COSY MEETING-OF-MINDS WORKSHOP
PARIS 16-18 SEPT 2007
SCHEDULE
Local Organisers:Kevin O'Regan, LPP CNRS Paris (+33 (0) 611 98 7800)
Jacqueline Fagard, LPP CNRS Paris (+33 (0) 688 857 463)
Remote helper:
Aaron Sloman, Birmingham
On behalf of The CoSy project
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
DAY 1: SUNDAY 16 SEPT 09.10 Arrive, pick up workshop papers, coffee. Poster presenters: put up your posters 09.30 Welcome and Announcements 09.45 Talk 1 Henrik Christensen (Leader of the CoSy Project) College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and KTH, Stockholm, Sweden http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hic/ Challenges in artificial cognitive systems ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 Talk 2 Annette Karmiloff-Smith Developmental Neurocognition Lab, Birkbeck College, London, UK. http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/DNL/personalpages/annette.html Built-in modules vs a developmental process of gradual modularisation: insights from genetic disorders 11:45 Talk 3 Yuko Munakata Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder http://psych.colorado.edu/~munakata/ Developing cognitive flexibility: Learning mechanisms and representational change ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.30-14:00 Buffet lunch in meeting rooms ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00 Talk 4 Jeremy Wyatt School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jlw On Architectures for Intelligent Robots: Distributed Representation & Shared Workspaces 14:45 Talk 5 Karen Adolph Department of Psychology, New York University, USA http://www.psych.nyu.edu/adolph/ Developing flexibility ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15:30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 Talk 6 Robert Vickerstaff University of Canterbury, New Zealand http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/ccnr/people/RobertVickerstaff.html http://www.ladysmith.eclipse.co.uk/ Modeling navigation in desert ants and vision in jumping spiders 16:45 Talk 7 Thomas Collett Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, UK http://www.sussex.ac.uk/biology/profile547.html Insect-level intelligence as displayed in arthropod spatial behaviour ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:30 Discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:00 -- 21:00 Posters and buffet dinner in meeting rooms =================================================================== DAY 2: MONDAY 17 SEPT 09:00 Talk 8 Aaron Sloman http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ University of Birmingham, UK Understanding causation in robots, animals and children: Hume's way and Kant's way. Slides and Videos 09:45 Talk 9 Neil Berthier http://people.umass.edu/neb Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, USA Development of reaching in infants ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 Talk 10 Laurie Santos Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA http://pantheon.yale.edu/~lrs32/santos.html Primate understanding of objects and motion Slides and Abstract 11:45 Talk 11 Felix Warneken Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany http://email.eva.mpg.de/~warneken/ Acting for and with others: Developmental and comparative perspectives on prosocial behavior ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.30-14:00 Buffet lunch in meeting rooms ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00 Talk 12 Ales Leonardis Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/alesl/ Hierarchically Learned Representations of Object Categories: From Pixels towards Semantic Parts 14:45 Talk 13 Thomas Shipley Department of Psychology, Temple University, USA http://astro.temple.edu/~tshipley/index.html Event segmentation and action recognition ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 Talk 14 Cecilia Heyes Department of Psychology, University College London, UK http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/celia.heyes/netintro.htm Imitation from sensorimotor learning 16:45 Talk 15 Guenther Knoblich Psychology Department Rutgers University, USA [Now at University of Birmingham, UK] http://psychology.rutgers.edu/~knoblich/ Two Challenges for Robotics: Mirroring and Joint Action Slides and Abstract 17:30 Short discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:00 - 22:00 Buffet dinner at Kevin O'Regan's ------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================== DAY 3: TUESDAY 18 SEPT 09:00 Talk 16 Luciano Fadiga Neurolab, University of Ferrara, Italy http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/istevent/2006/cf/people-detail.cfm?id=1992 http://web.unife.it/progetti/neurolab/people.htm From Hand Actions to Language: Anatomo-Physiological Links between Monkey Mirror Neurons and Human Broca's Area 09:45 Talk 17 Kim Plunkett Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/babylab/personal/kim.html Connectionist approaches to language acquisition ------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 Panel and discussion with CoSy Advisory Board Members: Heinrich Bülthoff Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany http://www.kyb.mpg.de/~hhb Ben Kuipers Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin, USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30 - 14:00 Buffet lunch in meeting rooms ------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00 Talk 18 Linda Smith Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, USA http://www.indiana.edu/~psych/faculty/smith.html Words and objects from the first person view: A dynamic and embodied approach to attention 14:45 Talk 19 Randall O'Reilly Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, USA http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/ Abstract representations and embodied agents: prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------- 15:30 Coffee ------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00 Talk 20 Kevin O'Regan LPP CNRS, Paris http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr How to build phenomenal consciousness into a robot Colette Maloney [CANCELLED] Head of Cognitive systems and Robotics Unit DG Information Society and Media, European Commission http://www.cognitivesystems.eu ------------------------------------------------------------------- Discussion on what has been learnt at this workshop:
- about natural intelligence
- about artificial intelligence
- about good things to aim at in the near future
- things to aim at in the more distant future
------------------------------------------------------------------- 19:00 - 21:00 Cocktails at Jacqueline's ------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================