The 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE (ICCS2010); Beijing

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The 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE (ICCS2010)

August 17-20, 2010
Beijing, China
http://www.iccs2010.org/


Call for Papers (the first announcement)

The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2010) will be held in Beijing on August
17-20, 2010. We invite submissions from all contributing disciplines within Cognitive Science,
including but not limited to:
Animal Cognition
Cognitive Anthropology
Cognitive Modeling
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence
Functional Brain Imaging
Linguistics
Philosophy
Social Cognition

Venue

ICCS2010 will be held in Beijing, China, at the China National Convention Center (CNCC;
http://en.cnccchina.com/) CNCC is located at the center of the park of Olympia Green, adjoining the
epic Bird Nest (China National Stadium) and the magic Water Cube (National Aquatics Center). It is
easily accessible by subway (Line 8) and more than 20 bus lines, taking you quickly to and from
every corner of Beijing, such as the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square, Summer Palace, Heaven
Temple, etc.
We would like to highlight here that the World EXPO 2010 (http://en.expo2010.cn/), the largest
world-wide event after 2008 Olympic Games involving more than 200 countries, will be taking place
in Shanghai in parallel to ICCS2010.
For accommodation, CNCC’'s hotel (4-star rated) and Intercontinental Hotel (5-star rated) are
recommended. Both hotels are immediately adjacent to CNCC, and offer very competitive rates to
ICCS participants. A more economic choice, while uncompromised in quality, is Huiyuan Service
Apartments. It is located within a distance of 2km, and a complementary shuttle bus is available.
Walking a few minutes from CNCC to the east, you will find dozens of restaurants covering most of
Chinese food varieties. At the north of the Olympia Green you enter the beautiful Olympia Forest
Park where the natural atmosphere will refresh your mind from the intensive meetings at ICCS.

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About ICCS and IACS

International conference on cognitive science (ICCS) is a bi-annual world-wide academic conference
series organized by International Association for Cognitive Science (IACS) and its local partners. The
purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers in various active areas in cognitive
science for exchanging recent progresses made in various cognitive science research groups from
different countries. The previous conferences were held in Korea (1997), Japan (1999), China (2001),
Australia (2003), Canada (2006) and Korea (2008), with up to about a thousand participants from all
over the world.
IACS is an international organization to provide a forum for the development of cognitive science in
the Asia-Pacific and other regions. IACS shall i) organize regular conferences, in particular the
International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS); and ii) prepare a variety of publications,
including ICCS proceedings and Journal of Cognitive Science. The current President of IACS is
Professor Lin Chen.

Call for Symposium Topics and Organizers

In order to balance general and special interests of participants, the conference will arrange 12-14
plenary talks by leading cognitive scientists as well as organize symposia for cutting-edge research
topics. Proposals or suggestions about topics and organizers of the symposia are particularly
welcome, and should be sent to before Mar. 15, 2010.

Guidelines for Abstract/Paper Submissions

The conference accepts oral and poster presentations in English. For oral presentations, please
submit a full paper of 1-5 pages in size A4, with font size of at least 12 pt. For posters and work in
progress, please submit a one-page abstract. All accepted papers or abstracts will be published in
the conference proceedings. All submissions should be in MS Word or pdf format and be sent via
email to . In order that your abstract or paper is print-ready for the
proceedings, please follow the format of the sample file (see the end of this announcement; also
available at http://www.iccs2010.org). In case no acknowledgement of receipt reaches you within
one week, please resend your submission to .

Key Dates

15 March 2010 Proposals for symposia due
15 April 2010 Abstracts and full papers due
15 May 2010 Notice of acceptance or rejection
15 June 2010 Early registration due
17-20 August 2010 Conference

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Confirmed Plenary Speakers

CHEN, Lin, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
CHO, Sook-Whan, Sogang University
DESIMONE, Robert, MIT
GABRIELI, John, MIT
Guo, Aike Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
HE, Sheng, University of Minnesota
HUANG, Jong-Tsun, China Medical University
HUMPHREYS, Glyn, University of Birmingham
KANG, EunJoo, Kangwon National University
POO, Muming, UC Berkeley; Institute of Neuroscience, CAS
Tanaka, Keiji, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
WOLFE, Jeremy, Harvard University
ZHOU, Xiaohong Joe, University of Illinois at Chicago
*** Additional speakers to be announced at http://www.ICCS2010.org ***

Symposia
*** To be announced at http://www.ICCS2010.org ***

Registration

Registration Fees

Registration fee covers the proceedings, souvenirs, welcome reception, opening ceremony (with concert or
theatre shows), banquet, tea breaks, and a one-day tour in Beijing.
Early Registration (before 15 June 2010):
Regular: $300
Student: $150 (Students include post-docs)
Late Registration (between 16 June 2010 and 16 Aug 2010)：
Regular: $400
Student: $200
On-site Registration:
Regular: $500
Student: $250
***Online Registration will be announced at http://www.ICCS2010.org ***

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Sponsors

Academic Organizations
International Association for Cognitive Science (IACS);
Chinese Society for Cognitive Science (CSCS, in preparation)

Administrative Organizations
Ministry of Science and Technology of China;
Chinese Academy of Sciences;
National Nature Science Foundation of China

Exhibitors
Under solicitation. Interested party shall contact the organizers using the Contact Info below.

Conference Chairs:

Honorary Chairs:
WEI, Yu, South-East University of China, China
LEE, Chungmin, Seoul National University, Korea

Conference Chair:
CHEN, Lin , Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; President of IACS

Program Committee
Chair: ZHENG, Nanning, Xi’n Jiaotong University, China
BARA, Bruno G., University of Turin, Italy
CHAE, Hee-Rahk, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, Korea
CHEN, Lin, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
DUAN, Shumin, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS, China
GRAY, Wayne, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
GUO, Aike, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
HASIDA, Koiti, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, President of JCSS,
Japan
KATAGIRI, Yasuhiro, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
LI, Chaoyi, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS; Univ of Electronic Sci & Tech of China, China
LING, Charles X., University of Western Ontario, Canada
LU, Changlin, The Second Military Medical University; Secretary-in-general of Chinese Society of
Neural Science, China
PAN, Yunhe, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China
PENG Kaiping, Tsinghua University, China; UC Berkeley, USA
SHIN, Hyun Jung, President of Korean Society for Cognitive Science, Korea
SLEZAK, Peter, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

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TAN, Li-Hai, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
TAN, Tieniu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
TZENG, Ovid, National Yang-Ming University; Academia Sinica
YANG, Xiongli, Fudan University, China
ZHANG, Bo, Tsinghua University, China
ZHANG, Kan, Institute of Psychology, CAS; Secretary-in-general of Chinese Society of Psychology,
China
ZHONG, Yixin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Secretary-in-general of Chinese
Society of Artificial Intelligence, China

Organizing Committee

Chair: TAN, Li-Hai, University of Hong Kong

Co-chairs: FU, Xiaolan, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
SHI, Zhongzhi, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
ZHUO, Yan, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
BAI, Xuejun, Tianjin Normal University
CAI, Shushan, Tsinghua University
CHEN, Min, Beijing Hospital
GAO, Dingguo, Sun Yat-Sen University
GONG, Qiyong, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
GUO, Chunyan, Capital Normal University
HU, Dewen, National University of Defense Technology
HU, Zhujing, Jiangxi Normal University
LI, Baoming, Fudan University
LI, Hong, Southwest University
LI, Kuncheng, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University
LIAN, Rong, Fujian Normal University
LU, Zuhong, Southeast University
LUO, Yuejia, Beijing Normal University
MO, Lei, South China Normal University
TANG, Shiwei, Peking University
YAO, Dezhong, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
ZHANG, Tianxu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
ZHONG, Ning, Beijing University of Technology
ZHOU, Changle, Xiamen University
ZHOU, Xiaolin, Peking University
ZHOU, Yongdi, East China Normal University
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Web Site and Contact Info

The web site of ICCS2010, http://www.ICCS2010.org, will be frequently updated for new
information on plenary talks, symposia, paper submission, registration, local arrangement, etc.
Inquiries about the conference should be addressed to the organizing committee at
org@ICCS2010.org, or to:
Secretaries: ZHOU, Xin; CHEN, Weizhen
Address: Center for Brain Mapping, Institute of Biophysics, CAS,
15 Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China
Tel.: +86-10-64836980
Fax.: +86-10-64836959

Appendix:

Sample Abstract/ Paper with specifications of formats
-You can get this if you viisit the official site (http://www.ICCS2010.org) and go to the"Guidelines for Abstract/Paper Submissions' and click the sample file link in the 7the line.