Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds

Cognitio 2011

Young researchers conference in cognitive science

Montréal, July 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th 2011

• Othalia Larue and Pierre Poirier
  A symbolic dynamical approach to the simulation of cognitive phenomena
• Mariela Aguilera
  Animal Concepts: Pluralism and distribution of labor
• Sandra Alexander
  Animals, Cognition and Sentience: reconsidering various anthropocentric views of sentient Being
• Usef Faghhi, Philippe Fournier-Viger and Roger Nkambou
  Conscious Emotional Learning Tutoring System (CELTS) : A cognitive architecture
• Mohammad Afshar and Luc-Alain Giraldeau
  Decision making in frequency-dependent situation: A computational model for Producer-Scrounger based on reinforcement learning
• Adam Arico
  Distributing Group Minds and Mental States
• Will Shown and Thomas Shultz
  Extending a Computational Model of Transitive Inference to Novel Item Effects in Children and Birds
• Gesche Westphal Fitch
  How do minds perceive patterns?
• Lune Maheu
  How do vibrissae contribute to the non-human mind ?
• Rachid Belkouch
  Hybrid minds
• Valentina Cuccio
  Is negation possible without language? Displacement in preverbal infants and chimpanzees
• Pierre Vadnais
  Of Mind, Intelligence, Brains and Computers: Autonomy and Utility
• Julian Arndts
  Rocks, Frogs, Bots, and Gods: Cosmology and the Information Architecture of Non-Human Minds
• Mark Sheskin, Amy Skerry, Kimberly Ashayeri and Laurie Santos
  Social Evaluation by Nonhuman Primates
• Jordan Schoenherr, Lisa Boucher, Robert Thomson and Guy Lacroix
  The Attribution of Intentionality: Animacy and Anthropomorphism in Syllogistic Reasoning
• Daniel Hampikian
  The Conceptual and Empirical Assumptions Underlying Comparisons of Human and Animal Emotional States
• Hyo-Eun Kim
  The Ethical Implication of Phenomenal States without Sentience
• Kellie Williamson
  The Group Mind
• Erkki Luuk and Hendrik Luuk
  The redundancy of recursion in cognitive processing
• Kyle Ferguson
  Theory of Mind, Chimpanzees, and the Lafayette-Leipzig Dialectic
• Ryan Daley and Brian Glenney
  Transitive Preference and Animal Cognition
• Laurence Morissette and Sylvain Chartier
  Using feature-extracting bidirectional associative memories coupled with self-organising maps to model bisystemic categorization
• Diego Mendoza-Halliday and Julio Martinez-Trujillo
  Working memory representations of visual motion direction are encoded in the firing patterns of neurons in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, but not in area MT
• Florian Kießling and Josef Perner
  Young children´s reasoning about knowledge in others -  The case of limited human and omniscient supernatural agents