Workshop: The Modularity of Mind (October 29 to 30, 2010)
Workshop: The Modularity of Mind
Description:
Date: October 29 to 30, 2010
Place: Roy-Lichtenstein-Saal (22.01.2C), University Düsseldorf
Organizer/s:
Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)
Jürgen Zielasek (LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf - Kliniken der Heinrich-Heine Universität)
Michela Tacca (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
Schedule
| October 29, 2010 | |
|---|---|
| 11.30-12.20 | Reception |
| 12:20-13.25 | Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf): Modular and Universal Component in Human Reasoning |
| 13.25-13.55 | coffee break |
| 13.55-15.00 | Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Marburg): Modularity and Language: Cross-Linguistic Considerations |
| 15.00-15.30 | coffee break |
| 15.30-16.35 | Markus Werning (Bochum): The Meanings in the Head: Compositional, Non-Symbolic, and Non-Modular? |
| 16.35-17.40 | Peter Hagoort (MPI & Donders Institute, Nijmegen): The Modular Ghost in the Recurrent Connection Machine: Where is the Modular Mind in a Brain full of Recurrent Connectivity? |
| October 30, 2010 | |
| 10.00-10.20 | Juergen Zielasek (LVR-Klinikum, Düsseldorf): Introduction: Modularity in Psychiatry and Neurology |
| 10.20-11.00 | Willem de Haan (Amsterdam): Functional Brain Modularity in Alzheimer's Disease |
| 11.00-11.20 | Coffee Break |
| 11.20-12.00 | Wolfgang Wölwer (Düsseldorf): Are there any Module-Specific Treatments yet? The Case of Cognitive Rehabilitation in Schizophrenia |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-13.40 | Michela Tacca (Düsseldorf): The (semi) modularity and Content of Perception |
| 13.40-14.00 | Coffee Break |
| 14.00-15.00 | Luca Surian (Trento): The Modularity of Mind-Reading |
| 15.00-16.00 | Clark Barrett (UCLA): Modularity: The View from Evolutionary Psychology |
Registration:
Participation is free, but registration by email to Michela Tacca is kindly requested because of limited seating in Lecture Hall 2C.
Conference dinner:
Friday 29, at 19:30. Restaurant: Zum Trompeter, Fuerstenwall 66. The cost of the dinner is Euro 30.
How to reach us:
From Düsseldorf main train station take the tram 707 direction Universität and get off at the last stop (Uni Ost/Botanischer Garten). You can find a map of the campus here.