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Spring Conference

April 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Location:Talks in 2203 / Poster Session in 2017 Dunton Tower
Cost:Free
Audience:Anyone
Key Contact:Ida Toivonen and Deirdre Kelly
Contact Email:springconfics@gmail.com

The Institute of Cognitive Science’s Annual Spring Conference will be held Thursday, April 11th, 2013.

Talks: 11:30-12:50 in 2203 Dunton Tower.

Break: 12:50-1:30

Poster session: 1:30-3:00 in 2017 Dunton Tower.

The conference is for all cognitive science students and faculty, and open to the general public

Refreshments will be provided.

If you have any questions please contact Ida Toivonen or Deirdre Kelly at: springconfics@gmail.com

Talks

  • Patrick Bickerton: Active vs. Passive tracking of visuo-spatial information
  • Sarah Cebulski: The influence of social-evaluative stress on subcomponents of visuo-spatial working memory
  • Wahida Chowdhury: Malware warnings and likelihood to install Software: The case of the Trojan horse

Posters

  • Ehsan Amjadian, Lubna Safaa, Pegah Nikravan, and Olivia Podlesny: The Effect of Identical Priming on the S-Selection of English Two-Place Predicates: Event-Related Potential Evidence
  • Amir Anvari: Cross-Referencing and Accommodation
  • Charlotte Bradley: Children’s Understanding of Opaque Contexts
  • Ozlem Cankaya: Turkish Parents Alter their Academic Expectations and Learning Activities at Home According to the Child’s Age
  • Liz Christie: Categories of the English Resultative: Making Meaningful Distinctions
  • Maryam Hosseini: The Semantics of the Object Marker ra
  • Tabish Ismail: On the Relationship of Proper Names and Definite Descriptions
  • Deirdre Kelly: The role of emotion in the social intuitionist framework
  • Matthew Kelly: Decision making in a dynamically structured holographic memory model: Learning from delayed feedback
  • Matt MacLeod: Temporal Decoding in the Induction of Synaptic Plasticity
  • Leah MacQuarrie: Narratives in Autism
  • Pegah Nikravan: The Role of Definiteness Marking and Context in Persian: An ERP Study
  • Sebastien Plante: Deverbal Nouns in the Light Verb Construction
  • Mitra Rahimpour: An investigation of the development of transactive memory systems in emergency medicine teams and their impact on teamwork
  • Nalini Ramlakhan: A Philosophical Reflection On Mirror Neurons: How Mirror Neurons Lend Support to Simulation Theory
  • Lubna Safaa: Vowel Category Mapping in L2 Word-Learning