The Cognitive Development Lab presents...
 
 Rutgers Symposium on Learning II

Object Cognition:
Underlying mechanisms
and their origins.
 

Friday May 21^st & Saturday 22^nd, 1999

Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Recent advances suggest that objects fundamentally structure both adult visual attention and early infant knowledge.
Do common cognitive and brain mechanisms underlie both adult visual attention and early infant object knowledge?

The symposium brings together for the first time leading cognitive scientists studying attention in adults and in infants
to explore parallels and differences between their two fields of study.
 

Program:

Friday, May 21, 1999    8:30 Coffee  9:00 Dean Richard Foley  Welcoming remarks  9:15 Elizabeth Spelke  Core knowledge and cognitive processes  10:00 Anne Treisman  Object files in perception and memory  10:45 Break for refreshments  11:00 Alan Leslie  Change blindness and multiple object tracking in infants  11:45 Jacob Feldman  Steps toward a theory of perceptual objects  12:30 General Discussion  1:00 Break for Lunch  2:00 Zenon Pylyshyn  Connecting thoughts and things: Tracking as the defining paradigm  2:45 Susan Carey  Establishing representations of new individuals: New infant results and old studies by Michotte  3:30 Break for refreshments  3:45 Patrick Cavanagh  Spatial and temporal resolution of attention  4:30 General Discussion  5:00 End of first session

Saturday, May 22, 1999    9:00 Coffee  9:30 Renee Baillargeon   What information do infants include in their event representations?  10:15 Glyn Humphreys  Object-coding structures spatial  representation: Evidence from normality and pathology     11:00 Break for refreshments    11:15 Fei Xu  Object individuation in infancy: The role of attention mechanisms and  language learning     12:00 General Discussion  12:30 Break for Lunch    1:30 Brian Scholl   Objecthood in cognitive development and visual attention   2:15 Karen Wynn  Some surprising failures in infants' reasoning about objects: Object tracking processes and infants' appreciation of object principles    3:00 Break for refreshments    3:15 Nancy Kanwisher  Neural correlates of object-based attention    4:00 General Discussion  5:00 Close

Speakers:     Dr. Renee Baillargeon (Professor of  Psychology, University of Illinois)   Dr. Susan Carey (Professor of Psychology, New York  University)   Dr. Patrick Cavanagh (Professor of Psychology,  Harvard University)   Dr. Jacob Feldman (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University)   Dr. Richard Foley (Dean of FAS and Professor of     Philosophy, Rutgers)   Dr. Glyn Humphreys (Professor of Psychology,   University of Birmingham, UK)   Dr. Nancy Kanwisher (Associate Professor of Psychology, MIT)   Dr. Alan M. Leslie (Professor of Psychology and    Cognitive Science, Rutgers University)   Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn (Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science, Rutgers University)   Brian Scholl (Graduate Student, Rutgers University)   Dr. Elizabeth Spelke (Professor of Psychology, MIT)   Dr. Anne Treisman (James S.McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Princeton University)   Dr. Karen Wynn (Associate Professor  of Psychology, Arizona University)   Dr. Fei Xu (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University)    Organizers:   Kathy VanderGoot and Alan Leslie

 

We are grateful to the following for additional sponsorship:
Laboratory of Language and Cognition, Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science