Schedule of Events

The 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition
June 2-4, 2006 .."Embodiment, Ego-space, and Action"

Co-organizers: Roberta Klatzky,Brian MacWhinney &Marlene Behrmann

Schedule

Friday June 2^nd
.
Perception & Action
.

8:30
9:00
9:30

10:30
10:45

11:45
1:15

2:15

3:15
3:30

4:30

5:30

Continental breakfast
Welcome and Overview
Jack Loomis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Measuring Spatial Perception with Spatial Updating and Action
Break
Guenther Knoblich, Rutgers University
Bodily and Motor Contributions to Action Perception
Lunch
Catherine Reed, University of Denver
Embodiment of Configural Processing and Perceptual Expertise
Maggie Shiffrar, Rutgers University
The Embodied Visual System
Break
Roberta Klatzky, Carnegie Mellon University
The Embodied Actor in Multiple Frames of Reference
Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia
Perceiving the Possibilities and Costs of Action
Reception

Saturday June 3^rd
.
Mind, Brain and Action
.

8:30

9:00

10:00

10:15

11:15

12:15

1:45

2:45

3:15

4:15

Continental breakfast

Carol Colby, University of Pittsburgh
Active vision and spatial updating

Break

Paul Cisek, University of Montreal
Deciding About Actions: The Affordance Competition Hypothesis

Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh
Useful Signals From Motor Cortex

Lunch

Jody Culham, University of Western Ontario
Brain Systems for Visually Guided Actions

Break

Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh
Elements of Control in the Motor Cortex

Carol Colby, University of Pittsburgh
Discussion

Sunday June 4^th
.
Development of Action
.

8:30

9:00

10:00

10:15

11:15

12:30

Continental breakfast

Karen Adolph, New York University
The Growing Body in Action

Break

Bennett Bertenthal, University of Chicago
Two Modes for Understanding Actions: A Developmental Perspective

Susan Fitzpatrick, J. S. McDonnell Foundation
Final Commentary & General Discussion

Symposium Adjourns

All symposium sessions will be in the Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

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