Dear All, Please feel free to share the below course information with your students/contacts about the below CEU Summer University course where Gergo Csibra and Anges Melinda Kovacs will be a faculty member. Application deadline is extended till Marc11, 2021! Thank you very much! CEU Summer University goes online in 2021 Representing the world in the developing mind: From objects to context<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/developing-mind-2021> 12 - 17 July, 2021 online summer course Application deadline: 22 March, 2021 Online philosophy summer course in 2021 (mailchi.mp)<https://mailchi.mp/ceu.edu/online-ceu-summer-courses-philoso… ************************** The CEU Summer University announces the course ``Representing the world in the developing mind: From objects to context<https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/developing-mind-2021>`` held between 12 July - 17 July, 2021, in BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Application deadline: February 14, 2021 https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/developing-mind-2021 BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION How does the developing mind come to represent the world? Young infants have been proposed to use similar sources of information than adults in their object-based attention. From the development of memory over executive function, number cognition, and action understanding to Theory of Mind, studies have assumed that infants have a stable representation of objects, which they enumerate and track according to the perceptual input and maintain despite occlusion. On the other hand, a number of limitations of early object cognition exist. These limitations, differences between earlier and later abilities, and contextual influences on the representation of objects are highly informative for the characterization of the cognitive mechanisms involved. A focus of the summer school will be how object representations may be influenced by context, such as language or social interactions. How the continuous perceptual environment is parsed into units also has an impact on how objects are represented and remembered. The summer school will explore how infants perceive and parse the temporal structure of their environment, what role language may play in this, and how this influences their object representation. The last decade has seen an immense advancement of methodologies in neuroscience, contributing to a better understanding of how mental representations map onto brain function in the adult brain. Very recently, researchers have started to apply these methods to infants, yielding promising avenues for understanding the neural signatures of infants’ object representation, the influences of context, and the developmental trajectories of object cognition. The summer school aims to discuss the interaction between different factors contributing to object perception and memory, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The course will bring together different fields of research with the ultimate goal to advance the understanding of how infants form representations of their environment, and how these representations develop throughout childhood. Key topics: Topic 1: Development of object representation - Faculty: Melissa Kibbe, Gergely Csibra Topic 2: The influence of language on object and event representations - Faculty: Teodora Gliga, Anna Papafragou Topic 3: The effect of social context on object representation - Faculty: Ágnes Kovács, Stefanie Hoehl Topic 4: Neural object representations - Faculty: Stefanie Hoehl, Radoslaw Martin Cichy Topic 5: Theories of mental representations - Faculty: Josef Perner, Brent Strickland Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu/> http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu<http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/>