The Lund Symposium on Cognition, Communication and Learning April 2019: Registration open!
April 24-26, we are happy to present a CCL symposium at the Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas museum) here in Lund. Registration, information and a preliminary programme can be found at delegia.com/CCL_symposium. Keynote speakers and preliminary titles of their talks: Linda Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA …
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Peter Gärdenfors elected member in IVA, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences is made up of decision-makers and experts from business and industry, academia and public administration. Within the Academy is the collective knowledge and experience of close to 1,300 members divided up into 12 areas of expertise. There are also more than 200 companies …
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Holsanova, Johansson and Åhlander receive FORTE funding
Roger Johansson, Jana Holsanova and Viveka Lyberg Åhlander received a project grant from FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) for a three-years multidisciplinary project ”How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events”. The theoretical aim of the project is to gain a …
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Follow Annika Andersson’s blogs about language learning in Curie!
CCL researcher Annika Andersson, now a senior lecturer at Linné University in Växjö, is now a blogger at Swedish Research Council magazine Curie. Read an interview with Annika here. The article and the blogs linked below are in Swedish. Blir man smartare av att vara flerspråkig? Hur man blir en …
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Zahra Gharaee, PhD!
Congratulations, Zahra Gharaee, who successfully defended her thesis ‘Action in Mind: A Neural Network Approach to Action Recognition and Segmentation’ on April 27. Professor Angelo Cangelosi gave the audience and the examination commitee a nice presentation of Zahras’ work. Zahra’s PhD studentship was funded by a EU grant closely connected …
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Gulz, Haake and Andersson get MAW funding!
Congratulations Agneta, Magnus and Annika!! The Magical Garden – Supporting Early Mathematics for Preschoolers with different Linguistic Backgrounds The proposed project aims to support development of number sense – the conceptual understanding of numbers – in the increasingly larger population of native speaking Arabic preschoolers with Swedish as a second …
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Gulz and Haake receive a grant from the Swedish Institute for Educational Research
Magnus Haake and Agneta Gulz received a grant from Skolforskningsinstitutet together with colleagues at Stockholm University for the project “Digital tools to support learning and formative feedback in the context of early skills in mathematics”. Yet another exciting and fruitful collaboration in CCL! Congratulations!
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Jana Holsanova on audio description at the Gothenburg Book Fair
Jana Holsanova presented research on audio description at the Book Fair in Gothenburg. Keywords: audio description, cognition and communication, language and images, multimodality, relevance, mental imagery Audio description is a means to increase accessibility for people with visual impairment and blindness. Audio describers give verbal descriptions of visual scenes in …
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Peter Gärdenfors (LUCS) announces The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017.
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Charles R. Gallistel lectures in Lund
Guest lectures on Timing, Cognition and Neuroscience, May 27 and 28 We are proud to invite...
Det går väl ganska bra?
Birgitta Sahlén föreläste och satt i paneldebatt 13 maj på konferensen ‘Det går väl ganska bra?’...
Bilingualism on national radio
Marianne Gullberg appeared on national Swedish radio in the P3 show Din gata [Your street] on...
Gullberg awarded 2014 Rausing prize
Marianne Gullberg was awarded the 2014 Rausing prize. The Rausing lecture, held on Sat. April 12...
Truths
April 11-12 it is time for the yearly event Humanistdagarna “Humanities and Theology days”. As usual,...
Peter Gärdenfors’ new book “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces”
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science...
Catherine Preston on Multisensory Body Illusions at the CCL Seminar
This Tuesday’s CCL seminar was given by Dr. Catherine Preston and was entitled “Beyond the Illusion:...
New CCL publication in Journal of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Stanford University, on the role of Purkinje cells in conditioning with short CS-US intervals
Many forms of learning require temporally ordered stimuli. In Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning, a conditioned stimulus (for...
CCL thesis awarded prize from the Learned Society of Lund.
(In Swedish) Roger Johansson, Fil.dr. i kognitionsvetenskap vid Filosofiska institutionen, har tilldelats Vetenskapssocieteten i Lunds pris...