Cognitive Development Society

Sixth Biennial Meeting
October 16-17, 2009

Program of Events

Poster List

Thursday, October 15 2009
7 - 9 pm Welcome Reception in the El Tropicano Hotel Lobby
Friday, October 16, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration in El Tropicano Lobby
Continental Breakfast in Coronado Concourse
8:30 – 8:45 Coronado Ballroom
Welcome
   Henry Wellman and Nora Newcombe
Presentation of CDS Book and Journal Awards
   Susan Gelman and Patricia Bauer
8:45 – 9:45 Coronado Ballroom
Plenary Talk – Collaboration and Communication in the Second Year of Life
    Michael Tomasello
9:45 – 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15 – 12:30 Coronado Ballroom
Plenary Symposium – Bilingualism: Cognitive Development from the Perspective of Acquiring Multiple Languages
Organizer: Henry Wellman
Presenters: Ellen Bialystok, Diane August, Agnes Kovacs, and Peggy McCardle
12:30 – 2:00

     Lunch on your own
or
Lunch workshop: What's New in Federal Research Funding? The View from NIH and IES
Peggy McCardle, NICHD and Elizabeth Albro, IES
(Advance registration required)

2:00 – 3:45 Three concurrent symposia

Monte Cristo Room: Causal learning and social cognition: The McDonnell Causal Learning Collaborative
Organizer: Alison Gopnik
Presenters: Andrew Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik, Susan Gelman, James Woodward

Trinidad Room: The role of action in the development of object perception
Organizer: Sandra Y. Street
Presenters: Dima Amso, Jeffrey J. Lockman, Sandra Y. Street, Karin James

Coronado Room: Interplay between language development and cognitive control processes
Organizer: Sarah Creel
Presenters: Anna E. Holt, John C. Trueswell, Sarah Creel, J. Bruce Morton

4:00 – 5:45 Three concurrent symposia

Monte Cristo Room: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic consequences of group membership for intergroup cognition
Organizers: Kiley Hamlin & Andrew Scott Baron
Presenters: Dario Cvencek, Andrew Scott Baron, Marjorie Rhodes, Kiley Hamlin, Neha Mahajan

Trinidad Room: Religious thinking: The development and influence of religious concepts on cognition
Organizer: Erin Smith
Presenters: Jacqueline Woolley, Jonathan D. Lane, Erin Smith, Maira Roazzi, Paul L. Harris

Coronado Room: The development of ownership: Looking across ages, species, cultures, and domains
Organizer: Ori Friedman
Presenters: Ori Friedman, Alex Shaw, Philippe Rochat, Sarah F. Brosnan, Michael Tomasello

Alternate Poster Session A in La Habana

6:15 – 7:45 La Habana and Bolivar
Poster Session I
Saturday, October 17, 2009
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration in El Tropicano Lobby
Continental Breakfast in Coronado Concourse
8:30 – 9:30 Coronado Ballroom
Plenary Talk – Bayesian Models in Cognitive Development      Josh Tenenbaum
9:30 – 10:00

Coffee break in Coronado Concourse

10:00 – 12:15 Coronado Ballroom
Plenary Symposium – Making Cognitive Development Research Relevant in the Classroom
Organizer: Nora Newcombe
Presenters: Elizabeth Albro, Julie Booth, Susan Levine, Christine Massey
12:15 – 1:45

Lunch on your own
or
Lunch workshop: Five Burning Questions of the Professoriate
(Advance registration required)

1:45 – 3:30 Three concurrent symposia

Monte Cristo Room: Learning from others: The scope of epistemic trust
Organizers: Cagla Aydin & Tamar Kushnir
Presenters: Patricia Brosseau-Liard & Susan A. J. Birch, Stanka Fitneva, Tamar Kushnir, Cagla Aydin, Melissa Koenig

Trinidad Room: Mechanisms of learning from multiple exemplars: Alignment and explanation
Organizer: Stella Christie
Presenters: Marianella Casasola, Stella Christie, Jill Lany, Su-hua Wang, Dedre Gentner

Coronado Room: Neural and behavioral origins of mathematics
Organizer: Koleen McCrink
Presenters: Daniel Ansari, Jessica Cantlon, Daniel Hyde, Kerry Jordan, Koleen McCrink, Elizabeth Spelke

3:45 – 5:30 Three concurrent symposia

Monte Cristo Room: Inference in a social context: What social and non-social reasoning have to teach each other
Organizer: Laura Schulz
Presenters: Emily Blumenthal & Jung-eun Yun, Lili Ma, Kathleen Sullivan, Claire Cook

Trinidad Room: Creationism is not the (only) issue: Developmental constraints on an understanding of evolution
Organizer: E. Margaret Evans
Presenters: Andrew Shtulman, Deborah Kelemen, Camillia F. Matuk, E. Margaret Evans, Karl Rosengren

Coronado Room: Understanding knowledge change: Investigations on how children learn mathematics and literacy skills
Organizer: Bethany Rittle-Johnson
Presenters: Martha Alibali, Philip Kellman, David Uttal, Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Mitchell Nathan

Alternate Poster Session B in La Habana

6:00– 7:30 La Habana and Bolivar
Poster Session II