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: iccs2001org@blcs.ac.cn
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 iccs2001org@blcs.ac.cn
REGISTRATION GUIDES
How to register
Please copy the "form" below, fill the fields, and email it to iccs2001reg@mail.blcs.ac.cn.
Registration Form
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Last Name:
First Name:
Middle Name:
Title:
Affliation:
E-mail:
Phone:
Fax:
Address:
Additional Info (web site, associations, etc.):
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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 iccs2001reg@etang.com.
On-site Registration Fee: US$250
Payment must be in cash or check.
CONFERENCE VENUE and HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
The Conference will be held in Guo-hong Hotel. This is where the
entire conference program (including plenary talks, symposia with oral
and poster sessions) will take place. A brand new hotel with 4-star
level facilities, Guo-hong Hotel is exceptionally clean and cozy. It
is conveniently located on the main street of Beijing (ChangAn Avenue,
see sketch map below), with easy access to public transportations
(100m from subway station Mu Xi Di and some 25 bus lines) and within
walking distance to a shopping mall and a major shopping street (Xi
Dan).
To facilitate efficient and reliable communication between/among
organizers and conference participants, the participants are advised
to stay close to one another. Therefore Guohong Hotel is strongly
recommended.
Address: No. A11 Muxidi Beili, Beijing 100038, China
Tel: +86-10-63908866
Fax: +86-10-63907182
Special Rate for ICCS2001 Participants
Our staff has negotiated a special price for accommodations in
Guo-hong Hotel for the conference participants when booked through the
organizers (iccs2001hotel@blcs.ac.cn). Two types of rooms are
available: either with one double bed or with two twin-sized beds. The
rate is the same 386 Chinese Yuan (46.5 US$ 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
iccs2001hotel@blcs.ac.cn. 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
iccs2001hotel@etang.com.
Reservation Form
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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:
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If you need to make any changes after reservation, please inform the
Conference staff (iccs2001hotel@blcs.ac.cn) 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.
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