Conference News
Neuroscience and Cognitive control 2008
Neuroscience and Cognitive control is a small (intense, if you prefer) two-day seminar that will be held on 4 and 5 December 2008 at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). During this seminar 6 keynote speakers will address the influence of neuroscience in the study of cognition and a limited number of participants (80) is expected to (co)author a poster. The keynotes have 45 minutes to critically address their specific paradigm and the knowledge obtained with it. Additionally, after each keynote presentation, a 15 minutes talk related to the topic addressed by the keynote speaker will be held. These talks will be selected from the 6 best poster submissions. Marcel Brass is chair and discussant.
Keynotes:
- Matthew Botvinick (Princeton, United States)
- John Duncan (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Glyn Humphreys (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
- Emmanuel Procyk (Lyon, France)
- Richard Ridderinkhof (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Matthew Rushworth (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Chair & Discussant: Marcel Brass (Ghent, Belgium)
Website: http://expsy.ugent.be/neurocog/index.htm
Info and Poster submissions: wim.notebaert@ugent.be
Organizing committee:
- Wim Notebaert
- Wim Gevers
- Baptist Liefooghe
Neurocognitive approaches to control and working memory
...to be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, on 30 and 31 May 2008. The workshop is sponsored by the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), EPOS graduate research school, and PAOS institute for post-academic education.
Preliminary list of speakers:
Additional invitations are pending.
Topics:
The expertise of the invited speakers spans the full spectrum of working memory related research, with topics like attention, cognitive control, goal maintenance, storage, retrieval, and capacity limitations. The approaches covered by the invitees include neural network computations, patient studies, pharmacology, animal research, neuroimaging and psychophysiology. Thus, all the ingredients are available for a lively and interesting exchange of the latest results.
Location:
The expert meeting will be held in the "Lipsius"-building, room 228, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD Leiden. This building is located in the old city centre, at walking distance from hotels, restaurants and the railway station. For a map, see http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/pdf/organisatie/route_wsd.pdf. It is recommended not to take a car into town.
Program:
The expert meeting will span two full days: May 30 and 31st. A detailed program will be sent after titles have been gathered (i.e., early April).
On May 29th, there will be a tutorial meeting, mainly aimed at PhD students, to guarantee that presentations and discussions can be held at an advanced level.
Participation:
There is a maximum of 56 participants to the meeting, including the speakers. Access will be given with priority to EPOS and ESCoP members and researchers at PhD level or higher with a clear affinity with the topic. Participation is free for invited speakers and members of EPOS and ESCoP. Other participants will be charged € 150 (including catering). To apply for participation (as audience), send an e-mail to band@fsw.leidenuniv.nl, indicating whether you are a member of EPOS or ESCoP, and if not, add a description of a few sentences to motivate your affinity with the topic.
Do not hesitate to mail one of the organizers in case you have questions.
We are looking forward to this promising expert meeting.
Nelleke van Wouwe
Merel Pannebakker
Guido Band
2nd Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology
we would like to kindly invite you to the 2nd Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, entitled Personality, Cognition, and Emotion. The conference will be organized in Warsaw School of Social Psychology in Warsaw on September 18 to 21, 2008.
The conference will be an opportunity to explore promising new trends and key changes in the conceptualiazation of personality, emotion, and cognition.
For details please, visit our web site: www.bspsp.edu.pl
We are open for contributions of various kinds.
Please check out the conference website. We look forward to your contributions and registration.
Organizing Committee
- Malgorzata Fajkowska
- Joanna Kantor-Martynuska
- Konrad Maj
- Agata Wytykowska
- Szymon Wichary
- Weronika Debowska
- Ewa Domaradzka
- Anna Zagórska
Scientific Committee
- Michael W. Eysenck
- Malgorzata Fajkowska
- Alina Kolanczyk
- Tomasz Maruszewski
- Gerald Matthews
- Blazej Szymura
6th International Conference of Cognitive Science
The 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS 2008) will be held back in Korea from July 27th through 29th, 2008, eleven years after its first meeting in Korea. It aims at being a forum for international researchers to present their works in the area of, or related to, cognitive science, following the previous conferences held in Korea (1997), Japan (1999), China (2001), Australia (2003) and Canada (2006 - in conjunction with the Cognitive Science Society Meeting).
We solicit interested researchers to submit works pursuing a scientific understanding of the mind through all available methodologies, notably those of aesthetics, anthropology, artificial intelligence, computer science, education, linguistics, learning sciences, logic, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology, or any other disciplines insofar as it is deemed to be of interest to those who pursue the study of the structure of the mind, through any other newly developing methodologies that are most appropriate to promote cognitive science. Any suggestions or plans for workshops or special meetings that will form part of ICCS2008 should be addressed to the chairman of the program committee as soon as possible.
Plenary Speakers:
- David Chalmers (ANU): Extending the Mind into the World
- Gary Libben (Toronto U) On the issue of Mental Lexicon
- James Pustejovsky (Brandeis) The Structure of the Lexicon (tentative)
- Jean Aitchison (Oxford) Evolution of Language(tentative)
- Susan Fischer (UCSD) and a Japanese cognitive neuroscientist in contact.
Deadlines:
Workshop proposals: March 15, 2008 (the sooner the better - with the organizer's name, title and tentative number of presenters and at least a few representative prosepective presenters). One workshop on quantification has been proposed by a group of Japanese linguists including Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku) together with scholars from other countries and another one is just under construction by an American team including Daeyeol Lee (Yale).
Paper and poster abstracts: March 15, 2008 (2-page, 12-point, Word and PDF default margins, including crucial data and selected references, anonymously) with separate Author Info page, specifying:
- title,
- authors,
- affiliation (faculty, postdoc, or student),
- e-mail address and phone number,
- oral paper only, poster possible, or poster only.
Acceptance will be notified by April 1, 2008; Full paper in camera-ready form, 2-column, 4 pages, 12-point, Word and PDF default margins, by May 20, 2008. All submissions to http://iccs.yonsei.ac.kr but to iccskorea@gmail.com (particularly workshop proposals; if urgent, to clee@snu.ac.kr) before construction.
Organizing Committee:
Chair: Chan-Sup Chung (Yonsei U), Min-Shik Kim, Sang Chul Chong, Yllbyung Lee, Do-Joon Yi, Hyung-Chul Li, Seong-Whan Lee, Jinwoo Kim.
Program Committee:
Chair: Chungmin Lee (Seoul Nat'l U)
Co-chair: Hee-Rahk Chae (HUFS)
Dedre Gentner (US), Naomi Miyake (Japan), Paul Thagard (Canada). Li Chen (China), Koiti Hasida (Japan), Charles Ling (Canada), Peter Slezak (Australia), Li-Hai Tan (Hong Kong), Bruno G, Bara (Italy), Frank Pollick (UK), Daeyeol Lee (US), Marvin Chun (US). Chu-Ren Huang (Taiwan), Yukinori Takubo (Japan).
Local: Sook Whan Cho, Soo-Young Lee, Jongsup Jun, Hyo Pil Shin, Kyung-Soo Do, Woo Hyun Jung, Choongkil Lee, Kichun Nam, Kwangoh Yi, Jin-Hoon Sohn, Sung-Bae Cho, Beom-mo Kang, Byung-Tak Zhang, Byong Rae Ryu, Heedon Ahn, ChangHo Park, Kihyeon Kim. Hyun-joo Song, Jae-Woong Choe.
Local Advisory Committee: Key-Sun Choi, Jin-Hyung Kim, Kyung-Jin Kim, Young-Jung Kim, Jun-Soo Kwon, Ik-Hwan Lee, Chai-Song Hong, Jung-Mo Lee, Ill-Hwan Rim, Yoo-Hun Suh, Myung-Hyun Lee.
Related Sister Events:
Two closely related huge international conferences will be held immediately before and after ICCS 2008, all in Seoul: The 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18, July 21-26, 2008, Korea U) and the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy (WCP, July 30-Aug. 5, 2008, Seoul Nat'l U). Cross-participation in the rare academic Olympics is highly recommended for intellectuals of high caliber.
ICCS6 is hosted by The Korean Society for Cognitive Science (KSCS) in association with ICCS Steering Committee and sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Science of Yonsei University, BK Projects of Yonsei University (Psychology and Cognitive Science, Computer Science), Institute for Cognitive Science of Seoul National University, Korean Psychological Association, and KRF/KOSEF.
Cognitive Development, Mechanisms and Constraints
July 3rd – 5th, 2008, Université de Genève Unimail
The Archives Jean Piaget organize in July 3–5 2008 their 18th Advanced Course. The aim of this biannual conference is to group the best specialists of a domain around a topic that has a particular relevance for Jean Piaget's theory and developmental psychology. One of the most important aspects of Piaget’s legacy in the domain of developmental psychology has probably been the theories known as the "neo-piagetian" theories.
Among the new proposals and ideas these theories put forward, the idea that cognitive development is underpinned by some increase in cognitive resources, mental power or attentional capacity is of particular relevance when considering the importance of the concept of cognitive resources and working memory capacity in the contemporary psychology. Thus, the next Advanced Course is entitled Cognitive development, mechanisms and constraints. Its objective is to gather prominent theorists in the field of cognitive development within a neo-piagetian perspective with specialists of the development of working memory, attention and executive functions.
Invited speakers
The plenary speakers invited to give a one-hour lecture are:
- Tracy Alloway (University of Durham)
- Valérie Camos (Université de Bourgogne)
- Nelson Cowan (University of Missouri)
- Andreas Demetriou (University of Cyprus)
- Sue Gathercole (University of York)
- Graeme Halford (University of Queensland)
- Graham Hitch (University of York)
- Chris Jarrold (University of Bristol)
- Juan Pascual Leone (York University)
- Anik de Ribaupierre (University of Geneva)
- Lee Swanson (University of California)
- John Towse (University of Lancaster)
The Advanced Course is open to any scholar, researcher or student interested in cognitive development, working memory and executive functions who are invited to submit posters related to these topics.
Please visit the Archives Jean Piaget website for inscriptions and submission details or contact Marylene.Bennour@pse.unige.ch.
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