31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY

Dear John Black,

The Cognitive Science Society is pleased to announce its 31st Annual Conference. The Society brings together researchers from many fields that hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific exchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Education. An exciting group of five world-class speakers will present their latest research in plenary addresses at the conference: Joshua Tenenbaum, whose breakthrough research in Bayesian Modeling exemplifies success in high-level approaches to human cognition, Randall O'Reilly, whose research in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience shows how much we can learn from a bottom-up approach to modeling human cognition, Nicola Clayton, who shows that cognitive science can learn a lot from non-human cognition through her research in Comparative Cognition, Susan Carey, the winner of the Rumelhart 2009 prize, and the winner of the 2008 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science, Stanislas Dehaene. The Annual Conference will also include paper symposia, poster sessions, tutorials, and workshops. A number of prizes for top papers will be awarded, as well as travel grants for student authors.

The conference will be held on July 29-August 1, 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Amsterdam is an exciting travel destination and is served by many direct international flights. More information on Amsterdam, hotels and the conference venue can be found on the website.