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International Conference on Sleep Spindling, Budapest, Hungary ..……………………………….. 1

European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Vienna, Austria …..……………………………….. 2

CEU Summer School on Metarepresentation, Budapest, Hungary..……………………………….. 3

Upcoming conferences ……………………………………………………………………………..…… 3

Introducing research institutes:

Cognitive Research Lab, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration ….. 6

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NEWSLETTER Summer 2016

The 1st international scientific conference on sleep

spindling and related phenomena was prepared due

to recent advances in this specific field of study as well

as the key importance of this neural oscillatory pattern

in neurobehavioral functioning. Since sleep spindle

oscillations are at the crossroad between slow and fast

oscillations during sleep, the conference was open to

scientific results about a very broad range of neural

and behavioural phenomena.

The first conference was hosted in Budapest, a

lively and beautiful place, which vibrates at a plethora

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Conference reports

International Conference on Sleep Spindling, Budapest, Hungary (12-14 May, 2016)

of different frequencies, much like the oscillations we

study. The conference aimed to be the first of a series of

biennial conferences on this subject.

The 2nd International Conference on Sleep

Spindling will take place in Budapest in 2018 and now

you have a unique opportunity to have your registration

fee waived. First authors of the first three accepted

papers in the recently launched journal of Sleep

Spindles & Cortical Up States will have the possibility to

join the conference for free. (For details, see the

conference website.)

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European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Vienna, Austria (12-15 July, 2016)

International Conference on Sleep Spindling 2016, Budapest, Hungary. For more photos, see the conference gallery.

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The 8th European Conference

on Behavioural Biology (ECBB)

was organized in Vienna,

Austria. With a format similar to

former ECBB conferences it

included plenary talks,

participant proposed symposia

as well as oral and poster

presentations.

The biannual ECBB conferences traditionally cover a wide range of topics in the field of behavioural biology, this was

nicely reflected in this year’s keynote speakers (Iain Couzin, MPI Ornithology; Barbara König, University of Zürich; Sonja

Koski, University of Helsinki; Friederike Range, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna; Ben Sheldon, University of

Oxford) and the 16 selected symposia that included topics from “traditional” behavioural biology such as sexual

selection, animal personality or communication, through combining behaviour with molecular methods such as

proteomics, to the newly emerging approach of citizen science. (For details, see the conference website.)

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Upcoming conferences

DUBROVNIK CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE, 2017

The following Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science organized by CECOG will be held between 25-28 May

2017 themed “Intuitive sociologists: representing social relations and social categories”. Keynote speakers at the

conference will include (but are not limited to): Alan Fiske, UCLA; Gil Diesendruck, Bar-Ilan University; Olivier Mascaro,

University of Lyon; David Pietraszewski, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Nichola Raihani, University

College London. Members of the Central European Cognitive Science Association can register at a reduced fee.

Pécs Worshop on

Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

Pécs, Hungary (10-11 November 2016)

Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2016

There is no registration fee.

International Conference on

Animal-Computer Interaction

Milton Keynes, UK

(15-17 November 2016)

Registration will open soon.

"Understanding Communication and Understanding Minds:

The Role of Metarepresentation" Summer School, Budapest, Hungary

Lecturers were: Peter Carruthers, Gergely Csibra,

Agnes Kovacs, Kourken Michaelian, Richard Moore,

Josef Perner, Hannes Rakoczy, Paula Rubio-

Fernandez, and Thom Scott-Phillips.

For further details, see this website.

And here is what students say about the CEU Summer

University program (click on the picture below to see

the video):

This workshop was organized by Ildikó Király and

Dan Sperber as part of the Summer University

program at the Central European University (CEU),

Budapest from 27 June to 2 July 2016. The school

has brought together some of the key figures from a

variety of disciplines in order to illuminate further the

relationship between metarepresentation and

communication and offer students and researchers

a forum to discuss ideas at the cutting edge of this

field.

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Third Article: Subtitle of Third Article

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Winter

Conference: Animal navigation - from quantum physics to

global migration

1-2 December 2016 (London, UK)

Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2016

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour:

Easter Conference

5-7 April 2017 (Liverpool, UK)

Registration is now open.

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development

5-7 January 2017 (Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract submission deadline: 10 October 2016

International Conference on Advanced Cognitive

Technologies and Applications

19-23 February 2017 (Athens, Greece)

Submission deadline: 1 October 2016

International Brain Stimulation

Conference

5-8 March 2017

(Barcelona, Spain)

Abstract Submission deadline: 14 October 2016

International Convention of

Psychological Science

23-25 March 2017 (Vienna, Austria)

Poster submission deadline: 30 September 2016

European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

Annual Conference

6-8 April 2017 (Paris, France)

International Conference on Psychology

and Behavioural Sciences

24-25 May 2017 (Lisbon, Portugal)

Abstract/paper submission deadline: 15 November 2016

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International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy

29 June - 1 July 2017 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Poster abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2017

European Association of Social Psychology

General Meeting

5-8 July 2017 (Granada, Spain)

The European Society for Cognitive and Affective

Neuroscience will organize a pre-conference event during

the EASP meeting on 4 July.

World Conference on Movement and Cognition

9-11 July 2017 (Oxford, UK)

Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2016

International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

10-14 July 2017

(Tartu, Estonia)

European Congress of Psychology

11-14 July 2017 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2016

International Ethological

Conference

30 July - 4 August 2017

(Estoril, Portugal)

European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music

Conference

31 July - 4 August (Ghent, Belgium)

International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience

5-9 August 2017 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Early bird registration deadline: 15 March 2017

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Introducing research institutes

Cognitive Research Lab

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public

Administration

The Cognitive Research Laboratory is a new research

institution formed in 2013, and based in the Institute of

Social Sciences at the Russian Academy of National

Economy and Public Administration. The team is

interested in various areas of cognitive research,

including problem solving, cognitive development,

visual attention, predictions and language.

The laboratory is headed by Prof. Vladimir F.

Spiridonov, whose research is focused on psychological

mechanisms of solving different types of problems. The

team is researching the process of solving insight puzzles

(such as nine dots or four trees problems) as well as

problems with completely differing structures, e.g. word

problems in mathematics and genetics. The goal is to

understand how the use of various solving strategies is

connected to the solver’s particular representation

types, what aspects of the representation facilitate or

impede the use of task relevant strategies.

Studies in the field of cognitive development are carried

out by Tatyana N. Kotova. Her team explores social

learning: the development of word meaning, the

Studies in the field of cognitive development are carried

out by Tatyana N. Kotova. Her team explores social

learning: the development of word meaning, the

mechanism of the overimitation effect, the formation of

emotional representation. They are interested in

acquisition mechanisms specific to social learning,

acquisition of norms and social conventions as well

shared knowledge and “shared action”. Another focus

of interest is concept formation and category learning

with different forms of generalization: prototypes,

examples, theories and rules. Furthermore, the team

studies linguistically modulated perception: how words

catalyze categorization and the role of signs in concept

formation.

18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology

29 August - 1 September 2017 (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Call for submissions will be opened in the

third quarter of 2016.

European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference

3-6 September 2017

(Potsdam, Germany)

Details coming soon.

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Research of human visual attention is performed by

Maria V. Falikman. She studies how attention mediates

the formation of chunks, or processing units, in the

human visual system. To investigate into this issue, she is

studying the so-called “word superiority effect” across

the variety of visual attention tasks, requiring observers

to identify letters embedded in letter strings and

compare performance on random letter strings and

meaningful words. By revealing and comparing cases of

“word superiority” and “word inferiority”, Dr. Falikman

describes the interaction between bottom-up and top-

down processes in visual system, as well as between two

different types of top-down influences: an observer’s

previous experience and task-related activity (individual

strategies).

Our team member Andrey Chetverikov is using

priming of pop-out in visual search to research

predictions. His goal is to understand how predictions

evolve in the course of learning and what the

consequences are when they are disconfirmed. In

collaboration with Dr. Kristjánsson from University of

Iceland and Dr. Campana from University of Padova, he

studies how people respond to different statistical

distributions of features (e.g., line orientation). Their

research demonstrated that the visual system is sensitive

to properties of features distributions over and above

mean and variance.

Psycholinguistics is another research area that is

explored in our lab, specifically in the area of

bilingualism. Emilia V. Ezrina studies how bilinguals select

which language to use during production. She is also

interested in syntactic interactions of language, i.e. to

what extent languages are very flexible and permeable.

Emilia is also a Fulbright Alumni: she performed research

at The Pennsylvania State University in the United States

under the supervision of Dr. Judith Kroll.

In addition to these research projects, the

members of our lab teach several courses at the

University, including Cognitive Science, Cognitive

Development, Neuroscience, Attention, Memory and

Learning, Problem Solving and Research Methods in

Psychology.

Research carried out in our lab was presented at

several national and international conference,

including: Psychonomics, Conference of Cognitive

Science Society, Budapest CEU Conference on

Cognitive Development, Conference of Cognitive

Development Society, The Sixth International

Conference of Cognitive Science, Annual Meeting

European Society for Philosophy & Psychology,

Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Cognitive

Science in Moscow and others.

Kotova Tatyana, PhD, Senior Researcher

Selected Publications:

Spiridonov V. F., Ezrina E. V. (2015) The Interaction of Several Languages in the Cognitive System. The Russian Journal

of Cognitive Science, 2 (4), 12–29.

Falikman M., Sakharov D., D'yakonova V., D'yakonova T., Balaban P., Vorontsov D., Zakharov I., Orlov O., Pavlova G.,

Panchin Y. (2015) Central Pattern Generators Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 45 (1) 42–57.

Falikman, M. (2014). Attention and chunking in visual search among letter stimuli. Psychology. Journal of the Higher

School of Economics (Psihologia. Zhurnal Vysshey Shkoly Ekonomiki), 11(2) 150–159.

Chetvericov, A. (2015) Mixed Effects Linear Models in Cognitive Studies. The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science, 12

(1), 41–51

Kristjansson, Á., Jóhannesson, Ó., Chetverikov, A., Smith, I., Thornton, I. (2015). Visual foraging with fingers and with

eyes reveals challenges for current theories of visual attention. Journal of Vision, 15(12), 1068–1068.

Kotova, T.N., Yudina, T.O., Kotov, A.A. (2014) The influences of intentionality and effectiveness of adults’ behavior on

infants’ imitation of object-related actions. The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 1 (1–2), 39–53.

Kotova T.N., Kotov A.A. (2015) The role of referential intention as a component of joint attention in object-label

association and shared knowledge acquisition. The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science, 2 (4), 4–11.

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About CECOG: The Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) is a civil association promoting

cooperation in the field of cognitive science in Central Europe. The association was initiated at a meeting in

August 2008 by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the University of Zagreb. The CECOG

organizing committee: Melita Kovacevic, Ilona Kovács, and Gergely Csibra; president: Gergely Csibra; managing

organizers and local hosts of the DuCog series: Nevena Padovan and Paula Fischer; managing secretary of the

association: Paula Fischer.

Newsletter editors: Anna Kis and Ágnes Szőllősi. Contact: cecog@cecog.eu

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