Conference

THE LURE OF THE NEW 2013

March 20-22 2013

The Cognition Institute invites you to its 1st international, trans-disciplinary conference, a unique platform where art and science meet to explore new ways of understanding cognition.

Symposia:

Embodied cognition and mental stimulation
Current friends in deception research
Developments in infant speech perception
Engineering creativity - can the arts help scientific research more directly?
Computational modelling of brain processes
Sounds for communication
Imagery, dance and creativity

Key note speakers:

Dr Linda Lanyon
Professory Guy Orban

An exciting evening programme:

Including a CogTalk debate and special film screening in association with SciScreen

PHOTOS FROM THE CONFERENCE & LAUNCH

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The Cognition Institute is a new trans-disciplinary research centre focused on understanding human cognition. We believe that through forging links with researchers from psychology, cognitive robotics, neuroscience, biology, humanities and the arts we can develop new ways of thinking about cognition.

In our first 1st international conference, we will explore how novelty and creativity are key drivers of human cognition.

Each of our themed symposia will bring a different approach to this subject, and will cover a diverse range of areas such as embodied cognition, auditory neuroscience, language development, mental imagery, creativity and cognition, the relationship between the arts and sciences, modelling and imaging of brain processes and deception research.

Further information.

Registration closes: March 12 2013

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Abstract deadline: March 8 2013

We welcome abstracts in any of the symposium areas and are also very happy to accept submissions that take a trans-disciplinary approach to understanding the link between our cognitive processes, novelty and creativity.

Please submit your abstract (Word doc/docx, Times New Roman, size 12) to: info.cognition@plymouth.ac.uk

Abstracts must be no longer than 1 A4 page, inc. all references, title, names and affiliations of all authors and corresponding author's contact email and address.

For more information and abstract submision contact:

Lucy Davies

info.cognition@plymouth.ac.uk