BPS Developmental Conference deadline extension and invited symposia

[Kirsten Abbot-Smith]

BPS Developmental Conference (University of Plymouth, 29th-31st August 2007)

 

Due to the large number of requests, the call for abstract submission to the BPS Developmental Section Conference (2007) is still open! 

** The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to the 30th April **

 

The website of the conference http://www.bpsdevsec07.org <http://www.bpsdevsec07.org/>  is now being updated with the details of the invited symposia, which are the following;

 

1.	Phonological representations of early words

Convenor: Nivedita Mani 

Presenters:

Marilyn Vihman

Nivedita Mani

Thierry Nazzi, Caroline Floccia, & Joseph Butler

Emily Mather

Discussant:     Kim Plunkett

 

2.	Exemplar based approaches to language development

Convenor: Danielle Matthews 

Participants:

Danielle Matthews & Colin Bannard  

Caroline Rowland & Ben Ambridge  

Andrea Krott, Christina Gagné & Elena Nicoladis

Gert Westermann 

Discussant: Anna Theakston

 

3.	Tracking first words in the infant's brain

Convenor: Guillaume Thierry 

Participants:

Valesca Kooijman  

Guillaume Thierry & Marilyn Vihman

Manuela Friedrich

Discussant: Marilyn Vihman

 

4.	Joint action and communication in early childhood

Convenor: Tanya Behne

Presenters:

Tanya Behne

Claire Hughes, Alex Marks, Rosie Ensor 

Sue Leekam 

Danielle Matthews, Elena Lieven & Michael Tomasello 

Hannes Rakoczy

 

5.	How inductive reasoning develops: From categories and category relations to scientific reasoning in the classroom

Convenor: Aidan Feeney & Catherine Wilburn

Presenters:

Naomi Sweller, & Brett Hayes

Catherine Wilburn & Aidan Feeney

         Aidan Vitkin, Nadya Vasilyeva & John Coley

Michelle Ellefson, John Abrasheff, & Christian Schunn

 

6.	Counterfactual Thinking and Reasoning: A developmental perspective

Convenor:        Sarah Beck

 Participants:     Eva Rafetseder & Josef Perner

                        Kevin Riggs

                        Clare Walsh & Simon Handley

                        Jennie Ferrell

Sarah Gorniaki

Frederique Arreckx

John Clibbens

 

For paper and poster presentations, please submit an abstract of 200 words max (excluding references), selecting whether you wish your submission to be considered as a presentation or a poster. Depending on the number of abstract submissions, some papers might be accepted as a poster presentation. 

For symposia presentations please submit an overall description of the theme of the symposium, together with a 200 word abstract for each presentation.

Further information relating to submission of abstracts and symposia proposals can be found here:

http://www.bpsdevsec07.org/default.asp?page=submit

 

 

Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith

School of Psychology

University of Plymouth

Room B213 Portland Square

Drake Circus

Plymouth PL4 8AA

Tel: +44 1752 233152

www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/kabbotsmith

 

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