The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the second annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary. As the only annual European conference focusing on cognitive development, the BCCCD welcomes submissions in all related topics and areas. Past conferences have included presentations on comparative cognition,cultural cognition, early social cognition, language, conceptual learning, methodological issues, and moral cognition.


January 12-14, 2012
Central European University, Budapest
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/


INVITED SPEAKERS
Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania)
Giorgio Vallortigara (University of Trento)


INVITED SYMPOSIA

Invited symposium on early social cognition
 Organizer: Gustav Gredebäck (Uppsala University)

Invited symposium on inductive learning
 Organizer: Laura Schulz (MIT)


SUBMISSIONS will open June 15th for symposium proposals and poster abstracts at http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/.

SYMPOSIA
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 submitted.

Deadline for symposium proposals: September 10, 2011

Symposium organizers will be notified about acceptance by September 30 at 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
Please submit a 250-word abstract on the website.
Deadline for poster abstracts: October 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance will be sent by October 31 at the latest.


REGISTRATION

Early bird (by November 15)
Regular EUR 120
Student EUR  85

Standard (after November 15)
Regular EUR 140
Student EUR  100

The meeting begins at 1 PM on Thursday, January 12th, and ends at 7 PM on Saturday, January 14th. Conference attendance will be limited and there will be no parallel sessions.

Information about the conference location and accommodation will be announced at a later date. For more information see the conference website at http://www.asszisztencia.hu/bcccd/