ESSCS - EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR
THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
2-4 July 2008, Genoa (Genova), Italy
First announcement, January 2008
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ESSCS, Annual
Workshop 2 – 4 July 2008, Genoa, Italy
Pogramme
Names of
people who will be present are printed in italics
For each
presentation 30 minutes are available, and 10 minutes for discussion
Wednesday 2 July 2008 | 9.30 – 12.30 hrs.
Cognition and Language
Manuela Mariani, Laura Salmon, Università di Genova, Italia
Toward a Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism: an integration with
Translation
Theory and Acquisition of a Second
Language
Bernard Bichakjian, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Language Evolution: Stereotypes and Misunderstanding vs. Considered Judgment
Konstantin
Todorov, Institute of
Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
From structure to semantics: A two–stage approach to ontology mapping
Rita
Mascialino, Udine,
Italy
The meaning of language viewed in the perspective of dynamic spatiality: A
comparative analysis and interpretation of “Aphorism 1” by Franz Kafka
14.30 – 18.00 hrs.
Cognition and Language (continued)
Paolo Odoardi,
University of Bologna, Italy
Text, cognition, and memory: what
Semiotics can say about remembering a movie
Mara
Vendrame, Ilaria Cutica,
and Monica Bucciarelli Center for
Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, Univ. of Turin, Italy Co-speech
gestures and discourse comprehension: A useful support for oral deaf people?
Models for cognition, and for brain
Michela Balconi, Guido Mazza, Davide Crivelli, and Edoardo Santucci
Department of Psychology,
Catholic University of Milan
Motor Imagery and Action Execution, Some Theoretical and Empirical
Considerations on Biological and non-Biological System Inter-Actions.
G.J. Dalenoort,
Groningen, The Netherlands
Building stones for a neural architecture underlying language
Marco Damonte, Università di Genova,
Aquinas’ perception theory in the light of some neurological pathologies
Thursday 3 July 2008 | 9.00 – 12.30 hrs.
Models for cognition, and for brain (continued)
Alberto Greco and Claudio Caneva Università di Genova.
Motor Representation: a New Path to Meaning
Roberta Camba and Sergio Morra, Università di Genova
Theory of
Constructive Operators and Catastrophe Theory:
A new look at number conservation
P.H. de Vries, Dept. of
Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
The control of topdown processes in self-organizing
cognitive systems
Mind and Body
Robin Allott,
Seaford, England
The evolution machine: Reconsidering Lamettrie
Markus Eronen, M.A. University of Osnabrück,
How to Explain the Brain? Reductionism versus Multilevel Mechanisms
14.30 – 18.00 hrs
Mind and Body (continued)
Miriam Kyselo, Institute of Cognitive Science at the
University of Osnabrück, Germany.
No Action, no Consciousness? Confronting the Enactive Approach to Consciousness
with Neuromedical Cases of Locked-in Syndrome (LiS)
Alexei Medvedev, School of International Studies, University
of South Australia
A Linguistic Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
Ilaria Serafini, Institute for Cognitive Science Osnabrück,
Germany
Is a phenomenal account of consciousness possible?
Cognitive Ergonomy and Miscellaneous
F. Gasparetti, A. Micarelli, and G. Sansonetti
Towards modeling of
Information Needs in Web-Browsing Activities
Friday 4 July 2008 | 9.00 – 12.00 hrs.
Cognitive Ergonomy and Miscellaneous (continued)
Christian Stary, University of Linz, Austria Department of
Business Information
Systems – Comunication Engineering, Competence Center Knowledge
ManagementEducational Knowledge-Transfer Support in e-Learning
Environments
Martin Peniak and Angelo Cangelosi, School of Computing, Communications, and Electronics,
University of Plymouth, UK, Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Research Group, Autonomous
Robot Exploration of Unknown Terrain: A Preliminary Model of Mars Rover Robot
Vadim Tikhanoff¹, Angelo Cangelosi¹, Giorgio Metta²
¹ University of Plymouth, UK, ² Italian Institute of Technology
Emergence of Communication in Autonomous Robots
ESSCS Annual
Workshop 2008 | 2 – 4 July 2008 | Genoa, Italy