43RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
Abstract
All scientific disciplines associated with improving our understanding of the mind are welcome at every meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Additionally, each annual meeting has a primary theme, or emphasis, that is of particular interest to that year’s co-chairs. The 2021 thematic emphasis is on Comparative Cognition – Animal Minds and will have a particularly biological orientation. Although biology, especially the disciplines of comparative psychology, animal cognition and animal communication, has always played some role in the cognitive sciences (especially in neurobiological contexts), integration of modern methods and findings from animal cognition research into mainstream cognitive science remains incomplete. This is partly due to traditional academic subdivisions, but also has historical roots: behaviorist strictures against discussing the (human) mind were rejected and the cognitive revolution was essentially complete for humans by the 1970s, but talk of animal minds� remained suspect –or simply inscrutable– for many psychologists, neuroscientists, and biologists. Today, the thriving discipline of animal cognition has thrown off the last vestiges of behaviorism and produced findings of deep interest to psychologists, linguists, and philosophers, with deep implications for anthropology, computer science, and the humanities. The goal with this year’s conference theme Comparative Cognition will be to share the best research and findings in comparative cognition with the broad inter-disciplinary mix of cognitive scientists that attend CogSci conferences.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 04, 2023
- Source ID
- FA86552110045
Entities
People
- Helmut Leder
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Vienna