Conference: Infant Cognition from the Information-Processing Perspective: Recent Advances, Future Directions

本次会议汇集了领先的研究人员，讨论信息处理方法的历史根源及其在婴儿感知和认知研究中的未来方向。作为2007年3月26日婴儿研究国际会议的会前会议，本次会议的一个重要重点是探讨从婴儿期到儿童期发育变化的潜在过程。通过专注于单一的理论视角，会议允许其参与者查看信息处理方法如何解决多个重要和不同领域的发展，如婴儿注意力，物体感知，面部处理，空间认知，物体分类和符号理解。一些领先的研究人员将讨论该领域的未来方向，其中一些人将概述创新的方法方法，而另一些人将这种方法的历史根源与未来方向联系起来。这次会议的独特之处在于将许多不同的认知领域联系在一个理论框架下。会议还旨在表彰莱斯利·b·科恩在理论和方法上的贡献，以促进对婴儿感知和认知的理解。这次小型会议将促进研究人员之间的互动，他们中的许多人通常不会交换意见，因为他们专注于婴儿感知和认知发展的不同方面。会议的一个重要组成部分是为年轻的研究者（研究生、博士后和初级教师）提供支持，通过旅行奖励参加会议和参与讨论。较小规模的会议将为主要研究人员和年轻研究人员之间的互动提供一个亲密的舞台，其目标是作为促进更有经验和初级研究人员之间的合作的催化剂，并产生关于该领域未来方向的新想法。每位受邀演讲者的演讲将由牛津大学出版社编辑出版，以便向更广泛的受众传播演讲和研究结果。

This conference brings together leading researchers to address both the historical roots of the information-processing approach and its future direction in the study of infant perception and cognition. One important emphasis of this conference, to be held as a preconference to the International Conference on Infant Studies on March 26th, 2007, is its exploration of the underlying processes that explain developmental change from infancy to childhood. By focusing on a single theoretical perspective, the conference allows its participants to view how the information-processing approach can address development across a number of important and diverse domains, such as infant attention, object perception, face processing, spatial cognition, object categorization, and symbolic understanding. A number of leading researchers will address the future directions of the field, some of whom will outline innovative methodological approaches, while others link the historical roots of this approach to its future directions. The uniqueness of the conference is in linking many diverse areas of cognition under one theoretical framework. The conference is also intended to recognize the contribution of Leslie B. Cohen, both theoretically and methodologically, in advancing the understanding of infant perception and cognition.The small conference will facilitate interactions among researchers, many of whom may not usually exchange ideas because they focus on different aspects of infant perceptual and cognitive development. An important component of the conference is providing support for young investigators (graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty) to attend the conference and participate in discussions via travel awards. The smaller size of the conference will provide an intimate arena for interaction among leading researchers and young investigators alike, with the goal of serving as a catalyst for forging collaborations among more experienced as well as junior investigators, and engendering new ideas about the future direction of the field. The presentations of each invited speaker will be published in an edited volume by Oxford University Press, which will allow dissemination of the presentations and findings to a broader audience.