[visionlist] Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition (Nov. 8-9): Final Call for Contributions

[Trieste Symposium]

*Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition (Nov. 8-9): Final Call for
Contributions*


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                                   20th KANIZSA LECTURE


                                                AND THE


    TRIESTE SYMPOSIUM ON PERCEPTION AND COGNITION


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Dear colleagues,


the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition and the 20th Kanizsa
Lecture are coming up. It is our pleasure to welcome you in Trieste, Italy,
8-9 November, 2012.


The Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on Thursday 8
November, 9 am, at the University of Trieste, via Alfonso Valerio 12.
Traditionally, the Symposium is open to all areas and approaches to the
study of cognition, has no registration fee, and runs on an informal,
relaxed pace.


This year Symposium will include:

- an oral session on Thursday, 8 November (from 9 am to 1 pm),

- a satellite event "Cognition and Language: Research conference in memory
of Patrizia Tabossi" (organized by Cristina Burani, Sergio Carlomagno, and
Marina Sbisà) on Friday, 9 November (9 am - 5:15 pm)

- a poster session on Friday, 9 November (1.30 - 3 pm).


The 20th Kanizsa Lecture will be delivered by Prof. *Alfonso CARAMAZZA*,
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, & CIMeC University of Trento, Italy, in
the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum of Modern Art, via Diaz 27, in the
center of Trieste, on Thursday 8 November, starting at 4.00 pm. The Title
is: Objects, Actions, Words, and Brain

(please note the abstract attached at the end of the call)


If you wish to contribute a presentation to the Symposium, please send us a
title, and specify whether you would like it to be considered for a talk or
a poster.

Please submit the title of your contribution by electronic mail to the
following address: trieste.symposium at gmail.com

Please also specify whether you need any special equipment.

More information about the program will be available here:

http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/~bernardi/index_TSPC2012.html



IMPORTANT GUIDELINES FOR THE AUTHORS:


Talks (in English): Thursday 8 November

Please send us a title and an abstract of about 500 words.

You will have 15-20 minutes for your presentation, including

discussion.


Posters (in English): Friday 9 November

please send us a title and an abstract of about 500 words by October 7.

The proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee. Notification of
acceptance will be sent by October 14.

A surface of 100 cm x 140 cm will be available for each poster. Posters
should be readable from a distance of two meters.



Hope to see you in November!


Paolo Bernardis and Walter Gerbino



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The 20th KANIZSA LECTURE


Lecturer: Prof. *Alfonso CARAMAZZA (*Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, And Center for Mind/Brain Sciences,
University of Trento, Italy)

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~caram/


Title: *Objects, Actions, Words, and Brain*


Abstract: All languages draw a distinction between nouns and verbs, the
principal carriers of word meaning. Neuropsychological evidence has
confirmed the importance of this distinction: brain damage can result in
disproportionate impairment of one or the other category of words.
Neuroimaging evidence has also highlighted the importance of the noun-verb
distinction by showing grammatical category selectivity in several brain
regions. However, the neural correlates of noun and verb representation
remain unclear. This is largely due to the fact that the grammatical
distinction noun-verb is correlated with semantic distinctions between the
two word classes, the most important being that nouns are prototypically
objects while verbs are prototypically actions.  Disentangling the
contributions of grammar and meaning to the observed noun-verb effects in
neuropsychological and neuroimaging research has proven difficult, but not
without some significant insights.  Here I describe one effort to pull
together these two strands or research in a model of lexical processing and
its neural correlates.



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