Conference News

II. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science — DUCOG II.

6–9 May 2010

Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) launches its second international conference in the historical town of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The poster sessions will cover various fields of cognitive science. The tutorial talks in this year will concentrate on the topic of perceptual learning.

The conference is open for scholars and students doing research on all aspects of cognitive science.

Keynote Speakers

• József Fiser
  Faculty of Psychology, Brandeis University,Waltham/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Ilona Kovács
  Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Dov Sagi
  Department of Neurobiology, Brain Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Steven M. Silverstein
  UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

Poster sessions

The core of the conference will consist of student research reports in the form of peer reviewed posters. The posters shall be organized around discussion groups chaired by senior scholars. Posters will be grouped around a central topic. Sessions will be chaired by a senior scholar assigned by the organizing committee.

Tutorial talks

The tutorials given by the keynote speakers concentrate on a given area. Their talk is not merely a presentation of some specific new research, but a survey of the tutors' own research, or of their fields, providing a general framework and message.

Venue

Centre for Advanced Academic Studies Dubrovnik, University of Zagreb
Don Frana Bulića 4
20000 Dubrovnik CROATIA

This down town site of Dubrovnik is a few hundred meters from the old town, and provides both for accommodation and lecture halls.

For further information visit the conference’s website at www.cecog.eu.

EWIC 2010

The 12th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition

The European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC) is a biannual meeting devoted to the scientific study of mental imagery and cognition. The 12th EWIC will be held in Helsinki, Finland, from June 16 to 19, 2010.

The core topic covered by the workshop is mental imagery in the visuo-spatial and other sensory modalities: auditory imagery, action and motor imagery, and imagery processes and interference. Other themes related to cognitive mechanisms in the intersection of memory and perception are also represented: working memory and attention, crossmodal and haptic space, spatial cognition and navigation, language comprehension and problem solving, and sensory and cognitive deficits.

Keynote Speakers:

• Kimmo Alho, University of Helsinki.
• Charles Spence, University of Oxford.
• Edward K. Vogel, University of Oregon.

Abstract Submission:

February 28th 2010

For more information, see the EWIC 2010 website

24th Attention and Performance Symposium on “Space, Time and Number”

CALL FOR APPLICANTS

The 24th International Attention and Performance Symposium on “Space, Time & Number” is calling for a limited number of Postdocs, advanced Graduate Students and confirmed young researchers (for instance newly appointed assistant professors) who meet their criteria for acceptance at the meeting. All expenses will be paid.

• DATE: July 6 to July 10, 2010
• LOCATION: Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay, France (http://www.unicog.org)
• ORGANISERS:
  • Elizabeth Brannon (Duke University)
  • Stanislas Dehaene (INSERM and Collège de France)
• SPONSORS:
  • Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller,
  • Ecole des Neurosciences Paris/Ile de France (ENP),
  • European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP),
  • Fondation HUGO,
  • Fondation IPSEN,
  • McDonnell Foundation (Grants to Elisabeth Brannon and Stanislas Dehaene)

OVERVIEW

Understanding how representations of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. Furthermore, how these representations differ across cultures and are changed by education is a key question that has a great many practical implications for psychology and neuropsychology. The topic is ripe for an interdisciplinary meeting with contributions from a variety of disciplines, from basic neuroscience to psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (all speakers are confirmed, titles are tentative)

Association Lecture

• Randy Gallistel (USA): Laws that govern space, time and number in humans and other animals

Human perception and psychophysics

• David Eagleman (USA): Human time perception
• Patrick Cavanagh (France): Illusory misperceptions of space, time and number
• David Burr (Italy): Cerebral relativity theory? Illusions of space and time
• Jennifer Coull (France): Attention to time and its brain mechanisms

Developmental foundations

• Lisa Feigenson (USA): Interactions between memory and number representation over development
• Stella Lourenco (USA): Spatial cognitive development
• Brian Butterworth (UK): Numerical development and dyscalculia
• Véronique Izard (France): Intuitions of number and space prior to education

Space, time and number in animals

• Liz Brannon (USA): Adding, ordering, and cross-modally matching number in primates.
• Nicola Clayton (UK): Memory for space -- food caching in scrub jays
• Giorgio Vallortigara (Italy): The origins of the sense of space in animals

Neural mechanisms and models

• Edvard Moser (Norway): The neural encoding of spatial coordinate systems
• Andreas Nieder (Germany): The neural code for number
• Dean Buonomano (USA): Models of time perception: Encoding time in neural network states
• Ehud Zohary (Israel): Space coding in ventral and dorsal visual areas

Cross-modal interactions and cross-dimensional metaphors

• Yves Rossetti (France): Neglect in the numerical, spatial and time domains
• Manuela Piazza (Italy): Cortical representation of symbolic and non-symbolic information
• Wim Fias (Netherlands): The SNARC effect as a marker of number-space interactions
• Roy Cohen-Kadosh (UK): Synesthesia: Cross-dimensional interactions in the human brain?

Linguistic and cultural dimensions

• Elizabeth Spelke (USA): How language transforms early representations of space and number
• Robert Siegler (USA): Education and the development of number-space mappings
• Lera Boroditsky (USA): Using space to think about time
• Daniel Haun (Netherlands): Comparative studies of hominid spatial cognition

PARTICIPANTS

The meeting will bring together 65 participants including contributors, observers and discussants in a broad variety of areas of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. We are now inviting advanced graduate students, post docs and young researchers (for instance newly appointed assistant professors) to apply for 12 slots that have been kept open.

WHO MAY APPLY

Applicants must be Post-docs, advanced PhD students or young researchers who have an excellent knowledge of written and spoken English. Successful applicants will be expected to have publications or submitted papers in the area. We will be especially attentive to submissions from developing or under-represented countries.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications should be submitted to Susana Franck at attperf@yahoo.fr

Applications should contain:

• A one-page curriculum vitae including a list of publications
• A one-page motivation letter, with a paragraph outlining a proposed poster
• The email address of one or two researchers who can recommend the candidate

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

December 30, 2009

PLAT2010: Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference

30th June – 2nd July 2010, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

A biennial international conference providing an exciting forum for the discussion and exchange of knowledge and expertise on all aspects of psychology teaching and learning.

Keynote speaker: Dr Marcia Baxter Magolda, Miami University of Ohio

• Submissions: 1st September 2009 – 8th January 2010
• Registration: 1st February 2010

For more information, see the PLAT2010 website.