CogSci 2024 SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers
University of Toronto, Canada
Morgan Barense
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Dynamics between minds and the environment
Morgan Barense is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, as well as the Endowed Max and Gianna Glassman Chair of Neuropsychology at Baycrest Hospital. She serves as the Director of the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility at the University of Toronto and is also the Principal Investigator of the Memory and Perception lab in the Department of Psychology, where her team works to understand how the brain supports memory and how memory is affected by aging and dementia. Recently, her research has focused on developing digital memory rehabilitation tools that are inspired by how the brain supports memory.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Andrea E. Martin
Friday, July 26, 2024
Dynamics between minds
Andrea E. Martin is a Lise Meitner Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and a Principal Investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University. Her research group focuses on models of language processing and neural dynamics. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College, and an MA and PhD in Experimental Psychology from New York University. She was a postdoc at the Basque Centre for Cognition, Brain, and Language, a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, a senior investigator at the MPI, and a Max Planck Research Group Leader.
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Gregor Schöner
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Dynamics within the mind
Gregor Schöner has pursued an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to problems in human movement, visual psychophysics, grounded cognition, autonomous robotics, and computer vision. In close link to experiment, Gregor Schöner seeks to develop a neurally grounded framework to understand how cognition emerges from its sensory-motor foundations. He uses robotic demonstrations of neural dynamic models to probe how these provide process accounts for emerging cognitive function. Gregor Schöner has directed the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University for over 20 years, published over 270 papers and lectured all over the world.
Rumelhart Prize Keynote
Thursday, July 25th
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley AI Research Group. She was one of the founders of “theory of mind”, the “theory theory” and probabilistic models approaches to cognition. She has received the APS Lifetime William James Award, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Guggenheim Fellow.
Heineken Prize Keynote
Friday, July 26th
The C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
This prize honours pioneering work and research excellence in cognitive science Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken established the prize in 2006 in memory of her father Alfred Heineken, who was fascinated by the workings of the human brain. Cognitive science is still a young field of research. But a wealth of experience has been built up over the past half century on our ability to think, talk, learn, decide, and perceive. With this prize, awarded every two years, Charlenee Carvalho-Heineken wants to honour researchers worldwide who have made groundbreaking discoveries within the field.
University of Oxford, UK
Kia Nobre
Kia Nobre is a distinguished cognitive neuroscientist and Director of the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Her groundbreaking research explores how the brain dynamically prioritizes information from the sensory stream and from memories to shape psychological experience and guide behavior. Originating from Rio de Janeiro, Nobre earned her PhD at Yale in 1993 and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Before joining Yale in 2023, she held significant roles at the University of Oxford, including Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity. Nobre’s research, mentorship, and leadership contributions have earned her fellowships in prestigious international societies and numerous accolades, including the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Award for Cognitive Science in 2022.
Gleitman Prize Keynote
Thursday, July 25th
Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et en Neurosciences (CNRS)
Isabelle Dautriche
Isabelle Dautriche is the recipient of the 2024 Lila R. Gleitman Prize. Dautriche is a Junior Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et en Neurosciences (CNRS) in Aix-Marselle University, France. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences at the University Paris V, France, following a degree in Engineering (Mathematics and Modeling) at the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France.
Rumelhart Symposium
Friday, July 26
Childhood as Exploration
In honor of Alison Gopnik, this year’s Rumelhart Award recipient, research related to her work will be presented in this special symposium.
Symposium Chair
Tamar Kushnir, Duke University
Presenters:
Caren Walker, UCSD
Tom Griffiths, Princeton University
Willem Frankenhuis, University of Amsterdam
Laura Schulz, MIT
Elman Prize Symposium
Friday, July 26
In honour of Asifa Majid, this year’s Jeffrey L. Elman Prize recipient, research related to her work will be presented in this special symposium.
University of Oxford
Symposium Chairs
Laura Speed, Radboud University
Ewelina Wnuk, University of Warsaw
Presenters:
Carolyn O’Meara, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Artin Arshamian, Karolinska Institute
Laura Speed, Radboud University
Ewelina Wnuk, University of Warsaw
Invited Symposium
DYNAMICS between minds and the environment
Thursday, July 25, 2024
with
Kenji Doya, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Alex Clarke, University of Cambridge
Willem Frankenhuis, University of Amsterdam
Minds interact with the environment across multiple time scales. Cognition in the moment requires dynamic adjustment of sensory and motor processes in response to changing environmental input: we update our visual attention, recalculate the strength of our grasp, and navigate new landscapes. Cognition is also sensitive to the pattern of our experiences over weeks to months, as we explore and build memories. We accumulate information about our environments throughout life, with early experiences playing an especially formative role in our beliefs about the stability of our resources and relationships.
DYNAMICS between the minds
Friday, July 26, 2024
with
Julia Fischer, German Primate Center
Lynn Perry, University of Miami
Henny Admoni, Carnegie Mellon University
Julian Jara-Ettinger, Yale University
Real-world cognition is affected by ever-present interactions with other agents. The mind dynamically adjusts according to observations about other agents, such as of their behavior, actions, and sentiment, as well as to inferences about their hidden states, such as their goals, intentions, and trustworthiness. This symposium highlights the processes that enable this flexible adjustment across multiple timescales of cognition.
DYNAMICS within the mind
Saturday, July 27, 2024
with
Caterina Gratton, Florida State University
Ping Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shinji Nishimoto, Osaka University
Andrea Kiesel, University of Freiburg
Cognition requires the cooperation and coordination of multiple representations across the mind and brain. These interactions must be tailored to allow for the vast range of task-specific transformations that involve overlapping sets of inputs, outputs, and internal states. This symposium explores the processes that allow dynamic interactions between systems to enable flexible computation that can subserve changing demands.
