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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the 12<sup>th</sup> annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (January 6-8, 2022). We welcome symposium and poster submissions
 from all fields of cognitive development.  <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">We welcome symposium, paper, and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive development. Previous BCCCD meetings featured a wide range of topics, such as communication,
 pragmatics, social cognition, conceptual development, language acquisition, numeracy, object cognition, perceptual learning, inductive learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, the cognitive bases of culture, and comparative cognition. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Despite the unpredictable development of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are committed to BCCCD22 taking place in January, either as usual, in Budapest, or online (as in January 2021), or
 in a hybrid format. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">To inform our decision-making, we want to reach out to you, our community, to gauge your preferences. We would appreciate it if you found a few minutes to fill out
<a href="https://forms.gle/wTJSBkqWT7djSZ7WA" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">this survey</span></a>. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">While CEU has been facing the challenge of relocating most of its operations to Vienna, we would like to reassure all prospective participants that should BCCCD22 be held as an in-person
 conference, it will take place at the Budapest campus of CEU. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Hanna Marno and Bálint Varga<br>
Conference chairs <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/fiery-cushman" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Fiery Cushman</span></a></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">
 (Harvard University)<b> <o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="http://saxelab.mit.edu/people/rebecca-saxe" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Rebecca Saxe</span></a>
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">(MIT)
<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">INVITED SYMPOSIUM: Active learning: computational, neural and developmental perspectives <span style="color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.gottlieblab.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Jacqueline Gottlieb</span></a>
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">(Columbia University)<b> <o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.pip.tu-darmstadt.de/ag_pip/members_pip/publications.en.jsp" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Constantin A. Rothkopf</span></a>
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">(Technical University of Darmstadt)<b> <o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/azzurra-ruggeri.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Azzurra Ruggeri</span></a>
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">(Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Technical University Munich)<b> <o:p> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Symposia & papers:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> September 12, 2021 midnight CET (GMT+1) <o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Posters:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> October 08, 2021 midnight CET (GMT+1) <o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <b>NOTIFICATIONS OF ACCEPTANCE</b> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Symposia & papers:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> September 30, 2021 <o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Posters:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> November 01, 2021 <o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <b>EARLY BIRD</b>
<b>REGISTRATION:</b> Sunday, November 21, 2021 <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">FOLLOW US</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">CEU Cognitive Development Center on Facebook:  </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CognitiveDevelopmentCenteratCEU/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Cognitive
 Development Center at CEU</span></a><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">CEU Cognitive Development Center on Twitter:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <a href="https://twitter.com/cogdevceu?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">@CogDevCeu</span></a> <o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">CEU Cognitive Development Center on YouTube:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1u_m6zHrcXZPL9pyNLAVw" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Cognitive
 Development Center CEU</span></a> <o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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