Future Directions in Genetics Studies Graduate Training Workshop
August 6–10, 2008.Future Directions in Genetics Studies (FDIGS) is the third in a series of graduate training workshops held on the off-year of the biennial meetings of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). The purpose of the workshop is to provide cutting edge graduate training on topics in the history, philosophy, and social studies of behavioral and psychiatric genetics. By bringing together researchers working in neuroscience and genetics, FDIGS seeks to explore new avenues for research by exploring the interface of neuroscience and genetics. The workshop will bring graduate students of different fields together to discuss their research and gain fresh perspectives on their work. The desired result of this workshop is to help dissertating students make contact with cutting edge research, to see that their work can have broad appeal, and to encourage them to make their research accessible to those in other fields that could benefit from their work.
Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
July 16-21, 2007.
NSF funds US-China Joint Workshop. Jose L. Bermudez to convene a joint interdisciplinary workshop on theoretical interfaces in language and memory. The US-China Joint Workshop on Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" will build an integrated research and teaching agenda around a key challenge of contemporary cognitive science: integrating theoretical approaches to understanding how languages (first and second) are acquired through the methods of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and computational modeling. The counterpart hosts are Professor CAI, Shushan, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, and Professor YANG, Xiaolu, Foreign Languages Department, both at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China.
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Moral psychology workshop
March 30-April 1, 2007.
The Moral Psychology Research Group brings together leading researches in
the theoretical and empirical study of human morality and moral
functioning. Members include Josh Greene, Gilbert Harman, Joshua Knobe,
Shaun Nichols, Jesse Prinz, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong, and Stephen Stich.
The group has met twice at Washington University in recent years, most
recently in March 2007.
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perspectives on linguistic variation
Nov. 4-5, 2005.
Linguists from different subfields offered their perspectives, considering variation in the speech of individuals as well as variation across speakers. The purpose is to examine the issues that variation presents for linguistic methodology, theory, and application. ________________________________________________________________
The Brain and Its Self: a new frontier in neuroscience
April 2-4, 2005.
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semantics and psychological evidence
April 15-16, 2005.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines to discuss prospects for the use of empirical evidence in the investigation of the semantics of natural languages. Invited speakers have been asked to reflect on the general prospects for the incorporation of psychological and neurological evidence into the study of natural language semantics, as well as to comment on specific examples of the use of psychological or neurological evidence in semantic theorizing, drawing on their own work or the work of others.
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cognitive neuroscience of film
April 22-24, 2005.
Everyday events are complex, dynamic, and fleeting. So too is film. How does the nervous system extract meaning from real or filmed events? Film theory, particularly that which is empirically oriented, has a lot to say to psychologists and neuroscientists about this problem. At the same time, recent research in cognitive neuroscience has implications for how the mind understands film. The goal of this workshop is to bring together recent research on perceptual psychology and neuroscience with developments in film and media theory to draw conclusions about how people understand real and mediated events.
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Computational Modeling and Explanation in neuroscience
November 5-6, 2004.
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