The conference will begin Friday afternoon with an invited talk at 5:00; 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 after lunch. 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 March 29. 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 45 minute presentation and provides time for detailed questions and discussion.
This year’s speakers will be:
- Sue Becker (McMaster University), The role of the hippocampus in modulating behaviour
- Allison B. Sekuler (McMaster University), The many faces of face perception
- Jennifer Steeves (York University), Seeing the forest but not the trees: Studies of real and virtual lesions
- Olav Krigolson (University of Victoria), Why we don't learn from our mistakes
- Jelena Ristic (McGill University), What’s new in attention?
The final version of the program is 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 $111/night (Canadian) for a single or double occupancy, excluding tax. This block of rooms will be held until March 29, 2016, 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 “basics2016” as the promotional code;
- and enter the other information needed to complete your reservation.
The registration deadline was March 29. Late registrants should contact Peter Dixon (peter.dixon@ualberta.ca).