BUDAPEST CEU CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT (BCCCD)
January 14-15, 2011
Central European University, Budapest
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Ellen Markman (Stanford University)
- Josep Call (MPI EVA, Leipzig)
INVITED SYMPOSIA
- Development of social cognition in the first two years of life
Organizer: Ulf Liszkowski (MPI, Nijmegen)
- Integrated approaches to phonological and lexical development
Organizer: Thierry Nazzi (CNRS-Universite Paris Descartes)
- Comparative aspects of social cognition: caveats and perspectives
Organizer: József Topál (MTA, PKI, Hungary)
- Developmental origins of property ownership
Organizer: Ori Friedman (University of Waterloo)
SUBMISSIONS are now open for symposium proposals and poster abstracts.
SYMPOSIA - submission by email
Please submit an integrative statement of max 500 words, and abstracts for
each presentation (max 4 presentations, max 250 words each). Symposia should
aim to integrate different viewpoints in the field. One file containing the
integrative statement and all the participating presenters' abstracts should
be sent in either Word or PDF format to bcccd11(a)ceu.hu. In the e-mail,
please list:
- the name of the symposium organizer
- the names of each of the presenting authors and their affiliations
(Department, Institution, City, Country)
Deadline for symposium proposals: September 10, 2010
Symposium organizers will be notified about acceptance by September 30 the
latest. We have limited slots for symposia, and participants of submitted
symposia that we cannot include in the program are welcome to resubmit their
presentation for the poster sessions.
POSTERS - submission through the web page
Please submit a 250-word abstract through the conference web page:
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
Deadline for poster abstracts: October 10, 2010
Notification of acceptance will be sent in email by October 30.
REGISTRATION
Early bird (by November 15)
Regular EUR 100
Student EUR 70
Standard (after November 15)
Regular EUR 130
Student EUR 90
ACCOMMODATION
Rooms available at discounted rate in the hotel that serves as the
conference venue:
http://www.artotels.com/hotels/hunbuart
Single Room: EUR 55 / night
Double Room: EUR 65 / night
For more information see the conference web site at
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/
The next talk in the CEU Cognitive Development Center seminar series will be
given by
Dr. Jean Mandler
University of California, San Diego and University College London
Date: September 8, 2010, *3 PM* (NOTE: this talk will not be held at the
usual time!)
Location: CEU Cognitive Development Center
Hattyú u. 14, Budapest, 3rd floor
*Title: The spatial foundation of the conceptual system …and how we go
beyond it
*
Abstract: A model of early concept formation is presented that accounts for
conceptual activity in the first year of life, describes how the increasing
complexity of conceptual development comes about, and predicts the order in
which new types of information accrue to the core conceptual system. It
lists a small set of primitives used by a domain-general mechanism of
perceptual meaning analysis (PMA) to redescribe motion and other
spatio-temporal information into a schematic spatial form that results in
potentially accessible concepts (Mandler, 2004). This mechanism avoids
having to posit separate innate domain-specific modules. Combinations of the
primitives it operates with are sufficient to provide the first meanings
used to understand events, make inferences, and categorize objects into
different kinds. Only as infants begin to move themselves around in the
world and act on objects do internal feelings of force get integrated into
existing spatially based concepts involving causation, and internal feelings
of trying get integrated into existing spatially based concepts of
goal-directed behavior. Concepts of knowing and emotions, as well as sensory
concepts such as colors, are still later acquisitions because of lack of a
structured spatial core into which the relevant unstructured internal
experiences can be integrated. In these cases language may be required to
provide conceptual descriptions.
Attendees are encouraged to read the attached paper as background, in order
to facilitate discussion after the talk.
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