Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 12:45 BST
From: Nicola Yuill <nicolay(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Sender: Nicola Yuill <nicolay(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Nicola Yuill <nicolay(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject: dphil demonstratorship at Sussex
To: dev-europe(a)durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <m0t2d7b-000AiPC(a)rsuna.crn.cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Due to unexpected success in getting further external funding, we have the
following funding for a phd place available. Please forward to any potential
applicants. Thanks.
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
DPhil DEMONSTRATORSHIP IN PSYCHOLOGY
Applications are invited for a DPhil Demonstratorship in the
Psychology group in the School of Cognitive and Computing
Sciences (COGS) at the University of Sussex. The successful applicant
will register for a DPhil in Psychology with one of the members
of the Psychology group in COGS while carrying out the demonstrator
duties. The positions are normally for 3 years.
Candidates should have a first degree in Psychology or an allied
discipline at least at the 2:1 level. The School of COGS is an
interdisciplinary centre of cognitive science and includes Psychology,
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Philosophy. The
Psychology group currently consists of 10 faculty members and expects to
expand by at least two more over the next year or two.
Research specialisations within the Psychology group include Social
and Cognitive Development (Prof G. Butterworth, Dr. N Yuill, Dr. J.
Rutkowska), Decision Making and Reasoning (Dr. D Griffin, Dr. S.
Thornton, Dr. C. Varey), Cognitive Science (Dr. G. Hole, Dr. J.
Rutkowska, Dr. M. Scaife) and Health/Clinical psychology (Prof.
G. Davey, Ms. C. Cameron).
Further information is available on our World Wide Web page at
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/grad/index.html
The demonstratorships will begin as soon as possible. Information
and application forms can be obtained from Dale Griffin, Coordinator
of Graduate Studies, Psychology, COGS, University of Sussex, Falmer,
Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QH, or through e-mail at daleg(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk;
phone (0)1273-678844. Informal enquiries are welcomed.
Az Altalanos Pszichologiai Tanszek
KEDDI SZEMINARIUMAinak
1995 oktoberi programja
(M E G H i V o)
oktober 17. kedd, 12.00 - 13.00
Izabella u. 46. I. em. 116. terem:
GEIER JANOS: A "z - hipotezis", avagy hogyan lepjuek at a senki foeldjet?
A sztereolatas egy komputacios modellje.
* * *
oktober 24. kedd, 12.00 - 14.00
Izabella u. 46. I. em. 411. terem:
VARGHA ANDRAS: A Ministat, a BMDP, es a tablazatkezeles uj
lehetosegei az Izabellen.
* * *
oktober 31. kedd, 12.00 - 13.00
Izabella u. 46. I. em. 116. terem
SZABo IMRE (POTE): Sejtegyuettesek es ideghalozatok - elemzesuek
viselkedo allatoknal.
Az eloadasokra es az azokat koeveto vitakra minden erdeklodot var az
ELTE Altalanos Pszichologiai Tanszeke.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:20:06 BST
From: Julie Dockrell *NOT AUTHENTICATED* <tecdjdo(a)ioe.ac.uk>
Sender: Julie Dockrell *NOT AUTHENTICATED* <tecdjdo(a)ioe.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Julie Dockrell *NOT AUTHENTICATED* <tecdjdo(a)ioe.ac.uk>
Subject: Advertisement
To: DEV-EUROPE(a)durham.ac.uk, psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk
Message-ID: <24795.9509221520(a)altair.herts.ac.uk>
Please advertise or draw this to the attention of any suitable applicants.
Research Officer(s) required for a Wellcome funded project into the naming
skills of children with word-finding difficulties.
Applicants will need
- a relevant degree in Psychology or Speech Sciences,
- research or teaching experience in the age range 3-10
- an understanding of normal language development
- experience of collecting and analysing quantitive data
- preference to individuals who have experience of children with SLI
Position available either full time or part-time for 18 months, starting
January 1996. Salary on research 1A scale 13, 317-21,519 plus London
Allowance.
Application forms 0171-612-6159
Further information
Either
Julie Dockrell,
Child Development & Learning
Institute of Education,
20 Bedford Way ,
London WC1H 0AL.
Phone - 0171-612-6210
Fax - 0171-612- 6230
or Professor David Messer
Psychology Division,
University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield,
Herts AL10 9AB.
Phone - 01707 284622 (direct) 01707 284612 (office)
Fax - 01707 285073
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 14:01:43 +1200
From: Andrew Lock <A.J.Lock(a)massey.ac.nz>
Sender: Andrew Lock <A.J.Lock(a)massey.ac.nz>
Reply-To: Andrew Lock <A.J.Lock(a)massey.ac.nz>
Subject: Vygotsky's Centennial
To: dev-europe(a)durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <199510060102.CAA03157(a)tucana.dur.ac.uk>
The following is abstracted from a webpage that can be located at:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/project2.htm
Please feel free to cross-post to any relevant groups you wish.
AN OPEN INVITATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO A CELEBRATORY PROJECT TO MARK THE
CENTENARY OF VYGOTSKY'S BIRTH
1996 marks the Centenary of Vygotsky's birth in Belorussia. There will be a
number of events occuring in celebration of this. We are initiating one
here that we hope will mark the start of a continuing resource for anyone
interested in exploring his work.
Within Vygotsky's conceptualisation of human psychology, a basic notion is
that of mediation:
'the central fact about our psychology is the fact of mediation' (1982:166)
The point being made is that humans in their history have invented cultural
tools, both material and and psychological, that constitute a 'cognitive
technology' whereby we have restructured our abilities and reconfigured our
'nature'.
And it is at this point in our histories that we are beginning to explore a
new 'technology', one which unites the material with the psychological, an
'informational technology' that in the emerging community of the
WorldWideWeb is providing a new means of mediating our activities.
It thus seems appropriate to convene a celebration that may make a lasting
contribution as a resource for teaching and research in this medium, in
celebration of an individual whose thinking and research has contributed so
much to our conceptualisation of education and development.
The proposal is to mark the centenary of Vygotsky's birth by setting up the
equivalent of a web-conference on Vygotsky's opus. We are inviting people
to 'submit' a piece of around 1000 words in the first instance as comments
on, or in exegesis of, central concepts and themes in the Vygotskyean oeuvre.
What are these central concepts? It is not our intention to establish an
orthodoxy, but among them are the distinction between higher and lower
mental functions; the planes of intra- versus intermental psychological
abilities; the zone of proximal development; psychological tools; and the
principle of the decontextualization of mediational means; at least.
It is quite possible that these 'vignettes' could be done as 'class
projects' in a number of different honours or graduate courses, for example.
Or they may be individually 'submitted'. The possibilities noted here
should not be taken as definitive.
Procedures for submissions
There are no closing dates! This is intended as an on-going project. Our
preference is that we act as a 'link site', cataloguing resources as they
become available via their addresses at independent, local sites, so as not
to swamp our own capacity to store and redistribute material. However,
where that is not possible, we will provide 'library' facilities, and
material can be sent here if there are no alternatives available. Queries,
offers, etc., can be mailed to the e-mail address in this header, or via the
webpage address at the top.
Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego
Andrew Lock, Massey University, New Zealand
James Wertsch, Washington University, St. Louis
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Note that there is a second project running from this site in which
participation is also invited, focussing on the social construction of
emotionality. This can be accessed at:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/project1.htm
Both these projects exist in under the umbrella of an even wider one, termed
'The Virtual Faculty', which can be accessed at the following URL, and which
will lead you to either of the above projects:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/welcome.htm
Anyone interested in reviews of the phylogeny and ontogeny of symbolic
abilities might also want to look at:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/hbook/frontis.htm
Andy Lock Phone (+64) 6 356-9099 Ext 4115
Department of Psychology Fax (+64) 6 350-5673
Massey University Email A.J.Lock(a)massey.ac.nz
Palmerston North TimeZone GMT+12
NEW ZEALAND
CALL FOR PAPERS
The philosophy departments of the University of Miskolc,
the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eotvos University,
the Technical University of Budapest,
the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences,
and the Hungarian Committee of IUHPS/DLMPS
announce a
CONFERENCE
IMAGES AND REALITY
The conference aims to explore the nature of scientific
representation. Papers are invited especially from those
working in the history and philosophy of science, sociology
of knowledge, naturalized epistemology, and cognitive
science.
Topics include
Kinds of representations: linguistic and non-linguistic
The literal and the non-literal
Images before and after reality: prescription vs.
description, prediction vs. explanation
Representations which do not represent? -- realism vs. anti-
realism
Producing representations or constructing reality?
Virtual reality -- real virtuality
Modern or postmodern? -- How many images and realities?
June 13-15 1996
University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
For further information contact:
Gabor Forrai
Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1398 Budapest 62. POB 594 HUNGARY
E-mail: forrai(a)osiris.elte.hu
Abstracts, not longer than two double spaced pages, should
be sent to the same address.
Deadline: January 31 1996
SZEMINARIUMI ELOADAS
Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken
(1088 Bp., Rakoczi ut 5.)
Redei Miklos docens
"Neumann-halok es a logikai fuggetlenseg problemai"
cimmel tart eloadast.
ELOADASKIVONAT
A Neumann-algebra es Neumann-halo fogalmainak folelevenitese utan
azt a problemat vizsgaljuk, mikor tekintheto egy Neumann halo ket
reszhaloja - mint kvantumlogika - logikai ertelemben fuggetlennek.
Egy termeszetes fuggetlenseg definicio es a logikai fuggetlenseg
problemajanak motivalasa utan allitasokat fogalmazunk, melyek a
logikai fuggetlenseget kapcsolatba hozzak mas, statisztikus
fuggetlensegi tulajdonsagokkal.
Idopontja: 1995 oktober 5., csutortok, 17 ora.
Helye: Rakoczi ut 5., I. em. 105.
Az eloadas idotartama 50-60 perc, amelyet rovid szunet
utan kb. 30-60 perc vita kovet.
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Udvozlettel,
a szervezok: Kampis Gyorgy (gk(a)hps.elte.hu)
Szabo Laszlo (leszabo(a)hal9000.elte.hu)
Szecsenyi Tibor (szecska(a)ludens.elte.hu)
From: Jim Hurford <jim(a)ling.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 10:08:18 BST
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH APRIL 1-4 1996
SPONSORS: The University of Edinburgh, the Royal Anthropological
Institute, and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (U.Hawaii), Paul Bloom
(U.Arizona), Robert Boyd (UCLA), Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
(U.Canterbury, N.Z.), Dan Dennett (Tufts U.), Paul Fletcher (U.Hong
Kong), Myrna Gopnik (U.Montreal), Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U.), Philip
Lieberman (Brown U.), Bjorn Lindblom (U.Stockholm), Frederick Newmeyer
(U.Washington), Johanna Nichols (U.C.Berkeley), Merritt Ruhlen (ex
Stanford), Leon Stassen (U.Nijmegen), Chris Stringer (Natural History
Museum, London), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs).
FOCUSSED THEMES:
1. LANGUAGE ORIGINS AND THE EMERGENCE/DISPERSAL OF MODERN
HUMANS
2. CONTINUITY/DISCONTINUITY OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY WITH OTHER
HUMAN AND NONHUMAN SYSTEMS.
PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE DEC.15 1995) TO:
Professor James R Hurford, Dept. of Linguistics, University of
Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, 40 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL,
or by email to: jim(a)ling.ed.ac.uk
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Elnezest mindenkitol az elozo, szet-
szabdalt valtozatert.
Kovacs Gyula
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The SZOTE Department of Physiology invites everybody to a series of
lectures on
Selected topics in vision research
(elective course/ specialkollegium)
Place: Lectures are held in the Lecture Hall of the
Department of Physiology (Szeged, Dom ter 10)
Time: Lectures start at 7 pm.
Language: English
EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!!!
_________________________________________________________
Program
25. September Prof Gyorgy Benedek:
Introduction to the methodology of the visual experiments;
Parallel information processing in the visual system
9. October Dr. Gyula Sary:
Form and shape vision in primates
30. October Dr. Gyula Kovacs:
Models of visual recognition and it's biological constraints
13. November Dr. Gyula Kovacs:
Anatomy and physiology of the retina
27. November Dr. Andrea Antal:
The visual cortex: anatomy and function
_____________________________________________________________
The SZOTE Department of Physiology invites everybody to a series of
lectures on
Selected topics in vision research
(elective course/ speci lkoll‚gium)
Place: Lectures are held in the Lecture Hall of the Department of
Physiology (Szeged, D¢m t‚r 10)
Time: Lectures start at 7 pm.
Language: English
EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!!!
Program
25. September Prof Gy”rgy Benedek: Introduction to the methodology
of the visual experiments; Parallel information processing in the
visual system
9. October Dr. Gyula SÂ ry: Form and shape vision in primates
30. October Dr. Gyula Kov cs: Models of visual recognition and it's
biological constraints
13. November Dr. Gyula Kov cs: Anatomy and physiology of the retina
27. November Dr. Andrea Antal: The visual cortex: anatomy and function
Az elozetes hirekkel ellentetben szerdan (szeptember 27.) reggel 8-kor
megtartom a Neurobiologia kurzus kovetkezo orajat, es meg nehany hetig
nem fog elmaradni ora.
Grobler Tamas
(Bocs mindazoktol, akiket ez nem erint. GT.)
