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[Koglist] Wiktor Mlynarski előadása, MTA Wigner

by Gergo Orban

Tisztelt Kollégák, A most következő hétfőn Wiktor Mlynarski (IST, Bécs) tart szemináriumot az MTA Wigner Intézetben Josh McDermottal (MIT) végzett munkájáról. Részletek a levél alján találhatóak. Minden érdeklődőt örömmel várunk. Üdvözlettel, Orbán Gergő Dear Colleagues, Next Monday, Wiktor Mlynarski (IST, Vienna) will have a seminar at the MTA Wigner Institute on the work he did with Josh McDermott at MIT. See details below. If you intend to attend but have a non-Hungarian passport, please let us know in advance so that we can arrange for a smooth entry to the campus. Best regards, Gergo Orban _____________________________ Hely-Location: MTA Wigner FK, Komputációs Tudományok Osztálya Szemináriumi szoba, 13-101 1121 Konkoly Thege M út 29-33 Időpont-Time: december 10., hétfő, 13:30 Cím és absztrakt: Inference and efficient coding in natural auditory scenes Processing of natural stimuli in sensory systems has been traditionally studied within two theoretical frameworks: probabilistic inference and efficient coding. Probabilistic inference specifies optimal strategies for learning about relevant properties of the environment from local and ambiguous sensory signals. Efficient coding provides a normative approach to study encoding of natural stimuli in resource-constrained sensory systems. By emphasizing different aspects of information processing they provide complementary approaches to study sensory computations. Here, I will discuss applications of these two perspectives to study the problem of auditory scene analysis in natural environments. First, I will show that human auditory grouping can be understood as probabilistic inference constrained by natural sound statistics. Second, I will present a statistical model of natural sounds motivated by efficient coding principles. Through the talk I will discuss similarities and differences between these two approaches and conclude by proposing a unifying perspective on probabilistic inference and efficient coding in sensory systems.

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] 2nd call: XI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science - Computational Rationality

by Georgina Török

Dear All, We are happy to announce the *XI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science*, which is devoted to the topic of *Computational Rationality*. The conference will take place between 23-25 May 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Our invited speakers are: *Ulrike Hahn* (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) *Quentin Huys* (Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK) *Julian Jara-Ettinger* (Yale University, USA) *Máté Lengyel* (University of Cambridge, UK, and Central European University, Hungary) *Azzurra Ruggeri *(Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany) *Laura Schultz* (MIT, USA) *Submissions will open on 1 January 2019.* Deadline for poster abstract submission is 28 February 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 15 March 2019. For more information please visit: http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php ( http://www.cecog.eu/ducog/page_invitation.php) or email us: ducog(a)cogsci.bme.hu (mailto:ducog@cogsci.bme.hu) On behalf of the organisers, Oana Stanciu Gergő Orbán *Programme chairs*

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Gabor Etesi

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 5 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gábor Etesi Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics Budapest University of Technology and Economics On a possibly pure set-theoretic origin of black hole entropy _______________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] BOOK LAUNCH: ‘What’s Left of Human Nature?’ by Maria Kronfeldner

by socialmind

Dear All You are cordially invited to the book launch ‘What’s Left of Human Nature?’ by Maria Kronfeldner Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, CEU on Wednesday, 5 December from 5:00 pm in Room 101, October 6 street 7. Moderator: Tim Crane Professor at the Department of Philosophy, CEU [cid:image003.jpg@01D4873C.A6BB5770] Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy and cognitive sciences. Maria Kronfeldner's book “What’s Left of Human Nature?” presents a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. In "What's Left of Human Nature<http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/whats-left-human-nature>?” Maria Kronfeldner asks: What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? She answers these questions by offering a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether. https://philosophy.ceu.edu/events/2018-12-05/book-launch-whats-left-human-n… http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events/2018-12-05/book-launch-whats-left-human-na… ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, December

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest December Program 5 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Gábor Etesi Department of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics Budapest University of Technology and Economics On a possibly pure set-theoretic origin of black hole entropy 12 December (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Tamás Ullmann Department of Modern Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Nyelv és evolúció (Language and evolution) _______________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Fluancia Party - 29th November (Thursday)

by Dezso Nemeth

Dear Cognitive Folks, The next Fluencia Party will be on 29th November (Thursday) starting at 7.30pm in Élesztő (Tűzoltó street 22 close to Corvin-Negyed metro station). Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/918006315061564/ Fluencia is a monthly organized informal "jamboree" for cogsci-, psychology-related students (undergrads, grads), professors, researchers from many different universities in Hungary. The idea and motivation are to facilitate interactions, communication, collaboration among researchers working here, get to know others and others' interests, topics, etc. And, of course, to have some drinks and fun in a friendly environment. Everybody is welcome to attend! If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask. All the best, Dezso -------------------------------------- NEMETH, Dezso (PhD, DSc) Brain, Memory and Language Lab: http://www.memory-and-language.com Phone: +36-1-4614500/3565, +36-1-4614500/3519

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] TODAY: CogSci CEU Colloquium: Grasp planning for object manipulation by Oliver Herbort (Universität Würzburg)

by Andrea Jenei

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by: 1) Oliver Herbort<http://www.i3.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/staff/pd-dr-oliver-herbort/> (Department of Psychology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Grasp planning for object manipulation: The contribution of goal-directed and habitual processing We use tools and handle objects every day. Thereby, the selection of a specific grasp sets the stage for subsequent tool use actions or object manipulations: Whereas clever grasp planning can facilitate a subsequent object manipulation, an inappropriate grasp selection may hinder it or even render it impossible. However, how grasps for object manipulation are planned is an open question and different explanation have been proposed. In my presentation I will focus on the (apparent) dichotomy of goal-directed and habitual processing and present experiments that shed light on the contribution of both modes of processing. These experiments show that grasp planning - including the adjustment of the grasp to an upcoming object manipulation -is predominantly a habitual process Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 17:00-18:30 Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101 We are looking forward to see you at the talks! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events Social Mind Center Events at CEU: http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Invitation to the Doctoral Defense of Luke McEllin, Department of Cognitive Science, November 29, 10 am, October Hall

by Gyorgyne Finta

The Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the public defense of the PhD thesis INVESTIGATING THE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF MOVEMENT CUES IN JOINT ACTION by Luke McEllin PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Natalie Sebanz SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: Gunther Knoblich Members of the Dissertation Committee: Agnes Kovacs, Chair, CEU Emily Cross, external examiner, University of Glasgow Giovanni Pezzulo, external examiner, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Rome abstract | The movements of those engaged in social interactions are laden with meaning, and reflect a whole host of mental states, including intentions and attitudes towards a co-actor. The aim of this thesis was to investigate how the movements of actors engaged in joint actions provide us with information about their informative intentions, and the interpersonal relations of those interacting with each other. Our first study investigated how actors modulate the kinematics of their actions in order to provide informative cues to co-actors, and demonstrated that actions that are identical instrumentally can have different kinematic signatures depending on the informative intentions of the actor (i.e. the intention to coordinate, or the intention to teach). Our second study set out to investigate whether or not observers are able to use kinematic cues to understand an actor's informative intentions, and demonstrated that not only can observers detect the presence of informative intentions on the basis of movement cues, but they can also discriminate between different informative intentions. Our third study aimed to investigate how different types of interpersonal synchrony affect third person perception of the relations between two actors, and found that the movement cues reflecting different types of synchrony have a direct effect on our perception of a performance in terms of the affiliation between the performers, and how aesthetically pleasing we find these performances. In the final section of this thesis, our findings are discussed with respect to their implications for theories of direct perception of mental states, as well as their applications to our understanding of teaching and learning, and human robot interaction. The defense will take place at October Hall, V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, ground floor on Thursday, November 29, at 10 am organized by the Department of Cognitive Science Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] Theoretical Philosophy Forum, Marta Ujvari

by Laszlo E. Szabo

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest 28 November (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226 Márta Ujvári Corvinus University of Budapest Explanation, Individual Essence and the Identity of Indiscernibles _______________________________ Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web site of the Forum: http://phil.elte.hu/tpf (Please feel free to post the program in your institution!) The Forum is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion. The organizer of the Forum: Laszlo E. Szabo (leszabo(a)phil.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Professor of Philosophy DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY EOTVOS UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST http://phil.elte.hu/leszabo

7 years, 6 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CogSci CEU Colloquium: Grasp planning for object manipulation by Oliver Herbort (Universität Würzburg)

by Andrea Jenei

7 years, 6 months

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