Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Thursday, October 13, 2011
- Two pre-conference events:
Creating Development: Integrating Processes over Multiple Timescales
Social Cognitive Development
See flyers above for registration instructions.
- Welcome reception at Sheraton Society Hill Hotel sponsored by Taylor & Francis
Friday, October 14, 2011
- Registration and continental breakfast
- Welcome, Nora Newcombe
Introduction of plenary speaker, Lynn Liben
- Plenary talk - Hippocampal development: Implications for cognitive development and the nature-nurture debate
Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona
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Coffee break
- Plenary symposium - The future faces of cognitive development research
Judy DeLoache (organizer), Patricia Ganea, Justin Halberda, Vikram Jaswal, Katherine Kinzler, Kristin Shutts
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Lunch on your own or NIH Funding: Training and Research Grant Opportunities (advance registration required)
- Concurrent symposia
Using functional neuroimaging to shed new light on the developing visual brain
Aaron Buss & John Spencer (organizers), Teresa Wilcox, Karin James

The development of moral cognition
Marjorie Rhodes (organizer), Kiley Hamlin, Nadia Chernyak, Fiery Cushman

Attention and memory interactions across development
Julie Markant & Dimo Amso (organizers), Duncan Astle, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Natasha Kirkham

- Concurrent symposia
Comparing comparisons: Does comparison learning vary across domains?
Stella Christie & Lynn Perry (organizers), Sarah Gerson, Laura Namy

An interdisciplinary approach to the origins of causal inference: Integrating developmental, comparative, and adult studies
Anna Waisman (organizer), Paul Muentener, Laurie Santos, Kosuke Sawa, Laura Schulz

Developing natural and supernatural counterintuitive concepts
Jonathan Lane (organizer), E. Margaret Evans, Julia Plummer, Dimitris Pnevmatikos, Nikos Makris, Paul L. Harris

Alternate poster session A
- Poster session I (see Poster instructions)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
- Registration and continental breakfast
- Introduction of plenary speaker, Nora Newcombe
- Plenary talk - A social neuroscience perspective on adolescent risk-taking
Laurence D. Steinberg, Temple University
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Coffee break
- Plenary symposium - Memory development and the brain: New methods to address old questions
Nora Newcombe & Simona Ghetti (organizers), Noa Ofen, Tracy Riggins, Margaret Sheridan
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Lunch on your own or Burning Questions for the Professoriate (advance registration required)
- Concurrent symposia
Effects of developmental experience on neurocognitive development: Insights into the origins of human cognition
Maria Bedny (organizer), Jennie Pyers, Martha Farah, Courtney Stevens, Gary Marcus

The problem of probabilistic inference: How children learn from and search through probabilistic worlds
Elizabeth Bonawitz (organizer), Josh Tenenbaum, Elissa Newport, Fei Xu

Specific generalities: Learning at different levels
Charles Kalish (organizer), Susan Graham, Anne Riggs, Shelbie Sutherland, Susan Gelman, Sarah-Jane Leslie
- Concurrent symposia
The causes and consequences of explanation in early childhood
Cristine Legare & Andrei Cimpian (organizers), Amelie Bernard, Alison Gopnik, Susan Gelman

Pedagogy and selective trust: The trade-offs of learning from others
Lucas Butler & Daphna Buchsbaum (organizers), Hyowon Gweon, Carolyn Palmquist, Melissa Koenig

New perspectives on developmental change in numerical estimation
Hilary Barth (organizer), Sara Cordes, Dale Cohen

Alternate poster session B
- Poster session II (see Poster instructions)