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by fiser＠selforg.usc.edu

Kedves Koglist es TIPP Olvaso! Mint mar elozetesen hirdettuk, augusztus vegen egynapos szimpoziumot szervezunk Budapesten. A szimpozium a biologiai informacio-feldolgozas temakore szervezodik kulonos hangsullyal a percepcio es azon belul a latas aspektusaira. Az alabbiakban reszletes(ebb) informacioval szolgalunk a talalkozorol. Altalanos info: Cim: Trendek a hazai es kulfoldi lataskutatasban valamint az ideg- es kognitiv tudomanyok kapcsolatos teruletein Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1994 augusztus 29 (1 nap), Budapest, Pszichologiai Tarsasag Eloadoterme, Oktogon sarka Reszveteli dij: nincs, mindenki szivesen van latva Utemterv: Az eloadasok 9 orakor kezdodnek, korulbelul 25 percig ad elo minden eloado. Egy eloadas ket reszbol all: egy negyedoras szakmai reszbol, es egy cca. 10-15 perces ismertetobol amiben az eloado egy vagy tobb hazai es kulfoldi kutatohelyet ir le. Az eloadasokat egy kb. 1,5 oras ebedszunet osztja ketcsoportra 12 ora korul. Az utolso eloadast kovetoen egy kis szunet beiktatasaval kerekasztal csevegesre invitalunk minden jelenlevot. Az alabbiakban az elozetes programot ismertetjuk. A kerdojeles vagy hianyzo adatokat kesobb pontositjuk. BIF Elozetes Program Tervezet: 9:00 -- Megnyito -- Orzo Laszlo SOTE I. sz. Anatomiai Intezet: Cim meg nem veglegesitett Ismerteto: SOTE I. sz. Anatomia ? -- Kovacs Ilona Rutgers University New Jersey es ELTE Alt. Pszich. Tsz: Hosszu tavu perceptualis teri interakciok es alakreprezentacio Ismerteto: Rutgers U., Vision Labor -- Fiser Jozsef University of Southern California es BME EET Tsz. A vizualis priming meret invariancia hatasanak altalanossaga Ismerteto: USC -- Geier Janos ELTE Alt. Pszich. Tsz. Cim meg nem veglegesitett Ismerteto: ELTE Alt. Pszich. Tsz. Vision Csoport -- Erdi Peter MTA KFKI RMKI Biofizika Osztaly Anatomia, dinamika, tanulas, memoria: egy (mersekelten) "bottom-up" strategia korvonalai; kulonos tekintettel a szaglorendszerre es a hippocampusra. Ismerteto: MTA KFKI RMKI Biofizika Osztaly Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR, (Arco Felice), Olaszorszag Kyushu Institute of Technolgy, Iizuka (Japan) Tamperei Muegyetem, Elektronikai Intezet (Finnorszag) The Beckmann Institute.., Theoretical Biophysics, UIUC (USA) Abteilung (Neuro)informatik, Univ. Bielefeld (Nemetorszag) Ebedszunet -- Grober Tamas MTA KFKI RMKI Biofizika Osztaly Egy sejt, sok sejt -- Foldiak Peter University of St. Andrews Az idegsejt-aktivitas statisztikai ertelmezese Ismerteto: Kenneth Craik Laboratory, Univ of Cambridge (kulonosen Prof Horace Barlow laboratoriuma) Department of Experimental Psychology, Univ of Oxford (kulonosen Prof Colin Blakemore, es Edmund Rolls laboratoriuma) Psychological Laboratory, Univ of St Andrews (kulonosen David Perrett laboratoriuma) -- Marczell Zsolt MTA Izotopkutato Intezete Futotuzmodell es texturaszegmentacio -- Szepesvari Csaba JATE Folytonos szabalyozas belso geometriareprezentacio segitsegevel Ismerteto: ? -- Lorincz Andras MTA Izotopkutato Intezete Latas mint dimenzioredukcios problema Ismerteto: MTA Izotopkutato Intezete -- Lotz Karoly SZTAKI A latopalya nehany reszletenek modellezese cellularis neuralis halozatokkal -retina, LGN, latokereg. Ismerteto: SZTAKI, Roska-csoport , Berkeley? -- Kerekasztal beszelgetes Moderator Pleh Csaba ELTE Alt. Pszich. Tsz. ROVID ABSZTRAKTOK: Orzo: ? Kovacs: Hosszu tavu perceptualis teri interakciokat vizsgalo pszichofizikai kiserleteink eredmenyei egy tengely alapu alak reprezentacio jelenletere utalnak az emberi latorendszerben. A tengely alapu alak reprezentacio ket okbol fontos. (1) Olyan alak leirast tesz lehetove, amely lokalis elemzesen alapul es megis tukrozi az alak globalis tulajdonsagait, valamint ad hoc primitivek bevezetese nelkul teszi lehetove a targyak szegmentalasat, es optimalis reprezentaciot nyujt a memoriaban valo tarolasra. (2) Erdekes perspektivat nyujt az agyelmeletek szamara, mivel az `alak' letrehozasa tulmutat a latas kerdeskoren, megalapozvan kepessegunket koherens erzekletek es gondolatok letrehozasara barmely dimenzioban. Fiser: Az emberi formalatas "magasabbrenduseget" az allatok latasmechanizmusaval szemben altalaban absztrakt invariancia kiserletekkel bizonyitjak. Ezek a kiserletek az emberi latas robusztus voltat mutatjak be kulonbozo kep manipulaciokkal szemben. A problema, hogy ezek a kiserletek tobbnyire absztrakt stimulusokkal, rajzokkal, vagy betukkel dolgoznak, ezert nem vilagos hogy az eredmenyek mennyire altalanosithatoak a formalatas vizualis folyamataira, es mennyiben koszonhetoek kognitiv folyamatoknak. A jelen kiserlet az egyik feltetelezett invarianciat a formalatas meret-invarianciajat veszi tuzetesebb vizsgalat ala valos kepek hasznalataval. Az eredmenyek azt mutatjak, hogy a vizualis priming paradigmajat hasznalo vonalrajzokon alapulo tesztek, melyek szerint az emberi formalatas fuggetlen a targy meretetol, altalanosithatoak. Az emberi formalatas meretfuggetlen bizonyos vizualis szogon belul, es ez a meretfuggetlenseg nem fuggvenye az input absztraktsagi szintenek. Geier: ? Erdi: A realis idegrendszeri strukturak sejt- es halozatszintu elektrofiziologiai tulajdonsagainak, tovabba a tanulassal es a (fokent asszociativ) memoriaval kapcsolatos kognitiv jelensegeknek neurobiologiai szintu leirasanak az anatomiai strukturakbol kiindulo egy modellezesi technikajarol beszelek. Kulcsszavak: egysejt reszletek, ritmusok, serkento-gatlo kolcsonhatasok, halozatszerkezet, tanulasi szabalyok, memoria modellek Grober: Egyetlen sejt mukodesenek reszleteit nagy sejtpopulaciok halozati modelljeiben nem erdemes es altalaban nem is lehetseges figyelembe venni. Statisztikus neurodinamikai modellben azonban elerhetjuk, hogy (i) az egysejt-kiserletek eredmenyei a modellbe kozvetlenul beepithetok legyenek; (ii) ezek alapjan tetszoleges meretu sejtpopulacio mukodeset tudjuk szimulalni; (iii) az egysejt-szintu es populacios esemenyek egyarant kovethetok es a megfelelo kiserletekkel osszehasonlithatok legyenek. E kovetelmenyekhez igazitott kinetikus modellunket a hippocampusra alkalmazzuk. Foldiak: Mire kovetkeztethetunk egy vagy tobb idegsejt aktivitasabol? Hogyan tudjuk a tobb sejt valaszabol szarmazo informaciot optimalisan kombinalni? A Bayes-fele statisztika alkalmazasa nagyon hasznos lehet ezen kerdesek megvalaszolasara; hasznosabb, mint egyeb, tobbe- kevesbe tetszoleges modszerek, mint peldaul a "populacios vektor" modszer. Marcell: A belso reprezentacion torteno aktivitasterjesztes lehetoseget kinal Blum-szeru futotuzmodell keszitesere. A futotuz (terjedo aktivitas) javitja a felismeresi lehetosegeket. Az LGN idealisan epitett rendszer a futotuz szamara. A V1-ben a terjedo aktivitas texturaszegmentaciot eredmenyez. Szepesvari: A dimenzioredukcios problema megoldasa a belso geometriareprezentacio. A geometria szomszedsagi kapcsolatain terjesztheto aktivitas alkalmas "closed-loop" szabalyozas tanulasara es palyatervezesre. A Lei fele terjedo aktivitas jobb eredmenyeket ad a hullampropagacional. Biologiai parhuzam mutathato az elsodleges latokereg geometriareprezentaciojaval. Lorincz: Adaptiv autonom rendszer modellje kerul bemutatasra. A modell (i) esemenyek es esemenylancolatok belso reprezentaciojat kesziti el, (ii) aktivacioterjesztest hasznal dinamikus koncepciok epitesere, (iii) winner-take-all mechanizmus segitsegevel dontest hoz es (iv) altalanositott esemenyek (szabalyok) lancolatat epiti fel. Az altalanositokepesseg csokkenti a memoriaigenyt es javitja a teljesitokepesseget nem latott esetekben. A biologiai rendszerekkel valo parhuzamok ket ponton jelennek meg: a modell es a hippocampus hasonlosagaban, valamint a dimenzioredukcios problema es a latas kapcsolataban. Lotz: Szeretnek bemutatni nehany egy- es tobbretegu CNN (Cellularis Neuralis Halozat) retina modellt es ezek mukodeset. Az LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) teruleten megmutatom egy rele sejt elektromos ekvivalenset, ennek CNN modelljet es ennek segitsegevel a ketfele, tonikus es fazikus modu akcios potencial generalast. Az eloadas tartalmazza tovabba egy egyszerusitett LGN neuralis halozatos modelljet, valamint a kergi visszacsatolas lehetseges hatasainak vizsgalatat. Kerunk mindenkit, hogy amennyire lehet terjessze a szimpozium hiret azok kozott akiket az eloadasok esetleg erdekelhetnek. Koszonettel: -----------------A Szervezok

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KOGLIST Re: Tovabbitott anyag: APASD Funding Bulletin

by benke＠sfu.ca

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by Gergely Csibra

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CogSci-94: Searchable index of titles, authors, abstracts, and sessions

by gergo＠cdu.ucl.ac.uk

--- Forwarded message follows --- From: ashwin(a)cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) Subject: CogSci-94: Searchable index of titles, authors, abstracts, and sessions Date: 6 Jul 94 10:29:34 The titles, authors, and abstracts of all the papers and talks to be presented at the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-94) are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), along with the complete technical program and list of sessions. Each paper is indexed along with its title, authors, and abstract, the date and time it is scheduled to be presented, and its page numbers in the proceedings (being published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ). Each talk, poster, symposium, and plenary session is indexed along with its date and time and the list of papers scheduled to be presented in that session. The index can be searched using keywords; general regular expression search is also available. To access the index, use Mosaic or any other WWW browser [see footnote] to access the following URL: http://www.gatech.edu/cogsci/cogsci.html (To do this, choose OPEN URL from the FILE menu, then type in the above URL.) Click on "Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society" to access the information page for this conference. Click on "Index of titles, authors, and abstracts" to access the index. Finally, type in your keywords in the search box. Other conference information, including the registration brochure and information on travel and local arrangements is also available from the conference information page; simply click on whatever you're interested in. This information is also available by anonymous FTP from ftp.cc.gatech.edu in the directory /pub/cogsci94. (If you need to reach a human: e-mail cogsci94(a)cc.gatech.edu) -------------------------------------------- (footnote) Mosaic is free, public-domain software that runs on most platforms, including Unix machines, VMS machines, Macintoshes, NeXTs, IBM PC/Windows, X workstations, and under Emacs, and provides a simple hypercard-like point-and-click interface to any piece of information anywhere on the network. Most systems already have Mosaic installed; if yours doesn't, simply copy the executable file from NCSA's FTP site (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu). More help on Mosaic and the World Wide Web is available from the USENET newsgroup comp.infosystems.www, and on-line in Mosaic itself. Many other WWW browsers are also available and may be used to search the index (for example, Lynx, which does not require a graphics-capable machine).

31 years, 10 months

Preparedness & Phobias: BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by: Graham Davey on: PREPAREDNESS AND PHOBIAS 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 the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: harnad(a)clarity.princeton.edu or harnad(a)pucc.bitnet or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771] To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ PREPAREDNESS AND PHOBIAS: SPECIFIC EVOLVED ASSOCIATIONS OR A GENERALIZED EXPECTANCY BIAS? Graham Davey Psychology Division, Department of Social Science, The City University, Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB U.K. J.A.Fildes(a)city.ac.uk ABSTRACT Most phobias are focussed on a small number of fear-inducing stimuli (e.g. snakes, spiders). A review of the evidence supporting biological and cognitive explanations of this uneven distribution of phobias suggests that the readiness with which such stimuli become associated with aversive outcomes arises from biases in the processing of information about threatening stimuli rather than from phylogenetically based associative predispositions or "biological preparedness." This cognitive bias, consisting of a heightened expectation of aversive outcomes following fear-relevant stimuli, generates and maintains robust learned associations between them. Some of the features of such stimuli which determine this expectancy bias are estimates of how dangerous they are, the semiotic similarity between them and their aversive outcomes, and the degree of prior fear they elicit. Ontogenetic and cultural factors influence these features of fear-relevant stimuli and are hence important in determining expectancy bias. The available evidence does not exclude the possibility that both expectancy biases and specific evolved predispositions co-exist, but the former can explain a number of important findings that the latter cannot. KEYWORDS: Preparedness, phobias, biological preparedness, selective associations, information processing biases, classical conditioning, covariation assessment, cross-cultural studies. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.davey). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The file is also retrievable using archie, gopher, veronica, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------- To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: 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/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.davey When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc. ---------- Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet 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). JANET users without ftp can instead utilise the file transfer facilities at sites uk.ac.ft-relay or uk.ac.nsf.sun. Full details are available on request. -------------------------------------------------------------

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Biologiai Informaciofeldolgozas Szimpozium

by fiser＠selforg.usc.edu

Kedves Koglist Olvaso! A jelen ismertetonek ket temaja van. Mindket tema egy cel, a hazai biologiai informaciofeldolgozas, valamint az agy- es mesterseges intelligencia kutatasok fejlodeset hivatott szolgalni. Egyreszt egy iden nyaron szervezodo szimpoziumra szeretnenk felhivni a figyelmet, masreszt egy hazai (es reszben kulfoldreszakadt) szemelyi adatbankot szeretnenk letrehozni. Az alabbiakban reszletesebben taglaljuk e ket temat. 1 SZIMPOZIUM. I. Cim: Trendek a hazai es kulfoldi lataskutatasban valamint az ideg- es kognitiv tudomanyok kapcsolatos teruletein II. Idopont, idotartam, hely: 1994 augusztus 29 (1 nap), Budapest (precizebb hely es program kesobb) III. Szervezok: ELTE Altalanos Pszichologia Tsz. Vision Csoport IV. Cel: E szimpoziumnak ket fo celja van: Egyreszt rovid peldakon keresztul szeretne felvillantani, hogy a nemzetkozi kutatoeletben egyre nagyobb momentumot nyero agykutatas egy specialis resze - a lataskutatas - milyen iranyba fejlodik, es milyen modon agyazodik bele a tagabb korokben ismert kutatasi teruletekbe, mint peldaul kiserleti es komputacios idegtudomanyok, pszichofizika, kognitiv pszichologia, szamitastudomany, neuralis halozatok es robotika. Masreszt egy kristalyosodasi folyamat katalizatorakent szeretne osszehozni azon hazai es kulfoldon dolgozo kutatokat, akik kapcsolatos teruleteken dolgoznak vagy erdeklodessel birnak, hogy tovabbi egyuttmukodeseket inditson kozottuk. A latas ket okbol valt a szimpozium vezerfonalava. Eloszor mert egybeesik az onzo szervezok specialis erdeklodesi teruletevel. Masodsorban mert ugy veljuk, hogy bar a fentebb felsorolt szerteagazo kutatasi teruletek mindegyike szerves resze annak az uj kutatasi iranynak, melyet jobb hijan biologiai informacio feldolgozasnak nevezunk (a tovabbiakban BIF), megis megfelelo iranytu nelkul nagyon konnyu eltevedni a velt vagy valos kapcsolodasi pontok taglalasakor. Megitelesunk szerint a latas problemajaban, mint cseppben a tenger megfogalmazodik a lazan definialt BIF teruletenek minden jelentosebb kerdese, es igy jo iranytukent szolgalhat. V. Forma: Osszhangban a celokkal terveink szerint minden meghivott eloado ket eloadast tartana egymas utan: egy 15-20 perces szigoruan vett szakmait (publikalt, vagy publikalas alatt allo cikk anyagat), es egy 10-15 perces altalanos ismertetot, amely leirja, hogy az adott kutatohelyen mik a BIF-hez tagabb ertelemben kapcsolodo kurrens iranyzatok, ezekbe az o erdeklodese hogyan illeszkedik, es milyen kapcsolodasi pontokat lat mas kutatasokkal, jelenlevo vagy nem jelenlevo egyenek munkajaval. A ket eloadas sorrendje nem kotott, minden eloado maga donti el, melyik forma megfelelobb szamara. A szimpozium utolso esemenye egy X perces laza kerekasztal beszelgetes lesz a tagabb ertelemben vett terulet hazai fejlodesi eselyeirol, es azt elosegito akciokrol. VI.Eloadok: Az eloadok nevsora meg nem rogzitett. Mindenki, aki egyetert a szimpozium celjaival, es ugy erzi, hogy abba illo eloadast tudna tartani, szivesen van latva a jelentkezesi listan. Nem elsodleges celunk a nemzetkozi tudomanyos elet legnagyobb neveit felleptetni. Ugy veljuk, erre mas, sokkal rangosabb forum jobban megfelel. Itt foleg olyan fiatalabb-idosebb kutatok szerepleset szeretnenk biztositani, akik egyreszt egyertelmuen a cimben definialt teruleten fognak munkalkodni a kozeljovoben, masreszt munkajukkal (akar itthon akar kulfoldon) potencialisan hozza tudnak jarulni a tema hazai meghonosodasahoz. VII. Egyeb: Minden erdeklodot megkerunk, hogy E-mailen, levelben, vagy telefonon adjon teteles valaszt a kovetkezo kerdesekre: -- reszt szeretne-e venni ? -- szeretne-e eloadni (ha igen, kb mit) ? -- ismer-e valakiket, akiket esetleg erdekelne a szimpozium (nev, cim) ? -- mi a velemenye az adatbankrol? (lasd alabb) A valaszokat az alabbi szervezok egyikehez kellene eljuttatni: Geier Janos - ELTE Alt Pszichologia Tsz. E-mail: geier(a)ludens.elte.hu Kovacs Ilona - Rutgers Univ. Vision Lab , Pszichologiai Int. E-mail: ikovacs(a)cyclops.rutgers.edu Fiser Jozsef - USC Center for Neural Eng. , BME E-mail: fiser(a)selforg.usc.edu 2. SZEMELYI ADATBANK. I. Cel: Szervesen kapcsolodva a szimpozium kapcsan megfogalmazodott celokhoz letre szeretnenk hozni a KOGLIST-on belul egy olyan alkonyvtarat, amelyben a biologiai informaciofeldolgozas temakorehez kapcsolodo szemelyekrol es esemenyekrol ad up-to-date informaciot. Az altalunk elkepzelt adatbank a KOGLIST egy alegysegekent elosegitene, hogy a biologiai informaciofeldolgozas temajahoz ujonnan erkezo ne csak szajhagyomany utjan jusson ertekes belepesi pontokhoz, illetve hogy a terulet szervezodo tudomanyos esemenyeit hatekony formaban lehessen szervezni es propagalni. II. Forma: A szemelyi adatbank NEM listserver, tehat nem olyan modon funkcionalna, hogy barki barmit ir az megjelenik az osszes tobbi erdeklodo E-mail-jen. Erre az eredeti KOGLIST (es jopar mas szolgaltatasi forma) megfelelo modon hasznalhato. Ehelyett a szemelyi adatbank nevenek megfeleloen informacio tarolast vegezne amely informaciot a moderatorokhoz kuldott anyagok alapjan frissitenenk. Az adatbank fejlesztese a kovetkezo modon tortenne. Minden az otlettel egyeterto kapna egy formakerdoivet, melyet kitoltve (lehetoleg elektronikus formaban!) visszakuldene a szervezokhoz. A kerdoiven csupan nev, cim, telefon, FAX stb, E-mail cim, valamint nehany sornyi hely egy rovid leirashoz az illeto munkairol es kutatasi/erdeklodesi teruleteirol szerepelne. A leiras nem kell hogy hosszabb legyen mint amennyi pl. egy az IEEE cikk vegen megjeleno ismertetoben talahato. A szervezok ezeket a leveleket egy rendszerezett file-ba szerveznek, amelyet minden erdeklodo barmikor lehivhatna. Az alkonyvtar masik resze egy hirmondo formajaban azon (foleg hazai) hirdeteseket, uzeneteket tarolna, melyek kapcsolodnak a biologiai informaciofeldolgozas temajahoz. III. Teendok: Az adatbankot csak akor inditjuk be, ha elegendo olyan erdeklodot talalunk akik tamogatjak az otletet. Ennek megfeleloen arra kerunk mindenkit, hogy a szimpozium kapcsan visszakuldott valaszban irja meg hogy tamogatja-e az adatbank otleltet. Ha az otlet eletkepesnek bizonyul, mindenkihez eljuttatunk egy forma-kerdoivet. (A kerdoiv formajara vonatkozo javaslatokat is szivesen latunk.) A tovabbi reszletekrol egy kesobbi idopontban ertesitjuk az erdeklodoket. 1994 junius. A szervezok

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BBS Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by: Ned Block on: "ON A CONFUSION ABOUT A FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS" 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 the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: harnad(a)clarity.princeton.edu or harnad(a)pucc.bitnet or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771] To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ ON A CONFUSION ABOUT A FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Ned Block Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 block(a)psyche.mit.edu ABSTRACT: Consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different "consciousnesses." Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be in that state. The mark of access-consciousness, by contrast, is availability for use in reasoning and rationally guiding speech and action. These concepts are often partly or totally conflated, with bad results. This target article uses as an example a form of reasoning about a function of "consciousness" based on the phenomenon of blindsight. Some information about stimuli in the blind field is represented in the brains of blindsight patients, as shown by their correct "guesses," but they cannot harness this information in the service of action, and this is said to show that a function of phenomenal consciousness is somehow to enable information represented in the brain to guide action. But stimuli in the blind field are BOTH access-unconscious and phenomenally unconscious. The fallacy is: an obvious function of the machinery of access-consciousness is illicitly transferred to phenomenal consciousness. KEYWORDS: access, attention, awareness, blindsight, consciousness, function, retrieval, subjective experience. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.block). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The file is also retrievable using archie, gopher, veronica, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------- To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: 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/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.block When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit These files can also be retrieved using gopher, archie, veronica, etc. ---------- Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet 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). JANET users without ftp can instead utilise the file transfer facilities at sites uk.ac.ft-relay or uk.ac.nsf.sun. Full details are available on request. -------------------------------------------------------------

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Keenan eload Budapesten

by H2644And＠huella.bitnet

Dear All, Edward Keenan (UCLA, Los Angeles) Budapesten lesz junius 29 es julius 3 kozott. Ket eloadast tart majd. 1) Linguistic applications of Generalized Quantifier Theory. Some formal properties of natural language quantifiers. Megjegyzes: Hosszabb, szeminarium jellegu eloadas. Az eloadas tartalma cikk formajaban elerheto nalunk. Ido: junius 30 (csutortok) du. 3. ora. Hely: Matematikai Kutato Intezet (Relatanoda u. 13-15), I.13, algebrai logika szoba. 2. The history of the anaphora system in English. Megjegyzes: Keenan azt irja errol, hogy: it is lots of fun and for a completely general audience. Ido: julius 1 (pentek) du. 3. ora. Hely: Matematikai Kutato Intezet (Relatanoda u. 13-15), I.13, algebrai logika szoba. Keenan azt irja, hogy mindket eloadas erdekes lehet nyelveszek szamara. Mindenkit szeretettel varunk! Kerunk, hogy ertesitsd azokat, akiket erdekelhetnek ezek az eloadasok. Udvozlettel, Andreka Hajnal es Nemeti Istvan

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by Csaba Szepesvari

Message 23: >From root Wed Jun 15 04:07:03 1994 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 09:39:34 BST From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk> To: connectionists(a)cs.cmu.edu CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. ============================================ Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both sybmolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john(a)aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt(a)dcs.sheffield.ac.uk

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