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 April 3. 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. Posters will be limited to the first 80 submissions. (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 include:
- Signe Bray (University of Calgary), “Reinforcement Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder”
- Giuseppe Iaria (University of Calgary), “Human Variability in Spatial Orientation and Navigation”
- Jonathan S. Cant (University of Toronto Scarborough), “Making a Scene: How Visual Features Contribute to Scene Representation”
- Jacqueline Snow (University of Nevada), “Beyond Images: An Emerging Paradigm Shift in the Study of Human Behaviour and Brain Function"
- Jason J. S. Barton (University of British Columbia), “Object Recognition in Prosopagnosia”
The program is available here; paper copies of the final version 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 $124/night (Canadian) for a single or double occupancy, excluding tax. This block of rooms will be held until April 3, 2018, 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,” click "BOOK NOW";
- under "Hotel Name," select "Inns of Banff";
- select reservation details (dates, rooms, no. of people);
- under "Addition Search," select "Group";
- enter “basics2018” as the promotional code;
- select "Search Now."
The registration deadline is April 3. Late registrants should contact Peter Dixon (peter.dixon@ualberta.ca).
BASICS gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, as well as the Departments of Psychology at the University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, MacEwan University, the University of Victoria, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba, the University of Lethbridge, and the University of British Columbia.