认知科学是研究人类认知和智力本质及规律的科学。其研究领域包括知觉、注意、记忆、动作、语言、推理、思考、意识乃至情感动机在内的各个层次的认知和智力活动。

第七届国际认知科学大会在北京开幕。来自全球二十多个国家和地区的数百名科学家在此次会议上共同探讨和交流认知科学前沿问题。大会组织了认知科学与脑成像、认知科学与教育、认知科学与精神健康、认知科学与信息科学、认知科学与社会科学等五大方面的学术报告。各国科学家们将讨论涉及认知科学的各种前沿科学问题，并特别突出认知科学高度跨学科的特点。

Part Ⅰ Opening Ceremony Speeches

 1. Neural Basis for Selective Visual Attention

 2. Modelling Visual Attention in a Biologically Plausible System: Bridging the Gap between Physiology and Cognition

 3. Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Neural Circuits-Hebb's Postulate Revisited

 4. Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Intuitive Thinking in Board-Game Experts

 5. A Conspiracy Theory of Learning to Read Chinese: Mapping the Educated Eyes to the Educated Brain

Part Ⅱ Frontiers in Congnitive Science

 Section 1 Presidential Symposium on Vision

1. The Global-first Topological Definition of Perceptual Objects, and Its Neural Correlation in Anterior Temporal Lobe

2. Examining Cortical Circuitry Subserving Working Memory for Visual Motion

3. Binocular Rivalry: Mechanisms and Applications

4. Fast and Rrobust Processing of Visual Information From Field Potentials in the Human Temporal Visual Cortex

5. Imaging Attention in the Brain: Optical Imaging Studies of Area V4 in Awake, Behaving Macaque Monkeys

6. Seeing the Functional Role of Adaptation

 Section 2 Attention

Symposium 1 Intentions in the Mind/Brain

1. The Intentionality Network

2. From Social Intention to Action: Kinematic Evidence of Social Planning and Control

3. Inferring Intentions from Biological Motion

4. Minds Made for Sharing? An fMRI Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Joint Attention

Symposium 2 A General Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) ~ Cognitive Modeling and Neuropsychological Applications

1. Modulation of Working Memory Related Neural Activity Bydistraction

2. TVA Based Studies of Dyslexia

3. TVA Based Studies on the Neurogenetics of Cognition

4. Neuro-Cognitive Markers of Progressive Attentional Decline in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Parametric Assessment Based on Bundesen's Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)

5. The NTVA Framework: Linking Cognition and Neuroscienee

6. Attentional Capture and Control: Computation of Attentional Weights

7. Top-Down Suppression from Prefrontal to Primary Somatosensory Cortex Facilitates Tactile

8. Modeling Attentional Dwell-Time

9. Towards a Neural Theory of Visual Attention in Perception and Sensori Motor Control (TVA-M)

10. Testing Theories of Pure Alexia Using TVA

11. Examining Spatial Properties from Multiple Views

12. Quantifying Visual Attention: TVA-Based Assessment of Distinct Components of Visual Attention

Symposium 3 Neural Correlates of Attention and Meditation

1. Brain Activation during Development

2. Children 3 - 8 Years of Age= Evidence from ERPs

3. The Effects of Working Memory Training and Processing Speed Training on Neural Systems and Cognitive Functions

4. Neural Correlates of Attention Training and Meditation Practice

5. The Early Attentional Modulation of C1 Component-High Perceptual Load Preferred, but Attentional Load not Crucial

 Section 3  Language

Plenary Speech

1. Social Intelligence as a Domain-Specific Module and the Emergence of I.anguage

2. Developmental Dyslexia in Chinese and English

Symposium 1 Cognitive Neuroscience of I.anguage

1. Characterizing Ventral Occipito-Temporal Contributions to Reading

2. Neural Substrates of I.exical Tone as Revealed at Different Stages of Cortical and Subcortical Processing

3. Understanding Dynamic Interacting Neural Networks: Applications to Speech and Language

4. Auditory Memory, I.ead I.ag Integration, and Speech Unmasking in Noisy, Reverberant Environments

5. The Architecture of Speech Perception and Its Temporal Foundations

6. Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Visual Word Forms in the Fusiform Gyrus

Symposium 2 Cognitive Processes and Representation of Asian I.anguages

1. The Phonological Process with two Patterns of Chinese Characters

Symposium 3 Universality and I.anguage-specificity of Sound Symbolism. the Interplay of Multimodality, Embodiment, and Iconicity

1. The Cognitive Semantics of Onomatopoeia: A Crosslinguistic Perspective on the I.exical Integration of Sound Symbolism

2. Sound Symbolism on Touch

3. Parallel Relationship between Sound Symbolism and Cross-Modal Correspondence

4. Neural Priming of Action Concept: fMRI Adaptation for Action Words

5. Mimetics and Verb Learning.. a Discourse Analysis of Verbs Introduced with Mimetic Verbs

Symposium 4 Enhancing Electronic Dictionaries with the Help of Lexicographers, Computer

 Scientists and Cognitive Psychologists

1. A Proposal for Obtaining the Knowledge Base of Onomasiological Dictionaries

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Part Ⅲ Impacts of Cognitive Science

Part Ⅳ Special Events

Part Ⅴ Special Events