Keynote Lectures

Heinrich Bülthoff

Prof. Dr. Heinrich H. Bülthoff is Director of the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. In his department a group of about 70 biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists study cognitive processes including object recognition and categorization, sensory-motor integration, and spatial cognition.

Laura Carlson

Dr. Laura Carlson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her primary research interest is in spatial language and spatial cognition. Her research has employed empirical, computational, and psychophysiological measures to investigate the way in which objects and their spatial relations are encoded, represented and described. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Memory & Cognition, and is on the editorial boards of Perception & Psychophysics and Visual Cognition.

Dedre Gentner

Prof. Dedre Gentner is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern University, USA. Her research interests include: learning and thinking, analogy, similarity and metaphor, concepts and conceptual structure, language and cognition, language acquisition, and cross-linguistic studies.