8-9 Dec 2018
Riga, Latvia
Call for Registration: Events and Objects in Perception, Cognition, and Language 13th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication December 8-9, 2018 Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia Registration is open at https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/ About the Event 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. Keynote Speakers include (alphabetically): Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA) Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis 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) Preliminary program is available at https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/programme/ see also FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1025308637650055/ https://www.facebook.com/events/2704434583115318/ https://www.facebook.com/PerceptualandCognitiveSystems/ 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. -- [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