9.406, Confs: Unfolding Perceptual Continua

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Subject: 9.406, Confs: Unfolding Perceptual Continua

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Date:  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:33:16 +0100
From:  poli at gelso.unitn.it (Roberto Poli)
Subject:  Unfolding Perceptual Continua--BISCA-98

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Date:  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:33:16 +0100
From:  poli at gelso.unitn.it (Roberto Poli)
Subject:  Unfolding Perceptual Continua--BISCA-98

     Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura-Mitteleuropaeisches Kulturinstitut

                                   BISCA-98
               Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis

                        UNFOLDING PERCEPTUAL CONTINUA
                           Bolzano, September 7-11


Recent problems raised by cognitive science, such as the perception of
forms, the recognition of natural languages, the problems of common sense,
na\239ve physics, and consequently the need for direct and non-propositional
reference to the objects of experience - as cited, for example by scientists
working in robotics - has proposed new areas of inquiry for psychophysics.
The Bolzano School in Cognitive Analysis of 1998 will analyze the problem of
perceptual continua (in particular space, time, sound, colour and touch)
from the point of view of neurophysiological, of phenomenic and of
philosophical enquiry. Moreover, a parallel reading of the theories
developed at the beginning of this century and of contemporary ones might be
useful not only in philosophy but also in various areas of cognitive sciences.

Speakers of BISCA 1998 are:

LILIANA ALBERTAZZI
The experimental phenomenology standpoint

JAN J. KOENDERINCK
Multiply extended continua in vision

GUERINO MAZZOLA
Grouping paradigms in music

RUGGERO PIERANTONI
Sensory perception: touch and cognition


General information:

1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants.
2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in
Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board.
3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion.
4. All lectures will be in English.
5. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet
the costs of participation.


BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker
(La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo)

For more information write to Liliana Albertazzi:
alberta at risc1.gelso.unitn.it

and see the IMC web site:

http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm
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