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From: "Andrej Kibrik"

FIRST RUSSIAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE
October 9-12, 2004, Kazan
Second Call for Papers

The goal of the conference is to create a joint forum for representatives from various disciplines 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 behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neurophysiologists, specialists in artificial intelligence and neuroinformatics, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, as well as other scientists interested in interdisciplinary issues in cognitive studies, are invited to take part in the conference. The organizers believe it is important for specialists from all these kinds of
background to develop a common interdisciplinary language. Among the invited speakers will be:

Konstantin V. Anokhin (Moscow)
"The language genes" and the "Korsakoff mouse": What can we learn about cognition from transgenic animals?

Wallace Chafe (Santa Barbara, California)
The roles of observation, experimentation, and introspection in
understanding the mind

Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (Saint-Petersburg)
To be announced

Sandro V. Kodzasov (Moscow)
Intonation as the marker of an utterance's informational environment

Michael Posner (Eugene, Oregon)
The development of neural network related to attention and self
regulation

Helge Ritter (Bielefeld)
Artificial attention as a basis for cognitive robots

Michael Tomasello (Leipzig and Atlanta, Georgia)
The cultural origins of human cognition

Boris M. Velichkovsky (Dresden and Moscow)
Cognitive science applied

The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English.
Decisions on the acceptance of proposed papers will be made on the basis of the abstracts that must arrive no later than March 15, 2004. Please submit the abstract of your paper, in Russian or in English, by e-mail to the address cogsci04@s2s.msu.ru as a MS Word or LaTeX file attached to an e-mail message. Please don't include more than one abstract in one message. The maximal size of an abstract is 2 pages (single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 type sizem, 2 cm margins on all sides), including illustrations and references. At the beginning of an abstract please indicate the following pieces of information:

* the title of the paper (in caps)
* the author's (authors') initials and last name(s), followed by
affiliation in parentheses
* e-mail address
* 3 to 5 keywords

The message to which an abstract is attached is supposed to contain
exclusively the following information:

1. the title of the paper
2a. full name (including last name, first name, and middle name/patronymic, if applicable) of the author (or the first author, in the case of a group of authors)
3a. affiliation of the author (or the first author)
4a. educational status or degree (undergraduate student, graduate student, Ph.D., etc.) of the author (or the first author)
2b. full name (including last name, first name, and middle name/patronymic, if applicable) of the second author
3b. affiliation of the second author
4b. educational status or degree (undergraduate student, graduate student, Ph.D., etc.) of the second author
5. postal address at which the author(s) can be reached
6. phone number at which the author(s) can be reached
7. email address at which the author(s) can be reached
8. the preferred form of presentation (oral or poster)

Please follow the given format, the order and numbering of items.
The program committee will inform the authors of its decisions on the
acceptance of proposals by June 15, 2004.

Additional information on the conference is available at
http://www.ksu.ru/cogsci04, in particular in the text of the First Call for
Papers, or by e-mail at: cogsci04@s2s.msu.ru.
SourceKazan State University, Russia
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