1st Russian Conference on Cognitive Science, Second call for papers

Wed Feb 11 22:33:29 UTC 2004

FIRST RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE
October 9-12, 2004, Kazan
Second Call for Papers

The goal of the conference is to create a joint forum for representatives
from various disciplines exploring cognition and its evolution, intellect,
thinking, perception, consciousness, knowledge representation and
acquisition, language as a means of cognition and communication, brain
mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior.
Psychologists, linguists, neurophysiologists, specialists in artificial
intelligence and neuroinformatics, computer scientists, philosophers,
anthropologists, as well as other scientists interested in interdisciplinary
issues in cognitive studies, are invited to take part in the conference. The
organizers believe it is important for specialists from all these kinds of
background to develop a common interdisciplinary language.

The conference will be held in one of the major university cities of Russia,
Kazan. It will be organized by Kazan State University that is going to turn
200 years old this year. The conference program will include several
one-hour overview lectures by leading experts in cognitive research. Among
the invited speakers will be:

Konstantin V. Anokhin (Moscow)
    "The language genes" and the "Korsakoff mouse": What can we learn about
cognition from transgenic animals?

Wallace Chafe (Santa Barbara, California)
    The roles of observation, experimentation, and introspection in
understanding the mind

Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (Saint-Petersburg)
    To be announced

Sandro V. Kodzasov (Moscow)
    Intonation as the marker of an utterance's  informational environment

Michael Posner (Eugene, Oregon)
    The development of neural network related to attention and self
regulation

Helge Ritter (Bielefeld)
    Artificial attention as a basis for cognitive robots

Michael Tomasello (Leipzig and Atlanta, Georgia)
    The cultural origins of human cognition

Boris M. Velichkovsky (Dresden and Moscow)
    Cognitive science applied

Besides the invited lectures, central to the conference will be 30-minutes
section talks by other participants. These talks will be given most of the
time, since the main goal of the conference is informational exchange among
the widest possible range of specialists. In addition, a poster session and
a junior researchers' session are planned. All interested individuals are
encouraged to propose abstracts of their papers, based on completed,
high-quality, original unpublished research.

Cognitive science is by definition interdisciplinary. The conference can be
successful only if all of its participants, first, will be interested in the
research of their colleagues from the neighboring fields and open to
unfamiliar mode of thinking and communicating, and, second, will do their
best to make their presentations clear to the people from other disciplines.
For this reason, the organizers encourage papers that are of an
interdisciplinary rather than narrowly specialized interest. The criterion
of interdisciplinary intelligibility will be among the crucial ones in the
selection process.

The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English.

Decisions on the acceptance of proposed papers will be made on the basis of
the abstracts that must arrive no later than March 15, 2004. Please submit
the abstract of your paper, in Russian or in English, by e-mail to the
address cogsci04 at s2s.msu.ru as a MS Word or LaTeX file attached to an e-mail
message. Please don't include more than one abstract in one message. The
maximal size of an abstract is 2 pages (single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12
type sizem, 2 cm margins on all sides), including illustrations and
references. At the beginning of an abstract please indicate the following
pieces of information:

* the title of the paper (in caps)
* the author's (authors') initials and last name(s), followed  by
affiliation in parentheses
* e-mail address
* 3 to 5 keywords

The message to which an abstract is attached is supposed to contain
exclusively the following information:

1. the title of the paper
2a. full name (including last name, first name, and middle name/patronymic,
if applicable) of the author (or the first author, in the case of a group of
authors)
3a. affiliation of the author (or the first author)
4a. educational status or degree (undergraduate student, graduate student,
Ph.D., etc.) of the author (or the first author)
2b. full name (including last name, first name, and middle name/patronymic,
if applicable) of the second author
3b. affiliation of the second author
4b. educational status or degree (undergraduate student, graduate student,
Ph.D., etc.) of the second author
--------likewise, for the third etc. author(s), if
applicable------------------
5. postal address at which the author(s) can be reached
6. phone number at which the author(s) can be reached
7. email address at which the author(s) can be reached
8. the preferred form of presentation (oral or poster)

Please follow the given format, the order and numbering of items.

So far, the organizers have received a vast response to the first call for
papers. 340 abstracts have been submitted from 19 different countries, which
many times exceeds the feasible amount of papers at the conference. For this
reason, please keep in mind the following limitation: one author can
participate in maximally one indvidual paper, and maximally two coauthored
papers. You can submit abstracts irrespective of whether you have sent a
preliminary informational message. Each abstract will be reviewed by
minimally two members of the program committee representing different
disciplines.

The program committee will inform the authors of its decisions on the
acceptance of proposals by June 15, 2004. The accepted abstracts will be
published by the beginning of the conference. Publication of selected
presentations is planned after the conference.

During the conference, the question of establishing the Russian Cognitive
Science Association may be discussed.

The conference will be held at a resort located in a pine forest, on the
bank of the Volga river, in a suburb of Kazan. The expected price of
accommodations, including meals, is 700 to 1000 rubles (ca. $25 to $35) per
day. A registration fee of 500 rubles (student discount 300 rubles) is
expected (to cover publication costs and minor organizational needs). Visa
support for international participants, provided by the University, will
cost extra (about $10 for early processing of visa support, about $45 for
urgent visa support; these amounts do not include the visa fee).

Chairman of the Program Committee: Boris M. Velichkovsky (Dresden University
and Federal Center of Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation; psychology).
Vice-chairs: Andrej A. Kibrik (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and Moscow State University; linguistics) and Tatiana
V. Chernigovskaya (St.Petersburg State University; linguistics and
neurobiology)

Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Valery D. Solovyev (Kazan State
University; computer science and linguistics). Vice-chair: Aleksey N. Gusev
(Moscow State University; psychology).

Additional information on the conference is available at
http://www.ksu.ru/cogsci04, in particular in the text of the First Call for
Papers, or by e-mail at: cogsci04 at s2s.msu.ru.