Dear Colleagues,

 

The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the seventh annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 5-7, 2017). BCCCD is the only annual conference entirely focused on cognitive development in Europe. Submissions from all areas within this field of research are welcome. 

Past BCCCD conferences included presentations on a variety of topics such as comparative cognition, cross-cultural psychology, conceptual learning, early socio-moral cognition, language, numeracy, and object cognition. 

Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development 
Conference Dates: January 5-7, 2017
Central European University, Budapest
http://bcccd.org

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alison Gopnik (Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)
When and why children are better learners than adults

Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
The Neuroscience of Social Emotions and Cognition: From Ontogeny to Plasticity

INVITED SYMPOSIUM

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Speakers will include:

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (CEA, DSV/I2BM, NeuroSpin Center, Paris, France)

Martin Giurfa (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (CNRS), University of Toulouse, France)

David Barner (Language and Development Lab, UC San Diego)

And Richard Aslin (Center for Brain Imaging, University of Rochester, New York) as discussant

 

We have set up a Facebook page for potential symposium participants to find each other. Please visit the BCCCD17 symposium finder at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/192549250851825/

Deadline for symposium proposals: September 11, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 3, 2016.

PAPERS

An abstract of maximum 250 words should be submitted. The BCCCD17 scientific committee will assemble accepted paper presentations into paper sessions consisting of 3 or 4 paper presentations. Deadline for paper abstract submissions: September 11, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 3, 2016.

POSTERS

There are two deadlines for poster abstracts:
- Early deadline for those who need an early decision to apply for funding: July 4, 2016. Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2016.
- Standard deadline: October 10, 2016. Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2016.

Please visit the conference website at http://bcccd.org for more information about the conference.

Best Regards,
The BCCCD17 Organizing Committee