12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE New Bulgarian University, Sofia, July 25 - August 13, 2005 Courses: - Douglas Medin (Northwestern University, USA) - Culture and Cognition - Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech, USA) - Cognitive Studies of Scientific and Technological Thinking - Herbert Schriefers (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Lexical Access in Language Production: From Words to Phrases (to Sentences) - Rainer Goebel (Univ. Maastricht, The Netherlands) - Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience - Richard Young (Univ. Birmingham, UK) - An Introduction to Cognitive Modeling and Cognitive Architectures - Gary Cottrell (UCSD, USA) - Modeling Face and Visual Object Processing with Neural Nets - Rob Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) - Complex Adaptive System Analyses of Individual and Group Behavior - Salvatore Rizzello (Univ. Torino, Italy) - Introduction to Cognitive Economics - Daniel Houser (George Mason Univ., USA) - Experimental Economics - Massimo Egidi (University of Trento, Italy) - Biases in Organizational Decision Making - Bernard Walliser (CNRS, France) - Reinforcement Learning in Game Theory For more information on the Summer School look at: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2005.html During this period the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS will take place (August 5-8) and the summer school participants will have the chance to attend some of the sessions without additional expenses. For more information on the conference please visit http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/cogecon2005.html Organized by the New Bulgarian University Sponsored by the European Commission, 5th Framework Program Endorsed by the Cognitive Science Society Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Blvd., room 401, Sofia 1618 phone: (+3592) 811-0401 fax: (+3592)811-0421 e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.bg, cogeco(a)cogs.nbu.bg