Fw: 1st Russian Cognitive Science Conference

[Andrej Kibrik]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below the call for papers for the 1st Russian conference on Cognitive Science. Sorry about the previous unsuccessful attempts to post this information - I have not posted anything to this list for a while.

Andrej Kibrik
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

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FIRST RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE

October 9-12, 2004, Kazan

 First 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 conference will be held in one of the major university cities of Russia, Kazan. Among the invited speakers will be:

 Konstantin V. Anokhin (Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, neurobiology)

Wallace Chafe (University of California at Santa Barbara, linguistics)

Sandro V. Kodzasov (Moscow State University, linguistics)

Michael Posner (University of Oregon, Eugene, neuropsychology)

Helge Ritter (University of Bielefeld, neuroinformatics and robotics)

Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, psychology, anthropology)

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

Those willing to participate in the conference are requested to send a short e-mail message, in Russian or in English, no later than January 15, 2004. The program committee needs these messages in order to have a preliminary estimate of the number and range of paper proposals.

Deadline for submitting paper proposals: March 1, 2004. Decisions on acceptance of paper proposals will be made by June 1, 2004


For details, see conference web site: www.ksu.ru/cogsci04. Conference e-mail address: cogsci04 at s2s.msu.ru