The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to its talk by
Harriet Over <https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/ho543/> (Department of Psychology, University of York)
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 17:00-18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101
The developmental origins of dehumanization
Prejudice and intergroup conflict remain substantial social problems across the globe. Perceiving others as ‘less than human’ appears to be an integral aspect of intergroup bias. In this talk, I discuss our recent research investigating the origins of dehumanisation in development. I reflect upon the relationship between dehumanisation and key topics in the study of social cognitive development such as theory of mind. I end by discussing the implications of this work for research-led interventions to encourage more positive intergroup relations.
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
Social Mind Center Events at CEU: http://socialmind.ceu.edu/events
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Csaba Pléh
distinguished visiting professor
CEU Dept of Cognitive Science
1051 Budapest Nádor u. 9 Hungary
office: Október 6. u. 7, I. e 104
Tel.: 36 303493735 plehcsaba.eu
view editor, Hungarian Journal of Psychology
member of HAS and AE
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From: Benjamin Spector <spector.benjamin(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 9:36:34 PM
Subject: MA fellowships to study cogsci and linguistics at ENS in Paris - Deadline Nov 9
[Apologies for multiple postings]
The Cognitive Science Departement (http://www.cognition.ens.fr/indexENG.html) of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (Département d'études cognitives, DEC) aims to recruit advanced undergraduate international students in Cognitive Science and in Linguistics.
DEC and Ecole Normale Supérieure (http://www.ens.fr<http://www.ens.fr/>) offer several international fellowships, intended for advanced undergraduate students.
Students will either
- directly enroll in a master's program (two-year or three-year fellowship), the CogMaster (http://www.cognition.ens.fr/CogMasterENG.html)
or
- first complete their last year of undergraduate studies and then enroll in a master's program (three-year fellowship).
These fellowships will be attributed on the basis of a national competitive exam, known as the 'ENS international selection'.
For more details (including about eligibility), please visit: http://www.ens.fr/en/academics/admissions/international-selection
The fellowships include:
- monthly stipend: 1000 euros;
- possibility of subsidized housing;
- access to subsidized cafeteria (about 4 euros/meal);
- minimal tuition fees (about 500 euros/year).
How to Apply:
More detailed information is available on line:
- http://www.cognition.ens.fr/EnseignementFinancementENG.html
Applications Deadline: 9-Nov-2017
Web Address for Applications:
http://www.ens.fr/en/academics/admissions/international-selection
Contact Information:
Maria Giavazzi
maria.giavazzi(a)ens.fr<mailto:maria.giavazzi@ens.fr>
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Maria Giavazzi, Ph.D.
Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle
Département d'Etudes Cognitives
Ecole normale supérieure
29, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris, France
Kedves Kollégák!
Szeretettel várjuk az érdeklődőket a Nyelvtudományi Intézet novemberi
programjaira!
2017. november 13-18. (hétfő-szombat) 10.00-12.00
Szintaxis minikurzus: Syntactic Phenomena
Maria Polinsky
(University of Maryland)
szervező:Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály
helyszín: 414-es terem
http://www.nytud.hu/szakcsoport/kurzus/syntax2017osz.html
2017. november 14. (kedd) 11.00 óra
Ana Maria Brito
(Universidade do Porto)
Consecutive clauses in European Portuguese: A syntactic approach
szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
helyszín: 108-as előadóterem
2017. november 14. (kedd) 14.00 óra
Rebecca Woods
(University of Huddersfield)
Embedded Inverted Questions (EIQs) as Conventional Implicatures: a
QUD-based approach
szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály
helyszín: 108-as előadóterem
2017. november 16. (csütörtök) 17.00 óra
Kuniya Nasukawa
(Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan)
Acoustic prominence and phonological head-dependent structure
szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály, ALFFA kutatócsoport
helyszín: 108-as előadóterem
2017. november 28. (kedd) 14.00-18.00 óra
A Magyar Tudomány Ünnepe 2017
Nyelvtudomány az ember szolgálatában: esélyek, eredmények
szervező: MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
helyszín: MTA Székház, Felolvasóterem
http://mta.hu/mtu_esemenynaptar/2017-11-28-nyelvtudomany-az-ember-szolgalat…
2017. november 30. (csütörtök) 10.00-14.00 óra
Mutatvány Az uráli nyelvek mondattanának változása
aszimmetrikuskontaktushelyzetben OTKA-projektum eredményeiből
(Some results of the project Languages under the Influence. Uralic
syntax changing in an asymmetrical contact situation)
Program:
10-10.35: Simon Eszter – Kalivoda Ágnes: Introducing the UraLUID database
10.35-11.10: Asztalos Erika - Gugán Katalin - Mus Nikolett:
Non-verb-final sentences in Nenets, Khanty, and Udmurt: a path from OV
to VO
11.10-11.45: Hegedűs Veronika - Mus Nikolett - Surányi Balázs: Copular
clauses in Nenets
11-45-11.55: szünet
11.55-12.30: Dékány Éva - Gugán Katalin - Tánczos Orsolya: From
prenominal to postnominal relative clauses in Udmurt and Khanty
12.30-13.05: É. Kiss Katalin - Tánczos Orsolya: From possessive
agreement to object marking: the functional evolution of the Udmurt -jez
suffix
A előadásokat 5-10 perc vita követi.
szervező: Elméleti Nyelvészeti Osztály
helyszín: 108-as előadóterem
Helyszín:
MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
1067 Budapest
Teréz krt. 13.
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A részletekről, valamint az esetleges változásokról a honlapon
tájékozódhatnak:
http://www.nytud.hu/intprog.html
Summer School Course “Thinking About the Possible” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from 9 July, 2018 till 14 July, 2018
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Dear All,
CEU's summer school “Thinking About the Possible” invites applications from graduate students, junior faculty, researchers and practitioners in universities and other institutions from all over the world.
Thinking about the possible and impossible and exploring counterfactual (“what if?”) scenarios are fundamental aspects of the human mind. The boundary conditions for counterfactual thinking, and the extent to which it shares the same underlying cognitive machinery with related abilities such as episodic future thinking and pretend play, are currently the subjects of substantial debate in philosophy and psychology.
The course will bring together diverse perspectives on imagination and counterfactual reasoning, with seminars offered by faculty from the fields of Developmental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Informatics on a range of topics. Course participants will learn about empirical techniques and findings from studies in cognitive development, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience and will engage with theoretical perspectives on the nature of imagination and counterfactual reasoning.
We would appreciate if you could spread this information to your colleagues, students and research fellows.
Course Director(s):
Patricia Ganea<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4837>
Jackman Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto
Agnes Kovacs<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/3133>
Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University
Course Faculty:
Sarah Beck<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4726>
Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham
Ruth Byrne<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4838>
Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin
Gergely Csibra<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/795>
Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University
Felipe de Brigard<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4845>
Department of Philosophy, Duke University
Paul Harris<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4839>
Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Christoph Hoerl<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4840>
Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
Ferenc Huoranszki<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/1768>
Department of Philosophy, Central European University
Karen S. Lewis<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4844>
Department of Philosophy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Christopher Lucas<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4846>
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Teresa McCormack<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4841>
School of Psychology, Queen's University
Eva Rafetseder <https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4842>
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling
Erno Teglas<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4854>
Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University
Caren Walker<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/node/4843>
Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego
Application deadline: 14 February 2018
Tuition waivers are available. The online platform will become available in December. Follow the instructions on the summeruniversity.ceu.edu .
More detailed information available at https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2018-07-09/thinking-about-possible-…
Kind regards,
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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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.eduhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.edu
The Department of Cognitive Science
cordially invites you
to the public defense of the PhD thesis
SPONTANEOUS
VISUOSPATIAL PERSPECTIVE-TAKING
IN HUMANS
by
Martin Freundlieb
PRIMARY SUPERVISOR: Natalie Sebanz
SECONDARY SUPERVISOR: ÁGNES M. KOVÁCS
Members of the Dissertation Committee:
Gergely Csibra, Chair, CEU
Ian Apperly, external examiner, University of Birmingham
Marcel Brass, external examiner Ghent University
abstract | Perspective-taking is one of the fundamental building blocks enabling humans to successfully understand and relate to others in a large variety of social interactions. Yet, there are many open questions about whether, when and how instances of visuospatial perspective-taking occur during social interactions. This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of spontaneous visuospatial perspective-taking in humans. Chapter 1 discusses visuospatial perspective-taking in the wider context of social cognition abilities. The study presented in Chapter 2 explored the underlying factors as well as boundary conditions that characterize the spontaneous adoption of another person's visuospatial perspective (VSP). The results showed that participants spontaneously adopted a differing VSP, given there was an intentionally acting agent alongside of them. Chapter 3 investigated whether knowledge about another's visual access systematically modulates spontaneous VSP-taking. In two experiments we found that knowledge about another person's visual access indeed modulated the spontaneous integration of another person's VSP into one's own action planning. Specifically, our findings showed that participants only adopted the other person's VSP if he had unhindered visual access to the stimuli but regardless of whether or not he performed the same task or a different task. Finally, the study presented in Chapter 4 probed whether spontaneous VSP-taking also occurs in mental space where another person's perspective matters for mental activities rather than for physical actions. In three experiments participants reliably adopted the VSP of a confederate in the context of a semantic categorization task that involved reading words. Taken together, these studies show that we spontaneously take into account how somebody else perceives the environment, even in situations where we are not asked to do so, and we are likely not aware of doing so. This suggests that humans are endowed with a basic sensitivity to their conspecifics' viewpoints.
The defense will take place at room 101,
V. Budapest, Október 6 street 7, 1st floor
on Thursday, October 26, at 10 am
organized by the Department of Cognitive Science
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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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.eduhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.edu
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This is a kind reminder:
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Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by:
Annie Wertz (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Date: Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30
Host: Gergo Csibra
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
The seeds of social learning
Plants have been central to human life across evolutionary time as sources of food and raw materials for artifact construction. However, plants also manufacture potentially dangerous chemical and physical defenses to protect themselves from herbivores. These circumstances create a fundamental problem: How does each individual human learn which plants in her local environment are food and which plants are fatal? Because there are no morphological features that reliably predict human-relevant edibility or toxicity, employing a trial-and-error strategy to learn about the specific plants in an environment would be extremely costly. Instead, I argue that human cognitive architecture contains social learning mechanisms specialized for acquiring information about plants over the course of ontogeny. I will present evidence from a series of studies with human infants exploring this proposal. The results indicate that infants possess a combination of behavioral avoidance and social information seeking strategies that allow them to safely learn about plants from more-knowledgeable others. I will close by discussing the broader implications of these findings for the evolution of learning mechanisms and the generation of human culture.
See more at: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/annie-e-wertz
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
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Katarina Begus
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 327 3000 / 2777
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY FORUM
Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University
Address: Múzeum krt. 4/i, Budapest
25 October (Wednesday) 5:00 PM Room 226
Koen Lefever Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel Comparing Classical And Relativistic Kinematics In
First-Order Logic*
*Joint research with Gergely Székely (Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
Budapest)
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Abstracts and printable program (poster) are available from the web
site of the Forum: (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 ()
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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
Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
by:
*Annie Wertz (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)*
*Date: *Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 – 17:00-18:30
*Host:* Gergo Csibra
*Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room
101.
*The seeds of social learning*
Plants have been central to human life across evolutionary time as sources
of food and raw materials for artifact construction. However, plants also
manufacture potentially dangerous chemical and physical defenses to protect
themselves from herbivores. These circumstances create a fundamental
problem: How does each individual human learn which plants in her local
environment are food and which plants are fatal? Because there are no
morphological features that reliably predict human-relevant edibility or
toxicity, employing a trial-and-error strategy to learn about the specific
plants in an environment would be extremely costly. Instead, I argue that
human cognitive architecture contains social learning mechanisms
specialized for acquiring information about plants over the course of
ontogeny. I will present evidence from a series of studies with human
infants exploring this proposal. The results indicate that infants possess
a combination of behavioral avoidance and social information seeking
strategies that allow them to safely learn about plants from
more-knowledgeable others. I will close by discussing the broader
implications of these findings for the evolution of learning mechanisms and
the generation of human culture.
See more at: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/annie-e-wertz
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
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Katarina Begus
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 327 3000 / 2777
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus
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Dear All,
We would like to invite you to the first event from the ELTE Cognitive
Seminar series for the new academic year:
*Péter Simor***
*Frequent nightmares at the intersection of personality factors,
emotional dysregulation, and sleep physiology***
Location: PPK, Institue of Psychology, Izabella u. 46, room P2.
Date: 28.09.2017. (Thursday), 17.00
Summary:
Nightmares are intense and highly unpleasant mental experiences that
occur usually – but not exclusively – during late-night Rapid Eye
Movement (REM) sleep and often provoke abrupt awakenings. Nightmares
affect approximately four percent of the adult population on a weekly
basis. The clinical relevance of nightmares should not be underestimated
given their high incidence in psychiatric populations, co-morbidity with
insomniac symptoms and their association with daytime affective as well
as cognitive dysfunctions. Frequent nightmares are associated with
personality factors, emotional dysregulation, and altered sleep
physiology. In this talk, I will summarize our main findings regarding
the neurophysiological aspects of nightmare disorder and present an
integrative approach to analyze this somewhat neglected sleep disorder.
REMINDER:
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series
By
Marko Nardini (Durham University)
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 17:00 - 18:30
Host: Jozsef Fiser
Perceptual development as optimisation of inference
To survive, organisms must deal with many kinds of uncertainty, such as recognising objects given partial or uncertain information, or planning an action (e.g. reaching for a cup) with an uncertain outcome. Recent evidence suggests that the adult nervous system meets these challenges by implementing or approximating principles of Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT), which provides optimal solutions to problems of perception and action under uncertainty. This raises the interesting possibility that the long developmental trajectory for some perceptual skills in childhood can be understood as a process of optimisation of inference. I will present results from recent studies in support of this idea, showing that key elements of BDT are not in place until remarkably late in childhood - in perceptual tasks, motor tasks, and brain circuits. Even in quite simple tasks such as judging the layout of 3D surfaces, we see that sub-optimal computation (as distinct from noise) makes a major contribution to children's relatively low performance. These results provide a starting point for investigating the processes of development and learning by which the nervous system optimises its perception and action abilities. Progress on this problem has important future applications to atypical development, sensory / motor rehabilitation, and the design of intelligent agents who can learn from their environment.
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
See more at:
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-10-18/departmental-colloquium-…
We are looking forward to see you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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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.eduhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.edu
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