9:00 - 10:30: Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching and Research

• Prof. Bermúdez's introduction to PNP program in Washington University
• Prof. Shushan Cai's introduction to Centre for Psychology and Cognitive Science in Tsinghua University
• Roundtable discussion

10:45-12:15 Theoretical issues in multilevel explanation

• José Luis Bermúdez: Philosophy of Psychology and the Interface Problem
• Carl Craver: Levels of Explanation in Neuroscience

13:30 - 14:00: Guest professorship installation ceremony

• Introduction to Prof. James Wertsch's academic achievements by Prof. Cai
• Vice President Weihe Xie confers Guest Professorship on Prof. James Wertsch on behalf of Tsinghua University.

14:10 - 15:40 Prof. James Wertsch's installation speech: Deep Memory and Narrative Templates

8:30 - 10:00: Combining Computational Modeling and Computational Neuroscience in Theorizing about Memory and Language (I)

• Todd Braver: Integrated Computational Modeling and Brain Imaging of Cognitive Control
• Minghu Jiang: The Neural Mechanisms of Natural Language Processing

10:15 - 12:30: Combining Computational Modeling and Computational Neuroscience in Theorizing about Memory and Language (II)

• Meihong Zheng: Reversal Figures and Perceptual Rivalry
• Deanna Barch: Episodic Memory in Schizophrenia: Lessons from Cognitive Neuroscience
• Gina Kuperberg: The Neural Basis of Comprehension: Temporo-Spatial evidence from Event-related Potentials and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

13:30 - 15:00: Collective Memory and the Social Context of Language and Cognition (I)

• Shushan Cai: A Cognitive Model with Twin Structures of Language and World
• Elizabeth J. Marsh: Retelling is not the Same as Recalling: Implications for Memory

Tour to the Great Wall

9:00 - 10:30: Collective Memory and the Social Context of Language and Cognition (II)

• James Wertsch: The socialization of memory and cognition
• Xiaojun Zhang: The Legend of the Pagoda Tree--Cultural Attractor of Collective Memory

10:45 - 12:15: Collective Memory and the Social Context of Language and Cognition (III)

• Hong Li: Life Control Moderates on the Relationship between Stress and Psychological Well-being
• Keith Payne: Memory monitoring and control of social group biases

• Xiaolu Yang: Nature of Language Acquisition: Evidence from Early Grammatical Development of Chinese
• Li Yin: Stages in Chinese Children's Reading of English Words
• Rebecca Treiman: The Development of Reading and Spelling Skills

Student presentations

9:00 - 10:20:

• Sarah K. Robins: Metalinguistic Awareness in Reading Development and Human Cognition
• Tal Yarkoni: Neural Mechanisms of Single-word Processing during Narrative Reading
• Ting Xu: Children's Acquisition of Passives in Mandarin Chinese: A Proposal

10:30 - 11:30:

• Yuncheng Zhou: Approaches to the Paradox of Self-consciousness: How vs. Why
• Xiaoqian Li: Ergative Verbs in the Early Speech of a Chinese-speaking Child: A Preliminary Study
• Jing Xu: From Metaphor to Order: An Explanation of Religion by Self-organization Theory

13:00 - 14:40:

• Simin Wang: An Analysis on Lying in the View of Psycho-logic
• Jun Zhang: Epistemic Logic and Other Minds
• Shengqiang Li: The Influence of the Traditional Culture Success Views on the Psychological Heath of Entrepreneurs