iCog inaugural conference
Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science
Sheffield, 29 November – 1 December 2013
Friday, 29 November
14:00 Registration/coffee
14:45 Welcome
15:00 Symposium: Metaphor, machine learning, concept acquisition
Anna Jelec (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Matthew Capetola (Oxford), Richard Stöckle-Schobel (Edinburgh)
16:15 Break
16:30 Invited talk: ‘Learning to be an effective communicator: language acquisition in the first five years of life’
Danielle Matthews (Psychology, Sheffield)
17:30 Break
18:00 Keynote: ‘Does mind matter?’
Colin Blakemore (Neuroscience & Philosophy, SAS, London)
19:30 Dinner
Saturday, 30 November
09:30 Invited talk: ‘Time is our fruit fly: The case of temporal cognition’
Vyv Evans (Linguistics, Bangor)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Symposium: Affect regulation and the fading affect bias
David Cameron (Sheffield), Kate Muir (University of the West of England)
11:45 Break
12:00 Symposium: Social cognition and moral psychology
Sylvia Terbeck (Plymouth), Hossein Dabbagh (Reading/Oxford), Selin Ilgaz (Goldsmiths)
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Symposium: Consciousness and rationality
Andrea Polonioli (Edinburgh), Tom McClelland (Manchester)
15:15 Break
15:45 Symposium: Cognitive puzzles: cargo cults and cave art
Eveline Seghers (Ghent), Radu Umbres (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
16:45 Break
17:15 Invited talk: ‘On why anthropologists and psychologists need each other: reflections from Madagascar’
Rita Astuti (Anthropology, LSE)
18:15 Break
18:30 Poster session and drinks reception (supported by Language and Cognition)
Haifa Alatawi (Leeds), Jordan Black (Oxford) & Lisa Martignetti (Concordia), Gerhard Böck (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde), Christopher Brand (Birkbeck), Alessio Bucci (Edinburgh), Joe Dewhurst (Edinburgh), Krzysztof Dolega (independent researcher), Stephanie Grohman (Goldsmiths), Manuel Heras Escribano (Granada) & Javier González de Prado (Southampton/UNED), Jessica Hodgson (Lincoln), Asier Lafarga (Salamanca), Yan Tao (Cambridge), Enrico Torre (Lancaster), Meilin Zhan (Edinburgh)
20:00 Dinner
Sunday, 1 December
09:30 Invited talk: ‘Prediction and the sciences of mind’
Andy Clark (Philosophy, Edinburgh)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Symposium: Methodologies in the sciences of mind
Kelly Vassie (Birkbeck), Andrew Buskell (Cambridge), Eric Hochstein (Leeds)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Symposium: Delusions, hallucinations, inner speech
Kengo Miyazono (Birmingham), Victor Fernández Castro (Granada), Sam Wilkinson (Durham)
14:15 Break
14:30 Invited talk: ‘Mind mechanisms: the importance of understanding how the brain takes decisions and implements emotion, memory, and attention’
Edmund T Rolls (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience)
15:30 Wrap-up session: Future activities of iCog
16:00 Training session: Using PsychoPy (ends at 17:30)
Lily FitzGibbon (Sheffield)