ESF Research Conferences
Chaired by
CHAIRS:
Professor Gün R. Semin
Utrecht University. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
www.cratylus.org
Professor Shun-Ichi Amari
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, Saitama, Japan
http://www.brain.riken.go.jp
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Dr Atsushi Iriki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, JP - Dr Ellen de Bruijn, University of Nijmegen, NL - Prof. Harold Bekkering, University of Nijmegen, NL - Prof. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Inuyama, JP - Prof. Shigeru Watanabe, Keio University, Tokyo, JP - Prof. Toshikazu Hasegawa, University of Tokyo, JP
Dates
27 February - 4 March 2009
Location
Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy
The conference will be held at Hotel Villa del Mare in Acquafredda di Maratea. Acquafredda di Maratea is situated on the coast, on the Gulf of Policastro, between Sapri and Maratea, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Naples and about 400 km (250 miles) south of Rome. Group transportation will be organised on arrival and departure days from/to Naples airport and from/to Sapri train station.
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Preliminary Programme
Botticelli - Madonna del Magnificat (detail). Galleria degli Uffizi (IT) © Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita’ Culturali, Italy
The perspective that is emerging on human functioning is best captured by the confluence of different disciplinary perspectives – cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology, comparative social cognition and biology.
This disciplinary synergy leads to a vision of behavioral sciences that locates its thematic focus as situated in a social context, involves complex action and interaction, and is grounded by neural as well as socio-cultural processes. The different traditional disciplinary boundaries appear to be gradually fading to give rise to a broadly focused social-cognitive-neuroscience.
This emerging perspective is likely to furnish a transdisciplinary vision of human behavior in a social context. Current developments indicate that there is a paradigm in the making and that it appears to hold the promise of focusing intellectual energy and unifying scholarly activity under the umbrella of social-cognitive neuroscience, the theme of this ESF-JSPS Conference.
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Application Form
Applications will be accepted from young scholars and scientists, based in countries of ESF membership and Japan, who are doing outstanding and innovative work in their fields. To be eligible, young researchers must either have obtained a doctoral degree within 10 years prior to the conference or be scheduled to obtain a doctoral degree no later than 18 months after the conference. Selection will be based upon institutional affiliation of the participants. Participants are required to attend all sessions and programmes of the conference.
To apply, fill in an Application Form.
Closing date for applications (as well as for abstract submission): 14 October 2008
Financial Support
All accepted participants will receive financial support to cover their registration fee, accommodation and meals during the conference. Travel expenses will be covered as much as possible, according to budget availability. Participans from Japan will be sponsored by JSPS and participants from Europe by ESF.
ESF Contact
- Ms.JeanKellyE-Mail
- Conference Officer
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2025
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 09-263 in any correspondence.
Partnership
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Links of Interest
- EU-Japan Brief (a publication of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation)
- Cognitive Neuroscience Arena
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- The European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) is a large Society with over 500 members, across a range of European countries and beyond. ESCOP's mission is "the furtherance of scientific enquiry within the field of Cognitive Psychology and related subjects, particularly with respect to collaboration and exchange of information between researchers in different European countries". Among a variety of activities, the Society promotes new research initiatives, supports a European research base through summer school programmes through which students can learn about state-of-the-art developments, holds conferences for the presentation of research and maintains a leading academic journal as an outlet for research findings.
- The Behaviour News list provides information on conferences, meetings, jobs and scholarships in the field of behaviour biology. To subscribe, please click here
- Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)
The Israel Society for Neuroscience is a registered non-profit organization founded in 1992. Its primary goal is to promote knowledge and understanding of how the peripheral and central nervous systems operate under normal and pathological conditions, from the molecular and genetic levels and up to high cognitive functions. This includes development, sensation and perception of various stimuli, motor behavior and control, different aspects of learning and memory, sleep, neurodegenerative diseases, and psychiatric disorders.
- Société des Neurosciences (in French only)
Créée le 4 mai 1988, la Société des Neurosciences est une association scientifique à but non lucratif. Elle regroupe aujourd'hui plus de 2500 membres. Elle a pour but de promouvoir le développement des recherches dans tous les domaines des neurosciences. Elle se compose de membres français et étrangers, répartis entre membres honoraires, bienfaiteurs, titulaires et étudiants.