Statement of Purpose

As a continuation of a workshop held in May 2003, at Lake Balaton, Hungary, this conference is also intended as an encounter between researchers of Eastern and Western Europe working within the cognitive neurosciences.


Venue

The conference will be held at the Venice International University, Isola San Servolo, Venice.
Accommodation is also arranged at the venue.
Here is some information about how to get there.



Program

	Friday, 29th October	Saturday, 30th October	Sunday, 31st October
10:00-10:45	arrival of participants meeting and registration point directly at the venue REGISTRATION open from 12:00	chair: Giorgio Vallortigara	chair: Szabolcs Számadó
		TUTORIAL Szabolcs Számadó: “Evolution of language from the perspective of a biologist”	Marina Nespor: “On vowels and consonants in language processing”
10:45-11:00			Jacques Mehler: “Perceptual biases in language learning and processing”
11:00-11:30		coffee break
11:30-12:00		chair: Melita Kovacevic	chair: Marina Nespor
		POSTER SESSION	coffee break
12:00-12:45			Melita Kovacevic: “Semantic or grammatical primacy of prepositions?”
12:45-13:00			Tim Shallice: “Fractionation of Control Processes in Prefrontal Cortex”
13:00-13:30		lunch break
13:15-14:00
14:00-14:30		chair: Jacques Mehler
		Ilona Kovács: “Delayed maturation of ventral visual stream connectivity”
14:30-14:45	OPENING WORDS
14:45-15:30	chair: Tim Shallice	Raffaella Rumiati: “Semantic and motor knowledge of objects in humans”
	Giorgio Vallortigara: “Animals’ reorientation by geometric and landmark information in environments of different spatial scale”
15:30-16:15	Luciano Fadiga: “Speech: a capability newly developed in humans?”	Mihály Racsmány: “How inhibitory processes modulate episodic retrieval”
16:15-16:45	coffee break	coffee break
16:45-17:30	chair: Ilona Kovács	chair: Raffaella Rumiati
	György Gergely: “The Pedagogical Stance: A human-specific adaptation for cultural learning”	Luca Bonatti: “Dynamical Imagination”
17:30-18:15	Gyula Kovács: “Contextual modulation of face perception”	Vittorio Girotto: “Early extensional intuitions about probability”
19:30-		conference dinner