The conference venue is the Thomas Paine Study Centre at UEA on Chancellors Drive (you may enter through the door marked ‘The Norwich Business School’). The registration desk will be in the lobby.
Sunday, June 3 2018
Pub meet-up
York Tavern - 1 Leicester St, Norwich NR2 2AS
Note: Sunday roast available until 5pm via pre-order; bbq should be going until 8pm; if you want to make a booking for dinner, call 01603-620918
Monday, June 4 2018
Keynote 1 - The multi-scale dynamics of reference
Linda Smith
Indiana University
Reaction 1
Denis Mareschal
Birkbeck University
Open discussion
Coffee Break
Keynote 2 - Dynamic Field Theory: Foundations, relation to development, and link to higher cognition
Gregor Schöner
Ruhr University, Bochum
Reaction 2
Will Penny
University of East Anglia
Open discussion
Lunch
From action to higher-level cognition
- Reaching and visual encoding in 9-month-old infants: The emergence of precise visual-motor spatial matching in goal-directed behavior
Daniela Corbetta
University of Tennessee
- A unified theory of dimensional attention development: Flexibility, selectivity, and stability arise from a common mechanism
Aaron Buss
University of Tennessee
Outside the box - Neuronal basis of cognition and autonomy of acting, learning, and development
Yulia Sandamirskaya
University of Zurich
Coffee break
Autonomy, interaction, and cognition
- An egocentric perspective on visual object recognition and early word learning
Chen Yu
Indiana University
- Why is active learning good?
Teea Gliga
Birkbeck University
Outside the box - Following and leading social gaze
Andrew Bayliss
University of East Anglia
Reactions from the day - How would that work?
Sebastian Schneegans Cambridge University
Stephanie Rossit University of East Anglia
Ingo Bojak University of Reading
Pub meet-up
The Eagle - 33 Newmarket Rd, Norwich NR2 2HN
Tuesday, June 5 2018
Keynote 3 - Beyond the bias: From shape bias training to early language assessment and intervention
Larissa Samuelson
University of East Anglia
Reaction 3
Kim Plunkett
University of Oxford
Open discussion
Coffee break
Keynote 4 - Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind
Angelo Cangelosi
University of Plymouth
Reaction 4
Nadja Althaus
University of East Anglia
Open discussion
Lunch
Come tour the UEA Developmental Dynamics Lab!
01.16 Lawrence Stenhouse Building
Swing by any time and we’ll show you our toys.
Making Working Memory Work
- In-the-moment influences on visual working memory capacity and development
Vanessa Simmering
University of Wisconsin / ACT Next
- Working memory development as skill learning – the role of the striatum
Torkel Klingberg
Karolinska Institutet
Outside the box - Visual working memory in older adults - a case for DFT applications
Sobana Wijeakumar
University of Stirling
Coffee break
Speech, categories, and multi-sensory integration
- Across the senses: How multiple cues from different modalities support learning
Natasha Kirkham
Birkbeck University
- Curiosity-based information seeking and category learning: a neurocomputational account
Gert Westermann
Lancaster University
Outside the box - Dynamics and Developmental Stuttering
Eric Jackson
New York University
Reactions from the day - How would that work?
Tom FitzGerald University of East Anglia
Mathis Richter Ruhr University, Bochum
Sean Deoni Brown University
Pub meet-up
The Dog House - 18 St Georges St., Norwich NR3 1BA
Wednesday, June 6 2018
Keynote 5 - Genes, education, and social factors: Biting off more than you can chew
Michael Thomas
Birkbeck University
Reaction 5
Martin Doherty
University of East Anglia
Open discussion
Coffee break
Keynote 6 - Bringing together minds, models, and mums to foster the early development of visual working memory
John Spencer
University of East Anglia
Reaction 6
Sarah Lloyd Fox
Birkbeck University
Open discussion
Lunch
Are mechanisms of learning different from mechanisms of development?
Outside the box - The roles of curiosity-driven exploration in development
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Inria, France
- A Deep Learning Account of Shape and Colour Biases in Categorisation
Bradley Love
University College London
- Grounding word learning in attention and memory
Ajaz Bhatt
University of East Anglia