Lund Symposium on Cognition, Communication and Learning

A warm welcome to the official website of the international symposium Communication, Cognition and Learning. The symposium will be held at the unique Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas Museum) in Lund, Sweden, 24-26 April, 2019.

Keynote speakers and titles of their talks:

Linda Smith
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
The data in time and infant statistical learning: The multi-scale structure of everyday experience
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Pankaj Sah
University of Queensland, Australia
Partial Reinforcement in Learning
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Mairéad MacSweeney
University College London, United Kingdom
Language, Cognition and the Brain: Insights from deafness and sign language
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Gustaf Gredebäck
Uppsala University, Sweden
Infant’s actions broaden their mind, examples from social perception, executive control and the development of mathematics.
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Kia Nobre
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, United Kingdom
Temporal structure in cognition.
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Antonia Hamilton
University College London, United Kingdom
Neurocognitive mechanisms of human social interaction
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Eric Pakulak
University of Oregon/Stockholm University, Sweden
It's About Time: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education and Inequality
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Ping Li
Center for Language Science, PennState, USA
Understanding the language learning brain with cyber-enabled approaches and computational methods.

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Presentation of the symposium

Cognition, communication, and learning are fundamental for human beings. They are the pillars that human development and acquisition of skills rest upon. This symposium is intended to be a forum for interdisciplinary perspectives on these three themes with researchers from different disciplines. We invite abstracts for the General Session and the Poster session related, but not limited, to the following topics:

Perception, cognition and language
Language acquisition
Language and cognitive development and evolution
Language and consciousness
Language and gesture
Linguistic typology and cognition
Multicultural communication and cognition
Neuro- and psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition
Translation and cognition
Early mathematics learning as a preparation for elementary school,
Developmental issues regarding children’s mentalizing abilities,
Attentional behavior in young children
Hearing vs nonhearing children
Multimodal communication and learning in noise
Robotics (motivation, emotion, attention)
Bilingualism
Memory, mental imagery, audio description
Cognitive impairment and language use