Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and
Neural Perspectives
Spotlight Topic for 2019: Event Cognition
The goal of this Rovereto workshop is to provide a unique forum for
researchers from a range of perspectives who are interested in Concepts,
Actions, and Objects to come together to discuss their research and develop new
directions and collaborations.
The
workshop differs from larger conferences in so far as there are a small number
of speakers (all invited) and there are no concurrent talks. In addition to the
individual talks, there will be a poster session for students, post-docs and
young researchers to present their work.
The workshop, organized by the
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences will
start on Thursday (May 2) with a welcome reception at 6 pm, and end on Saturday
(May 4) at 6 pm.
Social dinner of the event will be on Saturday (May 4) at 8 pm.
This
year, the workshop includes a thematic symposium on “Event Cognition:
Psychological, Neuroscientific, Computational, and Linguistic Perspectives”,
organized by Sharon Thompson-Schill and Anna Papagrafou. Theme speakers are
Janice Chen, Gergely Csibra, Anna Papafragou, and Charan Ranganath.
Poster deadline: March 18, 2019
Credits Photo: Nicola De Pisapia
18.00-20.00 Welcome reception & Registration
8.15-8.45 Registration
8.45-9.00 Welcome and introduction to spotlight topic (Event Cognition)
9.00-10.15 Gergely Csibra. The representation of third-party social interactions
10.15-11.15 Coffee break and poster session A
11.15-12.30 Anna Papafragou. Mapping events onto language
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Janice Chen. Brain dynamics underlying memory for continuous natural events
15.15-16.15 Coffee break and poster session A
16.15-17.30 Charan Ranganath. Time and the transformation of memories for complex events
17.30-18.00 General discussion (Event Cognition)
9.00-10.15 Bevil Conway. Color as a tool for understanding how brains/minds work
10.15-11.15 Coffee break and poster session B
11.15-12.30 Morgan Barense. When seeing becomes knowing: Integration of perception and conception
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Abstract award presentations
15.30-16.30 Coffee break and poster session B
16.30-17.45 Ivan Toni. Neural and cognitive mechanisms of epistemic engineering in human communication
19.30 Social dinner
• Morgan Barense, University of Toronto, Canada
• Janice Chen, Johns Hopkins University, USA
•
Bevil Conway, National Eye Institute and National Institute of Mental Health,
USA
• Gergely Csibra, Central European University, Hungary
• Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware, USA
• Charan Ranganath, UC Davis, USA
• Ivan Toni, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Alfonso Caramazza, University of Trento, Italy; Harvard University, USA
• Melvyn Goodale, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Brad Mahon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Alex Martin, The National Institute of Mental Health, USA
• Marius Peelen, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Registration to CAOs 2019 workshop is mandatory for all participants.
Fees
€ 180 for external faculty members and non-academic participants
€ 100 for external students and post docs
The fee includes welcome reception, welcome buffet and coffee breaks.
Social dinner (39 euro per person) is not included in the registration fee.
The fee can not be refunded.
Abstracts (maximum of 250 words) should briefly state the background to the research, the methods used, the principal findings (no statistics), and the theoretical significance of the work. Please do not cite references in the abstracts. Each author can appear as first author on one poster only.
In order to present the poster at the workshop, every poster session participant will be provided with a freestanding bulletin board, approximately 125 cm high and 95 cm wide, on which to display the poster. Please make sure that your poster does not exceed these dimensions.
The Programme of poster sessions (PDF | 209 KB) is available.
Submissions for poster presentations due March 18, 2019.
Abstract Award Winners
Five 200
Euro awards will be granted on a competitive basis at the workshop, on the basis
of the submitted abstracts. Only non-faculty first authored posters are eligible
for the awards. The organizing committee will jointly decide the winning posters
and will send emails with decisions to the winners.
We would like to remind that the conference venue is Rovereto.
We advise participants to contact the hotel directly to make a reservation. Booking details should include as reference “CAOs Workshop 2019 - University of Trento”, surname, length of stay and credit card details. Please contact the hotel directly if there are any cancellations or changes to the reservation.
Rooms at these Hotels in Rovereto have been reserved for workshop participants at favourable prices (in agreement with the hotels and the University of Trento) for the nights of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of May 2019.
Hotel Rovereto: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference
until April 2, 2019
Hotel
Leon D'Oro: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until
March 31, 2019
Hotel
Nerocubo: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until
March 18, 2019
Hotel
S. Ilario: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until April
12, 2019
Relais
Mozart: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until
April 14, 2019
Ostello
di Rovereto: rooms will be reserved for participants of the conference until
April 1, 2019
The
list of hotels
is available
(please, check fees of 2019 directly with the hotels)
To have further information about other accommodations in Rovereto, please, go to the accommodation page of the “Azienda per il turismo di Rovereto e Vallagarina”.
The workshop, organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento, will take place at Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini 84 - Rovereto (TN), Italy.
How to reach Rovereto
By car
A22 Brennero Motorway, exit Ala-Avio, exit Rovereto sud/Lago di Garda
nord and exit Rovereto nord. Create your own route with
http://www.google.com/maps/ or www.viamichelin.com
By train
Rovereto Railway Station, on the Bologna-Brennero line. For timetables check the
Trenitalia website
By plane
Rovereto is about 100 km from Verona airport (Valerio Catullo), 200 Km
from Venice airport (Marco Polo), 215 Km from Milano-Linate airport, 170 km from
Milano Bergamo airport, 203 from Bologna airport and 245 km from Milano Malpensa
airport.
Before selecting the best airport for your departure make sure to check the “Airport directions to Rovereto” document.
VERONA AIRPORT Valerio Catullo:
http://www.aeroportoverona.it/passeggeri_t5/
VENICE AIRPORT Marco Polo:
http://www.veniceairport.it/
VENICE TREVISO AIRPORT A. Canova:
http://www.trevisoairport.it/en/
MILANO LINATE AIRPORT :
http://www.milanolinate.eu/it
MILANO MALPENSA AIRPORT:
http://www.milanomalpensa-airport.com/it
BOLOGNA AIRPORT G. Marconi:
http://www.bologna-airport.it/it/?LN=EN
MILANO BERGAMO AIRPORT Orio al Serio:
http://www.sacbo.it/Airpor/portalProcess.jsp
Moving around by bus
You can use buses to move around the city or to reach nearby places. For
further information about routes, timetables and connections, check the
Trentino Trasporti website
and on the
map (JPG | 114 KB).
Taxi service in Rovereto
at the Railway Station – Piazzale Orsi n. 9, tel. 0464 421365
Useful links
Rovereto and Vallagarina's Tourism Office:
http://www.visitrovereto.it/
Autostrada del Brennero:
http://www.autobrennero.it/it
Deutsche Bahn:
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/index.shtm
Trenitalia:
http://www.trenitalia.com/
About Rovereto
Set amid hills and vineyards, Rovereto is in the center of Valle dell’Adige, along the main road linking Trento and Verona.
We advise you to explore the city on foot, the streets of the city center are like a journey through different time periods:
the Middle Ages in the walls of Castelbarco
the dominion of the Republic of Venice in the home of the Podestà
the Eighteenth Century in the palazzi of Corso Bettini
the First World War in the rooms of the castle
Along
the city streets, you can see the most important and prestigious Eighteenth
century palazzi, from Accademia degli Agiati, to Teatro Zandonai, to the city
library in palazzo Annona.
Many illustrous guests have visited the city. Perhaps the most famous is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who held his first concert in Italy in the church of San Marco.
In Rovereto you can visit museums of art, history and science such as Mart, Depero’s House of Futurist Art, the Italian War Museum and the City Museum Foundation.
Rovereto is also a City of Peace, as evidenced by the large memorial bell Campana dei Caduti. Cast using bronze of the cannons of the nations that took part in WWI, each evening its 100 tolls spread a universal message of peace.
Map of Rovereto with the main places of interest for CAOs 2019 attendees is available.
Conference Office
Communication and Events Office – Polo Rovereto
University of Trento
Corso Bettini, 84, 38068 Rovereto (TN)
fax +39 0464 808459
comunicazione-rovereto@unitn.it