Comparative
Cognition and Learning:
Fall
Meeting Sponsored by the Comparative Cognition Society
Thursday
November 13, 2008
Chicago Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
Meeting Room: Boulevard A
8:30 - 5:00
In association with the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society
Click here for Conference Program (pdf)
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Comparative Cognition and Learning: All Sessions Held in the Boulevard A Meeting Room |
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Program Summary
See Conference Program for List of Presenters, Titles and Abstracts
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8:30 |
Spatial Learning and Memory |
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9:10 |
Discrimination Learning |
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10:00 |
Associative Learning |
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10:40 |
Object Recognition |
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11:30 |
Response to Uncertainty |
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12:00 |
Lunch Break |
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1:30 |
Representational and Metacognitive Processes |
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2:20 |
Patterns, Categories, & Hierarchies |
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3:10 |
Social Learning and Numerical Competence |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Keynote Presentation – Daniel Povinelli |
Keynote Speaker
Daniel Povinelli (University of Louisiana)
Daniel J. Povinelli & Derek C. Penn (University of Louisiana) Humanizing the Human Mind
After 150 years of emphasizing the similarities between human and animal minds, comparative psychology seems to have taken a turn toward understanding what makes the human mind human. Several recent theories attempt to describe and explain the unique cognitive abilities of Homo sapiens. We review these theories and describe major points of disagreement among them. In doing so, we outline an agenda for restoring comparative psychology to its rightful place in understanding human nature.
Register for Comparative Cognition and Learning. Registration is free. Please register if you plan to attend.
For information about the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, including hotel information, go to www.psychonomic.org/meet.htm
Fall Conference Steering Committee: Michael
Brown, Jon Crystal, Olga Lazareva, Suzanne MacDonald, Marcia Spetch, Tom Zentall
Questions to:
michael.brown@villanova.edu
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