Tufts has recently started a new cognitive science Ph.D. program,
which builds on a long-standing tradition of highly visible
cognitive science research at Tufts. The conference on "Language
and Representation" will formally inaugurate the program and feature
16 invited presentations by some of the most renowned cognitive
scientists in the US and abroad:
Daniel Dennett (Tufts) Ken Forbus (Northwestern) Dedre Gentner (Northwestern) Jonathan Grainger (Marseille) Gina Kuperberg (Tufts) Marta Kutas (UCSD) Ray Jackendoff (Tufts) Anthony Monaco (Tufts) Anna Papafragou (Delaware) Aniruddh Patel (Tufts) Linda Smith (Indiana) Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins) Jesse Snedeker (Harvard) Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard) Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT) Maryanne Wolf (Tufts)
Detailed program:
Friday, September 14, 2012
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Matthias Scheutz
Opening remarks, conference and
program overview
Brief remarks by deans Joanne
Berger-Sweeney and Linda Abriola
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Anthony Monaco
Genetics of Neurodevelopmental
Disorders
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Marta Kutas
ERP evidence for
Incrementality, Prediction, and
Semantic Memory Representations
during Sentence Comprehension
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Coffee break
4:30pm - 5:15pm
Gina Kuperberg
What do ERPs and
fMRI Tell Us About the Neural
Dynamics of Language Comprehension?
5:15pm - 6:00pm
Jonathan Grainger
Orthographic
Processing in Man, Monkey, and
Machine
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Poster session
and welcome reception
Saturday,
September 15, 2012
8:30am - 9:00am
Coffee and
pastries
9:00am - 9:45am
Paul Smolensky
Matthew Goldrick
Computation on
Gradient Symbols
9:45am - 10:30am
Joshua Tenenbaum
Modeling the Common
Sense Core with Probabilistic
Programs
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am - 11:45am
Anna Papafragou
Linguistic and
Nonlinguistic Representations
11:45am - 12:30pm
Ray Jackendoff
Eva Wittenberg
Even Simpler
Syntax:A Hierarchy of Grammatical
Complexity
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Lunch break
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Linda Smith
The Sensori-motor
Origins of Reference
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Dedre Gentner
Why We are So Smart
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00pm - 4:45pm
Elizabeth Spelke
Language and Core
Knowledge
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Aniruddh Patel
Comparative
Cognitive Science: Music and
Language
Sunday, September
16, 2012
8:30am - 9:00am
Coffee and
pastries
9:00am - 9:45am
Ken Forbus
Steps towards
Human-level AI
9:45am - 10:30am
Maryanne Wolf
The Evolving,
Reading Brain
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee break
11:00am - 11:45am
Jesse Snedeker
Why is a raven like
a writing desk? Carving up the
semantics-pragmatics interface with
the psychological tool kit
