The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2001) Beijing, August 27 - 31, 2001 ***** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** Http://www.iccs2001.com -or- www.blcs.ac.cn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2001) will be held in Beijing, China on August 27-31, 2001. There will be 16 plenary talks and 12 symposia in the conference, covering broad and active areas in cognitive science. The organizers of the conference courteously invite colleagues from various countries and various fields of cognitive science to participate in the conference. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE August 26, Sunday 08:30 Registration 19:00 Welcome reception August 27, Monday 08:30-11:50 Plenary talks Chair: Nanning Zheng, Xian Jiaotong University, China 08:30 George Sperling, UC Irvine, USA 09:15 Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University, USA "THE HARMONIC MIND: From neural computation to optimality-theoretic grammar" 10:00 Tea break 10:20 Chansup Chung, Yonsei University, Korea "Adaptation, Retinex, and Color Constancy for Digital Images" 11:05 Koiti Hasida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sci & Tech, Japan "Symbol Grounding by Social Information Infrastructure" 11:50 Lunch time 13:30 - 17:30 (parallel) Symposium 1-I: Language Acquisition Chair: Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University, USA Symposium 2: Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition Chairs: Rolf Pfeifer and Max Lungarella, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland Symposium 3: Mathematical Modeling of Cognition Chair: Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA Symposium 4-I: Convergent Approaches to Vision Chair: Sheng He, University of Minnesota, USA 19:00 Beijing Opera August 28, Tuesday 08:30-11:50 Plenary Talks Chair: Huisheng Chi, Peking University, China 08:30 Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK "Visual search through time and space: Functional and neural mechanisms of visual marking" 09:15 Mandyam Srinivasan, Australian National University, Australia 10:00 Tea break 10:20 Sylvan Kornblum, University of Michigan, USA "The Dimensional Overlap Model: Cognitive basis of Stimulus-Response and Stimulus-Stimulus compatibility". 11:05 Donald MacLeod, University of California, San Diego, USA "Why isn't vision perfect? An exercise in psychoanatomy" 11:50 Lunch time 13:30 - 17:30 (parallel) Symposium 1-II: Language and Cognition Chair: Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University/UCLA Symposium 4-II: Convergent Approaches to Vision Chair: Sheng He, University of Minnesota, USA Symposium 5: Animal Cognition Chair: Shaowu Zhang, Australian National University, Australia Poster Session 1: Symposium 2, 8 and 11 August 29, Wednesday 08:30-11:50 Plenary Talks Chair: Chaoyi Li, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 08:30 Robert Desimone, National Institute of Mental Health, USA "Neuronal mechanisms of selective attention" 09:15 Peter Fox, University of Texas, USA "Functional mapping activations and connections in speech and speech disorders" 10:00 Tea break 10:20 Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan "Neuronal activity in monkey prefrontal cortex representing working memory of abstract rule in an analog of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)." 11:05 Ernst Poeppel, University of Munich, Germany "A collection of questions about visual perception and temporal control" 11:50 Lunch time 13:30 - 17:30 (parallel) Symposium 6: Cognitive Science in Education Chair: Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Symposium 7: Cognition and Brain Imaging Chair: Kang Cheng, The RIKEN Institute, Japan Symposium 8: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Chair: Charles Ling, University of Western Ontario, Canada Poster Session 2: Symposium 1(I,II), 3 and 4 August 30, Thursday 08:30-11:50 Plenary Talks Chair: Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China 08:30 James McClelland, Carnegie-Melon University, USA "Semantic Memory: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach" 09:15 Tieniu Tan, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 1000 Tea break 1020 Vimla Patel, Columbia University, USA 11:05 Naomi Miyake, Chukyo University, Japan 11:50 Lunch time 13:30 - 17:30 (parallel) Symposium 9: To the Uncharted Realm of "Literature" - iwLCC2001 Chair: Jun Katanuma, Sapporo International University, Japan Symposium 10: Multiculture Identities: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective Chair: Chi-yue Chiu, The University of Hong Kong Symposium 11: High-level Cognition: Theoretical Issues and Apps Chair: Jiajie Zhang, University of Texas at Houston, USA Poster Session 3: Symposium 6,7, and Other Topics (uncategorized) 19:30 Farewell Party August 31, Friday Tour in Beijing PRESENTATION GUIDES Poster Representations The posters will be maximally 90cm in width; and the recommended height is 120cm. The conference staff will provide the accessories for fixing posters. Oral Presentations A video projector (SVGA or XGA) will be prepared for each oral session. The plenary and symposia speakers are encouraged to use video projector to present their works. A slide projector and an overhead will also be available at each oral session. For any specific requirements, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] REGISTRATION GUIDES How to register Please copy the "form" below, fill the fields, and email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registration Form =============================== Last Name: First Name: Middle Name: Title: Affliation: E-mail: Phone: Fax: Address: Additional Info (web site, associations, etc.): =============================== You will receive an email message confirming your registration within 3 days and a letter or fax with documents for your visa application. In case you fail to receive the confirmation message, please try again or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] On-site Registration Fee: US$250 Payment must be in cash or check. CONFERENCE VENUE and HOTEL ACCOMMODATION The Conference will be held in Guo-hong Hotel. This is where the entire conference program (including plenary talks, symposia with oral and poster sessions) will take place. A brand new hotel with 4-star level facilities, Guo-hong Hotel is exceptionally clean and cozy. It is conveniently located on the main street of Beijing (ChangAn Avenue, see sketch map below), with easy access to public transportations (100m from subway station Mu Xi Di and some 25 bus lines) and within walking distance to a shopping mall and a major shopping street (Xi Dan). To facilitate efficient and reliable communication between/among organizers and conference participants, the participants are advised to stay close to one another. Therefore Guohong Hotel is strongly recommended. Address: No. A11 Muxidi Beili, Beijing 100038, China Tel: +86-10-63908866 Fax: +86-10-63907182 Special Rate for ICCS2001 Participants Our staff has negotiated a special price for accommodations in Guo-hong Hotel for the conference participants when booked through the organizers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Two types of rooms are available: either with one double bed or with two twin-sized beds. The rate is the same 386 Chinese Yuan (46.5 US$ according to the present exchange rate) per night. How to Make Your Reservation Please make your reservation through the Conference staff. Please fill and email the following reservation form to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our staff will reply to you ASAP to confirm your reservation. In case you do not receive such a confirming email message within 3 days, please try again and contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reservation Form =============================== Last Name: First Name: Citizenship: Gender: Date of arrival: Date of departure: Type of room (A: 1 double bed; B: 2 twin-sized beds): Smoking (yes/no): E-mail: Phone: Fax: Address: =============================== If you need to make any changes after reservation, please inform the Conference staff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) immediately. How to Reach Guo-hong Hotel from Beijing Airport The easiest way to get to the Guohong Hotel from the Beijing Airport is to take a taxi at the cost of about 100 - 130 Yuan (=12-16 US$) including 15 Yuan charged at a toll gate. (Note: please make sure that the taxi driver gives you a receipt. If you feel that you are overcharged, please go to the lobby of Guohong Hotel and find a Conference staff, he/she will be happy to help you; or you may take down the number of the cab and then report to the Conference staffs who will determine whether you are being overcharged and, if so, suggest any recourse.) An alternative is to take the airport shuttle bus (destination Xi Dan) at the cost of 16 Yuan (2 US$); upon getting off at the final stop (Xi Dan), take a taxi to the hotel for about 10 Yuan(1.2 US$). For your convenience, you may print the Chinese phrase and/or sketch map at http://www.iccs2001.com/html%20files/hotel/hotel.htm for the direction to the hotel and show it to the taxi driver. The Conference staffs will be present at the Beijing Airport on August 25 and 26 from 9:00 am through 10:00 pm to assist with local transportation.
