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 1. Please note that data on which posters are based must be collected and analyzed at the time of submission. Graduate and postdoctoral students are especially encouraged to present. (Information for poster presenters is available here.)
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 time for detailed questions and discussion.
This year’s speakers will be:
- David Balota (Washington University in St. Louis), “Attentional control and biomarkers in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s disease”
- Barry Giesbrecht (University of California Santa Barbara), “Context, reward, and the biasing of visual attention”
- James Danckert (University of Waterloo), “Mental models in the brain: representing salience and surprise”
- James Moore (Goldsmiths University of London), “Was that me? Exploring the sense of agency in health and disease”
- Ellen R. A. de Bruijn (Leiden University), “Mistakes that matter: A social neuropsychiatric perspective on performance monitoring”
An electronic copy of the final program is available here. A paper copy will be available with registration materials at the conference.
BASICS will be held this year at the Inns of Banff. A block of rooms at the Inns has been reserved for the conference dates at the conference rate of $109/night (Canadian) for a single or double occupancy, excluding tax. This block of rooms will be held until April 13, 2015, although rooms may be available for some period of time after that date.
To book a room at The Inns, you should:
- visit the website, http://www.bestofbanff.com;
- under “Reservations,” select Inns of Banff for the destination;
- enter “basics2015” as the promotional code;
- and enter the other information needed to complete your reservation.
The registration deadline is April 13. The registration fee is $70 (Canadian) for faculty and $25 (Canadian) for students. The registration form is here. Registration fees may be paid online (via PayPal) or by check.