UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
PROFESSORSHIP IN PSYCHOLOGY
Applications are invited for an established Professorial Chair in the
Department of Psychology, tenable from January 1998.
The key selection criteria for this appointment are:
Research programme of international clibre
Capacity to provide academic leadership
There is no restriction on the area of research specialisation other
than the research profile of the successful applicant should either
extend or complement the Department's core research interests.
The Department's present research strengths are in (1) Human
Development and Learning, (2) Cognition, and (3) Health/Applied Social
Psychology. Productive research programmes are under way in several
aspects of lifespan social and cognitive development, abnormal
development, categorical perception and perceptual learning, language,
computational modeling, artificial life, attention, memory, implicit
learning, sexual behaviour, driver behaviour, self-concept,
investigative interviewing, face perception, behaviour analysis, social
dilemmas, eating disorders.
There are ongoing collaborations with other departments, particularly
in the Faculties of Social Sciences and of Medicine, Health and
Biological Sciences. Under the interdisciplinary rubric of the
Cognitive Sciences Centre, there are also collaborations with the
Electronics and Computer Science Department, Clinical Neurological
Sciences, Audiology, and the Media Laboratory.
In addition to our undergraduate teaching programmes, we support a
Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology and MSc courses in Health
Psychology and Educational Psychology. The Department has recently
moved to high quality new accommodations with excellent technical
provision for research. Academic work is fully supported by technical
and clerical staff. Substantial funds have been set aside to meet the
initial equipment needs of the new appointee.
The Department strongly encourages informal enquiries and visits.
Closing date: mid-October
Interviews: 25th November
Potential applicants should contact the Head of Department,
Professor Bob Remington
44-1703-592626/592612
RER(a)psy.soton.ac.uk
or the Head-Elect
Dr Edmund Sonuga-Barke
44-1703-592581
esb(a)psy.soton.ac.uk or
URLs:
Southampton University: http://www.soton.ac.uk
Psychology Department: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~psyweb/
Cognitive Sciences Centre: http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk
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* NATO Advanced Study Institute *
* *
* COMPUTATIONAL HEARING *
* July 1 - July 12 1998 *
* Il Ciocco (Tuscany), Italy *
* *
* *
* This Advanced Study Institute (ASI) will focus on integrating recent *
* advances in computational modeling and analysis with more traditional *
* perspectives on hearing, with the intent of fostering a more computational *
* approach towards studies of auditory function, physiology and anatomy, as *
* well as defining emerging fields of inquiry derived from these innovative *
* methods. *
* *
* Although our sense of hearing has long been the subject of intensive *
* scientific inquiry, computational methods have only recently been *
* applied to this intellectual domain with the degree of sophistication *
* and systematic development required for achieving significant gains in *
* scientific understanding. The complexity of the physiological and *
* anatomical substrates of auditory function, in concert with the highly *
* mathematical nature of hearing's physical bases, provide an ideal *
* scientific application for the newly emergent techniques pertaining to *
* scientific visualization and auralization. *
* *
* Further progress in hearing science requires the sort of computational *
* techniques now being developed at various sites around the world for *
* modeling and visualization of complex auditory phenomena. The design of *
* future-generation hearing prostheses, speech recognition systems and *
* audio technologies all vitally depend on such methodology and the *
* understanding resulting from its intelligent application. *
* *
* The ASI will survey the traditional domains of hearing research, *
* including anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, speech and music, but *
* from a largely computational perspective. Several topics, such as *
* auditory scene analysis, speech recognition and auditory processing *
* under adverse acoustic conditions are inherently computational in *
* nature. Other subjects, such as the physiology of the auditory *
* periphery, have witnessed a significant amount of computational effort *
* over the past decade and a half. The goal is to provide a coherent and *
* comprehensive perspective on hearing that is integrated with state-of- *
* the-art computational modeling and visualization techniques that can *
* serve as the basis for a new generation of auditory research. *
* ________________________________________________________________________ *
* *
* ASI Faculty will include: Jont Allen (AT&T Research, USA), Jens Blauert *
* (Bochum, Germany), Martin Cooke (Sheffield, UK), Ted Evans (Keele, UK), *
* Steven Greenberg (ICSI, USA), Gerald Langner (Darmstadt, Germany), *
* Stephen McAdams (Paris V, IRCAM, France), Roy Patterson (CNBH, *
* Cambridge, UK), Christoph Schreiner (UC-San Francisco, USA), Shihab *
* Shamma (Maryland, USA), James Simmons (Brown, USA), Malcolm Slaney *
* (Interval Research & Stanford, USA), Quentin Summerfield (MRC IHC, *
* Nottingham, UK), Marianne Vater (Potsdam, Germany), Jeffrey Winer (UC- *
* Berkeley, USA), Eric Young (Johns Hopkins, USA) *
* *
* Organizing Committee: Martin Cooke, Steven Greenberg, *
* Gerald Langner, Malcolm Slaney *
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* IMPORTANT DATES (1998) *
* *
* January 15 Poster Presentation Abstracts and Preliminary Registration *
* Application for Financial Subsidy *
* (principally for junior scientists and students) *
* *
* March 1 Participant Registration (final deadline) *
* *
* April 15 4-page, camera-ready paper (based on poster presentation) *
* *
* For further information contact: *
* Steven Greenberg, International Computer Science Institute, *
* 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA *
* FAX: (510) 643-7684 (ATT: Computational Hearing ASI) *
* Internet: ComHear(a)icsi.berkeley.edu *
* WWW: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/real/ComHear98 *
* web site contains additional information, including *
* an application form and the provisional program *
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From: boicho(a)pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it (Boicho Kokinov)
Subject: Re: workshop on analogy
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Dear Csaba,
There will be a big workshop on analogy-making (computational models,
psychological, developmental, animal, and neuropsychological experiments)
next July in Sofia which I am co-organising together with Dedre Gentner and
Keith Holyoak. Please, let me know if there are Hungarians working on
analogy
who might be interested in participation (the workshop is mainly by invitation).
I would be most obliged if you send me the e-mail addresses of the proposed
people.
Best regards.
Boicho
Boicho Kokinov
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Cognitive Science Department, New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str., Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
e-mail: kokinov(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
Visiting researcher at the
Inst. of Psychology, Div. of "A.I., Cognitive and Interaction Modelling",
National Research Council (CNR)
Viale Marx, 15 - 00137 Rome (Italy), phone:+39+6+86090208,fax:+39+6+824737
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Nem az esely, inkabb csak az informacio miatt. Az osszeg nem eliras.
udv kgy
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:27:24 BST
From: David Papineau <david.papineau(a)kcl.ac.uk>
To: Members of the list <philos-l(a)liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Res Fellwshps in HPS
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowships
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fellowships to early career scientists and scholars. The fellowships will
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
Learning by imitation: a hierarchical approach
by Richard W. Byrne and Anne E. Russon
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
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instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________
LEARNING BY IMITATION: A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH
Richard W Byrne
Scottish Primate Research Group
School of Psychology
University of St Andrews
Fife KY16 9JU
SCOTLAND
rwb(a)st-andrews.ac.uk
Anne E Russon
Department of Psychology
Glendon College, York University
2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto M4N 3M6
CANADA
gl250035(a)venus.yorku.ca
KEYWORDS: imitation, priming, emulation, hierarchical
organization, great apes
ABSTRACT: To explain social learning without invoking the
cognitively complex concept of imitation, many learning
mechanisms have been proposed. Borrowing an idea used
routinely in cognitive psychology, we argue that most of
these alternatives can be subsumed under a single process,
priming, in which input increases the activation of stored
internal representations. Imitation itself has generally
been seen as a "special faculty". This has diverted much
research towards the all-or-none question of whether an
animal can imitate, with disappointingly inconclusive
results. In the great apes, however, voluntary, learned
behaviour is hierarchically organized. This means that
imitation can occur at various levels, of which we single
out two clearly distinct ones: the "action level", a rather
detailed and linear specification of sequential acts, and
the "program level", a broader description of subroutine
structure and the hierarchical layout of a behavioural
"program". Program level imitation is a high-level,
constructive mechanism, adapted for the efficient learning
of complex skills and thus not very evident in the simple
manipulations used to test for imitation in the laboratory.
As examples, we describe the food-preparation techniques of
wild mountain gorillas and the imitative behaviour of
orangutans undergoing "rehabilitation" to the wild.
Representing and manipulating relations between objects
seems to be one basic building-block in their hierarchical
programs. There is evidence that nonhuman great apes suffer
from a stricter capacity limit than humans in the
hierarchical depth of planning. We re-interpret some
chimpanzee behaviour previously described as "emulation" and
suggest that all great apes may be able to imitate at the
program level. Action level imitation is seldom observed in
great ape skill learning, and may have a largely social
role, even in humans.
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Haliho,
Bocs a zavarasert, de talan erdekes lehet valakinek, hogy a
http://webnyertes.webtime.net cimen ertekes dolgokat lehet
nyerni (modem, szoftver, konyv, CD, stb.)
Udv,
Zita
A Wittgenstein Tarsasag tagjainak
Budapest, 1997. aug. 25.
Kedves Tagok!
Elsore is kernem: jelezzen vissza az, aki valoban rendszeresen
olvassa e-mailjeit, hogy a jovoben tudjam: ki az, akinek a
korleveleket nem kell postai uton is elkuldenem.
A marciusi rendkivuli kozgyulesen emlitettem: probalkozom vele, hogy
Michael Nedot, a cambridge-i Wittgenstein Archivum igazgatojat
megnyerjem arra, hogy egy-ket eloadas erejeig Budapestre latogasson.
Mint a kovetkezo hirdetesbol is kiderul, ez sikerult is. Mint persze
minden meghivasnal, itt is az alapveto kerdes a latogatas
finanszirozasa. Egyfelol sikerult Michael Nedot ravenni arra, hogy
annak erdekeben, hogy mi meghallgathassuk, o nyujtson be egy kethetes
osztondijpalyazatot a brit es a magyar akademia egyuttmukodesi
szerzodesenek kereteben. Sajnos, jobb otletem nem volt. Ugyhogy
kernek mindenkit, amennyire lehet, igyekezzek reszt venni Nedo
eloadasain - vegul is elegge kevesse konvencionalis, hogy maganak a
meghivottnak kell faradoznia latogatasa anyagi alapjainak
megteremtese erdekeben. (Nedo egyebkent eredendoen nemet anyanyelvu:
termeszetesen 17 ev angliai tartozkodas utan pompasan beszel angolul,
am megis megorzott annyit europai artikulaciojabol, hogy a kontinens
lakoi szamara is ertheto maradjon.)
Masfelol persze bizonyos egyeb koltsegek is egyuttjarnak egy ilyen
meghivassal: ugyhogy ujfent kernek mindenkit, hogy amennyiben ez meg
nem tortent volna meg, fizesse be ez evi, tovabbra is igen szerenynek
mondhato tagdijat (200 Ft, hallgatoknak 100) - csekken (az
erintetteknek postaztuk), vagy szemelyesen nalam vagy Olay Csabanal.
Emellett kernem azokat, akik oktatoi minosegukben hallgatokkal
talalkoznak - az ev eleje remek alkalom -, hogy hivjak fel a
figyelmuket Nedo eloadasaira.
Hogy Nedo munkassagaba minel tobben elozetes betekintest
nyerhessenek, s igy a vele folytatando tarsalgasok gyumolcsozobbek
lehessenek, irtam egy tanulmanyt is "Wittgenstein hagyateka es a
Wittgenstein-kiadasok" cimmel, melyet a BUKSZ szerkesztosege igen
elozekenyen 1997. nyari szamaban soron kivul le is hozott.
Egyebkent Olay Csaba, tarsasagunk kincstarosa tizhonapos osztondijra
Nemetorszagba utazik. Erre az idore Lehmann Miklost kertem meg, hogy
helyettesitse, aki legnagyobb oromomre igent mondott.
A Magyar Wittgenstein Tarsasag, az MTA Filozofiai Intezete es a
Magyar Filozofiai Tarsasag rendezeseben
Michael Nedo, a cambridge-i Wittgenstein Archivum igazgatoja
Wittgenstein's Landscape -
Wittgenstein's philosophical Method
cimmel szeptember 11-en du. 15 orakor
az MTA Filozofiai Intezeteben (1054 Budapest, Szemere u. 10.)
es
Wittgenstein and the "Vienna Circle" -
Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics
cimmel szeptember 18-an du. 16.30-kor
az ELTE BTK Tanari Klubjaban (1052 Budapest, Szerb u. 21-23. II. em.)
eloadast tart.
A Nedo szerkesztette Wittgenstein kritikai kiadas - Wiener Ausgabe -
elso ot kotete megtekintheto az MTA Filozofiai Intezete Konyvtaraban.
Neumer Katalin
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To: suzanne
Subject: CUNY 1998 Sentence Processing Conference
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 21:06:27 -0400
From: Suzanne Stevenson <suzanne>
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Hosted by Rutgers University
March 19-21, 1998
Featuring a Special Session on
The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing:
Formal and Computational Issues
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
Beth Levin, Northwestern University
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University
DISCUSSANTS:
Mark Johnson, Brown University
Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland
Maryellen MacDonald, University of Southern California
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 7, 1997
The 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is
soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical,
experimental, and/or computational research on human sentence
processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and will be
considered for both the general conference sessions and for a special
session on The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and
Computational Issues.
SPECIAL SESSION:
Lexical influences on processing are currently a major focus of
attention in research on sentence comprehension, yet much of the work
remains isolated from investigations of the lexicon in other
disciplines. The special session, The Lexical Basis of Syntactic
Processing: Formal and Computational Issues, will examine current
theories of lexical representation from a multidisciplinary
perspective, relating the issues raised to current work on sentence
comprehension. The focus of the session will be presentations by
invited speakers from linguistics, computer science, and philosophy,
with critical commentary and discussion from researchers within the
sentence processing community.
The special session will also include submitted papers and posters on
the topic of the role of the lexicon in sentence processing.
Abstracts that are considered for the special session will be
evaluated both for the quality of the research and for the fit between
the submitted abstract and the invited papers.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
For consideration in the spoken paper sessions: November 7, 1997.
For consideration as a poster only: January 12, 1998
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Abstracts must be no more than 400 words in length, excluding
references. At the top of the abstract, please include your name,
email address, and indicate whether your abstract is to be considered
for PAPER ONLY, POSTER ONLY, or PAPER OR POSTER. The last category
means that you would be willing to present a poster if your abstract
is not included in the spoken sessions but is accepted for one of the
poster sessions. Please leave several blank lines between this
information and your title and abstract, so that we may remove this
information for anonymous abstract review.
Abstracts submitted but not accepted for the paper sessions will
automatically be included in the submissions for poster sessions,
unless the abstract is marked PAPER ONLY.
WHERE TO SUBMIT:
We will accept email submissions only. Email your submissions to
cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu
Please use "Abstract" as your subject header. If you are submitting
more than one abstract, each must be separately emailed. You will
receive an email acknowledgment for each abstract you submit.
If you are unable to use email to submit your abstract, you must
contact the organizers for instructions on submitting a PC-readable
disk with the required information and abstract.
CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION:
The conference will be held on March 19-21, 1998, at the Hyatt
Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, adjacent to the Rutgers University
campus. The conference site is easily accessible by shuttle from the
Newark and New York airports (Newark is preferable), and by train from
New York or Philadelphia. Detailed hotel reservation and travel
information will soon be available on the conference web site.
For more information, see: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/cuny98
E-mail questions to: cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu
Suzanne Stevenson
CUNY98 Conference Organizer
Dept of Computer Science, and
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
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ANNOUNCEMENT -- The next STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE
RESEARCH FORUM will take place in April 1999.
(There will be no meeting in 1998.) Proposals
for workshops or special sessions at the 1999
meeting are welcome.
Please send any suggestions, via email, to:
<eclark(a)psych.stanford.edu>
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The PROCEEDINGS of CLRF-97 will appear early in 1998,
and will be available from Cambridge University Press,
as are the Proceedings of earlier meetings (check the
CUP Web-site).
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