call for papers/forwarded

[Tom Givon]

[forwarded from the Central European Cog. Sci. Association]
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

1ST Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

DUCOG I

Dubrovnik, 22 - 24 MAY (FRIDAY - Sunday), 2009

The newly formed Central European Cognitive Science Association launches its first international conference in the historical town of Dubrovnik, Raguza, Croatia. The conference is open for students doing research on all aspects of cognitive science. The core of the conference consists of five poster sessions, and four tutorial talks that present each one hot topic of research in the conference's lead topic of this year: 


Language and the brain

Poster sessions

The core of the conference will consist of student research reports in the form of peer reviewed posters. The posters shall be organized around discussion groups chaired by senior scholars. Five sessions are planned for each conference with approximately 10 posters per session. Posters will be grouped around a central topic. Sessions will be chaired by a senior scholar assigned by the organizing committee. Each poster session shall consist of two parts: a five minute presentation by each participant of his/her own poster, followed by roughly two hours to pose individual questions to the presenting author of the posters. 

Tutorial talks

The tutorials shall be given by internationally well know scholars, concentrating on a given area. This talk is not merely a presentation of some specific new research, but a survey of the tutors' own research, or of their fields, providing a general framework and message. 

The following tutorial speakers are scheduled up to now.

 
Jacques Mehler (SISSA, Trieste. Italy): Why cognitive development deserves precocious study ?

Franck Ramus (École Normale, Paris, France):  Genes, brain and language

István Winkler (Inst Psych Res, HAS, Budapest)    Maintaining the acoustic internet:How auditory processes support verbal communication  

Abstract submission

Abstracts have to be sent to the anonymous site ducog at cogsci.bme.hu by February 1st, 2009. 

The abstract should have the following structure:

 

TITLE

Name

Institution 

Email 

Text: less than 200 words. Providing a hypothesis, methods and subjects if relevant, main results. No references. If relevant, sponsors are to be mentioned at the end of the abstract.

Key words: 5-7 searchable key words. 

 

Submissions will be subject to an anonymous peer review, on a strictly scientific basis. 50 posters shall be selected for presentation. Out of selected papers up to 30 students from Central and Eastern Europe[1] will have full financial support (travel, accommodation, participation fees).

Acceptance notices will be mailed around January 30th. 

Abstracts shall be published in a citable reviewed format in journal Learning and Perception, to launched in 2008, published by Akadémiai, a Budapest based Walters Kluwer journal. Talks by the tutors, and a student presentation selected as the best will published in a later issue. 

 

Venue

Centre for Advanced Academic Studies Dubrovnik, University of Zagreb

Don Frana Bulica 4 20000 Dubrovnik CROATIA

This down town site of Dubrovnik is a few hundred meters from the old town, and provides both for accommodation and lecture halls. 

 

Registration fee

General participation fee is 500 Euros. That includes accomodation, conference materials, and a 1 year membership of the CECOG. 



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[1] Central and Eastern Europe here means Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.