Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce our workshop “From associations to cognition”, to be held on July 4th-5th in Marseille (Campus Saint-Charles, Amphi Charve).
The event (supported by Marie Curie Actions, ILCB, and ANR), will deal experimental psychology, modelling, linguistics, neurosciences, animal behavior, child development, and discuss the contributions of associative learning to complex cognitive abilities including language.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM – MONDAY, JULY 4th
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome coffee
9:30 – 10:00 Introductory talk : “From Associations to Cognition”
10:00 - 10:45 Aurore Avarguès-Weber : “Supervised and unsupervised relational learning in bees”
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Robert Honey : “Prediction errors in models of associative learning”
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45 Isabelle Dautriche : “Inference and associations in children’s early word learning”
14:45 – 15:30 Guided Discussion 1 : “Comparing what is comparable: experimental challenges” (tbc)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Friedemann Pulvermüller : “Associative mechanisms for building concepts and semantics”
16:45 – 17:30 Guided Discussion 2 : “Merging associative, statistical and Hebbian learning?” (tbc)
17:30 – 17:45 Closing remarks
CONFERENCE PROGRAM – TUESDAY, JULY 5th
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome coffee
9:30 - 10:15 Thomas Chartier : “Are associations directional ? Insights from baboons and other animals"
10:15 – 11:00 Vsevolod Kapatsinski : “Using data from language learning to compare alternative learning mechanisms”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 14:00 Poster Session & Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45 Angel E. Tovar : “When balance is important: Hebbian mechanisms underlying complex associative learning”
14:45 – 15:30 Michael Zock : “The mental lexicon, blueprint of the dictionaries of tomorrow”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00– 16:45 Guided Discussion 3 : “What is an association?”
16:45– 17:00 Closing remarks
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Poster submissions are encouraged for everybody, including Master students. Abstract deadline is June 24th.
Registration is free but mandatory for:
- people willing to enjoy free lunch
- non-AMU persons
- poster presenters
Please register here: https://framaforms.org/workshop-from-association-to-cognition-1654682975
Best wishes,
Thomas Chartier, Laure Tosatto, Linda Dahmani
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, St Charles
