The First Annual UMass Cognitive Science Workshop was held on Thursday, November 13, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the School of Computer Science, CS Building, Rooms 150/151.
The Workshop was organized to gather a cross-disciplinary group together to learn about and contribute to Cognitive Science efforts on the UMass Amherst Campus.
Workshop Schedule:
- 2:00 Social 15 minutes to meet others interested in Cognitive Science and to see a short video introducing the new website
- 2:15 Lisa Sanders (Co-Director Cognitive Science Initiative) will outline our current plans to become an Institute of Cognitive Science and introduce John McCarthy
- 2:20 John McCarthy (Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School) will talk about interdisciplinary research and graduate education
- 2:30 Andrew Barto (Computer Science) - Computational Clues to the Brain's Reward System
- 2:50 Louise Antony (Philosophy) - Epistemology and Psychology: Can Justification be "Naturalized"?
- 3:10 Caren Rotello (Cognitive Psychology) - Why Cognitive Psychology is Important for Neuroscience: An Example from Research on Reasoning
- 3:30 Poster session and social hour
- 4:30 Rajesh Bhatt (Linguistics) - The Importance of Treebanks in Cognitive Science
- 4:50 Erik Cheries (Developmental Psychology) - Foundations of Mind: Infants' Knowledge of Objects, Agents, & Identity
- 5:10 Dave Huber (Cognitive Neuroscience) - Testing a Perceptual Habituation Model with Electrophysiology