International Conference on Post-Cognitivist Psychology

4-6th July, 2005, University of Strathclyde

Supported by the British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch



This international conference brought together people from Europe, the US and Asia. Keynotes were given by Mark Johnson from the University of Oregon, Annette-Karmiloff Smith from UCL and Susan Hurley from the University of Warwick.

Selected papers from the conference were published in a book in 2007: Wallace, B., Ross, A.J., Davies, J.B and Anderson, T., (Eds.) (2007) The World, the Mind and the Body: Psychology after Cognitivism Exeter, Imprint Academic.

A brief version of the programme is included here:

the

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POSTCOGNITIVIST PSYCHOLOGY

Supported by

THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

SCOTTISH BRANCH

 4-6 July 2005

University of Strathclyde

Keynote

                        Active perception and perceiving action

Professor Susan Hurley, University of Warwick

Symposium: Formulating Minimal Requirements for Cognition

                        The foundational problem for cognition.

Fred Keijzer and Marc van Dujin, University of Groningen

                        The cognitive cell.

Pamela Lyon, AustralianNationalUniversity

                        Metabolism and neural agency.

Alvaro Morena, Arantza Etxeberria and Jon Umerez, University of the Basque Country

                        From life to cognition: from metabolic to behavioual autonomy.

Xabier Barandurian, University of the Basque Country

Papers

                        On biological constructivism.

Maurizio Tirassa, University of Turin

                        Children’s construction of grammar and the cultural evolution of language.

Paul Vogt, University of Edinburgh

                        Pragmatic features of child-directed speech facilitate language acquisition in multiple domains: The case of diminutives.

Vera Kempe, University of Stirling

                        Symbols without rules: A computational model of language acquisition using distributional analysis.

Steve Croker, University of Derby

                        Unifying Approaches to the Unity of Consciousness.

Susan Stuart, University of Glasgow

                        Spreading the Word: Linguistic Competence and the Extended Mind.

Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling

 

                        Dialogism and Psychology, Towards a Conjunct Principle of Mind.

ColinSchmidtSorbonneUniversity and Le MansUniversity

                        Descartes, all over again.

Nathalie Gontier, Free University of Brussels

 Keynote

                       Modules, genes and evolution:  what have we learned from atypical

                       Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, UniversityCollege, London

                        
Symposium: Situating representation within Post-Cognitivist Psycholog
                        The ‘antithesis of the subjective and objective’: Representationalism in cognitive and socio-cultural theory.
Alan Costall, University of Portsmouth
                        Repesentational practices in post-cognitivist psychology: Choc and troc?  
James Good and Arthur Still, University of Durham
                        The distribution of Representation
Lisa Osbeck, University of Georgia and Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology
Papers
                        Post-modular developmental psychology: re-conceptualising participation, membership and mastery of language.  
Michael Forrester, University of Kent
                         An ecological model for understanding and influencing behaviour in virtual communities. 
Jonathan Bishop, University of Glamorgan
                        Simple distributional accounts can explain key language phenomena 
Gary Jones, University of Derby
                        Emotion as implicit evaluations.
C. Herrera Perez, Glasgow Caledonian University
 
                                               Parallel conscious functioning of the human brain 
Ishroop Aneja, University of Madras
                                               Culturally Mediated Perception, Action, and Conceptualization: How Distributed Cognition Creates Intra-Cultural Similarities and Inter-Cultural Differences in Thinking.
Norman Steinhart, University of Toronto
                       The elusiveness of cognition.  
Erik Hollnagel, University of Linkoping.
 
                        Spatial Perception and Embodied Cognition. 
Maurice Schouten, TilburgUniversity
                        The cognitive Semantic interface in the construction of mental spaces
Martin Thiering, University of Alberta
                        Time as a factor for Semantic Motivation in Grammatical Structure. 
Yanna Popova, University of Oxford
                        Chomskyan Linguistics meets Cognitivist Psychology. 
Alona Soschen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                                               Cognitive Linguistics and L2 idiom instruction.
Sophia Skoufaki , University of Cambridge.
                         Animate and/or inanimate: “The Psychology of (Everyday) Things”. 
Sandy Lovie, University of Liverpool.
                        Agency and communication.
Maurizio Tirassa, University of Turin
                        Representations of intended actions in children with DCD compared with their age matched peers and a younger developing group. 
Charikleia Sinani, LeedsMetropolitanUniversity.
                        Cross-linguistic relativity in post-cognitivist psychology. 
Stephanie Pourcel, University of Durham
       
                        The influence of sounds on affective meanings: an exploratory study. 
Shigeto Kawahara, Kazuko Shinohara, Akira Nakayama, and Yoshihiro Matsunaka, TokyoUniversity of Agriculture and Technology
                       Embodiment in emotion metaphors: its universality and variety 
                       Yoshihiro Matsunaka and Kazuko Shinohara, TokyoPolytechnicUniversity and TokyoUniversity of Agriculture and Technology
                                               Semantic memory as a system for deriving function.
Fiona Phelps and Bill Macken, CardiffUniversity
                        The reification of phonological storage: Short-term memory as a sensory-effector system. 
Bill Macken and Dylan Jones, CardiffUniversity
Keynote 
                        Professor Mark Johnson, University of Oregon
                        The Meaning of the Body
Papers
                        What can post-classical computation do for post-cognitivist psychology? 
Colin Johnson, University of Kent
                        Dynamic mental representations and deductive reasoning.
Lucia Faiciuc, RomanianAcademy
                        Playing the game of go without representations.
Magnus Persson, Max Planck Institute
                        Embodiment vs. Memetics. 
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath
                        Artificial Emotion: Simulating Affective Behaviour.
Eduardo Coutinho, Eduardo Miranda and Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth
                        Postext as a metaphor of the mind. 
Tom Erez, Uri Hershberg and Sorin Solomon, Fondazione ISI and YaleUniversity.