Workshop 09

Cognitive and Developmental Factors in Perceptual Constancy

Workshop Schedule (subject to change)

February 20-22, 2009
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

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Talks are 20 minutes with 50 minutes for discussion (except for keynote, which is an 60 minutes plus discussion).

Friday, February 20

9:30:10:00 Coffee, tea
10:00-10:15: Introductory remarks
10:15-11:30: Austen Clark, University of Connecticut, Department of Philosophy The cognitive status of spatial features in early vision
11:30-12:00: Break
12:00-1:30: Keynote Address, Carl Granrud, University of Northern Colorado, Department of Psychological Sciences: Judging the size of a distant object: Strategy use by children and adults
1:30-2:00: Break
2:00-3:15:Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego, Department of Philosophy, Computation and the ambiguity of perception
3:15-3:30: Break
3:45-5:00: Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers University, Newark, Department of Psychology, Objective and subjective sides of visual experience
5:00-7:00: Reception (for all registered participants)

Saturday, February 21

8:45-9:15: Coffee, tea
9:15-10:30: Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Philosophy, Perceptual and cognitive factors in spatial perception
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: David Hilbert, University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Philosophy, Constancy, content and inference
12:00-1:30: Lunch on own
1:30-2:45: Don MacLeod, University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, A mechanistic perspective on the 'given'
2:45-3:00: Break
3:00-4:15: Sarah Allred, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology, Approaching color with Bayesian algorithms
4:15-4:30: Break
4:30-5:45: Maria Olkkonen, University of Giessen, Department of Psychology, Higher-level influences on color perception and color constancy
7:00-9:00: Dinner, Nan Restaurant, 4000 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia (invited speakers and respondents)

Sunday, February 22

9:15-9:45: Coffee, tea
9:45-11:00: Mark Wagner, Wagner College, Department of Psychology, Sensory and cognitive explanations for a century of size constancy research
11:00-11:15: Break
11:15-12:30: Albert Yonas, University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, Perception of space in infants and adults for action and representation