Schedule

Please download the full book of abstracts [here]

Day 1 – Wednesday (August 23)

• 15:00 – 16:00: Registration
• 16:00 – 16:15: Opening Remarks

Keynote Session 1: Philosophy of Mind [Session Chair: Christopher Genovesi]

• 16:15 – 17:15: John Perry (Stanford University) - Self-Concepts: Primitive and Robust [Abstract]

Cocktail Reception & Poster Session

• 17:15 – 19:00:
  • Poster 01: Paul Stan & Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University):
    • Do concepts decompose? Evidence from a memory-for-propositions task [Abstract]
  • Poster 02: Cedric Le-Bouar & Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University):
    • Pre-lexical morphological parsing of ambiguous roots: Evidence from a cross-modal task [Abstract]

  • Poster 03: Alessandro La Serra, Caitlyn Antal*, & Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University

    *McGill University):

    • From perception to meaning: The role of color and texture in the early stages of conceptual access [Abstract]

Day 2 – Thursday (August 24)

• 08:30 – 09:15: Morning Coffee & Pastries
• 09:15 – 09:30: Opening Remarks

Keynote Session 2: Cognitive Neuroscience [Session Chair: Tobias Ungerer]

• 09:30 – 10:30: Alex Clarke (University of Cambridge) - The Neural Dynamics of Meaningful Object Recognition [Abstract]
• 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break

Talk Session 1: Semantic Priming [Session Chair: Tobias Ungerer]

• 11:00 – 11:30: Kyan Salehi & Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University)
  • Accessing concepts from (pseudo)constituents of words [Abstract]

• 11:30 – 12:00: Larissa Jordan & Kristi Hendrickson* (University of Cincinnati

  * University of Iowa)

  • The nature of automatic semantic retrieval in individuals with mild cognitive impairment [Abstract]

• 12:00 – 12:30: Caitlyn Antal & Roberto G. de Almeida* (McGill University

  *Concordia University)

  • What do we grasp at a glance? Investigating conceptual representations through rapid object categorization [Abstract]

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break

Keynote Session 3: Conceptual Development [Session Chair: Christopher Genovesi]

• 14:00 – 15:00: Alan Bale (Concordia University) – Nominal Concepts and Quantities [Abstract]
• 15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break

Talk Session 2: (Psycho)linguistics [Session Chair: Christopher Genovesi]

• 15:30 – 16:00: Craig Chambers & Tiana Simovic (University of Toronto)
  • Conceptual content and real-world coreference [Abstract]

• 16:00 – 16:30: Tobias Ungerer, Caitlyn Antal*, & Roberto G. de Almeida (Concordia University

  *McGill University)

  • Conceptual integration in creative sentences: Evidence from eye-tracking [Abstract]
• 16:30 – 17:00: Mikihiro Tanaka (Konan W. University)
  • From concept to syntax in production: Evidence from coercion and metonymy [Abstract]
• 17:00 – 17:30: Jonathan Kendrick (University of Maryland)
  • The dynamics of open texture [Abstract]

Workshop Dinner

• 19:00: Location: Wienstein & Gavino’s

Day 3 – Friday (August 25)

• 08:30 – 09:15: Morning Coffee & Pastries
• 09:15 – 09:30: Opening Remarks

Keynote Session 4: Artificial Intelligence and Symbol Grounding [Session Chair: Tobias Ungerer]

• 09:30 – 10:30: Stevan Harnad (Université du Quebec à Montreal) – What ChatGPT lacks: How do words get their meaning? [Abstract]
• 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break

Talk Session 3: Philosophy of Language and Mind [Session Chair: Tobias Ungerer]

• 11:00 – 11:30: Majid Amini (Virginia State University)
  • Fodor on concepts and language: Evolutionary (dis)continuity? [Abstract]
• 11:30 – 12:00: Christopher Genovesi (Concordia University)
  • Remarks on the literal-metaphorical distinction and lexicalized concepts [Abstract]
• 12:00 – 12:30: Jie Chen (Rice University)
  • Cross-category notions, representations and Aristotle’s essentialism [Abstract]

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break

Keynote Session 5: Distributional Social Semantics [Session Chair: Caitlyn Antal]

• 14:00 – 15:00: Brendan Johns (McGill University) – Grounding Computational Models of Language in the Social Environment: A New Direction for Models of Language Processing [Abstract]
• 15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break

Talk Session 4: Social Semantics and Concepts in Action [Session Chair: Caitlyn Antal]

• 15:30 – 16:00: Dominik Hetjens & Stefan Hartmann* (TU Dresden

  *University of Düsseldorf)

  • Will Carla apply for this job, or just Carl? – What user interactions with job listings reveal about the effects of gender-sensitive language on male and female representations [Abstract]
• 16:00 – 16:30: Stephanie Rotter & Mingya Liu (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Social meaning of negative concord in American English [Abstract]
• 16:30 – 17:00: Beth Barker (Northwestern University)
  • Propositions in action [Abstract]

Keynote Session 6: Pragmatics/Semantics Interface [Session Chair: Roberto G. de Almeida]

• 17:00 – 18:00: Brendan Gillon (McGill University) – Concepts and words: How do they relate to one another? [Abstract]
• 18:00 – 18:15: Closing Remarks