The New Bulgarian University is announcing the 15th Summer School in
Cognitive Science which will be held from June 30 till July 19, 2008
in Sofia, Bulgaria. The summer school offers advanced courses for
graduate students and young researchers in a variety of areas,
including cognitive modeling, neurosciences, linguistics, psychology,
and philosophy. The lecturers include famous researchers like Magaret
Boden, Paul Smolensky, Geraldine Legendre, Terry Regier, Brad
Schlaggar, Eve Clark, Herbert Clark, Jeffrey Elman.
Application deadline: January 31st, 2008
For more information: http://nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2008.html
e-mail: school from cogs.nbu.bg
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15th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
NBU, Sofia, June 30 - July 19, 2008
Courses
Margaret Boden (University of Sussex, UK) - Creativity and Computers
Paul Smolensky (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2005, John Hopkins
University, USA) - Explaining Grammatical Competence and Performance
in an Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Computational Architecture
Geraldine Legendre (John Hopkins University, USA) - Optimal
Morphosyntax and Its Acquisition
Bradley Schlaggar (Washington University at Saint Louis, USA) -
Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Typical and Atypical
Development
Terry Regier (University of Chicago, USA) - Language and Thought
Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Analogy and Cognition
Eve Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Acquisition of Meaning
Herbert Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Using Language
Jeffrey Elman (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2007, University of
California at San Diego, USA) - Connectionist Models of Language
Processing
Organised by the New Bulgarian University
Endorsed by the Cognitive Science Society
Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
http://www.escop.org/
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618
phone: (+3592) 8110-401
e-mail: school from cogs.nbu.bg
