The 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society was an in-person meeting held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands at the Postillion Hotel & Conference Centre on Wednesday July 24th – Saturday July 27th, 2024.

Program Chairs

Larissa K Samuelson, University of East Anglia
Stefan Frank, Radboud University
Mariya Toneva, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Allyson Mackey, University of Pennsylvania
Eliot Hazeltine, University of Iowa

Program

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Recordings of the invited program (keynote speakers, award presentations, and invited symposia) are now available for viewing. Once on the site, click the calendar icon on the left to open the agenda. Select view by week and navigate to the day and time slot of the recording you wish to view.

Recordings available:

Thursday, July 25
0900: Keynote Speaker Morgan Barense on Enhancing real-world event memory
1000: Gleitman Award Winner Isabelle Dautriche on Language Foundations: Insights from acquisition, communication, cognition, and more
1415: Invited Symposium: Dynamics between minds and the environment
1700: Rumelhart Prize Presentation Speaker Alison Gopnik on Explore, exploit, empower: Three ages and three intelligences

Friday, July 26
0900: C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize Keynote Speaker Kia Nobre on Focusing in memory
1030: Rumelhart Symposium: Childhood as exploration
1415: Elman Prize Symposium
1600: Invited Symposium: Dynamics between minds
1745: Keynote Speaker Andrea E. Martin on Neural dynamics encode the structure and statistics of language

Saturday, July 27
0900: Keynote Speaker Gregor Schöner on How higher cognition emerges from the dynamics of strongly interacting neural populations
1000: Glushko Talks
1500: Invited Symposium: Dynamics within minds

2024 Conference Awards

Marr Prize

Amanda Royka, Yale University
Probing Nonhuman Primate Errors on False Belief Tasks to Explore the Evolutionary Roots of Theory of Mind

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING PRIZES

APPLIED COGNITION
Thomas Wilschut, University of Groningen
Modality Matters: Evidence for the Benefits of Speech-Based Adaptive Retrieval Practice in Learners with Dyslexia

HIGHER-LEVEL COGNITION
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Delusional Hedge Algorithm as a Model of Human Learning from Diverse Opinions

LANGUAGE
Maayan Keshev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A working memory model of sentence processing as binding morphemes to syntactic positions

PERCEPTION & ACTION
Oli Liu, University of Edinburgh
A predictive learning model can simulate temporal dynamics and context effects found in neural representations of continuous speech

SAYAN GUL AWARD

Guangyuan Jiang, MIT
Finding structure in logographic writing with library learning

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AWARDS

Guangyuan Jiang (MIT) 
Finding structure in logographic writing with library learning

Wasita Mahaphanit (Dartmouth College) 
When and why does shared reality generalize?

Carlos G. Correa  (Princeton University) 
Program-Based Strategy Induction for Reinforcement Learning

Christina Steele (Harvard University)
Early Threads of Connection: Probing Infants’ Early Understandings of Caregiving Relationships

Zeynep Genç (University of Kent)
What If Pascale Had Gone to Another School: The Effect of Counterfactual Alternatives on 5-6-year-olds’ Moral and Happiness Judgments

Calvin Deans-Browne (UCL)
Inconsistent Arguments are Perceived as Better Than Appeals to Authority: An Extension of the Everyday Belief Bias

Chen Zhu (Tsinghua University, China)
DELTA: Dynamic Embedding Learning with Truncated Conscious Attention for CTR Prediction

Bilge Tınaz (Özyeğin University, Turkey)
Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition

Tsz-chung Ronald Chan (University of Hong Kong)
The Effect of Music on College Students’ Stress Level and Cognitive Performance, a Perceived Pleasantness of Music Makes the Difference

Ankit Yadav (National Brain Research Centre, India)
Differential Neural Correlates of EEG Mediate the Impact of Internally and Externally Directed Attention in a Dual-task Working Memory Paradigm

Diversity & Social Inequality Award

Aarthi Popat, Yale University
The Hair Club for Boys: How children and adults judge disparate impact rule

Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science
2024 Paper Winners

Ahyeon Choi, Seoul National University
The Effects of Musical Factors on the Perception of Auditory Illusions

Neele Engelmann, University of Granada
Understanding rule enforcement using drift diffusion models

Aida Ramezani, University of Toronto
Moral association graph: A cognitive model for moral inference
 

2024 Symposia Winner

Cédric Colas, MIT, Gaia Molinaro and Junyi Chu

What Should I Do Now? Goal-Centric Outlooks on Learning, Exploration, and Communication

Sponsors and Exhibitors

The Cognitive Science Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the CogSci Grove which aims to mobilise cognitive scientists to offset carbon emissions associated with their professional activities.