4th International Conference on Cognitive Science

The Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Science

Tomsk, Russia, on June 22-26th, 2010.
 
The conference is organised by Tomsk State University, Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Science, The Interregional Association for Cognitive Studies, The Interregional Public Foundation “Center of Development of Interpersonal Communications” and Russian Scientific Centre "Kurchatov Institute".
 
This conference succeeds the conferences on cognitive science held in Kazan' (2004), St. Petersburg (2006) and Moscow (2008) (see the Association's website: www.cogsci.ru). The conference aims to organise a multidisciplinary forum for scientists exploring cognition and its evolution; intellect; thinking; perception; consciousness; knowledge representation and acquisition; language as a means of cognition and communication; brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behaviour. Psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, specialists in education, artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics and cognitive ergonomics, as well as other researchers interested in interdisciplinary research on cognition are invited to participate in the conference.
 
The conference programme will include lectures by leading experts in multidisciplinary cognitive studies. The names of the invited lecturers will be announced at the conference website. The working languages of the Conference are English and Russian (for lectures and conference sections we shall provide all time parallel translation). Accepted abstracts will be published by the beginning of the conference. Abstract submission opens at the conference site in December 2009. The deadline for abstract submission is January 15th, 2010. Abstracts should be submitted online at the conference website. Organisers of the conference hope to keep the registration fee to a minimum and provide grants for accommodation at the hotels of Tomsk. Acceptance notifications shall be reported by e-mail and published at the conference website on March 1st, 2010.
 
Chair of the Organizing Committee – Georgy V. Mayer (Tomsk State University, Russia)
Chair of the Program Committee – Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Conference secretary – Anna A. Stroiteleva
Tel: +7 (3822) 529-710 (GMT +0600)
E-mail: org@cogsci2010.ru
Conference site: http://www.cogsci2010.ru