CogSci 2024 SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers
University of Toronto, Canada
Morgan Barense – Thursday, July 25, 2024
Morgan Barense is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, as well as the Endowed Max and Gianna Glassman Chair of Neuropsychology at Baycrest Hospital. She serves as the Director of the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility at the University of Toronto and is also the Principal Investigator of the Memory and Perception lab in the Department of Psychology, where her team works to understand how the brain supports memory and how memory is affected by aging and dementia. Recently, her research has focused on developing digital memory rehabilitation tools that are inspired by how the brain supports memory.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Andrea E. Martin – Friday, July 26, 2024
Andrea E. Martin is a Lise Meitner Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and a Principal Investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Radboud University. Her research group focuses on models of language processing and neural dynamics. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College, and an MA and PhD in Experimental Psychology from New York University. She was a postdoc at the Basque Centre for Cognition, Brain, and Language, a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, a senior investigator at the MPI, and a Max Planck Research Group Leader.
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Gregor Schöner – Saturday, July 27, 2024
Gregor Schöner has pursued an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to problems in human movement, visual psychophysics, grounded cognition, autonomous robotics, and computer vision. In close link to experiment, Gregor Schöner seeks to develop a neurally grounded framework to understand how cognition emerges from its sensory-motor foundations. He uses robotic demonstrations of neural dynamic models to probe how these provide process accounts for emerging cognitive function. Gregor Schöner has directed the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University for over 20 years, published over 270 papers and lectured all over the world.
Rumelhart Prize Keynote – Thursday, July 25th
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alison Gopnick
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in Science, Scientific American, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate and others. Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles.
Gopnik received a B.A., majoring in psychology and philosophy, from McGill University in 1975. In 1980, she received a D.Phil. in experimental psychology from Oxford University. She worked at the University of Toronto before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1988.
Alison Gopnik has had an enormous impact across the cognitive sciences. Beyond her notable contributions within psychology, she has published within philosophy and linguistics, her work has had an impact in education, she is gaining recognition in animal behavior and anthropology, and she has informed artificial intelligence. Her contributions are not only deep but broad, showcasing how the disciplines of cognitive science can work together to give us a more complete picture of intelligence and the mind.
Heineken Prize Keynote – Friday, July 26th
The C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
This prize honours pioneering work and research excellence in cognitive science Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken established the prize in 2006 in memory of her father Alfred Heineken, who was fascinated by the workings of the human brain. Cognitive science is still a young field of research. But a wealth of experience has been built up over the past half century on our ability to think, talk, learn, decide, and perceive. With this prize, awarded every two years, Charlenee Carvalho-Heineken wants to honour researchers worldwide who have made groundbreaking discoveries within the field.
University of Oxford, UK
Kia Nobre
Kia Nobre is a distinguished cognitive neuroscientist and Director of the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Her groundbreaking research explores how the brain dynamically prioritizes information from the sensory stream and from memories to shape psychological experience and guide behavior. Originating from Rio de Janeiro, Nobre earned her PhD at Yale in 1993 and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Before joining Yale in 2023, she held significant roles at the University of Oxford, including Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity. Nobre’s research, mentorship, and leadership contributions have earned her fellowships in prestigious international societies and numerous accolades, including the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Award for Cognitive Science in 2022.
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