[visionlist] Call for Registration: Events and Objects; Symposium, Riga, December 2018

[Jurgis Skilters]

Call for Registration:
Events and Objects in Perception, Cognition, and Language

13th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
December 8-9, 2018
Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems,
Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia

Registration is open at https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/


About the Event

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.

Keynote Speakers include (alphabetically):

Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern University, USA)
Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Chris Sinha (Hunan University, China)
Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California, USA)
Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago, USA)
Jeff Zacks (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Preliminary program is available at
https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/13thsymposium/programme/
see also FB:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1025308637650055/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2704434583115318/
https://www.facebook.com/PerceptualandCognitiveSystems/


The symposium is organized by Laboratory for 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), Modris and
Vallija Galenieks, 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.
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