Academic Centre13th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
“Events and Objects in Perception, Cognition, and Language”
December 8–9, 2018
Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems,
Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia
Saturday, December 8
8:45 Registration
9:15–9:30 Opening
9:30–10:30 Plenary lecture (co-sponsored by Baltic Child Neurology Association)
Amanda WOODWARD (University of Chicago, USA)
Action and infant cognition
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–13:00 Parallel sessions
11:00–11:40
Miguel SANTIN, Angeliek VAN HOUT
(University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Monique FLECKEN
(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Does the result justify the means? Verbal and non-verbal memory of event results in Mandarin, Dutch and Spanish speakers
11:40–12:20
Paolo ACQUAVIVA
(University College Dublin, Ireland)
Possible nouns for visual experiences: Relating visually- and linguistically-defined objects
12:20–13:00
Nezrin SAMEDOVA
(Azerbaijan University of Languages, Azerbaijan)
Events in the world and “in the head”: The case of so-called semelfactives
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Carla UMBACH
(Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin (ZAS), Germany)
The role of similarity in the interpretation of perception verb complements
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Olga MATROSOVA (University of Latvia)
Children in space
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Eglė ŽILINSKAITĖ-ŠINKŪNIENĖ
(Vilnius University, Lithuania),
Līga ZARIŅA
(University of Latvia)
Jurģis ŠĶILTERS
(University of Latvia)
Time in terms of space in Baltic
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Plenary keynote talk
Paul DEKKER (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Talk about things non-existent
15:00–15:20 Coffee
15:20–16:20
Accenture MadScience talk
Michael GLANZBERG (Northwestern University, USA)
Truth and models in science
16:20–16:30 Break
16:30–17:30 Accenture MadScience talk
James PUSTEJOVSKY (Brandeis University, USA)
Visualizing meaning: Semantic simulation of actions and events
17:30–18:00 Coffee
18:00–19:00 Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture in Cognitive Science
Robert GOLDSTONE (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
(a collaborative work with Francisco LARA-DAMMER and Douglas HOFSTADTER)
Computational models of mental models of computational models of the world
19:15 – Reception in honor of Robert Blumberg 2018 Lecture / conference dinner
Sunday, December 9
9:00 Registration
9:30–10:30 Plenary keynote
Jeffrey ZACKS (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA)
Object-like properties of events in perception and memory
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:20 Parallel sessions
11:00–11:40
Riccardo BARATELLA
(University of Salzburg, Austria)
On the identification of events with material objects
11:40–12:20
Kristina LIEFKE (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Markus WERNING (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Objects and events in situated single-type semantics
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Stephanie REEVES (Connecticut College, USA)
The effects of background music and noise on cognitive performance testing in musicians and non-musicians
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12:20–13:20 Lunch
13:20–15:20 Plenary keynote talks
James PUSTEJOVSKY (Brandeis University, USA)
How events and objects occupy space
Michael GLANZBERG (Northwestern University, USA)
Events as arguments and events in composition
15:20–15:40 Coffee
15:40–17:40 Plenary keynote talks
Alexis WELLWOOD (University of Southern California, USA)
Events in language and mind
Chris SINHA (Hunan University, China)
Events in mind, space and time
Conference closing