Space, Time, and Number: Cerebral Foundations of Mathematical Intuition
24th Attention & Performance meeting
Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France, Paris
Elizabeth Brannon, Duke University, USA
Preliminary Schedule
Tuesday, July 6th
Arrival in the afternoon
6:30 pm: Association lecture
Randy Gallistel (USA): The representation of space, time, number and probability: Foundational and primitive
Wednesday, July 7th
Morning (9-13)
Number
Andreas Nieder (Germany): The neural code for number
David Burr (Italy): Visual mechanisms of time and number revealed by adaptation
Liz Brannon (USA): Adding, ordering, and cross-modally matching number in primates.
Giorgio Vallortigara (Italy): The origins of the sense of space and number in animals
Manuela Piazza (Italy): Cortical representation of symbolic and non-symbolic informationAfternoon (16-19)
The coding of space
Patrick Cavanagh (France): The position sense
Nicola Clayton (UK): Memory for space -- food caching in scrub jays
Véronique Izard (France): Intuitions of Euclidean geometry: universal but not innateGeneral discussion: similarities and differences between space and number
Evening: Poster session 1
Thursday, July 8th
Morning (8:30-11:30)
The coding of time
David Eagleman (USA): Human time perception: a new theory of subjective duration
Concetta Morrone (Italy): Illusions of time: space-time relativity in the brain?
Jennifer Coull (France): Hemispheric lateralisation for spatial versus temporal expectation
Lera Boroditsky (USA): Constructing time: Cross-cultural similarities and differences11:30 pm-13:00 pm: Poster session 2 + coffee
Afternoon: Excursion and dinner
2:30 bus to Port Royal
5:00 pm bus to NeuroSpin, and visit
6:30 bus to restaurant
Friday, July 9th
Morning (9-13)
Understanding magnitude codes and their interactions
Dean Buonomano (USA): Neural Basis of Subsecond Timing: Encoding time in Network States
Edvard Moser (Norway): Grid cells and the brain's representation of space'
Ehud Zohary (Israel): Are there spatiotopic representations in the human visual pathways?
Lisa Feigenson (USA): Working memory and numerical representations
Wim Fias (Belgium): Beyond the mental number line: Multiple links between number and spaceAfternoon (16-19)
Cross-modal interactions and cross-dimensional metaphors
Yves Rossetti (France): Neglect in the numerical, spatial and time domains
Roi Cohen Kadosh (UK): Synaesthesia: Gluing together Number, Space, and Time
Daniel Haun (Germany): Comparative Cognitive Anthropology of Space and NumberGeneral Discussion: origins of cross-dimensional interactions
Saturday, July 10th
Morning (9-12:3)
Development, education and representational change
Stella Lourenco (USA): Developmental Origins and the Extent of Generalization in the Representation of Magnitude
Robert Siegler (USA): Education and the development of number-space mappings
Brian Butterworth (UK): Numerical development and dyscalculia
Elizabeth Spelke (USA): How language transforms early representations of space and numberour sponsors:
