iCog 2 - Programme
iCog 2
Perspectives on Learning
Perspectives on Learning
Edinburgh
15–16 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October
9:00am Registration and coffee
Session 1: Concept Acquisition
9:30am Alex Doumas, “Learning structured representations from scratch: an overview of the DORa project”
10:30am Richard Stöckle-Schobel, “On the evidence for prelinguistic concept learning”
11:15am Samantha Austen, “Revealing conceptual transfer in adult second language acquisition: a cognitive approach”
12:00 noon Lunch and poster session
Session 2: Learning and Language
1:00pm Jean-Marc Dewaele, “Emotions in Multiple Languages”
2:00pm Charlotte Field, Melissa Allen and Charlie Lewis, “Language acquisition from social cues, associative cues and conflicting cues in typically and atypically developing children”
2:45pm James Kusch & Dror Abend David. “Why Study a Foreign Language? Motivation, Pedagogy and Translation Theory in Foreign/Second Language Acquisition”
3:30pm Refreshment break
4:00pm Jan Derry, “Inferentialism, pedagogy, and knowledge”
7:00pm Dinner at Ciao Roma
Thursday, 16 October
9:00am Registration and coffee
Session 3: Perceptual and numerical learning
9:30am Andrew Philippides, ” Visual learning in insects: a case study in synthetic neuroethology”
10:30am Vicente Raja Galian, “Perceptual Learning and Ecological Augmented Reality (PLEAR)”
11:15am Andrew Manches and Mihaela Dragomir, “Gesture as a window into how physical interaction shapes young children’s numerical development”
12 noon Lunch and poster session
Session 4: Neurology and brain imaging
1:00pm Szu-Han Wang, “Keep the adaptive learning and lose the maladaptive one”
2:00pm Jessica Diaz and Marios Philiastides, “The Nature and Neural Locus of Perceptual Learning”
2:45pm Anjuli Manrique, “Literacy, Anthropology and Brain Imaging”
3:30pm Refreshment break
4:00pm Rosie Flewitt, “A broader view of learning from multimodal ethnography”
5:00pm Close