Visiting students
Name
Supervisors
Research Project
DAAD visiting doctoral student, August-December 2010 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arthur Jacobs, Freie Universität Berlin)
Home institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Home institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
What links metaphor processing to the right hemisphere of the brain?
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What links metaphor processing to the right hemisphere of the brain?
There is a growing amount of studies addressing the neural correlates of metaphor processing, although the results are sometimes contradictory, and the explanations are diverging. The activation of the right hemisphere during the processing of novel metaphorical expressions is usually attributed to the large semantic distance between words, or the non-salient features of their meaning. The focus of the research project is (1) whether semantic distance is the most important variable; (2) how do other factors, such as syntax and context modulate processing; (3) what is the interplay between the related brain areas. On the long run the research could help the better understanding of the concretization symptom in schizophrenia, which appears in the context of disorganized thinking. |
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| Funding | DAAD scholarship |
| Supervisors | DAAD visiting doctoral student, August-December 2010 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arthur Jacobs, Freie Universität Berlin) Home institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary |
| M&B Topics | Topic 3: Language Topic 5: Brain disorders and mental dysfunction |
| Degrees | MA in Psychology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) |
| Institute | Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary |
| Phone | 0177 520 1916 |
| forgacsb-please remove this text-@cogsci.bme.hu | |
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Asymmetry in the cognitive representation of semantic opposition
My research project concerns the cognitive representation of semantic opposition, more specifically how asymmetry and markedness within antonym pairs are represented by language users. The project includes behavioural experiments: semantic distance measurements, word association tests and priming experiments. |
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| Funding | Erasmus program (at the FU) |
| Supervisors | Arthur Jacobs |
| M&B Topics | Topic 3: Language |
| Degrees | BA (AMU, Poznań); MA (EHESS, Paris) |
| Institute | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań |
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| maria.golka-please remove this text-@amu.edu.pl | |
| Homepage | http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~mhgolka/ |
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Visiting doctoral student May-July 2009 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Home Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Home Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Classification and Categorization in the Cognitive Sciences
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Classification and Categorization in the Cognitive Sciences
I am interested in classification and categorization practices in the cognitive sciences (esp. the neurosciences and psychology). My current work explores historical, as well as contemporary, classificatory practices in order to determine the properties that scientifically interesting objects of investigation possess. Focusing on this topic requires that my philosophical work be informed by empircal data from the natural sciences—a requirement that I am happy to fulfill. I take this work to be especially relevant to cognitive science insofar as the growth and health of the science as a whole depends upon a unified and integrated classificatory scheme. |
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| Funding | Mind and Brain scholarship |
| Supervisors | Visiting doctoral student May-July 2009 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Home Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| M&B Topics | Topic 1: Perception, attention, consciousness Topic 3: Language Topic 5: Brain disorders and mental dysfunction |
| Degrees | MA, Georgia State University, Philosophy Department and Brains & Behavior Program |
| Institute | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore |
| Phone | |
| bmiller30-please remove this text-@gmail.com | |
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Visiting doctoral student, April-July 2012 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Supervisor home institution: Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki
Supervisor home institution: Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki
Chasing phenomena – concepts and classifications in the human sciences
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Chasing phenomena – concepts and classifications in the human sciences
I investigate the philosophical and methodological questions that arise at the interface between the social sciences, one the one hand, and neuroscience and cognitive sciences on the other. My research consists of two parallel research strategies: I study philosophical theories of the nature of scientific concepts and natural kinds in the human sciences, and examine how accounts of scientific concept formation should be connected to philosophical theories of explanation and causality in the sciences. The second strand of my doctoral research consists of case-study applications of these theoretical tools to challenging interdisciplinary phenomena in the human sciences. As an outcome of these two research strategies, I propound an anti-reductionist mechanism-based account of concept formation. |
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| Funding | Finnish Doctoral Programme of Philosophy |
| Supervisors | Visiting doctoral student, April-July 2012 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Supervisor home institution: Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki |
| M&B Topics | Topic 2: Decision-making Topic 5: Brain disorders and mental dysfunction Topic 6: Human sociality and the brain |
| Degrees | MSocSci |
| Institute | University of Helsinki |
| Phone | +49 152 36968549 |
| Samuli.poyhonen-please remove this text-@helsinki.fi | |
| Homepage | http://samulipoyhonen.wordpress.com/ |
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