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M A S O D I K F E L H I V A S ! ! !
A szegedi Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem, Elettani Intezet es
az ELTE Altalanos Pszichologia Tanszek
Lataskutatas csoportja szimpoziumra invital minden a biologial latas
kutatasa es modellezese irant erdeklodot. A szimpozium a tavalyi elso ilyen
jellegu osszejovetel folytatasakent kerul megrendezesre az alabbi formaban.
I. Cim: Masodik Magyar Latas Szimpozium, Informaciofeldolgozas a
Latorendszerben
II. Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1995 augusztus 29-30 (2 nap), Szeged
Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem Elettani Intezete, Szeged 6720
Dom ter 10
III. Cel:
A szimpoziumnak fo celja, hogy osszehozza azon hazai es kulfoldon dolgozo
kutatokat, neuroanatomusokat, neurofiziologusokat, pszichologusokat
es neuralis halozatokat modellezo elmeleti szakembereket, akik a latas
problemajaval kapcsolatos teruleteken dolgoznak.
IV. Forma:
A szimpozium nyelve magyar. Minden meghivott eloado 15-20 perces
eloadast tart 5-10 perces vitaval, amit a nap es/vagy a szekciok vegen egy
altalanosabb diszkusszio kovet. Ha a letszam es a kozohaj megkoveteli, egy
poster szekcio fogja kiegesziteni ezt a format. Celunk, hogy minel tobb
parbeszedre adjunk lehetoseget
V. Resztvevok,eloadasok:
Az resztvevok nevsora meg nem rogzitett. Szivesen latott mindenki, aki
egyetert a szimpozium
celjaival, es ugy erzi, hogy abba illo eloadast tudna tartani. Nem
elsodleges celunk a nemzetkozi tudomanyos
elet legnagyobb neveit felleptetni. Ugy veljuk, erre mas, sokkal rangosabb
forum jobban megfelel. Foleg olyan fiatalabb-idosebb kutatok
szerepleset szeretnenk elerni, akik egyreszt egyertelmuen a cimben
definialt terulethez kapcsolhatoan munkalkodnak, masreszt munkajukkal
(akar itthon akar kulfoldon) potencialisan hozza tudnak jarulni a tema
hazai meghonosodasahoz. A talalkozo profiljanak megfeleloen az eloadasok
latorendszeri anatomia es fiziologia, vizualis pszichofizika, magasabb
szintu latas pszichologia, matematikai es szamitogepes modellezes
temakorokbol allnak ossze. A latas a szimpozium fo vezervonala, de szivesen
latunk olyan eloadasokat, melyek tagabban, az agy informaciofeldolgozasat
vizsgaljak a latas problemajahoz kapcsoltan.
VI. Jelentkezes:
Aki eloadast szeretne tartani a szimpoziumon, kerjuk, lepjen kapcsolatba az
alabbi szervezok egyikevel:
Fiser Jozsef -- E-mail: fiser(a)selforg.usc.edu
Geier Janos -- geier(a)izabell.elte.hu
Kovacs Gyula -- kogyu(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu
Kovacs Ilona -- ikovacs(a)cyclops.rutgers.edu
Felkerjuk azokat is, akik hallgatokent szeretnenek resztvenni, hogy
jelezzek reszveteli szandekukat a negy szervezo egyikenek. Ily modon
hozavetoleges kepet tudunk alkotni a varhato letszamrol, es nevreszoloan
tudunk mindenkit tajekoztatni a tovabbi fejlemenyekrol.
VII. Dijak, szallas:
Jelen pillanatban nem tervezzuk, hogy reszveteli dijakat kerjunk a
resztvevoktol. A szallas onkoltseges, a helyi szervezok kulonbozo
arkategoriaju lehetosegeket probalnak biztositani az igenyeknek megfeleloen.
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If you have important new findings and ideas in psychology,
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PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored
on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association
and currently estimated to reach a readership of 40,000. PSYCOLOQUY
publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on which the author
wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and
interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology
and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science,
neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
Target article length should normally not exceed 500 lines [c. 4500 words].
Commentaries and responses should not exceed 200 lines [c. 1800 words].
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and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s)
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All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and
responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY
archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation).
It is strongly recommended that all figures be designed so as to be
screen-readable ascii. If this is not possible, the provisional
solution is the less desirable hybrid one of submitting them as
postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be
printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text
of the article.
PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above
fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but
longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a
500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target
article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together
with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The
author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the
reviewers selected.
Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to
publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and
make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the
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republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as
long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of
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empirical grounding, and clarity of style, but should also offer a
clear rationale for soliciting Commentary. That rationale should be
provided in the author's covering letter, together with a list of
suggested commentators.
A target article can be (i) the report and discussion of empirical
research; (ii) an theoretical article that formally models or
systematizes a body of research; or (iii) a novel interpretation,
synthesis, or critique of existing experimental or theoretical work.
Rrticles dealing with social or philosophical aspects of
the behavioral and brain sciences are also eligible..
The service of Open Peer Commentary will be primarily devoted
to original unpublished manuscripts. However, a recently published
book whose contents meet the standards outlined above may also be
eligible for Commentary. In such a Multiple Book Review, a
comprehensive, 500-line precis by the author is published
in advance of the commentaries and the author's response. In rare
special cases, Commentary will also be extended to a position paper
or an already published article dealing with particularly
influential or controversial research. Submission of an article
implies that it has not been published or is not being considered
for publication elsewhere. Multiple book reviews and previously
published articles appear by invitation only. The Associateship
and professional readership of PSYCOLOQUY are encouraged to nominate
current topics and authors for Commentary.
In all the categories described, the decisive consideration
for eligibility will be the desirability of Commentary for the
submitted material. Controversially simpliciter is not a
sufficient criterion for soliciting Commentary: a paper may be
controversial simply because it is wrong or weak. Nor is the mere
presence of interdisciplinary aspects sufficient: general
cybernetic and "organismic" disquisitions are not appropriate for
PSYCOLOQUY. Some appropriate rationales for seeking Open Peer
Commentary would be that: (1) the material bears in a significant way
on some current controversial issues in behavioral and brain sciences;
(2) its findings substantively contradict some well-established aspects
of current research and theory; (3) it criticizes the findings,
practices, or principles of an accepted or influential line of work;
(4) it unifies a substantial amount of disparate research; (5) it has
important cross-disciplinary ramifications; (6) it introduces an
innovative methodology or formalism for consideration by proponents of
the established forms; (7) it meaningfully integrates a body of brain
and behavioral data; (8) it places a hitherto dissociated area of
research into an evolutionary or ecological perspective; etc. In order
to assure communication with potential commentators (and readers) from
other PSYCOLOQUY specialty areas, all technical terminology must be clearly
defined or simplified, and specialized concepts must be fully
described.
NOTE TO COMMENTATORS: The purpose of the Open Peer Commentary
service is to provide a concentrated constructive interaction
between author and commentators on a topic judged to be of broad
significance to the biobehavioral science community. Commentators
should provide substantive criticism, interpretation, and
elaboration as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary
material, such as illustrations; all original data will be refereed
in order to assure the archival validity of PSYCOLOQUY commentaries.
Commentaries and articles should be free of hyperbole and remarks
ad hominem.
STYLE AND FORMAT FOR ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES TARGET ARTICLES:
should not exceed 500 lines (~4500 words); commentaries should not
exceed 200 lines (1800 words), including references. Spelling,
capitalization, and punctuation should be consistent within each
article and commentary and should follow the style recommended in the
latest edition of A Manual of Style, The University of Chicago Press.
It may be helpful to examine a recent issue of PSYCOLOQUY.
All submissions must include an indexable title, followed by the
authors' names in the form preferred for publication, full
institutional addresses and electronic mail addresses,
a 100-word abstract, and 6-12 keywords. Tables and diagrams should be
made screen-readable wherever possible (if unavoidable, printable
postscript files may contain the graphics separately).
All paragraphs should be numbered, consecutively. No line should
exceed 72 characters, and a blank line should separate paragraphs.
REFERENCES: Bibliographic citations in the text must include the
author's last name and the date of publication and may include page
references. Complete bibliographic information for each citation
should be included in the list of references. Examples of correct
style are: Brown(1973); (Brown 1973); Brown 1973; 1978); (Brown
1973; Jones 1976); (Brown & Jones 1978); (Brown et al. 1978).
References should be typed on a separate sheet in alphabetical
order in the style of the following examples. Do not abbreviate
journal titles.
Kupfermann, I. & Weiss, K. (1978) The command neuron
concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1:3-39.
Dunn, J. (1976) How far do early differences in mother-child
relations affect later developments? In: Growing point in
ethology, ed. P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde, Cambridge University
Press.
Bateson, P. P. G. & Hinde, R. A., eds. (1978) Growing points in
ethology, Cambridge University Press.
EDITING: PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit and proof all articles
and commentaries accepted for publication. Authors of articles will be
given the opportunity to review the copy-edited draft. Commentators
will be asked to review copy-editing only when changes have been
substantial.
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F E L H I V A S ! ! !
A szegedi Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem, Elettani Intezet es
az ELTE Altalanos Pszichologia Tanszek
Lataskutatas csoportja szimpoziumra invital minden a biologial latas
kutatasa es modellezese irant erdeklodot. A szimpozium a tavalyi elso ilyen
jellegu osszejovetel folytatasakent kerul megrendezesre az alabbi formaban.
I. Cim: Masodik Magyar Latas Szimpozium, Informaciofeldolgozas a
Latorendszerben
II. Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1995 augusztus 29-30 (2 nap), Szeged
Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Orvostudomanyi Egyetem Elettani Intezete, Szeged 6720
Dom ter 10
III. Cel:
A szimpoziumnak fo celja, hogy osszehozza azon hazai es kulfoldon dolgozo
kutatokat, neuroanatomusokat, neurofiziologusokat, pszichologusokat
es neuralis halozatokat modellezo elmeleti szakembereket, akik a latas
problemajaval kapcsolatos teruleteken dolgoznak.
IV. Forma:
A szimpozium nyelve magyar. Minden meghivott eloado 15-20 perces
eloadast tart 5-10 perces vitaval, amit a nap es/vagy a szekciok vegen egy
altalanosabb diszkusszio kovet. Ha a letszam es a kozohaj megkoveteli, egy
poster szekcio fogja kiegesziteni ezt a format. Celunk, hogy minel tobb
parbeszedre adjunk lehetoseget
V. Resztvevok,eloadasok:
Az resztvevok nevsora meg nem rogzitett. Szivesen latott mindenki, aki
egyetert a szimpozium
celjaival, es ugy erzi, hogy abba illo eloadast tudna tartani. Nem
elsodleges celunk a nemzetkozi tudomanyos
elet legnagyobb neveit felleptetni. Ugy veljuk, erre mas, sokkal rangosabb
forum jobban megfelel. Foleg olyan fiatalabb-idosebb kutatok
szerepleset szeretnenk elerni, akik egyreszt egyertelmuen a cimben
definialt terulethez kapcsolhatoan munkalkodnak, masreszt munkajukkal
(akar itthon akar kulfoldon) potencialisan hozza tudnak jarulni a tema
hazai meghonosodasahoz. A talalkozo profiljanak megfeleloen az eloadasok
latorendszeri anatomia es fiziologia, vizualis pszichofizika, magasabb
szintu latas pszichologia, matematikai es szamitogepes modellezes
temakorokbol allnak ossze. A latas a szimpozium fo vezervonala, de szivesen
latunk olyan eloadasokat, melyek tagabban, az agy informaciofeldolgozasat
vizsgaljak a latas problemajahoz kapcsoltan.
VI. Jelentkezes:
Aki eloadast szeretne tartani a szimpoziumon, kerjuk, lepjen kapcsolatba az
alabbi szervezok egyikevel:
Fiser Jozsef -- E-mail: fiser(a)selforg.usc.edu
Geier Janos -- geier(a)izabell.elte.hu
Kovacs Gyula -- kogyu(a)phys.szote.u-szeged.hu
Kovacs Ilona -- ikovacs(a)cyclops.rutgers.edu
Felkerjuk azokat is, akik hallgatokent szeretnenek resztvenni, hogy
jelezzek reszveteli szandekukat a negy szervezo egyikenek. Ily modon
hozavetoleges kepet tudunk alkotni a varhato letszamrol, es nevreszoloan
tudunk mindenkit tajekoztatni a tovabbi fejlemenyekrol.
VII. Dijak, szallas:
Jelen pillanatban nem tervezzuk, hogy reszveteli dijakat kerjunk a
resztvevoktol. A szallas onkoltseges, a helyi szervezok kulonbozo
arkategoriaju lehetosegeket probalnak biztositani az igenyeknek megfeleloen.
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PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Wolfgang Klimesch on EEG & Memory
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
Association.
Instructions for retrieval and for preparing commentaries follow the
abstract. The address for submitting commentaries and articles and for
requesting information is psyc(a)pucc.princteton.edu
The URLs for retrieving articles are:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6
TARGET ARTICLE AUTHOR'S RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING COMMENTARY:
Memory processes can be described as brain oscillations and memory
network models (such as the connectivity model (Klimesch, 1994))
can easily be applied to the neuronal level if abstract activation
values are interpreted in terms of frequency values reflecting
oscillatory processes. I would be very interested in eliciting
commentaries on (1) this basic rationale, (2) the statement that in
the cortex oscillations are mandatory for information transmission,
(3) the proposed role of EEG alpha and (4) EEG theta for memory
processes.
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psycoloquy.95.6.06.memory-brain.1.klimesch
ISSN 1055-0143 (55 paragraphs, 75 references, 1279 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Wolfgang Klimesch
MEMORY PROCESSES DESCRIBED AS BRAIN OSCILLATIONS
IN THE EEG-ALPHA AND THETA BANDS
Wolfgang Klimesch
University of Salzburg
Department of Physiological Psychology
Institute of Psychology, Hellbrunnerstr. 34
A-5020 Salzburg, AUSTRIA
Klimesch(a)edvz.sbg.ac.at
ABSTRACT: This target article tries to integrate results in memory
research from diverse disciplines such as psychophysiology,
cognitive psychology, anatomy and neurophysiology. The integrating
link is seen in more recent anatomical findings that provide strong
arguments for the assumption that oscillations provide the basic
form of communication between cortical cell assemblies. The basic
argument is that episodic memory processes, which are part of a
complex working memory system, are reflected by oscillations in the
theta band, whereas long-term memory processes are reflected by
alpha oscillations. It is assumed that alpha and theta oscillations
serve to encode, access, and retrieve cortical codes that are
stored in the form of widely distributed but intensely
interconnected cell assemblies.
KEYWORDS: Alpha, EEG, Hippocampus, Memory, Oscillation, Thalamus,
Theta.
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These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to
retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc.
Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.htmlhttp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/psyc.html
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/
ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6/
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp ftp.princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/1995.volume.6
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
mget *.1.klimesch
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
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and
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that will do the transfer for you. To one or the
other of them, send the following one line message:
help
for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in
the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
bitftp will then execute for you).
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PSYCOLOQUY COMMENTATORS
Accepted PSYCOLOQUY target articles have been judged by 5-8 referees to
be appropriate for Open Peer Commentary, the special service provided
by PSYCOLOQUY to investigators in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral
biology, cognitive sciences and philosophy who wish to solicit multiple
responses from an international group of fellow specialists within and
across these disciplines to a particularly significant and
controversial piece of work.
If you feel that you can contribute substantive criticism,
interpretation, elaboration or pertinent complementary or supplementary
material on a PSYCOLOQUY target article, you are invited to submit a
formal electronic commentary. Please note that although commentaries
are solicited and most will appear, acceptance cannot, of course, be
guaranteed.
1. Before preparing your commentary, please read carefully
the Instructions for Authors and Commentators and examine
recent numbers of PSYCOLOQUY.
2. Commentaries should be limited to 200 lines (1800 words, references
included). PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit commentaries for
relevance and style. In the interest of speed, commentators will
only be sent the edited draft for review when there have been major
editorial changes. Where judged necessary by the Editor,
commentaries will be formally refereed.
3. Please provide a title for your commentary. As many
commentators will address the same general topic, your
title should be a distinctive one that reflects the gist
of your specific contribution and is suitable for the
kind of keyword indexing used in modern bibliographic
retrieval systems. Each commentary should have a brief
(~50-60 word) abstract
4. All paragraphs should be numbered consecutively. Line length
should not exceed 72 characters. The commentary should begin with
the title, your name and full institutional address (including zip
code) and email address. References must be prepared in accordance
with the examples given in the Instructions. Please read the
sections of the Instruction for Authors concerning style,
preparation and editing.
PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored
on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association
and currently estimated to reach a readership of 40,000. PSYCOLOQUY
publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on which the author
wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and
interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology
and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science,
neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
Target article length should normally not exceed 500 lines [c. 4500 words].
Commentaries and responses should not exceed 200 lines [c. 1800 words].
All target articles, commentaries and responses must have (1) a short
abstract (up to 100 words for target articles, shorter for commentaries
and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s)
and institutional address(es).
In addition, for target articles only: (4) 6-8 indexable keywords,
(5) a separate statement of the authors' rationale for soliciting
commentary (e.g., why would commentary be useful and of interest to the
field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and
(6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses).
All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and
responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY
archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation).
It is strongly recommended that all figures be designed so as to be
screen-readable ascii. If this is not possible, the provisional
solution is the less desirable hybrid one of submitting them as
postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be
printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text
of the article.
PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above
fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but
longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a
500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target
article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together
with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The
author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the
reviewers selected.
Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to
publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and
make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the
copyright, and after it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may
republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as
long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of
publication. However, except in very special cases, agreed upon in
advance, contributions that have already been published or are being
considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered
for publication in PSYCOLOQUY,
Please submit all material to psyc(a)pucc.bitnet or psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu
Anonymous ftp archive is DIRECTORY pub/harnad/Psycoloquy HOST princeton.edu
PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Caporael on the EVOLUTION OF SOCIALITY
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
a refereed electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological
Association.
Instructions for retrieval and for preparing commentaries follow the
abstract. The address for submitting commentaries and articles and for
requesting information is psyc(a)pucc.princteton.edu
The URLs for retrieving articles are:
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psycoloquy.95.6.01.group-selection.1.caporael
ISSN 1055-0143 (51 pars, 1 table, 1 note, 44 refs, 999 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Linnda R. Caporael
SOCIALITY: COORDINATING BODIES, MINDS AND GROUPS
Linnda R. Caporael
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
caporl(a)rpi.edu
ABSTRACT: Human interaction, as opposed to aggregation, occurs in
face-to-face groups. "Sociality theory" proposes that such groups
have a nested, hierarchical structure, consisting of a few basic
variations, or "core configurations." These function in the
coordination of human behavior, and are repeatedly assembled,
generation to generation, in human ontogeny, and in daily life. If
face-to-face groups are "the mind's natural environment," then we
should expect human mental systems to correlate with core
configurations. Features of groups that recur across generations
could provide a descriptive paradigm for testable and non-intuitive
evolutionary hypotheses about social and cognitive processes. This
target article sketches three major topics in sociality theory,
roughly corresponding to the interests of biologists,
psychologists, and social scientists. These are (1) a multiple
levels-of-selection view of Darwinism, part group selectionism,
part developmental systems theory; (2) structural and psychological
features of repeatedly assembled, concretely situated face-to-face
coordination; and (3) superordinate, "unsituated" coordination at
the level of large-scale societies. Sociality theory predicts a
tension, perhaps unresolvable, between the social construction of
knowledge, which facilitates coordination within groups, and the
negotiation of the habitat, which requires some correspondence with
contingencies in specific situations. This tension is relevant to
ongoing debates about scientific realism, constructivism, and
relativism in the philosophy and sociology of knowledge.
KEYWORDS: developmental systems theory, group coordination, group
selection, hierarchy, human evolution, social cognition, social
identity, teleofunctionalism
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PSYCOLOQUY Commentary is invited on:
Fitch & Denenberg on SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE BRAIN
Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists
are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on the target article
whose abstract appears below. It has been published in PSYCOLOQUY,
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psycoloquy.95.6.05.sex-brain.1.fitch
ISSN 1055-0143 (56 paragraphs, 93 references, 1159 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 1995 Fitch and Denenberg
A ROLE FOR OVARIAN HORMONES IN SEXUAL
DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BRAIN
Roslyn Holly Fitch
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University
197 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
Email: holly(a)axon.rutgers.edu
Victor H. Denenberg
Biobehavioral Sciences Graduate Degree Program
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4154
Email: dberg(a)uconnvm.uconn.edu
ABSTRACT: The role of endogenous hormones in differentiating the
sexes is an area of continuing research. The bulk of findings in
this field support the notion that mammalian sexual differentiation
is primarily mediated by androgens of testicular origin and that
the presence of these androgens in early life produces a "male"
brain. In contrast, the female brain is thought to develop via a
hormonal default mechanism, in the absence of androgen. Findings
are reviewed which show that ovarian hormones also play a
significant role in sexual differentiation, and that the process of
ovarian feminization has a considerably later sensitive period than
androgen-mediated masculinization.
KEYWORDS: corpus callosum, development, estrogen, feminization,
ovaries, sensitive period.
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Accepted PSYCOLOQUY target articles have been judged by 5-8 referees to
be appropriate for Open Peer Commentary, the special service provided
by PSYCOLOQUY to investigators in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral
biology, cognitive sciences and philosophy who wish to solicit multiple
responses from an international group of fellow specialists within and
across these disciplines to a particularly significant and
controversial piece of work.
If you feel that you can contribute substantive criticism,
interpretation, elaboration or pertinent complementary or supplementary
material on a PSYCOLOQUY target article, you are invited to submit a
formal electronic commentary. Please note that although commentaries
are solicited and most will appear, acceptance cannot, of course, be
guaranteed.
1. Before preparing your commentary, please read carefully
the Instructions for Authors and Commentators and examine
recent numbers of PSYCOLOQUY.
2. Commentaries should be limited to 200 lines (1800 words, references
included). PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit commentaries for
relevance and style. In the interest of speed, commentators will
only be sent the edited draft for review when there have been major
editorial changes. Where judged necessary by the Editor,
commentaries will be formally refereed.
3. Please provide a title for your commentary. As many
commentators will address the same general topic, your
title should be a distinctive one that reflects the gist
of your specific contribution and is suitable for the
kind of keyword indexing used in modern bibliographic
retrieval systems. Each commentary should have a brief
(~50-60 word) abstract
4. All paragraphs should be numbered consecutively. Line length
should not exceed 72 characters. The commentary should begin with
the title, your name and full institutional address (including zip
code) and email address. References must be prepared in accordance
with the examples given in the Instructions. Please read the
sections of the Instruction for Authors concerning style,
preparation and editing.
PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored
on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association
and currently estimated to reach a readership of 40,000. PSYCOLOQUY
publishes brief reports of new ideas and findings on which the author
wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and
interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology
and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science,
neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed.
Target article length should normally not exceed 500 lines [c. 4500 words].
Commentaries and responses should not exceed 200 lines [c. 1800 words].
All target articles, commentaries and responses must have (1) a short
abstract (up to 100 words for target articles, shorter for commentaries
and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s)
and institutional address(es).
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(5) a separate statement of the authors' rationale for soliciting
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field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and
(6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses).
All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and
responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY
archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation).
It is strongly recommended that all figures be designed so as to be
screen-readable ascii. If this is not possible, the provisional
solution is the less desirable hybrid one of submitting them as
postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be
printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text
of the article.
PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above
fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but
longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a
500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target
article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together
with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The
author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the
reviewers selected.
Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to
publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and
make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the
copyright, and after it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may
republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as
long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of
publication. However, except in very special cases, agreed upon in
advance, contributions that have already been published or are being
considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered
for publication in PSYCOLOQUY,
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Kedves Makogo holgyek/urak,
ime nehany friss trofea a kurrens kognitiv piacrol.
C. and G. McDonald (ed) 1995: Connectionism. Debates on Psychological
Explanation. Basil Blackwell. GBP 15.
Valogatas. Benn van az osszes hires cikk, pro es con. Remek!
R. Penrose 1994: Shadows of the Mind, OUP. GBP 16.99.
Ujabb kvantumfizika konyv ugyanarrol, de az elozo jobb volt.
J. Searle 1995: The Construction of Social Reality, Penguin. GBP 20.
Huzos cim, mindenkinek egy masik konyvet juttat az eszebe,
nem egeszen veletlenul. Eleg sapadt dolognak latom egyelore.
R. Dawkins 1995: River out of Eden. Science Masters. GBP 10.
A megszokott provokativ darwinizmus, szepen megirva.
Nyilvan magyarul is lesz, hiszen a sorozat megjelenik.
Miert kognitiv? Csak.
udv,
kampis gyorgy
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article on:
BRAIN DYNAMICS, EEG & NEURAL NETS by JJ Wright & DTJ Liley
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
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____________________________________________________________________
DYNAMICS OF THE BRAIN AT GLOBAL AND MICROSCOPIC SCALES:
NEURAL NETWORKS AND THE EEG.
J.J. Wright and D.T.J. Liley
Mental Health Research Institute Parkville
Victoria 3052, Australia
jjw(a)cortex.mhri.edu.au
Swinburne Center for Applied Neuroscience
Hawthorne, Victoria 3122
Melbourne, Australia
KEYWORDS: chaos, EEG simulation, electrocorticogram, neocortex,
network symmetry, neurodynamics.
ABSTRACT: There is some complementarity of models for the
origin of the electroencephalogram (EEG), and neural network
models for information storage in brain-like systems.
From the EEG models of Freeman, Nunez, and the author's group,
we argue that the wave-like processes revealed in the EEG
exhibit linear and near-equilibrium dynamics at macroscopic
scale, despite extremely nonlinear, probably chaotic, dynamics
at microscopic scale. Simulations of cortical neuronal
interactions at global and microscopic scales are then
presented. The simulations depend on anatomical and
physiological estimates of synaptic densities, coupling
symmetries, synaptic gain, dendritic time constants and axonal
delays. It is shown that the frequency content, wave
velocities, frequency/wavenumber spectra and response to
cortical activation of the electrocorticogram (ECoG) can be
reproduced by a "lumped" simulation treating small cortical
areas as single functional units. The corresponding cellular
neural network simulation has properties which include those of
attractor neural networks proposed by Amit, and Paresi.
Within the simulations at both scales, sharp transitions occur
between low and high cell firing rates. These transitions may
form a basis for neural interactions across scale.
To maintain overall cortical dynamics in the normal low
firing-rate range, interactions between the cortex and
subcortical systems are required to prevent runaway global
excitation. Thus the interaction of cortex and subcortex via
cortico-striatal and related pathways, may partly regulate
global dynamics by a principle analogous to adiabatic control
of artificial neural networks
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