8-9 Dec 2018
Riga, Latvia
Final Call for papers & Deadline Extension [Due to several requests we?re extending the deadline for abstract submission to May 15, 2018] 13th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication *Events and Objects in Perception, Cognition, and Language.* https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/ December 8 and 9, 2018 Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia *Speakers* include (alphabetically): Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA) Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) Chris Sinha (Hunan University, China) Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California, USA) Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago, USA) Jeff Zacks (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) *Program Committee* (alphabetically); Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA) Nora Newcombe (Temple University, USA) Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California, USA) Jur?is ??ilters (University of Latvia, Latvia) Jur?is Strautmanis (University Childrens Clinical Hospital, Latvia) The symposium is organized by Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia in collaboration of and with support by the Baltic Child Neurology Association, Robert Blumberg (the honorary consul of the Republic of Latvia in Illinois), Modris and Vallija Galenieks, the software company Accenture, and the University of Latvia Foundation. The conference will include the Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture, founded and supported by Robert Blumberg, the honorary consul of the Republic of Latvia in Illinois. *Call for Papers* Object and event perception are core features of human cognitive processing. Further, these core human cognitive abilities may be reflected differently in language and in perception. This symposium aims to integrate perspectives from different areas (including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, AI, and philosophy). The symposium will focus primarily on the following topics, but is not limited to them: Events and objects Events in space and time Event perception from a developmental perspective Developmental origins of event and object perception Neural principles of event and object perception Perception of causality Relations between objects and events Typology of events and objects Events in semantics *Deadlines:* Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be submitted by May 15 ( lpcs@lu.lv). (Abstracts should contain a brief description of relevant theory, research design and methods, and results.) Authors will be notified in the second half of May. https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/ -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam