26.474, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Socioling/Netherlands

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Subject: 26.474, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Neuroling, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Socioling/Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:23:52
From: Elliott Hoey [elliott.hoey at mpi.nl]
Subject: Perspectives on the Ontogeny of Mutual Understanding

 
Full Title: Perspectives on the Ontogeny of Mutual Understanding 

Date: 01-Oct-2015 - 02-Oct-2015
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Elliott Hoey
Meeting Email: imprsworkshop2015 at mpi.nl
Web Site: http://www.mpi.nl/events/ontogeny 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

Human social interaction is enabled by mutual understanding, the development of which is crucial for children’s participation in the social world. The capacity for mutual understanding is increasingly a core issue for researchers in linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology, though each has traditionally approached the matter with different emphases and conceptualizations (theory of mind, common ground, intersubjectivity, perspective-taking, etc.). This diversity of terminology may obscure the real connections between these adjacent fields and the substantive overlap in their subject matter. As a step toward fostering cross-disciplinary exchange, this workshop provides a forum to share recent findings, and assembles complementary lines of research to promote productive collaboration across methods and perspectives.

We seek to address the following broad questions:

- What is the nature of the link between interaction and mutual understanding in children's development? 
- What are the relative contributions of different types of participation (e.g., active engagement versus observation) in shaping these sociocognitive abilities?
- What environmental or contextual features potentiate or constrain the development of intersubjective understanding?
- How might different approaches enrich, complement and contextualize our understanding of social cognition, language, and interaction in human ontogeny?

Speakers:

Mardi Kidwell (University of New Hampshire)
Vasudevi Reddy (University of Portsmouth)
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Call for Papers:

Submit abstracts to imprsworkshop2015 at mpi.nl as doc/docx/pdf attachments (500 word maximum, excluding references). Indicate in the body of the email your name, affiliation, contact info, and whether your abstract should be considered for a paper or poster. Leave out any identifying information in the abstract. Notification of decisions will be sent 1 July 2015.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Imitation, mimesis, and mirroring
- Reciprocity and proto-conversation
- Joint attention, participation, and reciprocal engagement
- Joint action, cooperation, and collaboration
- Neurocognitive correlates of online interaction
- Multimodal coordination, entrainment, and alignment
- Atypical development, language specific impairment, and autism spectrum conditions
- Pragmatic development, deixis, and referential communication
- Turn-taking, repair, misunderstanding, and recipient design
- Attribution of belief, intention, and emotion







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