Call for cognitive psychology PhD applicants
The Department of General Psychology at Eotvos University calls for applicants for
a three year long PhD program on cognitive psychology with a strong emphasis on
cognitive studies at large. This is the third year of the program.
Applicants are kindly asked to submit (either in Hungarian or English):
-- a CV
-- copies of diploma and university records
-- publication list (if any)
-- a study plan and a research plan
-- two letters of recommendation
-- documents proving proficiency in English
-- one or two papers or manuscripts of the applicant, preferably in English.
The program involves organized classes (with exams), participation in research
(beside the individual research), and teaching activities. PhD students will have a
student status and those who do not have a scholarship or a job can obtain some
financial support.
The language of instruction will be English partly to accommodate our foreign host
teachers, partly because we are encouraging our students to apply for scholarships
abroad, too.
Application forms are available at the PhD office of the Humanities Faculty of ELTE
from Alice Csoba (Piarista koez 1, Budapest, I. e. 44, H-1052). She would also give
technical advice (T: 266-83-04). Substantial information can be obtained from Csaba
Pleh, pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu, (36)1-3/ 423-130. Budapest, Izabella 46.
We encourage mostly graduates in psychology, biology and computing science
computing science, math and engineering to apply.
Since from 1996 on there is another subprogram organized by Gyorgy Kampis in
cognitive science we encourage people from a philosophy, math and engineering
background to apply for that program.
We also encourage multiple enrollment. I.e.. PhD applicants in psychology, biology,
philosophy and linguistics are encouraged to take up the Cognitive Science program
as well.
Deadline for application: May 20th.
Probable oral exam times: June 20th to 30th.
Please contact is as soon as possible for the professional part.
Some of our core faculty with specialties
Vilmos Csanyi: ethology, evolutionary theory.
Gergely Csibra: causality, infancy, ERPs.
Peter Erdy: neuronal nets.
Gyorgy Gergely: theory of mind and its development, infancy.
Attila Gulyas: neurobiology
Steven Harnad: theory of cognition, categorization.
Laszlo Kalman: linguistics and computation.
Laszlo Komlosi: pragmatics, cognitive linguistics
Aniko Konya: memory systems.
Ilona Kovacs: early vision and neuronal plasticity.
Janos Laszlo: social cognition.
Gyorgy Kampis: complexity and evolution.
Csaba Pleh: psycholinguistics, cognitive theory.
Az ELTE Pszichologiai Doktori Iskola kognitiv pszichologiai
alprogramjanak tematikaja es koevetelmenyrendszere
Az ELTE Pszichologiai Doktori Iskola kognitiv pszichologiai alprogramja
Altalanos jellemzes
A program harom eves felso szintu szervezett kepzest nyujt
a kognitiv pszichologiabol. Az alapveto koevetelmeny 12 tanegyseg
teljesitese, preferaltan az elso negy felevre oesszpontositva.
Ekkor az utolso ev valoban az ertekezes keszitesere marad.
Az eloadasok es gyakorlatok rendje
Minden diak a kezdetkor tanacsadot valaszt, a 3. felevben ezt
megvaltoztathatja az ertekezes vegleges iranyitojara. A tanrend
oesszeallitasat s az orakon kivueli munkat a tanacsadoval kell
egyeztetnie.
A hat felev alapveto beosztasa a koevetkezo:
1.-2 felev: Propedeutika es toerzskurzusok
5 kurzus
Kognitiv pszichologia 2 x 2 ora
Bevezetes a szimbolikus logikaba (2 ora)
Alapveto programozas (2 ora)
Az idegrendszer konceptualis modelljei
Az elokepzettseget merlegelve a diak felmentest kaphat 1 vagy 2
propedeutika targy alol.
3-6. felev: (preferaltan 3-4.)
7 kurzus, a diak majdani ertekezes temajanak megfeleloen az
alabbi valasztekbol. A temavezetovel egyeztetve ebbol legalabb
1 filozofiai, 1 modszertani, 1 pedig biologiai orientacioju kell
legyen.
Pszichologia
Toebbvaltozos statisztika
Lataskutatas
Emlekezet es tudas
Pszicholingvisztika
Mondatmegertes, lexikon es alaktan
Narrativ kutatas
Ketnyelvuseg
Kognitiv fejlodes
Szocialis megismeres
Emberi es MI problemamegoldas
Csecsemokori megismeres
Az emberi emlekezet oekologiaja
A nyelv neuropszichologiaja
Beszedeszleles
Oksag es esemenyeszleles
A megismeres egyeni elteresei
Sztereolatas es korai latas
Az emberi doentes es hibai
Koevetkeztetesi folyamatok
Kognitiv neuropszichologia
A megismeres elektrofiziologiai kutatasa
Logika
Tipus elmeleti logika
Tudasreprezentacio
Termeszetes nyelvek logikaja
A nyelv es a cselekves
Oksag es koevetkeztetes
Komplex illetve filozofikus orak
Ismeretelmelet
Antropologia es pszichologia
A 20. sz. filozofiai logikaja
Tudomanyelmelet
A logika nyelveszeti es kognitiv alkalmazasa
Vizsgarend
A felvett targyakbol jegyet szereznek a jeloeltek, preferaltan
egyeni munka (dolgozatok) alapjan. Ez harom targybol allna:
filozofia (illetve logika)
kognitiv pszichologia
modszertan. Egyenitve a jeloelt terueletehez, de valodi gyakorlati
ismeretekrol is szamot kell adni. Peldak:
toebbvaltozos statisztika
kiserletekhez programozas
Disszertacio es fokozat
A tanulmanyokat egyeni kutatason alapulo doktori ertekezes
zarja. A legjobb diakok ezt a 3. ev vegere vedheto formaban
megirjak. Masok kesobb vedik. Altalaban a vedhetoseg feltetele:
ket hazai cikk, s egy idegennyelvu dolgozat benyujtasa, amibol
legalabb egyrol mar elfogadasi igazolas is kell. (Megjelenest
azert nem mondok, mert ismerem a koezlesi viszonyokat.) A
disszertacio nyilvanos, meghirdettet vedese a jelenlegi
kandidatusi vedeshez lenne hasonlo.
A doktorandus egyetemi koetelezvenyei
A doktorandus valoban bevezetest kap a tudomanyos munkaba,
nemcsak orakat vesz es ir. Ennek harom formaja lehetne, mely
munkakoeri koetelezettseg:
(1) Reszvetel a mentor kutatasaiban.
(2) A tanszekcsoport kijeloelte orakon (toemeges alsobb eves
bevezeto kurzusok, muszerigenyes gyakorlatok) oktatasi
asszisztencia. (Dolgozatjavitas, foliazas, szamitogepbeallitas
stb.) Pl. ket felev heti 4 ora.
(3) Iranyitas mellett kezdeti oktato munka. Gyakorlatok, koezoes
szeminariumok, jegyzetiras stb. Ket felev. Heti 4 tanora
terhelese.
SZEMINARIUMI ELOADAS
Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken (1088
Bp., Rakoczi ut 5.)
Karl Svozil
Physics Department
Technical University, Vienna
UNDECIDABILITY EVERYWHERE?
cimmel tart eloadast.
Idopontja: 1996 aprilis 18., csutortok, 16 ora.
Helye: Rakoczi ut 5., II. em. 223.
Az eloadas idotartama 50-60 perc, amelyet rovid szunet utan kb.
30-60 perc vita kovet. Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Elnezest a kesei ertesitesert.
Udv Kampis Gyorgy
EL\H OAD\'ASKIVONAT
The question is discussed if and how undecidability might be
translatable into physics, in particular with respect to prediction and
description, as well as to complementarity games. Thereby, the
epistemological issue of the intrinsic perception of an observer who is
imbedded in the observed system is discussed.
>From: Istvan Berkeley <Istvan.Berkeley(a)UAlberta.CA>
>Subject: Workshop
>To: philosop(a)majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca (Philosop List)
>Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:20:58 -0600 (MDT)
>Cc: philos-l(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
>Sender: owner-philosop(a)majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca
>Reply-To: Istvan Berkeley <Istvan.Berkeley(a)UAlberta.CA>
>
>Please feel free to distribute the following announcement and bring
>it to the attention of anyone who might be interested.
>
>
>
> CONNECTIONISM FOR COGNITIVISTS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
>
>
>On the 25-27 May, 1996, a major international workshop on recent
>theoretical and applicational aspects of network architectures will be held
>at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop has a unique
>structure: approximately half of it will be devoted to presentations of
>theoretical work by eminent researchers, while the other half will
>involve hands-on introductions to new software that allows for the use of
>learning algorithms and techniques for hidden-unit activation analysis
>that are not available to researchers whose main knowledge of networks
>stems from the seminal 1986 PDP volumes by Rumelhart, McClelland, et
>al., or who are, indeed, unfamiliar with the details of *any* PDP
>modelling techniques, but who would like to understand in detail why they
>have produced so much interest and debate among cognitive scientists and
>others. For the second purpose, all registrants will have access to
>workstations.
>
>The workshop has been designed to appeal to, and to be accessible to,
>researchers from a wide range of disciplines, especially including
>cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science and
>telecommunications engineering. We stress that no particular disciplinary
>background, or technical experience with network models, will be presupposed
>in the design of the workshop.
>
>Principal speakers include:
>
>David Rumelhart, Stanford
>Jerome Feldman, Berkeley/ICSI
>Paul Skokowski, Stanford
>Christopher Thornton, Sussex
>Malcolm Forster, Wisconsin at Madison
>John Bullinaria, Birkbeck College, London
>Istvan Berkeley, Alberta/Southwestern Louisiana
>
>Please note that registration space is limited, and registrations will be
>accepted in a first-come first-serve basis.
>
> Dates: May 25-27, 1996
>Registration fees: Regular: $75.00 (CDN)
> Student: $35.00 (CDN)
>Banquet (optional): $35.00 (CDN)
>
>REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
>
>Those wishing to attend the conference may register either
>electronically, or by mail.
>
>To register electronically, send the following information to
><dross(a)aix1.uottawa.ca>:
>
>NAME:
>AFFILIATION:
>REGULAR/STUDENT?:
>BANQUET (Y/N?):
>ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (no. of nights, preference as between student
>residence accommodation [subject to availability] or hotel):
>MAILING ADDRESS:
>E-MAIL:
>
>Electronic registrations will be considered confirmed upon
>receipt of a cheque for the appropriate amount, in either
>Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent. Cheques should be
>made payable to CARLETON UNIVERSITY, and should be sent to the
>address given for postal registration below.
>
>To register by post, send the information indicated above,
>with a cheque for the appropriate amount, to:
>
>CONNECTIONISM
>c/o Professor Don Ross
>Department of Philosophy
>Morisset Hall
>University of Ottawa
>Ottawa, ON
>CANADA K1N 6N5
>e-mail: <dross(a)aix1.uottawa.ca>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Istvan S. N. Berkeley E-mail: istvan(a)gpu.srv.ualberta.ca or,
>Dept. of Philosophy & istvan(a)psych.ualberta.ca
>Biological Computation Project,
>4-108 Humanities Center
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alberta Tel: (403) 436-4182
>CANADA, T6G 2E5 Fax: (403) 437-2261
>
Gabor Fekete Gabor Fekete
675 Roselawn Ave., #307 Budapest
Toronto ON Bem rakpart 50
Canada M5P 1L2 Hungary 1027
(416) 785-0205 (36-1) 135-0693
gfekete(a)epas.utoronto.ca feketeg(a)vega.ceu.hu
Azert ne feledkezzunk meg arrol, hogy Ben Goertzel egy diak, amugy
szerencselovag, aki Magyaroszagon is probalkozott mar mindenfelevel.
Laszlo Ervin, aki a hetvenes evekben remek konyveket irt, most kicsit
tulsagosan hisz a telepatiaban meg a pszi-terekben, es nem rettenti el
Koestler Artur peldaja, aki szinten nem igy indult de ide jutott.
Varelaval a buddhista vonal is ki van pipalva, mi maradt ki? Izgatottan
varom a folyoirat szamait. udv kgy
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for a new electronic journal,
DYNAMICAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL, INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
OF COMPLEX MENTAL PROCESSES
Editor: Ben Goertzel
Assistant Editors: Allan Combs. Mark Germine
Honorary Editors: Ervin Laszlo, Stanley Krippner
Editorial Board: Fred Abraham, Jason Brown, George Christos, Thomas Germine,
Sally Goerner, William Sulis, Larry Vandervert, Francisco Varela
URL http://godel.psy.uwa.edu.au/dynapsyc/dynapsyc.html
______________________
Please pass this message along to other relevant listservers & newsgroups
of which you are a member.
_______________________
This journal is a continuation, of sorts, of the paper journal PsychoScience,
which existed in 1994-95, and was edited by Mark Germine with the assistance
of Allan Combs. Most of the articles from PsychoScience are online at the DynaPsych
website, in addition to a few new papers.
_____________________
Professor Ricardo LUCCIO of the University of Trieste will be the
next speaker of our visting professor program in the cognitive
psychology graduate program of Eotvos Lorand University Department
of General Psychology.
The topic of his classes ( PSKK 16.37)
is
HISTORY OF THEORIES OF PERCEPTION
Professor Luccio will be here from 25th of April to 4th of May.
Would you like to get in touch with him before his email adress is:
luccio(a)univ.trieste.it
His lecture schedule is the following:
Always Izabella 46, in rooms to be specified later.
26th, Friday, 10 A.M. Meeting before 316.
Perception in foundation of experimental psychology: from
Muller'sprinciple of specific nervous energy to Helmholtz'
unconscious inference.
The meaning of the principle today: specific energy and modularity of mind.
Monday, 29th, 10 to 12:
Gestalt psychology (1): autoorganisation, field theory, Pr=E4gnanz.
Tuesday, 30th, 10 to 12
Gestalt psychology (2): Gestalt principles today: multistability,
complex systems.
Thursday, 2nd May, 10 to 12
Perception and Human Information Processing. Preattentive and
attentional processes. The crisis of HIP. The ecological approach.
Friday, 3rd May, 10 to 12
Perception and cognitive science. Beyond information given.
Connectionism and subsymbolic representation. Where we are.
Please post this note. Everybody is most welcome.
Csaba Pleh
Kedves Kollegak, itt vannak Hernad Istvan vizsgakerdesei.
Remelem, mindekihez kiobejut a halozatokon.
Istvan email cime:
harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Sok sikert Pleh Csaba
Answer 1 question out of 8 of the 9 groups. Answers should be no longer
than one page (~200-250 words) long. Answers should clearly explain
concepts and issues to someone who does not already know them. Do not
write as if trying to prove that you know to someone who knows more.
Write to explain clearly what you know to someone who knows less but
who can immediately discern whether or not you understand what you are
talking about or you are not making sense, or just manipulating
symbols...
1:
What is the difference between proximal and distal causes in evolution?
What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness?
What is the "Blind Watchmaker"?
How can evolution help explain cognition?
2:
What is the difference between syntax and semantics?
What is the Poverty of the Stimulus?
What is wrong with Skinner's explanation of language learning?
What is the Symbol Grounding Problem?
What is the problem of "vanishing intersections"?
3:
What is the evidence that neural nets are like the brain?
What is the difference between a neural net and a symbol system?
What is Pinker's critique of neural nets?
What is Minsky's critique of perceptrons?
What is Pylyshyn's critique of neural nets?
4:
What is computation?
What is an algorithm?
What is a Turing Machine?
Why does the shape of a symbol need to be arbitrary?
What are "Granny Objections" to computation? Give examples.
5:
What is the difference between an image and a symbol?
What is Analog Processing?
What is the Homunculus Problem?
Who won the Imagery Debate? Why?
What is Pylyshyn's critique of mental imagery?
Discuss: A picture is worth a thousand words
Discuss: "This is not a pipe"
7:
What is a retinotopic map?
What is the difference between a mental image and a brain image?
What questions can brain images answer that behaviour alone cannot?
How can you find out "how" from "when" and "where"?
8:
Why is there a problem about consciousness as a cause?
What is the Turing Test?
What is the mind/body problem?
What is the other-minds problem?
What is the difference between movement and telekinesis?
Are we machines?
9:
What is wrong with introspection as a way to study the mind?
What needs to be explained about the mind? Give examples.
What is reverse engineering?
What is the difference between cognitivism and behaviourism?
CSIBRA GERGELY
1996. majus 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 -en rovid kurzust tart a kognitiv
szakiranyos felsobbeves es a a kognitiv pszichologiai PhD
diakoknak.
Tema: Categorization and concept formation in infancy.
A pontos idopontok minden alkalommal de 10-12.
Hely
Majus 24-en az MTA
Pszichologiai Intezetben (kesobb megandando helyen, a pszichologus
kongresszus miatt), 28 es 31 kozott az Izabella utca 46, 301-es
teremben lesznek az orak.
A kurzust az 1996. oszi tanrendben kodszammal is meghirdetjuk. Vagyis
azok szakiranyosak, akik kreditert vennek fel, batran tegyek ezt.
Utolag fognak ra jegyet s kreditet kapni.
Irodalom lesz angolul, az orak magyar nyelven folynak.
Mindenkit, erdeklodoket is szerettel varunk,
Pleh Csaba a kognitiv program vezetoje
This is a Call for Logo designs for Psycoloquy, a refereed electronic
journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored by the American Psychological
Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 60,000 via
Listserv and Usenet and still more readers and browsers via the Web at
its various mirror sites in the US, UK, and continental Europe.
Psycoloquy is available to all for free, thanks to an APA subsidy,
but the budget is tight and no funds are available to pay for the design
of a logo, hence permanent credit in Psycoloquy's masthead is the only
reward we can offer to the designer of the logo that is ultimately
selected.
The logo should be in the form of a gif or jpeg file (preferably), but
a postscript file or scannable hard copy can also be used.
Suggested themes for the logo are these:
The name "Psycoloquy" is meant to suggest "Psychology" and "Colloquium."
Psycoloquy is an interdisciplinary journal of Open Peer Commentary in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences, including Psychology,
Neuroscience, Computer Science (AI, Vision, Speech, Robotics),
Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics and Philosophy.
Open Peer Commentary in electronic form has also been dubbed "Scholarly
Skywriting," so something suggestive of the kind of smoke trail a plane
leaves in the sky might be a possible image -- but it will no doubt be
challenging to make this look scholarly and serious, rather than
cartoonish.
The fields that contribute also suggest an image, one that incorporates
brain, behavior, biology/evolution, computer and communication:
A generic primate's head poised as if speaking, with see-through
computer/neural-net-like innards is a possible image.
There is of course always some variant of the old, overused Greek "psi"
symbol for psychology.
Or perhaps these candidate images and themes will suggest something
entirely original to you.
Please send your candidate logo designs to the following address,
indicating that you would allow Psycoloquy to use it if it were
selected, in exchange for a permanent credit-line stating who designed it.
Please look at Psycoloquy's Web sites for more of an idea of its form
and content.
Looking forward to seeing your designs.
Stevan Harnad, Editor
PSYCOLOQUY (sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy)
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu
phone: +44 1703 594-583
fax: +44 1703 593-281
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M E G H i V o
Az ELTE Altalanos Pszichologia Tanszeke minden erdeklodot szeretettel
meghiv a hagyomanyos tanszeki
"Keddi Szeminariumok"
koevetkezo eloadasara.
aprilis 16. kedd:
GERGELY Gyoergy
The perception of pure reason in infancy
(az eloadas nyelve: angol)
A szeminariumok idopontja es helye ebben a szemeszterben:
keddenkent, 12.00- kb. 13.30- ig
VI. ker Izabella u. 46, IV. em. 403-as terem.
***
I N V I T A T I O N
The Dept. of General Psychology kindly invites you
to the next lecture of our regular speaker series, the
Tuesday Seminars.
Tuesday, 16 April at 12.00 a.m.
Gyoergy GERGELY
The perception of pure reason in infancy
in room 403 at VI. Izabella u. 46.
All welcome!
