30.1804, Confs: Cog Sci, Discipline of Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing/Turkey
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:49:35
From: Serkan Şener [serkan.sener at yeditepe.edu.tr]
Subject: International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Short Title: ISBCS
Date: 28-Apr-2019 - 28-Apr-2019
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Contact: Serkan Şener
Contact Email: serkan.sener at yeditepe.edu.tr
Meeting URL: http://isbcs2019.yeditepe.edu.tr/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discipline of Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Meeting Description:
ISBCS is the premier academic meeting of the cognitive science community in
Turkey. Established jointly by the Middle East Technical University (METU),
Bogazici University and Yeditepe University - the three universities in Turkey
that offer cognitive science programs, ISBCS is being held each year by one of
these universities to gather researchers and students from leading national
and international institutions working on all areas of cognitive science. The
main objective has been to establish a platform where students learn about
recent research and developments in cognitive science, researchers get a
chance to together share and initiate collaborations, and the participants in
general can receive valuable feedback on their work.
This year's ISBCS will be held by the Cognitive Science Program at Yeditepe
University in Istanbul. The symposium features the following speakers:
W. Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna, Department of Cognitive Biology)
Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, Department of Linguistics)
Ehren Newman (Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain
Sciences)
Nazım Keven (Bilkent University, Philosophy Department)
Itır Kaşıkçı (Istanbul Commerce University, Department of Psychology)
The program and the abstracts for the talks are given at the bottom of this
announcement, which can also be accessed at:
http://isbcs2019.yeditepe.edu.tr/program.html
The abstracts for the poster presentations can be found here:
http://isbcs2019.yeditepe.edu.tr/ISBCS2019_PostersAbstracts.pdf
Participation to ISBCS is free, but we kindly ask participants to register in
advance of the symposium: http://isbcs2019.yeditepe.edu.tr/registration.html
We are looking forward to seeing everyone with an interest in the cognitive
sciences, and sciences in the broader sense, at the symposium.
On behalf of the ISBCS'19 Program Committee Members,
Funda Yıldırım (Yeditepe University)
Albert Ali Salah (Bogazici University)
Cem Bozşahin (METU))
İnci Ayhan (Bogazici University)
Emin Erkan Korkmaz (Yeditepe University)
Serkan Şener (Yeditepe University)
Sonia Amado (Ege University)
Program:
The program for the 6th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science
9:00-9:30:
Registration
9:30-10:00:
Welcome and Opening Talk
10:00-10:50:
Ehren Newman (Keynote Speaker)
''Tracking Neural Information Processing in the Brain and in the Dish''
10:50-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00-11:50:
Itır Kaşıkçı
''Your Brain on Numbers: A Look from the Inside''
11:50-12:50: Lunch
12:50-13:40:
Poster Session I
13:40-14:30:
Colin Phillips (Keynote Speaker)
''The Relationship between Speaking and Understanding''
14:30-15:20:
Nazım Keven
''Events, Narratives and Memory''
15:20-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-16:20:
W. Tecumseh Fitch (Keynote Speaker)
''The Evolution of the Neural Basis of Language''
16:20-17:30:
Poster Session II
Talk Abstracts:
Tracking Neural Information Processing in the Brain and in the Dish
Ehren Newman
Indiana University Bloomington
How do neural systems give rise to function / cognition? Related theories are
often described in terms of specific interactions between circuits and brain
regions. Empirically testing these models requires characterization and
quantification of these interactions in the functioning neural system. In this
presentation, I will first describe how this is done in the field of systems
neuroscience standardly and show how we've used these methods to test theories
regarding how the hippocampus functions. Specifically, I will show that the
processing mode of the hippocampus is regulated by the neuromodulator
acetylcholline. I will then describe how tools from information theory enable
characterization of higher-order interactions between neurons and show how
we've used these tools to identify the relationship between neural circuit
topology and neural computation. Specifically, I will show that the most
computation performed by cortical circuits is done by the neurons belonging to
what are known as rich clubs.
The Relationship Between Speaking and Understanding
Colin Phillips
University of Maryland
Language comprehension, language production, and grammatical analysis are
typically pursued relatively independently of one another. We have long been
interested in the relation between parsing and grammar, but have neglected
mechanisms for production. If we cannot unify mechanisms for speaking and
understanding, then unifying grammatical computation with either of them is
likely fruitless. I will discuss the progress that we have made on
understanding these issues.
The Neural Basis of Language: An Evolutionary Perspective
W. Tecumseh Fitch
University of Wien
Although language itself is unique to humans, many of the sub-components that
underlie language processing are shared with other species. A broad
comparative approach allows us to tease apart shared elements from unusual
(“derived”) characteristics. I will illustrate these principles by delving
into the neural circuits underlying speech (particularly vocal learning) and
syntax (particularly hierarchical syntax). These examples illustrate that,
even for unique features like hierarchical syntax, an evolutionary approach
can illuminate the precursors for human circuits and give clues to their
origins during hominin evolution.
Events, Narratives and Memory
Nazım Keven
Bilkent University
Whether non-human animals can have episodic memories remains the subject of
extensive debate. A number of prominent memory researchers defend the view
that animals do not have the same kind of episodic memory as humans do,
whereas others argue that some animals have episodic-like memory—i.e., they
can remember what, where and when an event happened. Defining what constitutes
episodic memory has proven to be difficult. In this paper, I propose a dual
systems account and provide evidence for a distinction between event memory
and episodic memory. Event memory is a perceptual system that evolved to
support adaptive short-term goal processing, whereas episodic memory is based
on narratives, which bind event memories into a retrievable whole that is
temporally and causally organized around subject’s goals. I argue that
carefully distinguishing event memory from episodic memory can help resolve
the debate.
Your Brain on Numbers: A Look from the Inside
Itır Kaşıkçı
Istanbul Commerce University
While we talk about sensation and perception related research in neuroscience,
we mostly refer to the ''basic'' senses such as vision, audition and touch.
However, relatively new studies made us see that humankind and some other
non-human animals are equipped also with ''complex'' senses and/or percepts
such as space, time, and number. The talk is about the number sense and its
neural correlates with a focus on the data collected with electrocorticogram
(ECoG) from human participants.
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