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

会议：信息处理角度的婴儿认知：最新进展，未来方向

• 批准号: 0751237
• 负责人: Cara Cashon
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751237&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Infant; Cognition; Information; Processing

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.

本次会议汇集了领先的研究人员，以解决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。本次会议的一个重要重点，将于2007年3月26日举行的国际婴儿研究会议的会前会议，是其解释从婴儿到儿童的发展变化的基本过程的探索。通过专注于一个单一的理论视角，会议允许其参与者查看信息处理方法如何解决一些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解决该领域的未来方向，其中一些人将概述创新的方法论方法，而其他人则将这种方法的历史根源与其未来方向联系起来。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。这次会议也是为了表彰莱斯利B的贡献。科恩，无论是理论和方法，在推进婴儿知觉和认知的理解。小型会议将促进研究人员之间的互动，其中许多人可能不会通常交换意见，因为他们专注于婴儿知觉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人员（研究生，博士后和初级教师）提供支持，以参加会议，并通过旅行奖励参与讨论。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竞技场，其目标是作为催化剂，促进更有经验的年轻研究人员之间的合作，并产生关于该领域未来方向的新想法。每一位受邀发言者的发言将由牛津大学出版社编辑成册出版，以便向更广泛的受众传播发言和调查结果。