Conference: CogSci 2018 @Madison!

The 40th Cog Sci annual meeting is coming this summer at Madison form July 25th to July 28th! This year the topic would be Mind/Changing. The conference will include most advanced studies in the field that have not been published literally elsewhere.

Major Symposia will include:

1. “Changing Education”: big data goes to school
2. “Changing Society”: persuasion, propaganda, and politics
3. “Changing Science”: the Rumelhart price symposium

Keynote Speakers will include:

1. Helen Neville, University of Oregon
2. Matthew Botvinick, Google Deep Mind
3. Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania

There will also be tutorial sections (mostly full-day) including:

1. Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision
   • By Peter Bruza, Jerome Busemeyer, Peter Kvam, and Joyce Wang
   • No previous experience in the field of Quantum needed.
   • Approach to explore the detailed decision-making and cognition process from Quantum’s perspective.
   • An approach to explain the paradoxes found in human cognition and decision (attitude, inference, causal reasoning, judgment and decision, and memory).
2. Statistics as pottery: Bayesian Data Analysis using Probabilistic Program
   • By Michael Tessler and Noah Goodman
   • Bayesian Data Analysis(BDA) “is a general, flexible alternative to standard statistical approaches (e.g. Null Hypothesis Significance Testing) that provides the scientist with clarity and ease to address their personal scientific questions.”
   • The tutorial allows attendees to integrate the basic level of BDA into their models and experiments optimization.
3. Mixed Models in R – An Applied Introduction
   1. By Henrik Singmann
   2. introduction to implementing the Mixed model to include dependencies between the attributes/data of the same subject/experiment item in the analysis process: Ime4
   3. The introduction will also go over the functionality of afex that facilitates and simplifies some aspects of Ime4 (such as p-value calculation)
   4. Basic knowledge of R is expected.
4. A behavioral measure of mindfulness for local and online data collection
   1. By Samuel Nordli and Thomas Gorman
   2. Half day
   3. The local/online programming that uses jsPsy to monitor the breath counting.
   4. This method can provide a more objective report for the studies that include mindfulness practices comparing to self-reporting methods.

For more information:

http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci-2018/

For registration (by July 13, 2018):

http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci-2018/registration/