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 2. 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 include:
- Jacqueline Cummine (University of Alberta), "From Brains to Behaviours and Lollipops to Lidocaine: A Multifaceted Approach to Studying Skilled and Impaired Reading"
- Kirsten Dalrymple (University of Minnesota), "Face Blindness as a Tool for Understanding the Function and Development of the Human Face Processing System"
- Isabelle Peretz (Université de Montréal), "Extraordinary Variations of Musicality"
- Jim Tanaka (University of Victoria), "Perceptual Expertise in the Lab and in the Wild"
- Brian Levine (University of Toronto),"Autobiographical Memory: Individual Differences and Assessment of the Subjective State of Mental Time Travel"
The preliminary 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 $125/night (Canadian) for a single or double occupancy, excluding tax. This block of rooms will be held until April 2, 2019, although rooms may be available for some period of time after that date.
To book a room at The Inns, you should:
- visit the reservation website, here;
- select the menu labeled "Add Code" at the bottom, enter "Basics2019," and then click, "Add";
- click on "Select and go to the next step";
- set number of guests, number of rooms, and dates;
- select room and checkout.
The registration deadline is April 2. Late registrants should contact Peter Dixon (peter.dixon@ualberta.ca).