Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary perspectives

A collaborative international workshop

July 16-21, 2007, Tsinghua University, Beijing

• About
• Schedule
• Participants
• Resources
  • Computational Modeling and Cognitive Neuroscience approaches to Memory and Language
  • Memory: Collective and Individual Approaches
  • Language acquisition and learning to read in English and Chinese
  • Theoretical issues in multilevel explanation
• Presentations

About the Workshop

Aims

The Memory and Language workshop at Tsinghua University is a collaborative international workshop bringing together scholars from China and the US with the common goal of studying and understanding the capacities of memory and language. The workshop is intended to establish a base for developing collaborative teaching and research links between Tsinghua University and Washington University, and, more generally, between the cognitive and brain science community in the US and its counterparts in China.

Themes

The workshop is structured around four main themes related to the study of memory and language. Two themes focus on substantive topics in these domains: (a) collective memory and the social context of language, and (b) language and reading acquisition in English and Chinese. Additionally, the workshop emphasizes the utility of an interdisciplinary approach to central problems in cognitive science. Thus, the two remaining themes focus on conceptual and methodological issues. One theme concerns computational and cognitive neuroscience approaches to memory and language, and the other, philosophical issues that arise from attempts to study and explain cognition at multiple levels.

Resources

In addition to providing information on scheduling, participants, and presentations, this website provides an annotated bibliography for each of the four themes as a community resource. Each bibliography provides an introduction to its respective theme, highlighting the central issues and key references in that particular research area.

Support

The workshop is a joint undertaking of the philosophy-neuroscience-psychology (PNP) program at Washington University in St. Louis and the Center for Cognitive Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and is generously supported by the NSF and McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Organizers

The workshop is organized by José Bermúdez, Director of the PNP program at Washington University and Yang Xiaolu, Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University.

© 2007 Washington University in St. Louis - Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology