[CogSci] 1st CfP: Symposium on Events, Riga, December 8-9

[Jurgis Skilters]

First Call for papers
13th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Events and Objects in Perception, Cognition, and Language.
https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/

December 8 and 9, 2018
Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, 
University of Latvia

Speakers include

Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA)
Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA)
Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California, USA)
Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago, USA)
Chris Sinha (Hunan University, China)
Jeff Zacks (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Program Committee

Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA)
Nora Newcombe (Temple University, USA)
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California, USA)
Jurģis Šķilters (University of Latvia, Latvia)
Jurģis Strautmanis (University Childrens Clinical Hospital, Latvia)


The symposium is organized by Laboratory of Perceptual and Cognitive 
Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia in collaboration of 
and with support by the Baltic Child Neurology Association, Robert 
Blumberg (the honorary consul of the Republic of Latvia in Illinois), 
the software company Accenture, and the University of Latvia Foundation.
The conference will include the Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture, 
founded and supported by Robert Blumberg, the honorary consul of the 
Republic of Latvia in Illinois.


Call for Papers

Object and event perception are core features of human cognitive 
processing. Further, these core human cognitive abilities may be 
reflected differently in language and in perception. This symposium aims 
to integrate perspectives from different areas (including psychology, 
neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, AI, and philosophy). The 
symposium will focus primarily on the following topics, but is not 
limited to them:

Events and objects
Events in space and time
Event perception from a developmental perspective
Developmental origins of event and object perception
Neural principles of event and object perception
Perception of causality
Relations between objects and events
Typology of events and objects
Events in semantics


Deadlines:
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be submitted by May 1 
(lpcs at lu.lv). (Abstracts should contain a brief description of relevant 
theory, research design and methods, and results.) Authors will be 
notified in the second week of May.
https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/