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[Koglist] {Spam?} Submission Open for the 16th BCCCD Meeting in Budapest January 15-17, 2026

by Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that the submissions for the 16th BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 15-17, 2026) are now open for symposia, talks, and posters. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission opens: June 20, 2025 • Submission deadline: September 5, 2025 • Pre-conference workshop submission deadline: October 3, 2025 • Notification of decision*: November 3, 2025 • Registration opens: November 4, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES For Individual Talks and Posters: • Submit a 300-word abstract plus a one-page PDF of supplemental material (visible only to reviewers and not included in the final program) at: BCCCD26 Submission Portal<https://www.openconf.org/BCCCD26> For Symposia: • Individual talks in the symposium should be submitted in the same format as regular talks, with a field for the symposium title in the submission form. • Submit a unifying statement of less than 500 words via this form: Symposia Submission Form<https://forms.office.com/e/e31gJNndUd?origin=lprLink> For Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials: • Submit via this form: Pre-conference events form<https://forms.office.com/e/8TBXxuy3mn?origin=lprLink> More Information: • Detailed submission formats and guidelines are available here<https://bcccd.org/submission.htm>. • To contribute by reviewing abstracts, contact us for instructions. CONFERENCE DETAILS • Dates: January 15-17, 2026 • Location: Central European University, Budapest • Website: BCCCD Website<https://bcccd.org/welcome.htm> Invited Speakers: • Amanda Seed<https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychology-neuroscience/people/ams18/> (University of St Andrews) • Lisa Feigenson<https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/lisa-feigenson/> (Johns Hopkins University) • Luca Bonatti<https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17630/luca-bonatti/> (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Follow us on social media: • Twitter: @CogDevCeu<https://twitter.com/CogDevCeu> • YouTube: Cognitive Development Center CEU<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzpeGQx_0_5DkU6xnMYJqNA> *For authors requiring a visa to attend, we can provide a supporting letter shortly after the submission deadline. We look forward to your submissions and participation! Warm regards, Anna Kispál and Bartuğ Çelik BCCCD26 Conference chairs

10 months, 3 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] TOMORROW: CCC Colloquium: Xaq Pitkow (June 20) 5pm, CEU Budapest

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following talk. Time and date: Friday, June 20, 2025, 5:00 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 103. Speaker: Xaq Pitkow (Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, CMU)<https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/xpitkow.html> Title: Interpreting neural dynamics by modeling beliefs Abstract: Complex behaviors are often driven by an internal model, which integrates sensory information over time and facilitates long-term planning to reach subjective goals. We interpret behavioral data by assuming an agent behaves rationally --- that is, they take actions that optimize their subjective reward according to their understanding of the task and its relevant causal variables. We apply a new method, Inverse Rational Control (IRC), to learn an agent's internal model and reward function by maximizing the likelihood of its measured sensory observations and actions. Technically, we define an animal's strategy as solving a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), and we invert this model to find the task and subjective costs that have maximum likelihood. This is a generalization of both Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control. Our mathematical formulation thereby extracts rational and interpretable thoughts of the agent from its behavior. We apply this method to behavioral data from primates catching fireflies in virtual reality, and use it to understand properties of the mental model monkeys use to navigate by optic flow. The thoughts imputed to the animal can then serve as latent targets for neural analyses. Using these targets, we provide a framework for interpreting the linked processes of encoding, recoding, and decoding of neural data in light of the rational model for behavior. We first demonstrate the merits of this approach on synthetic neural data during a foraging task. We then analyze real neural activity in primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to discover computations relevant to foraging tasks. In PFC, we find that reward dynamics are represented in a subspace of the high-dimensional population activity, and predict animal’s subsequent choice better than either the true experimental variables or the raw neural responses. In PPC, we find representations of latent navigation-relevant variables, and find that task manipulations alter the coupling between neurons, suggesting that these interactions reflect the mental model used to perform task-relevant computations. Overall, our approach may identify explainable structure in complex neural activity patterns. This framework lays a foundation for discovering how the brain chooses to act using dynamic beliefs about the uncertain world. Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, University of Cambridge) Zoom Meeting ID: 995 7581 0673<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99575810673?pwd=iCAk9h82KCXurpjbbmal4TAo4HzbSp.1> Passcode: 635375 Please, be informed that video/photo recording might take place at the event and the edited version of the video material might be published to communicate or promote CEU PU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [Central European University] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36-1 327-3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_752373752]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3291570502] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2028194004] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_2667470835] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [cid:c6f71c6c-26cf-48e3-8734-6f893edb5ba0] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ 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

10 months, 3 weeks

[Koglist] Mit tehet nyelvünk a magyar tudományért? | Eseménynaptár MTA200 | MTA

by Csaba Pleh

https://mta.hu/esemenynaptar_mta200/2025-06-25-mit-tehet-nyelvunk-a-magyar-… Androidos Outlookból<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> küldve

10 months, 3 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CCC Colloquium talks: Constantin Rothkopf (June 19) and Xaq Pitkow (June 20) CEU Budapest

by Ildiko Zsoka Varga

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation invites you to the following two talks on June 19 and 20: **************************************** Time and date: Thursday, June 19, 2025, 5:00 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 106. Speaker: Constantin A. Rothkopf<https://www.pip.tu-darmstadt.de/members_pip/publications.en.jsp> Centre for Cognitive Science & Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt; Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany Title: Human navigation as path-planning in belief-space Abstract: Goal-directed navigation requires continuously integrating uncertain self-motion and landmark cues into an internal sense of location and direction, concurrently planning future paths, and sequentially executing motor actions. We provide a unified account of these processes with a computational model of probabilistic path planning in the framework of optimal feedback control under uncertainty. This model gives rise to diverse human navigational strategies previously believed to be distinct behaviors and predicts quantitatively both the errors and the variability of navigation across numerous experiments. This furthermore explains how sequential egocentric landmark observations form an uncertain allocentric cognitive map, how this internal map is used both in route planning and during execution of movements, and reconciles seemingly contradictory results about cue-integration behavior in navigation. Finally, we show, how moment to moment interactions of sensory, cognitive, and action uncertainty give rise to gaze behavior shifting from active learning to active sensing. Taken together, the present work provides a parsimonious explanation of how patterns of human goal-directed sensorimotor navigation behavior arise from the continuous and dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties in perception, cognition, and action. Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, Cambridge) Zoom Meeting ID: 992 4543 3354<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99245433354?pwd=iH9CZSVwTjJ8r8invTjrHDQQLxAByd.1> Passcode: 326339 **************************************** Time and date: Friday, June 20, 2025, 5:00 PM Venue: CEU Budapest site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) N15. room 103. Speaker: Xaq Pitkow (Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute, CMU)<https://www.cmu.edu/ni/people/faculty/xpitkow.html> Title: Interpreting neural dynamics by modeling beliefs Abstract: Complex behaviors are often driven by an internal model, which integrates sensory information over time and facilitates long-term planning to reach subjective goals. We interpret behavioral data by assuming an agent behaves rationally --- that is, they take actions that optimize their subjective reward according to their understanding of the task and its relevant causal variables. We apply a new method, Inverse Rational Control (IRC), to learn an agent's internal model and reward function by maximizing the likelihood of its measured sensory observations and actions. Technically, we define an animal's strategy as solving a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), and we invert this model to find the task and subjective costs that have maximum likelihood. This is a generalization of both Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control. Our mathematical formulation thereby extracts rational and interpretable thoughts of the agent from its behavior. We apply this method to behavioral data from primates catching fireflies in virtual reality, and use it to understand properties of the mental model monkeys use to navigate by optic flow. The thoughts imputed to the animal can then serve as latent targets for neural analyses. Using these targets, we provide a framework for interpreting the linked processes of encoding, recoding, and decoding of neural data in light of the rational model for behavior. We first demonstrate the merits of this approach on synthetic neural data during a foraging task. We then analyze real neural activity in primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to discover computations relevant to foraging tasks. In PFC, we find that reward dynamics are represented in a subspace of the high-dimensional population activity, and predict animal’s subsequent choice better than either the true experimental variables or the raw neural responses. In PPC, we find representations of latent navigation-relevant variables, and find that task manipulations alter the coupling between neurons, suggesting that these interactions reflect the mental model used to perform task-relevant computations. Overall, our approach may identify explainable structure in complex neural activity patterns. This framework lays a foundation for discovering how the brain chooses to act using dynamic beliefs about the uncertain world. Chair: Máté Lengyel (CEU, Cambridge) Zoom Meeting ID: 995 7581 0673<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/99575810673?pwd=iCAk9h82KCXurpjbbmal4TAo4HzbSp.1> Passcode: 635375 **************************************** Please, be informed that video/photo recording might take place at the event and the edited version of the video material might be published to communicate or promote CEU PU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>. Best regards, [Central European University] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36-1 327-3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404. CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_752373752]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3291570502] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_2028194004] <https://at.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/> [signature_2667470835] <https://www.threads.net/@weareceu> [cid:c581c2be-7fe2-4a50-b358-cb299b2c47aa] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ 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

10 months, 3 weeks

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Nikhil Chaudhary (University of Cambridge), Thursday February 8, 4 pm: ``Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health``

by Gyorgyne Finta

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk by: Nikhil Chaudhary<https://www.nikhilchaudhary.co.uk/>, Evolutionary Anthropologist based at the University of Cambridge Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 (mind the unusual day please) Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D318 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd=VCt1WGZnd1F0MkZleGYvaDRpWEg3Zz09<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94486731045?pwd%3DVC…> Meeting ID: 944 8673 1045 Passcode: 328579 Chair: Christophe Heintz and Angarika Deb Title: Hunter-Gatherer Social Organisation and Behaviour: Implications for Mental Health Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our species' history. Therefore, research with contemporary hunter-gatherer societies can offer insight into the evolution of our psychology and physiology. Drawing on my fieldwork with BaYaka hunter-gatherers from Congo, I will discuss the selection pressures that have shaped human social cognition and behaviour. I will focus on the communal living arrangements, egalitarian social organisation, and extensive cooperation, particularly in the domain of childrearing, which are normative across contemporary hunter-gatherer populations. I will also discuss how deviations from these features of sociality, which are commonplace in high-income industrialised societies, may increase our vulnerability to mental health disorders due to evolutionary mismatch-when an organism faces conditions that differ from those that some trait of the organism is adapted to, resulting in pathology or maladaptation. *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.office.com/e/jbHch9J0Am> to get access to the lecture hall. Let Christophe know, please, if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker. Best, Reka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GyörgyNÉ Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator Department of cognitive SCience --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01DA4F88.CA108DC0] CEU GmbH - CEU Central European University private university Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, Room D502 Office: +43 125230 5138 cognitivescience.ceu.edu<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>| www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> See CEU story: www.youtube.com/ceuhungary<http://www.youtube.com/ceuhungary> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CEU is committed to energy and environmental sustainability www.ceu.hu/sustainability<http://www.ceu.hu/sustainability> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wJmntYV9xI46HE4vvhea1QVsjj…] Please, consider your environmental responsibility. Before printing this e-mail message, ask yourself whether you really need a hard copy. ______________________________________________ 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

10 months, 4 weeks

[Koglist] Position: Biostatistics Postdoctoral Researcher (with a Clinical Focus)

by Ágrez Kristóf

*POSITION: BIOSTATISTICS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (with a Clinical Focus)* The Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology Research Group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, is seeking a motivated postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in biostatistics (or a related field) to join our team. The successful candidate will play a central role in conducting advanced statistical analyses of clinically relevant data, contributing to projects focused on mental health, neurodevelopment, and related domains. The position is based in Budapest, Hungary. *Key Responsibilities:* -Conduct statistical analyses of complex, longitudinal, and/or multilevel datasets: o*Primary data analysis* of large, rich, longitudinal datasets that include behavioral/clinical, genetic, and electrophysiological (EEG/ERP) data. o*Secondary data analysis* of datasets from international collaborations and publicly available datasets. -Contribute to manuscript preparation and the dissemination of research findings. -Assist in the design and refinement of future research studies. *Qualifications:* -PhD in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Neuroscience, Psychology (Quantitative), Computer Science, or a related field. -Demonstrated experience with advanced statistical modeling (e.g., SEM, mixed models, machine learning). -Proficiency in R, Python, or similar environments. -High proficiency in both verbal and written English. -Ability to work independently and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team. *Preferred Attributes:* -Experience analyzing electrophysiological, genetic, or neuroimaging data. -Interest in psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders research. *Salary:* 600,000–900,000 HUF/month + benefits (commensurate with experience and performance; full-time). *We offer:* -A collaborative, supportive research environment. -Opportunities to engage in impactful clinical research. -Flexible working arrangements: The position includes a combination of in-office and remote work, with the specific arrangement to be determined in consultation with the group leader. -The length of the position and part-time or full-time status are flexible and will be tailored to fit the selected candidate’s availability and career goals. *To apply: * Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a CV, a brief cover letter highlighting their experience and research interests and contact information for references. *Letters should be addressed to Nóra Bunford* and sent to: bunford.nora(a)ttk.hu For further information, see: https://www.bunfordlab.com/ Applications are welcome until the position is filled.

11 months

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] REMINDER CDC Seminar: Yuyan Luo (University of Missouri), Wednesday, June 4, 4 pm

by Anna Kispal

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk. Yuyan Luo<https://psychology.missouri.edu/people/luo> (University of Missouri) Title: Exploring variation in infant cognition Abstract: Research on infant cognition has yielded a wealth of findings suggesting that infants start with initial knowledge of several core domains that capture critical aspects of the world, e.g., physical, psychological, sociomoral domains. In each domain, such core knowledge includes some early emerging concepts and/or principles (e.g., concepts of objects, force, agents, social agents and/or moral principles) that help point infants in the right directions for rapidly learning about the world. Most of the work so far has been on infants’ group-level performance, e.g., in looking-time tasks. I will present ours and others’ work that start to examine how individual characteristics and experiential factors may (or may not) impact infant knowledge about the physical and the social world. This will help us achieve a better understanding of variation in infant cognition and allow for evaluations of claims on the origins and development of early knowledge. Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D-002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Ágnes Kovács Best, Anna *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOG…> <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhAH…> to get access to the lecture hall. ______________________________________________ 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

11 months, 1 week

[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] CDC Seminar: Yuyan Luo (University of Missouri), Wednesday, June 4, 4 pm

by Anna Kispal

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk. Yuyan Luo<https://psychology.missouri.edu/people/luo> (University of Missouri) Title: Exploring variation in infant cognition Abstract: Research on infant cognition has yielded a wealth of findings suggesting that infants start with initial knowledge of several core domains that capture critical aspects of the world, e.g., physical, psychological, sociomoral domains. In each domain, such core knowledge includes some early emerging concepts and/or principles (e.g., concepts of objects, force, agents, social agents and/or moral principles) that help point infants in the right directions for rapidly learning about the world. Most of the work so far has been on infants’ group-level performance, e.g., in looking-time tasks. I will present ours and others’ work that start to examine how individual characteristics and experiential factors may (or may not) impact infant knowledge about the physical and the social world. This will help us achieve a better understanding of variation in infant cognition and allow for evaluations of claims on the origins and development of early knowledge. Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET Venue: D-002 (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 969 2496 5784<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96924965784?pwd=c2duZ0dDMFdEMUthK2Mwa2wzMllEUT09>, passcode: 471712) Chair: Jonathan Kominsky Best, Anna *Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here<https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOG…> <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhAH…> to get access to the lecture hall. ______________________________________________ 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

11 months, 2 weeks

[Koglist] Reminder: Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Ferenc Andras (IN HUNGARIAN)

by Gömöri Márton

Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224 _____________________________________________ P R O G R A M The seminar is held in hybrid format, in person (Múzeum krt. 4/i Room 224) and online. Meeting link: https://tarski.elte.hu/lps 16 May (Friday) 4:15 PM Room 224 + ONLINE (in Hungarian) Ferenc ANDRÁS Independent researcher, Pomáz Miért hibás a Thészeusz hajója paradoxonról szóló népszerű érvelés? ______________________________ Abstract is available from the seminar website: http://lps.elte.hu/lps The seminar is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments and institutes! Format: 60 minute lecture, coffee break, 60 minute discussion.

12 months

[Koglist] Három uj kognitív akadémikus és egy negyedik

by Csaba Pleh

Az MTA 199. Közgyűlése az MTA rendes tagjává választotta Kovács Ilonát. Ezen felül három, a kognitív kutatásban is jeles kollégát az MTA külső tagjává választotta ugyanez a közgyűlés. Farkas Katalin, Gervain Judit és Nánay Bence az új külső MTA tagok. Az egész magyar kognitív közösség nevében szívből gratulálunk Nekik. Androidos Outlookból<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> küldve

12 months

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