The conference will begin Friday afternoon with an invited talk at 5:15; four other talks will be presented on Saturday. There will be a poster session and reception Friday evening after dinner, and another poster session will be held Saturday before dinner. Submissions for the poster sessions are invited on any aspect of cognitive science. (Each participant should submit no more than one poster.) If you plan on presenting a poster, please list the title and authors on the registration form and send it in before April 2. (The registration form is available here; information for poster presenters is here.) Graduate and postdoctoral students are especially encouraged to present.
As in the past, the invited presentations are like colloquia and allow a scientist ample time to lay out a course of research, rather than simply to discuss the results of one or two experiments. An extensive question period and break follows each 60 minute presentation and provides sufficient time for detailed questions and discussion.
The confirmed list of speakers for this year’s conference is:
- Michael Dougherty (Maryland), Robust prediction in a monotonic world (abstract)
- Randy K. Jamieson (Manitoba), A unified account of implicit and explicit learning (abstract)
- Pierre Jolicoeur (Montréal), Cognitive neuroscience of visual and auditory short-term memory: Evidence from human electrophysiology and magnetoencephalography (abstract)
- Bruce Milliken (McMaster), Episodic binding in performance tasks: Contextual control and consequences for awareness (abstract)
- Weimin Mou (Alberta), Fixed reference directions model of spatial memory and navigation (abstract)
BASICS will be held this year at the Ptarmigan Inn. The Ptarmigan is located at 337 Banff Ave. in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff and is close to local restaurants and shopping. A block of rooms at the Inns has been reserved for the conference dates at the conference rate of $99/night (Canadian) for a single or double occupancy, excluding tax. This block of rooms will be held until March 31, 2010, although rooms may be available for some period of time after that date.
The registration fee is $70 (Canadian) for faculty and $25 (Canadian) for students. The conference program is available here.
If you plan to attend the conference, please register before Friday, April 2, 2011 here. To book room reservations online, you should:
- visit the website http:www.bestofbanff.com;
- under “Reservations,” click on the link that says “Group Bookings”;
- select the property, “Banff Ptarmigan Inn”;
- enter the group password, basics2011;
- and continue until the reservation is confirmed.