16th International Summer School in Cognitive Science

Announcing the 16th International Summer School in Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, July 6-23, 2009

Application deadline: April 1, 2009

Courses:
* Michael Spivey (Cornell University, USA) – Embodied Cognition
* Rob Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) Collective Behavior
* Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) – Comparative Approaches to Cognition: Knowing Other Animal Minds
* Edward Necka (Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland) – Individual Differences in Cognitive Processes
* Randall C. O'Reilly (University of Colorado, USA) Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
* Adele Diamond (University of British Columbia, Canada) – Prefrontal cortex executive functions: Genetic and environmental influences and clinical implications.
* Tom Ward (University of Alabama, USA) – Creative Cognition in Real and Virtual Worlds
* Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) – Analogy and Cognition

Participant Symposium:
In addition to the courses, the participants can present their own doctoral projects and or results from their research. Submit a two-page abstract by April 30.

2nd Analogy Conference:
Participants in the Summer School will have the unique chance to participate in the 2nd Analogy Conference without further costs. All main researchers in the field will be presenting at that conference.

Organized by the New Bulgarian University
Endorsed and Sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society and the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).

Application deadline: April 1, 2009
Scholarship available, kindly provided by the Cognitive Science Society

For more information, please contact:
New Bulgarian University
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
E-mail: school@cogs.nbu.bg
Web page: http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2009.html