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last update: December 8, 2013

Saturday, 14 December
Time Topic
09:30 Opening:
Martin Montgomery, FAH Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities William Franke, Head of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program
09:50 Luca Tommasi: Space, Self, and the Brain
10:50 Alistair Isaac: The Evolution of Conscious from Unconscious inferential processes
11:30 Coffee
11:50 Shigeru Watanabe: Evolutionary Origin of Empathy
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Tian-Ming Yang: Probabilistic Reasoning and its Neural Mechanism in Macaque Monkeys
16:00 Kelly Inglis: Utiles of Mice and Men: Pains, Pleasures and Preferences across Species
16:40 Coffee
17:00 Kyoung-Min Lee and Kyung-Ha Ahn: The Role of Frontal Eye Field in Spatial Cognition in Rhesus Monkeys
17:40 Tatia Lee: The Neural Basis of Affective Processes
18:40 Traditional Chinese Music Performance
19:30 Dinner

 

Sunday, 15 December
Time Topic
09:30 Mario Piazza and Nevia Dolcini:  The Evolution and Function of Reasoning
10:10 Massimiliano Cappuccio: Nonsense as a Theoretical Challenge for Natural Cognition
10:50 Coffee
11:10 James Franklin: Lessons from Artificial Intelligence on the Uniqueness of Human Cognition
11:50 Marcello D’Agostino: Degrees of Logical Competence
12:50 Conclusion
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Macau Heritage Tour
19:00 Dinner