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Selected new papers
-Language processing
The develoment of sentence interpretation in Hungarian
In order to test certain essumptions of the "competition model" of B. Macwinney, E.Bates and R.Kliegl we conducted three experiments on sentence understanding on Hungarian preschool children. More...
Modularity and Pragmatics: Some simple and complicated ways
The modular approach to language in its 30 year carreer had alternating and revialing views regarding the place of pragmatics. More
Processing of multimorphenic words in Hungarian
Hungarian provides good testing grounds to study some of the basic issues in lexical access and morphological decomposition in processing and representation. More
The Development of sentence interpretation in Hungarian
The Hungarian language provides a varierty of interesting grammatical features which can be exploited in studies of sentence processing. More
History and the theory of cognition
-Recent papers
Was Wittgenstein a connectionist, after all?
About four decades ago linguistics underwent a rule-based conversion that seemed to last unquestioned for ever. Some of the lasting new ideas initiated by the early work of Noam Chomsky (Chomsky, 1957, 1965) were all centered around the concept of rules. More
Ernst Mach and Daniel Dennett: Two Evolutionary Models of Cognition
The paper compares the interpretation of the relevance of evolutionary theory for epistemology and psychology given by Mach and Dennett. More
-Papers in progress
The paper tries to survey and analyze the different proposals raised in connection with questioning of the unified and unitary Cartesian self as a starting point for philosophy, the humanities, and psychology. More
Autonomy of the arts and the modularity issue
Autonomy, of course, can mean several different things regarding art, s the diversity of contributions to this conference clearly indicated it. More
Karl Popper's biological views contemporary cognitive science and psycholgy
In this paper, my main intention is to show that Popper has been unduly neglected in overall views about the status of psychology as a science and regarding the contentful aspects of psychology. More
Positive psychology traditions in classical European psychology
The paper shows that three ideas of contemporary positive psychology, the internal value of personality, the independent value of knowledge, and the role of self initiated activity were present in some European trends from 19th century on. More
The Catholic tradition and the beginnings of Hungarian Psychology: Harkai. Dienes, Schütz
The aim of this article is neither a detailed analysis of the Catholic tradition of psychology in Hungary, nor a detailed analysis of how the works mentioned here are related to the integral history of Hungarian psychology.
The paper gives a concise summary of the recent upsurge of evolutionary ideas in psychology. More
Hungarian contributors to modern psychology
I wish to claim in this paper that psychology is not entirely neutralized and decontextualized as a science regarding its sociological background. Therefore in analyzing its trends there is something to be learned from its national characteristics beyond the mere fact of there being national differences. More
Thoughts on the distribution of thoughts: memes or epidemies
The paper starts from a general consideration of three programs in cognitive science: The internalist, the externalists and the socials approaches to cognition. More
Narrativity in the text construction and self construction
The paper tries to suggest parallels between the study of narrative organziation of psychology and the philosophical trends towards a decomposed view of the human mind. More
The symbolics of psychology under a totalitarian system: The case of Hungary in the 60's
In the recent articulation of the strong program in science studies a special attention is paid to the issue of the separability of the scientific content on the one hand and the symbolic role of scientific theories on the other. Most of the proponents of the strong program (the Edinburgh program, if you like) take a rather clear stance here. More
Language and cognitive development
-Recent papers
Williams Syndrome, (WMS) a rare neurogenetic disorder has been in the forefront of research in cognitive psychology for the last ten years. More
Morphological patterns in Hungarian children with Williams Syndrome (WMS) and the rule debates
Williams Syndrome, (WMS) a rare neurogenetic disorder has been in the forefront of research in cognitive psychology for the last ten years. Studies of grammartical development of 14 Hungariabn children with WMS are presented. More
Early morphology of spatial expressions in Hungarian children: A childes study.
The study of early use of spatial expressions has been quite central in studying the language and cognition issues crosslinguistically. More
Language in Hungarian children with Williams Syndrome
In this chapter, we are going to present 4 studies all of which were designed to tap different aspects of the issue of atypical organization in the WS mental lexicon and grammar. More
The language of space in Hungarian
Hungarian played an interesting role in the formation of early theories about the relationships of cognition and language. Melania Mikes (1967) has showed in her studies of Serbian-Hungarian bilingual children that the use of locative suffixes appeared earlier in the Hungarian than in the Serbian speech of the same children of ages 2-3. More
Residual Normality and the issue of language profiles in Williams syndrome
One of the debated issues regarding Residual Normality is frequency sensitivity in Williams syndrome. We present some data on frequency sensitivity in Hungarian WS subjects. More