Space, Time, and Number: Cerebral Foundations of Mathematical Intuition

24th Attention & Performance meeting

Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France, Paris
Elizabeth Brannon, Duke University, USA

Schedule

 Tuesday, July 6th

 Arrival in the afternoon

 6:30 pm: Introduction to the meeting by Liz and Stan

Association lecture: Randy Gallistel (USA):Mental Magnitudes

Wednesday, July 7th

Morning (9-13)

Number
David Burr (Italy): A Visual Sense of Number
Andreas Nieder (Germany): The Neural Code for Number
Liz Brannon (USA): The Approximate Number System and the Computations it Supports as Evidenced from a Non-human Primate Model
Lisa Feigenson (USA): Working Memory and Numerical Representations
Manuela Piazza (Italy): Neurocognitive Start-up Tools for Symbolic Number Representations

Afternoon (16-19)

The coding of space

Edvard Moser (Norway):  Neural Mechanisms for Mapping of the Spatial Environment
Neil Burgess (UK): Neuronal Membrane Potential Oscillations Naturally Produce Theta-Phase Codes for Distance, Location and Quantity.
Ehud Zohary (Israel): The Search for Spatiotopic Representations in the Human Visual Pathways

General discussion: similarities and differences between space and number

Evening: Poster session 1

Thursday, July 8th

Morning (8:30-11:30)

The coding of time
Dean Buonomano (USA): Population Clocks: Encoding Time in the Dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks.
Jennifer Coull (France):  Neuroanatomical Dissociation between Feedforward and Feedback mechanisms of temporal prediction
Concetta Morrone (Italy): Illusions of Time: Space-time Relativity in the Brain?

Lera Boroditsky (USA): Using Space to Think about Time Across Languages and Cultures

11:30 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 Dampierre Castle and Banquet

Friday, July 9th

Morning (9-13)

Evolutionary origins
Giorgio Vallortigara (Italy): The Origins of the Sense of Space and Number in Animals
Daniel Haun (Germany): Reading the Mind of the Common Ancestor: Cognition of Space, Time and Number in Great Apes
Véronique Izard (France):  Sensitivity to Geometry in Visual Shapes is Universal, but not Innate
Nicola Clayton (UK): The Evolution and Development of Mental Time Travel

Afternoon (16-19)

Cross-modal interactions and cross-dimensional metaphors
Yves Rossetti (France): Neglect in the Numerical, Spatial and Time Domains
Patrick Cavanagh (France):  Spatial Attention and Errors of Location
Roi Cohen Kadosh (UK): Synaesthesia: Gluing Number, Space, and Time
Wim Fias (Belgium): How is Space Associated with Number? The Role of Working Memory
General Discussion: origins of cross-dimensional interactions (moderator: Marco Zorzi)

Evening: Piano night -- Jay Gottlieb improvises on “Surprise”

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): Improving Children's Numerical Knowledge: There's Nothing So Practical As a Good Theory
Brian Butterworth (UK): Numerical Development and Dyscalculia
Elizabeth Spelke (USA): Sources of Abstract Concepts:  Natural Number and Natural Geometry

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