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Dynamic Field Theory Summer School [website]
June 8-12, 2009
University of Iowa Main Library
Sponsors:
University of Iowa Department of Psychology
The Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences
Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University, Bochum
2007-2008 Bond Fund Workshop Series
Sponsors:
CLAS Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction
Iowa Center for Development and Learning Sciences &
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Department of Psychology
Workshop 1: The Role of Analogy in Thought and Learning
September 28, 2007, 8 am - 12 pm
Room 401, John Pappajohn Business Building
Speakers:
Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
Roger Thompson, Franklin and Marshall College
Ed Wasserman, Univeristy of Iowa
Moderator:
Amanda Owen, University of Iowa
Detailed Schedule:
8:00-8:15 am Welcome
8:15-9:05 am
Roger Thompson
"Analogical Apes and Paleological Monkeys Revisited: Does The "Profound Disparity" In Analogical Reasoning Between Apes And Monkeys Still Stand?"
9:10-10:00 am
Ed Wasserman
"Roots Of Analogy: Relational Matching-To-Sample Behavior in Pigeons, Baboons and Children"
10:00-10:20 am Coffee break
10:20-11:10am
Dedre Gentner
"What's Special about Humans"
11:15-12:00 pm Roundtable discussion
Workshop 2: Understanding the Processes of Word Learning
May 2, 2008
Speakers:
Deb Roy (MIT, Program in Media Arts and Sciences)
Fei Xu (University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology)
Karla McGregor (University of Iowa, Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology)
Moderator:
Larissa Samuelson (University of Iowa, Department of Psychology)
Workshop 3: Neural plasticity across multiple time scales
Friday, October 3, 2008, 8 am to 12:30 pm
Pappajohn Business Building (PBB), Room S401
Speakers:
Asif A. Ghazanfar, Assistant Professor (Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology, Princeton University)
Joan Stiles, Professor (Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego)
Mark S. Blumberg, Professor & Starch Faculty Fellow (Department of Psychology, University of Iowa)
Moderator:
Scott S. Robinson, Associate Professor (Department of Psychology, University of Iowa)
Detailed Schedule [pdf file]
Presentations
An(other) Inconvenient Truth? Why Substantive Interactionism Should Move Us Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate (March 2007). Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Co-organizers:
John Spencer, University of Iowa
Bob McMurray, University of Iowa
Discussants:
Mark Blumberg, University of Iowa
Barbara Landau, University of Maryland
George Michel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Scott Robinson, University of Iowa
J. Bruce Tomblin, University of Iowa
Conferences
Sunday, June 19 through Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Organizer: John P. Spencer, University of Iowa
Co-Organizer: Jay McClelland, Carnegie Mellon University
