supported by the Austrian-Hungarian Joint
Action Foundation
Organized by the
Deptartment of History and Philosophy of Science,
Roland Eotvos University, Budapest
Insitute Vienna Circle, Vienna, Austria
Imre Lakatos, one of the most important figures and most
controversial persons in philosophy of science, was born
on November 7, 1922. On this occasion we hold an
international meeting devoted to the celebration and
critical discussion of Lakatos philosophy of
science/philosophy of mathematics, as well as the better
understanding of his life.
Conference Venue:
MTA Tortenettudomanyi Intezet, I. Uri utca 53. II.
Tanacsterem (Institute of Historical Sciences of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 53 Uri street [First
District, Castle Hill], Lecture room on the second
floor).
Conference Programme:
1st day (October 30)
9:30 Opening (George Kampis)
10:00 John Worrall (LSE, London): "'Positive
heuristic' and the 'Logic of Scientific
Discovery': why MSRP is no more than half the
answer"
11:00 David Corfield (Leeds Metropolitan Univ.):
"Criticism and the mathematical process"
lunch break
14:00 John Watkins (LSE, London): "Lakatos's
Intellectual Break with Popper"
15:00 Olga Kiss (Univ. Economics, Budapest):
"Lakatos and the philosophy of mathematics"
coffee break
16:00 Martin Carrier (Uni Heidelberg): "Explaining
Scientific Progress: Lakatos's Methodological
Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change"
17:00 Thomas Mormann (Uni Munchen): "Lakatos and
the Dialectic of Accommodation and Resistance
in the Evolution of Mathematical Concepts"
2nd day (October 31)
10:00 Ladislav Kvasz (Comenius Univ., Bratislava):
"Imre Lakatos: Between logic and dialectic part
2 - elements of dialectic in the methodology of
scientific research programmes"
11:00 Matteo Motterlini (Univ. Milan): "Professor
Lakatos between the Hegelian devil and the
Popperian deep blue sea"
lunch break
14:00 Andreas Huttemann (Uni Heidelberg):
"Emergence and Reduction"
14:30 Tihamer Margitay (Univ. Polytechnics,
Budapest): "Rationality and Objectivity"
15:00 Jancis Long (Univ. Medicine, Budapest): "The
Unforgiven"
(short breaks of approx. 5. min can be inserted between
the talks without prior scheduling)
Panel Discussion: The Uncommon Life of Lakatos
Oct. 31., 16:15 -
Convenor: Lee Congdon (James Madison Univ.)
Panelists include A. Bandy, S. Kantorne, J. Long, G.
Pallo, G. Vajda and others.
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
We are happy to announce a
conference and workshop on
Multidisciplinary Colloquium on Rules and Rule-Following:
Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology
between April 30-May 1-2, 1998
at Janus Pannonius University
Pecs, Hungary
Keynote speakers (who have already accepted invitation):
philosophy:
Gyoergy Kampis
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
linguistics:
Pierre-Yves Raccah
Idl-CNRS, Paris
psychology:
Csaba Pleh
Dept. of General Pschology
Lorand Eoetvoes University, Budapest
Organizing Committee:
Laszlo Tarnay (JPTE, Dep. of Philosophy)
Laszlo I. Komlosi (ELTE, Dept. of Psychology)
Andras Bocz (JPTE, Dept. of English Studies)
e-mail: tarnay(a)btk.jpte.hu;
komlosi(a)btk.jpte.hu;
bocz(a)btk.jpte.hu
Advisory Board:
Gabor Forrai (Budapest)
Gyoergy Kampis (Budapest)
Mike Harnish (Tucson)
Andras Kertesz (Debrecen)
Kuno Lorenz (Saarbruecken)
Pierre-Yves Raccah (Paris)
Janos S. Petifi (Macerata)
Aims and scopes:
The main aim of the conference is to bring together cholars from the
field of cognitive linguistics, philosophy and psychology to
investigate the concept of rule and to address various aspects of
rule-following. Ever since Wittgenstein formulated in Philosophical
investigations his famous 201 concerning a kind of rule-following
which is not an interpretation, the concept of rule has become a key
but elusive idea in almost every discipline and approach. And not
only in the human sciences. No wonder, since without this idea the
whole edifice of human (and possibly all other kinds of) rationality
would surely collapse. With the rise of cognitive science, and
especially the appearance of connectionist models and networks,
however, the classical concept of rule is once again seriously
contested. To put it very generally, there is an ongoing debate
between the classical conception in which rules appear as a set of
formulizable initial conditions or constraints on external operations
linking different successive states of a given system (algorithms)
and a dynamic conception in which there is nothing that could be
correlated with a prior idea of internal well-formedness of the
system's states. The debate centers on the representability of rules:
either they are conceived of as meta-representations, or they are
mere faon de parler concerning the development of complex systems.
Idealizable on the one hand, while token-oriented on the other.
Something to be implemented on the one hand, while self-controlling,
backpropagational processing, on the other. There is however a common
idea that almost all kinds of rule-conceptions address: the problem
of learning. This idea reverberates from wittgenstenian pragmatics to
strategic non-verbal and rule-governed speech behavior, from
perceiving similarities to mental processing.
Here are some haunting questions:
- How do we acquire knowledge if there are no regularities in the
world around us?
- But how can we perceive those regularities?
- And how do we reason on the basis of that knowledge if there are no
observable constraints on infererring?
- But if there are, where do they come from and how are they actually
implemented mentally?
- And finally: how do we come to act rationally, that is, in
accordance with what we have perceived, processed and inferred?
We are interested in all ways of defining rules and in all aspects of
rule following, from the definiton of law, rule, regularity,
similarity and analogy to logical consequence, argumentational and
other inferences, statistical and linguistic rules, practical and
strategic reasoning, pragmatic and praxeological activities. We
expect contribution from the following reseach fields: game-theory,
action theory, argumentation theory, cognitive science, linguitics,
philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatics, psychology and
semiotics. We would be happy to include some contributions from
natural sciences such as neuro-biology, physiology or brain sciences.
The conference is organized in three major sections: philosophy,
psychology and linguistics with three keynote lectures. Then
contributions of 30 minutes (20 for paper and 10 for discussion)
follow. We also plan to organize a workshop at the end of each
section.
Abstracts:
Abstracts should be one-page (maximum 23 lines) specifying area of
contribution and the particular aspect of rule-following to be
addressed. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to tarnay(a)btk.jpte.hu
or bocz(a)btk.jpte.hu. Hard copies of abstracts may be sent to:
Laszlo Tarnay
Department of Philosphy
Janus Pannonius University
H-7624 Pecs, Hungray.
Important dates:
Deadline for submission: Jan.-15, 1998
Notification of acceptance: Febr.-28, 1998
conference: April 30-May 1-2, 1998
1. Clinical Aphasiology Conference
2. Book announcement: The Ascent of Babel, Altmann
3. Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling
4. 11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE: Provisional programme
5. LOT Winterschool 1998
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1. Clinical Aphasiology Conference
From: aholland(a)U.Arizona.EDU (audrey l holland)
Subject: CAC
Clinical Aphasiology Conference
The deadline for submission of papers for the 28th Annual Clinical
Aphasiology Conference (CAC) is January 9th. The Conference will be held
in Asheville, North Carolina USA from June 14-17, 1998. Attendance is
dependent upon submission of a paper. Contact: Audrey L. Holland, Ph.D.,
Program Chair, University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing
Sciences, PO Box 210071, Tucson Az, 85721-0
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2. Book announcement: The Ascent of Babel, Altmann
From: "Gerry T.M. Altmann" <g.altmann(a)psych.york.ac.uk>
Subject: Book announcement
New from Oxford University Press:
The Ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding.
By Gerry T.M. Altmann
CONTENTS:
1: Looking towards Babel
Introducing the mysteries of psycholinguistics
2: Babies, birth, and language
What babies learn about language, even before they are born
3: Chinchillas do it too
Learning to discriminate between different sounds
4: Words, and what we learn to do with them
Learning about words, and how to combine them
5: Organizing the dictionary
Phonemes, syllables, and other ways of looking up words
6: Words, and how we (eventually) find them
Accessing the mental representations of words
7: Time flies like an arrow
Understanding sentences I: coping with ambiguity
8: Who did what, and to whom?
Understanding sentences II: identifying who is being talked about,
what they are doing, and who they are doing it to
9: On the meaning of meaning
The concepts associated with 'understanding' and 'meaning'
10: Exercising the vocal organs
How we produce words and sentences
11: The written word
Writing systems, reading, eye movements, and Socrates
12: When it all goes wrong
Disorders of language
13: Wiring-up a brain
Artificial neural networks and language learning
14: The descent from Babel
Not all languages were created equal
Bibliography
Index
Further details are available at the following URLs:
For a detailed list of contents:
http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html
For OUP (UK) blurb:
http://www1.oup.co.uk/scripts/readcat?title=The+Ascent+of+Babel
For OUP (USA) blurb: http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198523785.html
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Dr. Gerry T.M. Altmann g.altmann(a)psych.york.ac.uk
Department of Psychology
University of York Tel: +44 (0)1904 434362
Heslington, York Y01 5DD. UK. Fax: +44 (0)1904 433181
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Homepage: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1
New book: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html
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3. Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling
From: Steven Young <young(a)psy.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling
** CALL FOR ATTENDANCE **
Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling
Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Oxford
19 - 31 July 1998
Applications are invited for participation in a 2-week
residential Summer School on techniques in connectionist
modelling. The course is aimed primarily at researchers who
wish to exploit neural network models in their teaching and/or
research and it will provide a general introduction to
connectionist modelling, biologically plausible neural networks
and brain function through lectures and exercises on Macintoshs
and PCs. The course is interdisciplinary in content though many
of the illustrative examples are taken from cognitive and
developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The
instructors with primary responsibility for teaching the course
are Kim Plunkett and Edmund Rolls.
No prior knowledge of computational modelling will be required
though simple word processing skills will be assumed.
Participants will be encourages to start work on their own
modelling projects during the Summer School.
The cost of participation in the Summer School is =A3950 for
Faculty and =A3750 for Graduate Students. This figure covers the=20
cost of accommodation (bed and breakfast at St. John's College),
registration and all literature required for the Summer School.
Participants will be expected to cover their own travel and meal
costs. A small number of partial bursaries will be available for
graduate students. Applicants should indicate whether they wish
to be considered for a graduate student scholarship but are
advised to seek their own funding as well, since in previous
years the number of graduate student applications has far
exceeded the number of scholarships available.
Further information about contents of the course can be obtained
from Steven.Young(a)psy.ox.ac.uk.
If you are interested in participating in the Summer School,
please contact:
Mrs Sue King
Department of Experimental Psychology
South Parks Road
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 3UD
Tel: +44 (1865) 271 353
Email: sking(a)psy.ox.ac.uk
Please send a brief description of your background with an
explanation of why you would like to attend the Summer School
(one page maximum) no later than 31st January 1998.
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Computer Officer, IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience,
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
<http://www.mrc-bbc.ox.ac.uk/~young> <mailto:Steven.Young@psy.ox.ac.=
uk>
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4. 11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE: Provisional programme
From: vholmes(a)post.psych.unimelb.edu.au
Subject: Provisional programme
Dear Participant
Attached is a provisional programme for the conference, which I hope
will satisfy everybody. You will note that because there is only one
stream, the conference is starting a little earlier on the Thursday.
There will be no need for a Saturday session.
Let me know if there are any problems.
Please register ASAP, so that I can do some sensible planning for
numbers.
Virginia
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 November, 1997
Thursday 13
9.45 - 10.00 Virginia Holmes Introductory remarks
10.00 - 11.00 Anne Cutler Key-note address
11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea
CHAIR Edith Bavin
11.30 - 12.00 Lesley Stirling, Janet Fletcher & Roger Wales
The effect of accenting and de-accenting on determining anaphoric
reference
12.00 - 12.30 Roger Wales & Bridget Ryburn
How do we distinguish between linguistic and affective prosody?
12.30 - 1.00 Dennis Burnham, Vicky Averkiou, Amanda Olley, Cal=
Paterson, Elizabeth Francis,=20
Ute Vollmer-Conna & Christine Kitamura
Are you my little pussy-cat? Infant-, pet- and adult- directed speech
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
CHAIR Roger Wales
2.00 - 2.30 Edith Bavin, Roger Wales & Heather Kelly
Chicken is turning mouse: A study of children's verb knowledge
2.30 - 3.00 Carli Growcott & Edith Bavin
Who is kazzing? A study using the intermodal preferential looking method
3.00 - 3.30 Shane West, Edith Bavin & R. Khosla
Token frequency effects on a connectionist model of past-tense formation
3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea
CHAIR Linda Cupples
4.00 - 4.30 Virginia Holmes & Bernadette Dejean de la B=83tie
Assignment of grammatical gender by native speakers of French
4.30 - 5.00 Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
Choosing amongst models of syntactic ambiguity resolution in different
languages
5.00 - 5.30 Yoshinori Sasaki
Working memory and sentence processing strategies: =20
An experiment on Japanese causative structures=20
5.30 - 7.00 Reception
Friday 14
CHAIR Chris Pratt
9.00 - 9.30 Keis Ohtsuka & Semih Sekman
Accessibility in spatial representations of described and imagined scenes
9.30 - 10.00 Robert Pedlow
Children's use of politeness in requests: Its relationship to request
contexts and children's behavioural adjustment
10.00 - 10.30 Ian Thompson
Conversations in psychiatry
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Tea
CHAIR Greg Yelland
11.00 - 11.30 Paul McCormack, Tracy Knighton, Lauren Sullivan & Cilla Day
Differences in speech production between boys and girls at 2.5 years of age
11.30 -12.00 Janet Fletcher
Vowel to vowel coarticulation: Implications for phonological theory
12.00 -12.30 Linda Cupples & Teresa Iacono
Phonological awareness and reading skills in children with Down Syndrome
12.30 -1.00 Lesley Bretherton & Virginia Holmes
Temporal order judgments in dyslexic children
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
CHAIR Marcus Taft
2.00 - 2.30 Julia Herrmann, Michael Johnston & Chris Pratt
Phonological and orthographic skills and word recognition ability
in children with specific reading disability and average readers
2.30 - 3.00 Natasha Ruff, Chris Pratt & Michael Johnston
Phonological and orthographic processes in the reading and spelling skills
of 7-year-old to 9 year-old children
3.00 - 3.30 Xiaoping Zhu & Marcus Taft
Can the radical of a Chinese character directly activate semantic features?
3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea
CHAIR Anne Castles
4.00 - 4.30 Naomi Brown & Virginia Holmes
Spelling strategies in skilled adult readers
4.30 - 5.00 Jennifer Burt
Spelling in adults: An individual differences study
5.00 - 5.30 Marcus Taft
Orthographic processing and reading ability: The importance of the BOSS
5.30 - 5.45 Business Meeting
7.30 Dinner
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5. LOT Winterschool 1998
From: "LOT (Christien Bok)" <lot(a)let.ruu.nl>
Subject: LOT Winterschool 1998
Courses Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)
>From 17 - 28 januari 1998 the LOT Graduate Courses will take place
in Leiden. You can find course descriptions, enrollment forms and more
information at http://wwwots.let.ruu.nl/LOT/ws98.html. You can also
contact the LOT-secretariat, (Christien Bok, LOT, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht,
The Netherlands, +31(0)30-2536006, fax. +31(0)30-2536000, LOT(a)let.ruu.nl)
we will send you booklets with course-descriptions and enrollment forms.
Deadline for enrollments for LOT-affiliates is November 1st, for others
December 1. Enrollment for LOT affiliates are free, for others it's DFL 350, for
one week, excl. lodging.
*
Program LOT- winterschool
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First week: January 12 - 16
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** 9.30 - 12.00 **
Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
The theoretical significance of Romance (subject and object) clitics=
=09
Robert Beard (Lewisburgh University)
Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: Is Syntax Necessary?
Jurgen Meisel (Potsdam University)
First and Second Language Acquisition: Similarities and Differences=
=09
=09=09
** 13.00 - 15.30 **
Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan)
Sociolinguistic Issues in Bilingualsim
Hans Broekhuis (Tilburg University)
Minimalism and Optimality Theory: Derivations an Evaluations=09
Willem Adelaar (Leyden University)
Linguistic structures of Native America
=09=09
** 16.00 - 18.30 **
Huub van den Bergh (Utrecht University)
Statistics, tailor-made=09
Hans den Besten (Amsterdam University)
Issues in Africaans Syntax
Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam)
Prosodic Morphology, with special emphasis on metathesis
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Second week: January 19 - 23
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** 9.30 -12.00 **
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Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
Semantics of Constructions
Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen University)
Experimental approaches to Intonational Phonology=09
Ardi Roelofs (Max Planck Institute)
Lexical access in language production
=09=09
** 13.00 - 15.30 **
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Ian Roberts (Stuttgart University) and Anna Roussou (university of Ba=
ngor)
Checking Theory=09
Marc van Oostendorp (Leyden University)
Schwa in phonological theory=09
Frank Wijnen (Utrecht University) and Edith Kaan (MIT)
Topics in sentence processing
=09=09
** 16.00 - 18.30 **=09
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Ed Keenan (University of California )
Bare Grammar=09
Renee van Bezooijen (Nijmegen University)
Experimental dialectology.
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Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap =20
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics=20
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Trans 10=20
3512 JK Utrecht
Phone: +31 30 2536006
Fax: +31 30 2536000
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A remeljuk vegleges programot itt mellekelem, pls note hogy a
Lakatos eleterol szolo kerekasztal sokak kivansagara elobbre kerult.
udv kgy
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Lakatos' 75 Years. An Anniversary Meeting
October 30-31, 1997, Budapest
Partially sponsored by the Austrian-Hungarian
Joint Action Foundation
Imre Lakatos, one of the most important figures and most contr-
oversial persons in philosophy of science, was born on November
7. 1922. On this occasion we hold an international meeting devot-
ed to the celebration and critical discussion of Lakatos philoso-
phy of science/philosophy of mathematics, as well as the under-
standing of his life.
The speakers list includes (in alphabetical order):
Martin Carrier (Uni Heidelberg), David Corfield (Leeds Universi-
ty), Andreas Huettemann (Uni Heidelberg), Olga Kiss (Economic
University Budapest), Ladislav Kvasz (Comenius Unviersity,
Bratislava), Jancis Long (SOTE, Budapest), Thomas Mormann (Uni
Muenchen), Matteo Motterlini (University of Milan), John Watkins
(LSE, London), John Worrall (LSE, London), Lee Congdon (James
Madison Unversity)
Conference Programme:
1st day (October 30.)
9:30 Opening (George Kampis)
10:00 John Worrall
11:00 David Corfield
lunch break
14:00 John Watkins
15:00 Olga Kiss
coffee break
16:00 Martin Carrier
17:00 Thomas Mormann
2nd day (October 31.)
10:00 Ladislav Kvasz
11:00 Matteo Motterlini
lunch break
14:00 Andreas Huettemann
15:00 Jancis Long
(short breaks of approx. 5. min can be inserted between the talks
without prior scheduling)
Panel Discussion: The Uncommon Life of Lakatos
Oct. 31., 16:15 -
Convenor: Lee Congdon
Invited panelists include A. Bandy, J. Long,
A. Merei, G. Pallo, and others.
Organizers: George Kampis (Dept. of History and Philosophy of
Science, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary) and Michael
Stoeltzner (Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna, Austria)
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Kedves olvasok!
Elindult egy uj elektronikus folyoirat a
World Wide Web-en "Electronic Journal of
Cognitive and Brain Sciences" (roviden: EJCBS) cimmel.
<http://osiris.rutgers.edu/~zoli/ejcbs.html>
A folyoirat celja sokretu. Elso sorban empirikus eredmenyek
gyors publikaciojat szolgalja, de nem kizartak a teoretikus
vagy matematikai modellek. Masod sorban serkenteni kivanja
a tudomanyos diskurzust. Nem utolso sorban segiteni kivan
tudomanyos cikkek kikristalyositasaban mielott azokat
vegleges formaban egyeb folyoiratokban publikaljak.
A folyoirat "var" minden a kognitiv es ideg tudomanyok korebe tartozo
vagy azokkal atfedo tanulmanyokat, cikkeket, disszertaciokat es
gyors kommunikacokat. Az egyes szam harmadik szemely azert hangsulyozott,
mert a folyoirat teljesen AUTOMATIKUS, nincs editor, nincsenek
kijelolt biralok. A bekuldott keziratot a mellekelt A'BRA'KKAL
EGYUTT a kompjuter automatikusan atkonvertalja html formatumban
es az a bekuldes pillanatatol a folyoirat hon-lapjan publikalva
lesz. Ez a publikacio azonban meg nem vegleges. A cikk un. "review"
statuszban lesz egy honapig, ami alatt az olvasok kitoltenek
egy a cikkhez automatikusan csatolt ertekelisi ivet.
Minden honap vegen az ertekelesek atlaga alapjan
eldol a cikk vegleges statusza. Elutasitodik, vagy el lesz fogadva
a vegleges archivumban. Az ertekelesen tul, amig a cikk "review
statuszban" van barki irhat kritikat vagy megjegyzeseket, amelyek
az eredeti cikkel egy folyoirat szamban megjelennek es
hasonlo modon az olvasok altal kiertekelodnek. Ha a cikk atmegy a
"vizsgan" es el lesz fogadva, akkor azok a kritikak, amelyeket
az olvasok nem pontoztak le szinten veglegesen publikalva lesznek.
Ha a szerzok a cikket kesobb mashol is szeretnek publikalni,
nincs akadalya. Csak kerem tuntessek fel a cikk elejen hogy "non
referential". Egyebkent a cikkre hivatkozni kell. A folyoiratban vegleges
statuszban levo cikkek teljes jogu publikaciok. Az EJCBS a Congress
Library katalogusaban jegyzett folyoirat (ISSN: 1096-4924).
Kizarolag elektronikus formaban hozzaferheto.
A preferalt nyelv angol de egyeb nyelvu publikacio sem kizart
csak limitalja az olvasok koret. Ha a cikk nem angol nyelvu,
ajanlatos egy angol nyelvu absztrakt csatolasa.
A publikaciokon kivul URL-ek csatolasa is lehetseges.
Tovabbi felvilagositas es a technikai reszletek megtalalhatok
az EJCBS hon-lapjan:
http://osiris.rutgers.edu/~zoli/ejcbs.html
Koszonom a figyelmet es elnezest az ekezetes betuk hianya miatt.
Nadasdy Zoltan
Es ime az angol nyelvu felhivas. Kerem terjeszd szakmai
korokben.
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Please post
EJCBS CALL FOR PAPERS
We are announcing the EJCBS (The Electronic Journal of
Cognitive and Brain Sciences) as an experimental journal which is
published in an electronic form on the World Wide Web (WWW).
Submission, acceptance and publication are automated. The journal
is moderated by the whole scientific community. It requires no editorial
supervision. EJCBS is dedicated to publishing experimental, theoretical
reports, review papers, joint commentaries, degree Ph.D. theses and
preliminary works before they are submitted to other journals. Beyond the
characteristics of the traditional printed journals, and in contrast with
the characteristics of other electronic journals, EJCBS has certain new
features which may attract scientist and thinkers to challenge their
works.
Some of these features are:
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mathematical formulas)
-Two stages of acceptance
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-Open for reviews and commentaries, with on line links to encourage
discussion, and communication
of ideas.
This type of publishing has never before been tested. Since the system is
open for public review and examination it facilitates discussion among
professionals. The quality of the journal is guaranteed by
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is judged by our on-line poll. The readers evaluation, or on-line poll has
been designed to focus on the standards of the hypothesis testing,
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Submission is easy! An interactive protocol for submission instantly links
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Once a document has been submitted and accepted, it becomes permanently
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MEGHIVO
(elnezest a duplumokert)
A Magyar Pszichologiai Tarsasag
Altalanos es Szemelysegpszicholgiai szekcioja
1997. oktober 27-en, 16h30kor
az MTA Pszicholgiai Intezet (Bp., terze krt 13) elso emeleti
tanacstermeben
eladast szervez
Tema: A pszicholgizmus koruli vitak tanmulsagai a mai pszicholgia
szamara
Eloado: Pleh Csaba
Mindenkit szerettel varunk.
Kivonat
Az eloadas kiindulopontja az, hogy a mult szazad utolso
harmadaban harom uj diszciplina is kikezdte a filozofia
kompetenciajat: a logika, a szociologia, es a kiserleti pszicholgia.
Mind modszereik, mind kiindulopontjaik elterese, mind az akademikus
versenges miatt ezek egymassal is rivalizalni kezdtek.
Leghiresebb vitajuk, az 1890 es 1915 kozott a nyelveszet, a
logika es pszichologia viszonyat erinto nemet pszichologizmus
vita rekonstrualhato racionalis magva szerint is. Fo kerdese az volt,
hogy mit tud kezdeni a szenzualista orokseget vallalo pszichologia a
gondolat logika szervezodesevel es az elvont entitasokkal. Ugyanakkor
az e koruli nem mindig koherens vita ideologiailag es
egzisztencialisan is azt erintette, hogy a filozofia hogyan nyerheti
vissza Kant orokseget, melyet a fiziologusok es a pszichologusok
"naturalizaltak".
A vita egyik tanulsaga a mai kognitiv szemleletet illeti: a
tudasrendszrek propozicionalis szervezodesenek elvevel valamint a
naturalizalt ismeretelmelettel valo flortolessel a mai pszichologia
sajatos visszaterest valosit meg: ha akarjuk Frege bosszujakent, ha
akarjuk a kiserleti pszichologusok bosszujakent is ertelmezhetjuk a
"logicizmus" ujrapszicholgizalasat es ujranaturalizalasat.
A masik tanulsag szomorubb. A pszichologizmus vita idoi elemzese
megmutatta, hogy a vilaghaboru "nemzeti osszefogasa", majd az azt
koveto eletfilozofia a nemet kulturalis eletben a ket vilaghaboru
kozott mind a naturalistakat, mind a logikai racionalistakat hatterbe
szoritotta. A felelem a pszichologizmustol nemcsak a pszicholgiat, de
a rivalis objektivisztikus elmeleteket is hatterbe szoritotta.
Elnezest kerunk azoktol, akik tobb peldanyt kapnak.
Szimp=F3zium javaslat a Magyar Pszichol=F3giai T=E1rsas=E1g
1998. =E1prilisi p=E9csi nagygy=FBl=E9s=E9re
T=E9ma: Az evol=FAci=F3s szeml=E9let =E9s a pszichol=F3gia
=D6sszeh=EDv=F3k: Cs=E1nyi Vilmos (ELTE TTK Etol=F3giai Tansz=E9k)
Pl=E9h Csaba (ELTE BTK =C1ltal=E1nos Pszichol=F3giai Tansz=E9k)
K=E9rj=FCk, hogy 1 oldalas kivonatokat a kolleg=E1k nekik juttassanak el
1997. november 15-ig,
e-mailen: H1872Csa(a)ella.hu
pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
post=E1n: ELTE TTK Etol=F3giai Tansz=E9k
2131 G=F6d, J=E1vorka S. u. 14.
ELTE BTK =C1ltal=E1nos Pszichol=F3giai Tansz=E9k
1378 Budapest, Pf. 4
Szinapszis:
A szimp=F3ziumon az evol=FAci=F3s szeml=E9let =E9s a pszichol=F3gia k=F6z=F6=
tti kapcsolatokat
t=E1gan =E9rtelmezve szeretn=E9nk el=F4ad=E1sokb=F3l kiindulva megvitatni.
A t=E9m=E1t a legt=E1gabban =E9rtelmezz=FCk. Beletartoznak az
- etol=F3gia, a szociobiol=F3gia =E9s az =F6sszehasonl=EDt=F3
pszichol=F3gia = kapcsolatai,
- az evol=FAci=F3s gondolkod=E1sm=F3d a mai fejl=F4d=E9sl=E9lektanban,
- az evol=FAci=F3s ismeretelm=E9let =E9s a pszichol=F3gia k=F6z=F6tti kapc=
solatok,
- az idegtudom=E1ny =E9s az evol=FAci=F3s gondolkod=E1s a pszichol=F3giai =
magyar=E1zatban,
- a szocialis viselked=E9s evol=FAci=F3s
megk=F6zel=EDt=E9sei.
A szimpozionra k=EDs=E9rleti, megfigyel=E9ses, elm=E9leti =E9s t=F6rt=E9ne=
ti dolgozatokat
egyar=E1nt v=E1runk.
A szervez=F4k 1997. december 1-ig visszajelz=E9st k=FCldenek a jelentkez=F4=
knek.
Szeretn=E9nk, ha a kolleg=E1k =FAgy jelentkezn=E9nek, hogy terveink szerin=
t
1998. febru=E1r 5-ig 10 oldalas teljes el=F4ad=E1st k=E9r=FCnk, s ezeket s=
okszoros=EDtva
el=E9rj=FCk, hogy a szimpozionon a r=F6vid expoz=E9kat vita k=F6vesse.
A r=F6vid jelentkez=E9seket v=E1rva kollegi=E1lis =FCdv=F6zlettel:
Cs=E1nyi Vilmos Pl=E9h Csaba
Just to remind you of the event coming up this Saturday
involving Gilles Fauconnier, Ashwin Ram, and Mark Turner
(plus yours truly). I hope there will be a significant
presence from CSLI, since this seems right up your alley.
-- Doug Hofstadter
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ARE COMPUTERS APPROACHING HUMAN-LEVEL CREATIVITY?
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A Series of Five Public Symposia
Prompted by Some Striking Recent Developments
in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University, Fall 1997
Organized and moderated by Douglas Hofstadter
Sponsored by the Center for
Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH)
with support from the Office of
the Associate Dean for Humanities
Each symposium will bring together world experts in a
particular field in which human creativity shines; all will
deliver short talks expressing their view about the degree to
which computers have become genuinely creative in that field,
after which there will be a panel discussion with audience
participation. The organizer will moderate the panels, as
well as participating as a panelist himself.
Symposium II: Language and Literature
Saturday, October 18, Law School, Room 290, 10AM-3PM
(coffee at 9:30)
* Gilles Fauconnier, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Author of "Mental Spaces" and other books on
language's cognitive underpinnings
* Ashwin Ram, Computer Science, Georgia Tech
Developer of science-fiction-reading program ISAAC;
author on case-based reasoning
* Mark Turner, English, University of Maryland
Author of "The Literary Mind" and other books on the
mutual relevance of literature and cognitive science
Hereby Department of General Psychology announces that
Prof. Stevan HARNAD
(Professor of Psychology and Director of Cognitive Sciences Centre at University of
Southampton)
will be our guest between 17th and 27th October and is going to give a brief couse on
FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITION: A SOCIOBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
We, like other species, evolved. And we can think -- in fact, we evolved the ability to
think. We also evolved the ability to feel. Why we are afraid of the dark, of snakes, of
strangers, of heights; why we feel like eating when our blood sugar goes down, why
we overeat, why most of us prefer sex with the opposite sex rather than our own, why
we are jealous, why we favour our kin -- all of this can be explained as an
evolutionary legacy. What scope does this leave for thinking and freedom of will?
These and other questions will be discussed in this seminar on what can and cannot be
explained sociobiologically. A good starting paper is:
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.htm
Note: this is a seminar, not a lecture course. We will discuss readings form these
books (Other readings: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/readlist.htm):
Books:
Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1992) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary
psychology and the generation of culture. NY: Oxford University Press.
Baker, Robin (1996) Sperm wars : infidelity, sexual conflict and other bedroom
battles London : Fourth Estate, 1996.
Dennett, Daniel C. (1995) Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of
life. London ; New York : Allen Lane
Pinker, S. (1994) The language instinct. NY: Morrow.
Exact dates and times (each lecture will take place in H-1064, Budapest, Izabella str.
46.):
20th October (Monday), 12.00, room #209
21st October (Tuesday), 10.00, room #316
22nd October (Wednesday), 10.00, room #316
27th October (Monday), 12.00, room #209
By fulfilling the requirements the course gives a credit in the cognitive psychology
programme of the Department of General Psychology (code number: PS-KK13.01).
Professor Harnad will be staying at the guest suite in Izabella street, day time phone:
342-3130. His local host is Csaba Pleh, same number, e-mail: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu,
home number: (23) 453-933.
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Professor Harnad is going to give a public lecture on 22nd October (Wednesday)
17.00 in Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest (H-1014, Budapest,
Szentharomsag str. 2.) The topic is:
CATEGORISATION, COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION: ON THE
ADVANTAGES OF SYMBOLIC THEFT OVER SENSORIMOTOR TOIL
To categorise is to respond differentially to certain kinds of input. This is a very
general cognitive capacity, covering everything from Pavlovian and instrumental
responding to the chess master pondering how to respond to a chess move and the
physicist inferring the existence of quarks. Once a categoriser has a repertoire of
categories grounded through trial and error sensorimotor interaction ("honest toil"),
higher-order categories can be formed in two ways: through further sensorimotor
interaction, as with the ground-level categories, or through symbolic interaction with
other categorisers, based on combining and recombining the names of lower-order
categories into propositions describing new higher-order categories ("theft"). I will
present some behavioural and computational data comparing these two strategies.
Some related papers that can be found at my Web site:
http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/genpub.html
Harnad, S. (1995) Grounding symbols in sensorimotor categories with neural
networks. In: IEE Colloquium 'Grounding Representations: Integration of Sensory
Information in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Neural
Networks' (Digest No.1995/103). London, UK, 15 May 1995). London, UK: IEE,
1995. p. 6/1-4.
Harnad, S. (1996) The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis In
Velichkovsky B & Rumbaugh, D. (Eds.) "Communicating Meaning: Evolution and
Development of Language. NJ: Erlbaum: pp 27-44.
Andrews, J., Livingston, K. & Harnad (1997) Categorical Perception Effects Induced
by Category Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and
Cognition (in press).
Cangelosi, A & Harnad, S. (in prep) On the Virtues of Theft Over Honest Toil:
Grounding Language and Thought in Sensorimotor Categories. the CogPrints
Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences (supported by JISC and
modeled on Paul Ginsparg's NSF-supported Physics Eprint Archive), he is Past
President of the Society for Philosopy and Psychology.
All welcome!
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Gyongyi Czachesz
(CZACHESZ(a)izabell.elte.hu,
CZACHESZ(a)isis.elte.hu)
Eotvos Lorand University Budapest
Dept. of General Psychology
H-1064 Budapest, Izabella St 46.
Phone: (36-1) 342-3130