<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are delighted to announce that, despite the global pandemic, the XII. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DUCOG) will go ahead in an <b>online</b> format.</font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference theme</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Linguistic and cognitive foundations of meaning</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Dates</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: May 19-21, 2021<b> </b>(from 4pm to 9pm CET)</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Venue</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: online in both synchronous and asynchronous formats</span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border:none">Language and cognition are intimately linked, but debates about the exact nature of their relationship still occupy a central focus in cognitive science. Meaning provides an important window onto the interface between language and broader cognition: on one hand, language can be viewed as mapping onto pre-existing concepts, on the other hand, language can be thought of as a set of cues to meaning. Our invited program brings together an interdisciplinary set of speakers with diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches to discuss issues at the interface of language and cognition within the domain of meaning.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The live program will consist of talks by the invited speakers and contributed presentations, as well as discussion sessions. We solicit abstract submissions for two streams of contributed presentations:</font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> (i)  talks presented live on topics closely related to the conference theme, and</font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> (ii) asynchronous presentations in free formats on any topics in cognitive science.</font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Abstract submissions will be accepted until March 31, 2021 with notifications by April 19th. </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Please indicate your preference for live vs. asynchronous presentation during submission.<b></b></span></font></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Invited speakers include:</font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/marina-bedny/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Marina Bedny</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - Johns Hopkins University (US) </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.harvardlds.org/our-labs/carey-lab/susan-carey/" target="_blank"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#0000ff">Susan Carey</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Harvard University (US)</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><a href="http://www.emmanuel.chemla.free.fr/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Emmanuel Chemla</font></a> - CNRS, LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure (France)<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><a href="https://jennifer-culbertson.github.io/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Jennifer Culbertson</font></a> - University of Edinburgh (UK)<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/jrhochmann/home" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Jean-Rémy Hochmann</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - CNRS-ISCMJ, Université Lyon 1 (France)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/lupyan-gary/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Gary Lupyan</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/am2574/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Asifa Majid</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - University of York (UK)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/pietroski" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Paul Pietroski</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - Rutgers University (US)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/people/details/sauerland-uli/uli-sauerland/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Uli Sauerland</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - <span lang="EN-US">Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft </span> (Germany)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://semantics.land/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0000ff">Alexis Wellwood</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> - University of Southern California (US)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <b></b></font></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-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