CogSci 2023

The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society was a fully hybrid meeting with the in person portion held in Sydney, Australia at ICC Sydney (International Convention Centre Sydney) located in stunning Darling Harbour. The conference was held between July 26 – 29, 2023.

Co-Chairs

Micah Goldwater (University of Sydney, Australia)
Florencia Anggoro (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
Brett Hayes (UNSW-Sydney, Australia)
Desmond Ong (University of Texas – Austin)

Program

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2023 Conference Awards

Marr Prize

Kartik Chandra, MIT
Acting as Inverse Inverse Planning

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING PRIZES

APPLIED COGNITION
Holly Hake, University of Washington
Breaking New Ground in Computational Psychiatry: Characterizing Forgetting in Healthy Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment

HIGHER-LEVEL COGNITION
Samuel Cheyette, MIT
Limits on information-processing governs active learning in humans

LANGUAGE
Richard Futrell, UC Irvine
An information-theoretic account of availability effects in language production

PERCEPTION & ACTION
Linxing Preston Jiang, University of Washington
Dynamic Predictive Coding Explains Both Prediction and Postdiction in Visual Motion Perception

SAYAN GUL AWARD

Yikai Tang, University of Toronto
Unequal Norms Emerge Under Coordination Uncertainty in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AWARDS

Mohammad Arvan
Linguistic Cognitive Load Analysis on Dialogues with an Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Yuzhen Dong
The Development in Emotional Content of Children’s Writing: Are Children Getting Less Happy?

Eliza Kosoy
Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses

Khuyen N. Le
Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics

Ege Otenen
Exploring the Role of Visual Imagery in the Recall of Emotional Autobiographical Memories

Sidharth Ranjan
A bounded rationality account of dependency length minimization in Hindi

Nishad Singhi
Toward a normative theory of (self-)management by goal-setting

Olivia Soesanto
Social connection on the dance floor: Movement coordination in small group silent disco leads to greater self-other overlap

Yasmine Tachakourt
The influence of multilingualism on cross-situational statistical word learning and mutual exclusivity

Anjoom Alikkam Veetil
Handedness Modulates Spatial Attention – Insights From Individual Variations In Lateralization Of Cognitive Functions

Diversity & Social Inequality Award

Matthew Adam Turner
Minority-group incubators and majority-group reservoirs for promoting the diffusion of climate change and public health adaptations