The Science of Cognition: Bridging Gaps Between Cognitive

Linguistics and Experimental Psychology

Sofia, July 31, 2007

Cognitive science

PHYLOSOPHY

NEUROSCIENCE

ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE

CULTURALANTHROPOLOGY

LINGUIS-TICS

PSYCHO-LOGY

H. Gardner, 1987 (after G. Miller)

Was born onSeptember, 11th,

1956

Critical issues in interdisciplinary collaboration

Language of interdisciplinary communication: The absence of such language leads to the lack of understanding between representatives of different disciplines forming cognitive science. Underestimation of results obtained by collaborators, as well as their research efforts (“It’s trivial, isn’t it?”; “We could have done the same stuff much easier”); A certain degree of superficiality of interdisciplinary investigation due to the limited ability of collaborators to penetrate to the core of a neighboring discipline. Organizational problems (prejudice, grants, institutional colloboration, etc.).

Workshop Program

10:00-10:30 Introduction10:30-11:00 Olga Fedorova, Ekaterina

Pechenkova WHEN "COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS..." MEET WORKING MEMORY SPAN

11:00-11:30 Irina Blinnikova, Georgy Blinnikov, Elena FrolovaDOES THE LANGUAGE OF DESIGNATION AFFECT OUR MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EMOTIONS?

Workshop Program

11:30-12:00 Break12:00-12:30 Maria Rabeson, Irina Blinnikova

Representations of professionalism in different cultures

12:30-13:00 Alina Antipova, Nikolay NechaevExperimental research of peculiar properties of nomination (ethnical and linguistic aspects)

Workshop Program

13:00-13:30 Optional discussion on automatic dictionaries

13:30-14:00 Break 14:00-14:30 Valentina Gavrilova

Ontological Basis of Executive and Initiative Transitivity

14:30-15:00 Alina LartsevaBilingual Word Recognition: Evidence from Double Semantic Priming Paradigm

Workshop Program

15:00-15:30 Galina Portnova, Olga SysoevaAnalysis of abstract, concrete and pseudo words: influence of word category on reaction time, duration perception and brain responses

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Round-table discussion