Summer Institute on Categorization. 2nd announcement

[Henri Cohen]

Dear Colleagues,

The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) will hold its first
graduate summer institute in cognitive sciences from June 30th to
July 11th 2003. The theme will be 'categorization' as seen from the
point of view of the following disciplines: cognitive anthropology,
cognitive computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience,
philosophy and psychology. The program is provided below. For more
information, please consult our website:
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog. Registration at a lower rate is
available prior to March 1st.

Best regards

Henri Cohen

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Program


June 30th, 2003  Categorization in cognitive sciences (all disciplines)

Categorization in cognitive neuroscience,  Stephen Grossberg, Boston University

Categorization in psychology, Steven Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal

Categorization in cognitive computer science, John F. Sowa, VivoMind LLC

Categorization in linguistics, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen

Categorization in philosophy, Georges Rey, University of Maryland

Discussant: On categorization in cognitive sciences,
Anna Papafragou, University of Pennsylvania


July 1st 2003   Semantic categories (anthropology, linguistics, philosophy,
	  psychology)

Emotions categories across languages, Jim Boster, University of Connecticut

Semantic categorization, Brendan Gillon, McGill University

Reference, Serge Larochelle, Université de Montréal

Categorisation and conceptual change, Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo

A biological theory of empirical concepts, Ruth Millikan, University
of Connecticut

Color categories across languages, Paul Kay, University of California
at Berkeley

Discussant: On semantic categories,
Seana Coulson, University of California at San Diego


July 2nd 2003  Syntactic categories and category change (linguistics)

A state of the art on syntactic categories, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University

Cross-categorial and multifunctional categories, Lisa Travis, McGill University

Cross-categorial constructions, Rob Malouf, San Diego State University

On category change,  Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge

How different can languages be?
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Discussant: On syntactic categories, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen


July 3rd 2003 (linguistics and psychology)

Categories in spoken and signed languages

Syntactic categories in sign languages with particular reference to LSQ,
Denis Bouchard and Colette Dubuisson, Université du Québec à Montréal

Syntactic categories in sign languages with particular reference to ASL,
Judy Kegl, University Southern Maine

Syntactic categories in signed versus spoken languages,
Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut

Acquisition of categories

A state of the art on the acquisition of syntactic categories in L1,
  Marie Labelle, Université du Québec à Montréal

Syntactic categories in L2 acquisition, Lydia White, McGill University

On categorisation and acquisition, Eve Clark, Stanford University


July 4th 2003  Data mining for categories and ontologies (cognitive computer
science, philosophy)

The clustering of graph structures, Guy Mineau, Université Laval

Text mining and analysis of scientific and technical information,
Yves Kodratoff, Université Paris-Sud XI

Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) or data mining,
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA : Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en
informatique et ses applications

Computer-aided categorization, Jean-Guy Meunier, Université du Québec
à Montréal

Discussant: On data mining for categories and ontologies,
John F. Sowa, VivoMind LLC




July 7th 2003  Neuroscience of categorization and category learning
	(psychology, philosophy)

Neuropsychology of category learning,
FG. Ashby, University of California at Santa Barbara

Striatum and category learning, WT. Maddox, University of Texas at Austin

Brain basis of category learning, John Gabrieli, Stanford University

Brain damage and categorical speech perception and production,
Susan Ravizza, University of Pittsburgh

Neural network models of categorization: philosophical issues,
Pierre Poirier, Université du Québec à Montréal

Discussant: On neuroscience of categorization and category learning,
  Henri Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal


July 8th 2003  Machine category learning (cognitive computer science,
philosophy, robotics)

Categories and conceptual spaces, Peter Gardenfors, Lund University

Data analysis, learning symbolic and numeric knowledge,
Patrick Gallinari, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Similarity in fuzzy categories,
Didier Dubois and Henri Prade, Université Paul Sabatier

Self-organizing vocabularies,
Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome

Inferential theory of learning, natural induction, inductive
databases and knowledge		scouts, Ryszard S. Michalski, George
Mason University

Cognitive computation, Stephen Jose Hanson, Rutgers University


July 9th 2003  Categories in perception and inference (psychology,
philosophy)

Simulation and embodiment in situated conceptualization,
Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University

The return of conceptual empiricism, Jesse Prinz, Washington
University in St-Louis

Category representation, Rob Nosofsky, Indiana University

Category learning, Rob Goldstone, Indiana University

Categorization and inference, Arthur Markman, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: On categories in perception and inference,
Seana Coulson, University of California at San Diego


July 10th 2003  Grounding, recognition, and reasoning in categorization
(psychology, philosophy)

Neural networks and categorization, Robert Proulx, Université du
Québec à Montréal

Shape recognition, Irv Biederman, University of Southern California

Object perception,  Phil G. Schyns, University of Glasgow

Analogical reasoning, Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University

Categorization and reasoning, Serge Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal

Discussant: On grounding, recognition and reasoning in categorization,
Steven Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal


July 11th 2003  The naturalization of categories (philosophy)

Nominalism and the theory of concepts,
Claude Panaccio, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

The social construction of categories, Luc Faucher, Université du
Québec à Montréal

Concept nativism, Eric Margolis, Rice University

A neurosemantic for categories, Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo

Philosophical Analysis as Cognitive Psychology,
Elisabetta Lalumera, Università di Bologna

Discussant: On the naturalization of categories,
Jean-Guy Meunier, Université du Québec à Montréal









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