SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (16.10.03/Tsch)

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

SATURDAY, October 18^th

OPENING SESSION 19:30 — 20:30 Welcome Apéro / Reception 20:30 — 21:15 Hermann HAKEN Stuttgart (D) In How Far Can Dynamic Systems Theory, Synergetics and Related Approaches Contribute to Cognitive Science?

SUNDAY, October 19^th

MORNING SESSION 08:30 — 09:15 Andy CLARK Bloomington (USA) Dynamics and De-Coupled Representation: Balancing Words, Tools and Inner State

09:15 — 09:25 Break

09:25 — 09:40 Monica COWART & Michael MASCOLO North Andover (USA) Open Constraints: Varieties of Scaffolding in the Emergence of Higher-Order Action 09:40 — 09:55 Wayne CHRISTENSEN Vienna (A) Self-Directedness, Integration and the Foundations of High Order Cognition 09:55 — 10:30 Discussion

10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break

NOON SESSION 11:00 — 11:45 Rolf PFEIFER Zürich/Tokyo (CH/JPN) The Dynamics of Embodiment in the Emergence of Cognition

11:45 — 11:55 Break

11:55 — 12:10 Gabriel GOMEZ Zürich (CH) Simulating Development in Real Robots 12:10 — 12:25 Roul Sebastian JOHN Osnabrück (D) EROSAL – An Empirical Robot Study on Animal Learning 12:25 — 13:00 Discussion

13:00 — 14:30 Lunch

POSTER SESSION 14:30 — 16:00 Jorge de BARROS PIRES & Ceres VITTORI SILVA Londrina (BR) Peter beim GRABEN Potsdam (D) Reinhard GANZ & WolfgangTSCHACHER Zürich/Bern (CH) Ferdinand KELLER, Maja STORCH, Bianka HUBERT Ulm/Zürich (D/CH) Zeno KUPPER & Wolfgang TSCHACHER Bern (CH) Fabrice LEROY & Laurent PEZARD Lille/Paris (F) Ivelisse LAZZARINI St. Louis (USA) Annika LATZEL, André BÜSSING, Britta HERBIG München (D) Stacey POPONAK Notre Dame (USA) Thomas REISCH, Kathrin ENDTNER, Martin THOMMEN, Wolfgang TSCHACHER Bern (CH) Andrée SCHIRTZ Celerina (CH) Toru YAZAWA Hachioji (JPN)

16:30 — 23:00 Social Event Boat trip to Brissago Island, botanical excursion guided by Dr. Eggenberg (U of Bern, CH). Dinner in the restaurant on Brissago Island

MONDAY, October 20^th

MORNING SESSION 08:30 — 09:15 Jürgen KRIZ Osnabrück (D) Imagination – The Teleological Principle of Attractors in Psychotherapy and Human Activities

09:15 — 09:25 Break

09:25 — 09:40 Tony PRESCOTT Sheffield (UK) Stability and Variability in Young Childrens' Drawings of the Human Figure 09:40 — 09:55 Wolfgang TSCHACHER Bern (CH) Gestalt Formation Processes in Cognition 09:55 — 10:30 Discussion

10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break

NOON SESSION 11:00 — 11:45 Rafael NUNEZ San Diego (USA) Mind, Motion, and Abstraction: The Embodied Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics

11:45 — 11:55 Break

11:55 — 12:10 Annette HOHENBERGER Frankfurt (D) The Emergence of Linguistic Structure through Language Processing and Acquisition 12:10 — 12:25 Jürgen BROSCHART Hamburg (D) The Dynamics of Grammatical Case Marking 12:25 — 13:00 Discussion

13:00 — 14:30 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION 14:30 — 14:45 Annemarie PELTZER-KARPF Graz (A) The Interplay of Non-Linear Processes in Early Language Development 14:45 — 15:00 Kerstin SANDER Magdeburg (D) Emotional Preexperience Influences Semantic Specificity of Human Amygdala Activation – An fMRI Study 15:00 — 15:15 Márk MOLNAR, Zsófia GAAL, Zoltán NAGY, Cornelis STAM Budapest/Amsterdam (HUN/NL) Nonlinear Complexity Analysis of the EEG and Cognitive Evoked Potentials in Stroke and Vascular Dementia 15:15 — 15:45 Discussion

15:45 — 16:15 Break

16:15 — 16:30 Steven BOKER Notre Dame (USA) Latent Differential Equations Applied to Dynamical Systems Models of Behavior 16:30 — 16:45 Karl-Heinz LEIST München (D) Riding a Pedalo and Learning to Ride it: Comparisons of Haken’s Synergetic Approach and Action Theory 16:45 —17:10 Discussion

19:30 — 20:30 Cultural Event Visit to the Museum of Modern Art, Ascona (Werefkin Foundation). Guided tour of Ms. Spalinger.

TUESDAY, October 21^st

MORNING SESSION 08:30 — 09:15 Mark BICKHARD Bethlehem (USA) The Emergence of Intensionality in Certain Far From Equilibrium Systems

09:15 — 09:25 Break

09:25 — 09:40 Harald ATMANSPACHER Freiburg (D) Acategorical Mental States 09:40 — 09:55 Hans DIEBNER Karlsruhe (D) A Model of how Brains Model the World 09:55 — 10:30 Discussion

10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break

NOON SESSION 11:00 — 11:45 Karl GRAMMER Vienna (A) Dynamic Systems and Inferential Information Processing in Human Communication

11:45 — 11:55 Break

11:55 — 12:10 Hani MONK-VITELSON, Ilan GOLANI, Chaim PICK, Juval PORTUGALI Tel Aviv (ISR) Spatial Behavior of Prewalking Infants: Preliminary Findings, Preliminary Questions 12:10 — 12:25 Juval PORTUGALI Tel Aviv (ISR) Cognitive Maps and Order Parameters: What can they tell about each other? 12:25 — 13:00 Discussion

13:00 — 14:30 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION 14:30 — 15:15 Luc CIOMPI Lausanne (CH) Dynamic Effects of Emotions in Social Stability and Creativity According to the Theory of Fractal Affect-Logic

15:15 — 15:25 Break

15:25 — 15:40 Peter UHLHAAS Frankfurt (D) Gestalt Perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders 15:40 — 15:55 Günter SCHIEPEK München (D) Emotions, Cognitions, and the Self-Organizing Brain 15:55 — 16:30 Discussion

16:30 — 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 — 18:00 FINAL DISCUSSION, OUTLOOK

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