Why are some languages more regular than others?
Many years ago, I did anthropological fieldwork among the Dorze of Southern Ethiopia. Since no grammar of the Dorze language was available, I had to find out what were its basic morphological and syntactic rules. The good news was that once I had identified a rule, I could apply across the board: ...
Conference on Social Cognition, Engagement and the Second-Person Perspective
Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Cologne (Germany), May 25-27, 2012 on Social Cognition, Engagement and the Second-Person Perspective. Deadline for poster submission: March 1st, 2012
What are the psychological processes and neural mechanisms enabling social cognition? How might social ...
Summer Course on “Problems of the Self”, CEU, Budapest, June 25-July 5, 2012
Summer Course on "Problems of the Self", CEU, Budapest, June 25-July 5, 2012. Application deadline: February 15, 2012
Brief Course Description:
The course aims to present the state of the art in research on the self from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and ...
Middle childhood: Evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives
An interesting special issue of Human Nature (22/3, Sept. 2011) on middle childhood:
From Benjamin C. Campbell’s Introduction:
“Middle childhood is recognized by developmental psychologists as a distinct developmental stage between early childhood and adolescence, defined by ...
PhD studentships in Cognitive Science at the CEU, Budapest
PhD studentships are available for the doctoral program in Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary. Application deadline: 25 January 2012.
The Department of Cognitive Science at CEU invites applications for doctoral student positions starting in September 2012. ...
Summer school on Theories of Communication in Riga (July 2012)
There will be an International Summer School at the University of Latvia, Riga, 8-18 July 2012, on the theme: Theories of Communication. What linguistic knowledge and interpretive mechanisms are required to explain the phenomena of inferential communication? Should we favour an explanation rooted ...