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

这次会议聚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。这次会议将作为2007年3月26日国际婴儿研究会议的预备会议举行，会议的一个重要重点是探索解释从婴儿期到儿童期的发展变化的潜在过程。通过集中于单一的理论观点，会议允许与会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问题，例如婴儿注意、物体感知、面部处理、空间认知、物体分类和符号理解。一些主要研究人员将探讨该领域的未来方向，其中一些人将概述创新的方法方法，而另一些人则将这一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。这次会议还旨在表彰莱斯利·B·科恩在理论和方法上对促进对婴儿感知和认知的理解所做出的贡献。小型会议将促进研究人员之间的互动，因为他们中的许多人可能不会经常交流思想，因为他们关注的是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研究人员(研究生、博士后和初级教员)参加会议和通过旅行奖励参与讨论提供支持。会议的规模较小，将为领先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，目标是成为更有经验的研究人员和初级研究人员之间建立合作的催化剂，并就该领域的未来方向产生新的想法。每一位受邀演讲者的发言将由牛津大学出版社编辑出版，这将使演讲和调查结果能够向更广泛的受众传播。

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.