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SweCog 2017 Conference
Warmly welcome to the 13th SweCog national conference.
The aim of SweCog is to support networking among researchers in Sweden, with the goal of creating a strong interdisciplinary cluster of cognitive science oriented research.
This year's conference will be held in Uppsala, October 26 and 27, 2017.
Conference registration (including dinner, lunch, and refreshments) is free for all SweCog members. Accommodation and travel to and from the conference are, however, not covered by SweCog. For those participating in the joint RiPaC symposium (more info below), there will be a dinner bridging the two events on the Friday, 27, free of charge.
Joint Event
In connection to SweCog 2017, there will also be a one-day symposium on the topic of Rationality in Perception and Cognition (RiPaC) on Saturday October 28, organised by Ronald van den Berg and Peter Juslin at the Department of Psychology. For more information see the event website.
Invited Speakers
We are happy to announce the following four invited speakers for the conference and symposium:
- Mark Bickhard, Lehigh University (SweCog)
- Ulrike Hahn, University of London (SweCog and RiPaC)
- John Flach, Wright State University (SweCog and RiPaC)
- Christopher Summerfield, Oxford University (SweCog and RiPaC)
Call for Extended Abstracts
We invite submissions of extended abstracts covering all areas of cognitive science. Accepted manuscripts will be included in the SweCog conference proceedings and presented, verbally or as a poster, at the SweCog 2017 conference. Submissions describing on-going work are especially welcome.
Submissions should be written using our abstract template, covering 1 to 3 pages including images and references. The author can indicate desired presentation form (verbal or poster) at submission time.
All submissions will be subject to a single-blinded review primarily focused on providing constructive feedback to the author. Based on reviews, the editors will select the best papers for verbal presentation at the conference. Submissions covering significantly less than one page will not be accepted.
Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format. Authors can either submit at registration time or later (by logging in to the member page).
Posters are not to be submitted, please print yourself and bring to the conference.
Important Dates
| 2017-09-04 2017-09-18 | Submission deadline for extended abstracts |
| 2017-09-18 2017-09-27 | Response to reviewed manuscripts |
| 2017-09-25 2017-10-02 | Submission of camera-ready abstracts |
Registration
Registration for SweCog 2017 is now closed.
SweCog Conference
If you are a member of the SweCog society, then please log in to register with the conference. Otherwise, please visit our registration page to become a member and to register your participation in the conference.
RiPaC Symposium
To sign up for the symposium, please fill in this Google form.
Sponsorship
The SweCog 2017 conference is sponsored by the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University (www.teknat.uu.se). The RiPaC symposium is supported by grant 2015-00371 from the Swedish Research Council and grant INCA 600398 from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Programme
Thursday October 26th Assembly Hall (Building 6)
| 12:00 — 13:00 | Registration in Building 6 |
| 13:00 — 13:15 | Welcome |
| 13:15 — 14:00 |
Invited speaker - Mark Bickhard Representing is (for) What? |
| Abstract: Available models of representation suffer from fatal problems, some extending back millennia in Western thought, and some introduced more recently (I have made my own contributions to this family of critiques). But representing will not go away; what is necessary is a different kind of model. I will outline an action based, pragmatist model of representing that avoids the family of problems of classic models, and show how representing emerges naturally and necessarily in the evolution of agents. As cognition and representing permeate everything mental, so also do the consequences of this shift in models of representing. | |
| 14:00 — 14:30 | Kata Szita Smartphones, films, and cognition |
| 14:30 — 15:00 | Coffee |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Erik Lagerstedt A drive through the world of functional tones, simulations and cars |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | Ali Basirat and Marc Tang Neural network and human cognition: A case study of grammatical gender in Swedish |
| 16:00 — 16:15 | Break |
| 16:15 — 17:00 |
Invited speaker - John Flach Meaning Processing in a Triadic Semiotic System |
| Abstract: Weinberg (1975) defined "system" as "a way of looking at the world." That is, the specification of the system reflects an ontological choice that all scientists make to distinguish between the 'objects of interest' and the 'background' for their particular field of study. In this talk, I will defend my choice to identify the cognitive system as a Triadic Semiotic System that spans mind and matter. I will argue that meaning emerges from functional relations associated with a closed-loop coupling of situations and awareness. I will suggest that to fully understand this coupling, we need constructs that span the mind-matter dichotomy and that are compatible with the dynamics of circular systems. I will suggest three important constructs that I believe are essential to understanding the circular dynamics of human experience: satisfying, specifying, and affording. | |
| 17:00 — 19:00 | Poster session including refreshments |
| 19:30 | Dinner on board m/s Kung Carl Gustaf |
Friday October 27th Assembly Hall (Building 6)
| 09:15 — 10:00 |
Invited speaker - Ulrike Hahn Pessimism about optimistic belief updating |
| Abstract: Decades of research seemingly established robust evidence for an "optimism bias" whereby people think 'bad things only happen to others'. The empirical basis of this putative bias came under scrutiny with Harris and Hahn’s (2011) critique that showed the standard method for showing unrealistic optimism, does this even for entirely rational, non-optimistic agents. In the same year, work by Sharon et al. (2011) introduced a potential new mechanism, and with it new evidence for unrealistic optimism, into the debate. The talk will demonstrate that this method is prone to showing 'optimism' in entirely rational agents also, and does not yield interpretable results. | |
| 10:00 — 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30 — 11:00 | Joel Parthemore On the essentially dynamic nature of concepts |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Manuel Oliva Pupil dilation reflects the time course of perceptual emotion selection |
| 11:30 — 12:00 | Mikael Laaksoharju Adding integral display properties to increase generalizability of a configural display |
| 12:00 — 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 — 13:30 | Anna Einarsson Composing music as an embodied activity |
| 13:30 — 14:00 | Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc The social side of imitation in human evolution and development: Shared intentionality and imitation games in chimpanzees and 6-month old infants |
| 14:00 — 14:30 | Coffee |
| 14:30 — 15:00 | Ronald van den Berg An ecologically rational explanation for set size effects in human cognition |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Christopher Summerfield Human blindness to noise in neural computation |
| 15:30 — 16:00 | SweCog annual member's meeting and conference closing |
Satellite Symposium: Rationality in Perception and Cognition
Bertil Hammer-salen, Blåsenhus (von Kraemers allé 1)
Saturday October 28th
| 09:00 — 09:15 | Opening remarks by Ronald van den Berg |
| 09:15 — 10:15 |
Thorsten Pachur (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany) Mapping bounded rationality: How prospect theory reflects heuristics of risky choice |
| 10:15 — 10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30 — 11:30 |
Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford, UK) Optimal irrationality during human decision-making |
| 11:30 — 12:30 |
Daniel Braun (Ulm University, Germany) Bounded rationality in sensorimotor learning and decision-making |
| 12:30 — 13:30 | Lunch at Café Feiroz |
| 13:30 — 14:30 |
John Flach (Wright University, Ohio, USA) Skilled muddling: A pragmatic logic for a complex world |
| 14:30 — 15:30 |
Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Perceptions of Randomness: The Role of Experience |
| 15:30 — 15:45 | Coffee |
| 15:45 — 16:45 |
Klaus Fiedler (University of Heidelberg, Germany) Speed-accuracy trade-off in sample-based decision making |
| 16:45 — 17:00 | Closing reflections by Peter Juslin |
Location: SweCog Conference
Department of Information Technology
Polacksbacken
Lägerhyddsvägen 2, Uppsala
ITC Building 6
Location: RiPaC Symposium
Department of Psychology
Campus Blåsenhus
von Kraemers allé 1A, Uppsala
Bertil Hammer Hall
Contact
SweCog Conference Organisers
Anders Arweström Jansson,
Anton Axelsson,
RiPaC Symposium Organiser
Ronald van den Berg,