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Object Cognition: Underlying mechanisms and their origins<\/h2>\n

Friday May 21<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup> & Saturday 22<\/span>nd<\/span><\/sup>, 1999<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Recent advances suggest that objects fundamentally structure both adult visual attention and early infant knowledge.
\nDo common cognitive and brain mechanisms underlie both adult visual attention and early infant object knowledge?<\/p>\n

The symposium brings together for the first time leading cognitive scientists studying attention in adults and in infants
\nto explore parallels and differences between their two fields of study.<\/p>\n

Program:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Friday, May 21, 1999<\/i><\/p>\n

8:30 Coffee
\n9:00 Dean Richard Foley<\/b>
\nWelcoming remarks<\/i>9:15 Elizabeth Spelke<\/b>
\nCore knowledge and cognitive processes<\/i><\/p>\n

10:00 Anne Treisman<\/b>
\nObject files in perception and memory<\/i><\/p>\n

10:45 Break for refreshments<\/p>\n

11:00 Alan Leslie<\/b>
\nChange blindness and multiple object tracking in infants<\/i><\/p>\n

11:45 Jacob Feldman<\/b>
\nSteps toward a theory of perceptual objects<\/i><\/p>\n

12:30 General Discussion
\n1:00 Break for Lunch<\/p>\n

2:00 Zenon Pylyshyn<\/b>
\nConnecting thoughts and things: Tracking as the defining paradigm<\/i><\/p>\n

2:45 Susan Carey<\/b>
\nEstablishing representations of new individuals: New infant results and old studies by Michotte<\/i><\/p>\n

3:30 Break for refreshments<\/p>\n

3:45 Patrick Cavanagh<\/b>
\nSpatial and temporal resolution of attention<\/i><\/p>\n

4:30 General Discussion
\n5:00 End of first session<\/td>\n

Saturday, May 22, 1999<\/i><\/p>\n

9:00 Coffee
\n9:30 Renee Baillargeon\u00a0<\/b>
\nWhat information do infants include in their event representations?<\/i>10:15 Glyn Humphreys<\/b>
\nObject-coding structures spatial\u00a0 representation: Evidence from normality and pathology\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

11:00 Break for refreshments<\/p>\n

11:15 Fei Xu<\/b>
\nObject individuation in infancy: The role of attention mechanisms and\u00a0 language learning\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

12:00 General Discussion
\n12:30 Break for Lunch<\/p>\n

1:30 Brian Scholl\u00a0<\/b>
\nObjecthood in cognitive development and visual attention\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

2:15 Karen Wynn<\/b>
\nSome surprising failures in infants’ reasoning about objects: Object tracking processes and infants’ appreciation of object principles<\/i><\/p>\n

3:00 Break for refreshments<\/p>\n

3:15 Nancy Kanwisher<\/b>
\nNeural correlates of object-based attention<\/i><\/p>\n

4:00 General Discussion
\n5:00 Close<\/td>\n

Speakers:<\/b>
\nDr. Renee Baillargeon<\/b> (Professor of\u00a0 Psychology, University of Illinois)
\nDr. Susan Carey<\/b> (Professor of Psychology, New York\u00a0 University)
\nDr. Patrick Cavanagh<\/b> (Professor of Psychology,\u00a0 Harvard University)
\nDr. Jacob Feldman<\/b> (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University)
\nDr. Richard Foley<\/b> (Dean of FAS and Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers)
\nDr. Glyn Humphreys<\/b> (Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK)
\nDr. Nancy Kanwisher<\/b> (Associate Professor of Psychology, MIT)
\nDr. Alan M. Leslie<\/b> (Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University)
\nDr. Zenon Pylyshyn<\/b> (Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science, Rutgers University)
\nBrian Scholl<\/b> (Graduate Student, Rutgers University)
\nDr. Elizabeth Spelke<\/b> (Professor of Psychology, MIT)
\nDr. Anne Treisman<\/b> (James S.McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Princeton University)
\nDr. Karen Wynn<\/b> (Associate Professor\u00a0 of Psychology, Arizona University)
\nDr. Fei Xu<\/b> (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University)<\/p>\n

Organizers:<\/b> Kathy VanderGoot and Alan Leslie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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