Cognitive development

The sixth Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), held Jan. 7-9, attracted more than 305 participants, including representatives of cognitive science, young researchers and doctoral students from Europe, North America and Japan.

‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Date:

October 15, 2015 - 9:00am to 6:00pm

Speaker:

Michelle Kline -Arizona State University, USA

Philippe Rochat -Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Tanya Broesch -Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Tara Callaghan -St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

Vlad Naumescu -Central European University, Budapest

Kata Oláh -Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Ildikó Király -Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Mikolaj Hernik -Central European University, Budapest

Dan Sperber -Central European University, Budapest

Organizer:

SOMICS ERC Synergy Project

Dan Sperber, György Gergely

SOMICS Workshop on

‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission

in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Program

9.00 Tanya Broesch – ‘Social learning in small-scale societies’

Michelle Kline – ‘How to learn about teaching’

10.30 coffee break

CDC Seminar Series: Dr. Emily Wyman, The University of Nottingham - An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cooperation: Children and Chimpanzees in Coordination Problems

Date:

April 1, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Speaker:

Emily Wyman

An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cooperation: Children and Chimpanzees in Coordination Problems

CDC seminar series: Prof. Debra L Mills, PhD, School of Psychology, Bangor University - Brain activity and early word recognition in monolingual and bilingual infants

Date:

February 18, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Speaker:

Prof. Debra L Mills, PhD

Brain activity and early word recognition in monolingual and bilingual infants

Abstract

Dr Ernő Téglás (Cognitive Development Centre) is awarded an ERC Starting Independent Research Grant

December 17, 2014

News

We are pleased to announce that the ERC review panels have favorably reviewed Dr Ernő Téglás's proposal entitled: "Precursors of logical reasoning in human infants". The ERC Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council: Seventh Framework Ideas Programme (FP7) provides 1.5 million euros and will help Ernő to continue his research on the highest possible level, and to achieve ground-breaking results. The project is expected to start in May 1, 2015.

We warmly congratulate Ernő on this success!

2015 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development

Date:

January 8, 2015 - 1:00pm to January 10, 2015 - 7:00pm

Registration is open

The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the fifth annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary. As the only annual European conference focusing on cognitive development, the BCCCD has included presentations in the past on comparative cognition, cultural cognition, early social cognition, language, conceptual learning, methodological issues, and moral cognition.