iCog 2
Perspectives on Learning
Edinburgh, 15th – 16th October 2014
Wednesday, 15th October
09:00 Registration and coffee
Session 1: Concept Acquisition
09:30 Alex Doumas, “Learning structured representations from scratch: an overview of the DORa project”
10:30 Richard Stöckle-Schobel, “On the evidence for prelinguistic concept learning”
11:15 Samantha Austen, “Revealing conceptual transfer in adult second language acquisition: a cognitive approach”
12 noon Lunch and poster session
Session 2: Learning and Language
13:00 Jean-Marc Dewaele, “Emotions in Multiple Languages”
14:00 Charlotte Field, Melissa Allen and Charlie Lewis, “Language acquisition from social cues, associative cues and conflicting cues in typically and atypically developing children”
14:45 James Kusch & Dror Abend David. “Why Study a Foreign Language? Motivation, Pedagogy and Translation Theory in Foreign/Second Language Acquisition”
15:30 Refreshment break
16:00 Jan Derry, “Inferentialism, pedagogy, and knowledge”
19:00 Dinner at Ciao Roma
Thursday, 16th October
09:00 Registration and coffee
Session 3: Perceptual and numerical learning
09:30 Andrew Philippides, ” Visual learning in insects: a case study in synthetic neuroethology”
10:30 Vicente Raja Galian, “Perceptual Learning and Ecological Augmented Reality (PLEAR)”
11:15 Andrew Manches and Mihaela Dragomir, “Gesture as a window into how physical interaction shapes young children’s numerical development”
12 noon Lunch and poster session
Session 4: Neurology and brain imaging
13:00 Szu-Han Wang, “Keep the adaptive learning and lose the maladaptive one”
14:00 Jessica Diaz and Marios Philiastides, “The Nature and Neural Locus of Perceptual Learning”
14:45 Anjuli Manrique, “Literacy, Anthropology and Brain Imaging”
15:30 Refreshment break
16:00 Rosie Flewitt, “A broader view of learning from multimodal ethnography”
17:00 Close