CFP: Kinds of Cognition

Call for papers

“Kinds of Cognition” – a graduate conference to be held online on Saturday February 22, 2025 – will bring together researchers working on the topic of cognition from diverse perspectives. Our aim is to foster cross-disciplinary discussions on various types or kinds of cognition, cognitive processes, and mechanisms, that have intrigued philosophers, cognitive scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, and developmental, comparative, and evolutionary psychologists, among others.

Keynote Speakers: 

Prof. Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)

Prof. Elisabeth Pacherie (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Relevant topics include (in no particular order):

• Perception and Attention
• AI Cognition
• Memory and Learning
• Metacognition
• Language and Communication
• Reasoning and Decision Making
• Creativity and Imagination
• Animal Cognition
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Cultural and Social Cognition
• Developmental Cognition
• Neurodiversity and Cognitive Abilities

Submission Guidelines
We invite abstracts – roughly 1,000 words, excluding references – of short papers, suitable for a 30 min presentation, by graduate students and postdocs. Presenters will be asked to send a recording of their talks a week in advance. The videos should not exceed 20 mins to allow for 10 min discussion. The papers should be relatively accessible to a cross-disciplinary audience and avoid overly technical discussions of ‘in-house’ issues/debates.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and include the title of the paper; they should make clear both the topic and the main arguments of the paper. Please send a separate cover sheet with the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliation (if any), and contact information.

Abstracts+cover sheets should be sent to Utku Sonsayar ([email protected]) by December 14 (midnight). Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than January 17.