Attention & Performance XXI

Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development

Organizers: Mark H. Johnson and Yuko Munakata

Updated 8/14/04

Arrival Day (Mon, July 26)

9:00-6:00 Executive Committee Business Meeting, Rollins Room

7:45 Buffet Reception in Jane Creek Grill, sponsored by TiCS

Day 1 (Tue, July 27): Learning mechanisms (Click for description and abstracts.)

8:30 Opening remarks, Mark Johnson and Yuko Munakata

8:40 Tutorial: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory. Bill Greenough

9:40 Coffee break

10:10 How far can you go with Hebbian learning, and when does it lead you astray? Jay McClelland

11:00 Error-driven Mechanisms: The Case of Early Word Learning. Kim Plunkett

11:50 Lunch

1:30 Constructive Learning in the Modeling of Psychological Development. Tom Shultz

2:20 Dynamically guided learning. Rebecca Gomez

3:10 Coffee break

3:30 Discussant: Michael Thomas

5:00-6:30 Poster Session (click for titles) with wine & cheese. Posters will stay up all week.

7:00 Dinner

Day 2 (Wed, July 28): Constraints on learning (Click for description and abstracts.)

8:30 Tutorial: Developmental constraints on or developmental structure in brain evolution? Barbara Finlay

9:30 Group photo and coffee break

10:10 Under what conditions do infants detect continuity violations? Renee Baillargeon

11:00 The emergence of cognitive specialization in infancy: The case of face preference. Francesca Simion

11:50 Lunch

1:30 Social learning and social cognition: The case of pedagogy. Gergely Csibra

2:20 Bridging the Gap: The Relation between Learning and Memory during Infancy and Early Childhood. Harlene Hayne

3:10 Coffee break

3:30 Core mechanisms of word learning. Lori Markson

4:20 Discussant: Isabel Gauthier

7:00 Dinner

Day 3 (Thu, July 29): Representational change (half day) (Click for description and abstracts.)

8:30 Variability in human brain plasticity: Helen Neville

9:20 Atypical representational change: Michael Thomas

10:10 Coffee break

10:40 Changing causal representations: Causal Bayes nets and theory-formation in children. Alison Gopnik

11:30 Discussant: Linda Smith

12:30 Optional afternoon excursion

7:00 Dinner

Day 4 (Fri, Jul 30): Representational integration and dissociation (Click for description and abstracts.)

8:30 Tutorial: Randy O'Reilly Modeling integration and dissociation in brain and cognitive development

9:30 Coffee break

Sensory processing

10:00 Enhanced Color Input to Motion Processing in Infancy: Evidence for Increasing Dissociation of Color and Motion Information during Development. Karen Dobkins

10:50 Dorsal-Ventral dissociations in early cognitive development. Denis Mareschal

11:40 Lunch

Cross-modal processing

1:30 The infant as synthaesthete? Daphne Maurer

2:20 Auditory-visual interaction in infants. Shin Shimojo

3:10 Coffee break

Cognitive development

3:30 Beyond core knowledge: Susan Carey

4:20 Discussant: Marie Banich

7:00 Dinner

Day 5 (Sat, Jul 31): What have we learned (or can we learn) from cognitive neuroscience about developmental change? (Click for description and abstracts.)

8:30 Association Lecture: Prefrontal Cortex and the Fractionation of Supervisory Control Tim Shallice

9:30 Coffee break

10:00 Cross-species comparisons in development: The case of the spatial "module" Lynn Nadel

10:50 Learning about Learning and Development with Modern Imaging Technology. BJ Casey

11:40 Lunch

1:30 Spatial development following early focal brain injury: Evidence for Adaptive Change in Brain and Cognition. Joan Stiles

2:20 What have we learned (or can we learn) from atypical development about developmental change? Annette Karmiloff-Smith

3:10 Coffee break

3:30 Computational models in developmental cognitive neuroscience: where are we? Mark Seidenberg

4:20 Discussant: Dick Aslin

6:45 Champagne Reception, sponsored by TiCS

7:30 Association Dinner