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Schedule of Events
Fall 2009 Colloquium Series
4th UConn Workshop on Cognition and DynamicsWorkshop
BOUS 160 (Liberman Room)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
10:15 AM
With talks by Zenon Pylyshyn, Michael Spivey, Guy van Orden, and many others. Click on "abstract" to see full schedule.
Abstract
 THURSDAY AUGUST 13
10:15 M. T. Turvey (University of Connecticut)
Introduction
10:30 Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced)
Cognition in the Body, and the Body in Cognition
11:00 Inge-Marie Eigsti & J. Dixon (University of Connecticut)
Dynamical contributions to conceptual change in autism: Gestures promote
knowledge
11:30 Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati)
The External Parameter of Self-Organized Criticality
LUNCH (LOCAL EATERIES)
2:00 Nigel Stepp (University of Connecticut)
Circadian synchronization: dynamical account of a “representation-hungry”
problem
2:30 Rob Isenhower, Till Frank & Claudia Carello (University of Connecticut)
Dynamics of valenced events
3:00 Damian Stephen, Ryan Arzamarski, & Claire F. Michaels (University of
Connecticut)
Fractality in the use of visual feedback during dynamic touch.
FRIDAY AUGUST 14
10:30 Debbie Aks, Zenon W. Pylyshyn & H. Haroutioun Haladjian (Rutgers
University)
Complementarity of classical and dynamical views of cognition
11: 00 Jay Rueckl & Shin-Yi Fang (University of Connecticut)
Letter position information: Stipulated versus self-organized representations
11:30 Whit Tabor (University of Connecticut)
Connectionism: Chillin’ by the intersection of Eco and Cognitive Psych
LUNCH (LOCAL EATERIES)
2:00 Theo Rhodes (University of California, Merced)
Cognition as foraging
2:30 Chris Kello (University of California, Merced)
Critical branching neural computation
Virgina ValianCUNY Hunter College (Psychology)
How abstract is early syntax?
BOUS 160
Friday, October 16, 2009
12:00 PM
Note: Valian's colloquium will be 12-1:30 on Friday.
Abstract
Abstract: Two contrasting positions about children's early syntax are a) that it is not abstract and consists primarily of word collocations that have appeared in the input and b) that it is abstract and consists of syntactic categories in hierarchical structures. I argue for the second position, using data from children's spontaneous speech and children's performance in a syntactic priming task. I consider the implications of the results for the nativism-empiricism debate.
Language Core Research ConferenceLanguage Fest I
Museum of Natural History, 2nd Floor
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
03:00 PM
The inaugural event for the new NIH/NIDCD-supported "Language Core Research Center", with talks by Marie Coppola and Emily Myers. Reception to follow, beginning at 4:45 pm.
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