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Some Highlights:

Each year, in addition to submitted papers, we invite speakers who help to highlight some aspect of cognitive science. This year, we highlight Learning: Tackling Both Implicit and Explicit Processes .

Plenary speakers will include

• Robert Siegler (CMU)
• Daniel Schacter (Harvard)

Plenary symposia will include

• The Synergy between Implicit and Explicit Learning Processes (Organizers: Ron Sun and Robert Mathews. Speakers: Axel Cleeremans, Zoltan Dienes, Lynne Reder, Robert Mathews)
• The Emerging Learning Sciences

Rumelhart Prize Winner: Roger Shepard (Stanford)

Marr Prize Winner: The Marr Prize will be given to the best student paper at the conference

There will be a day of tutorials and workshops just before the conference itself (including a set of Asian-Pacific research workshops ).

Co-located meetings: To facilitate interdisciplinary interaction, the following meetings have co-located with CogSci 2006:

• The 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence . Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 16-21, 2006.
• The 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Asia-Pacific) . Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 26, 2006.
• The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology . Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 30-August 1, 2006.
• The 6th International Symposium on Smart Graphics. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. July 23-25, 2006.

Announcements:

• Report on CogSci2006: Please see the report here.
• Online CogSci2006 proceedings: Please see the proceedings here (or, alternatively, here).
• Oral and poster presentation guidelines: the oral presentation guidelines, and the poster presentation guidelines. See also the submission page.
• Information about schedules and about final submissions: Please see the information here.
• Information for exhibitors and advertisers: Please see the information here.
• Four computational modeling prizes: Please see the announcement for details.
• Extension of the workshops/tutorials submission deadline: Please see the tutorials announcement and the workshops announcement for details.

• Ron Sun
• Naomi Miyake

For Further Information About the Society:

• http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org

For Questions About the Conference:

• For information relevant to exhibitors, advertisers, and various service providers, email to "gruber AT cognitivesciencesociety.org"
• For information regarding being student volunteers, email to "gruber AT cognitivesciencesociety.org"
• For visa-related matters, email to "gruber AT cognitivesciencesociety.org"
• For registration and logistic matters, email to "kevin_gluck AT hotmail.com" (only if the question is important, and only after you have carefully read all the information on this Web site)
• For matters related to tutorials/workshops, email to "keller AT inf.ed.ac.uk" (only if the question is important, and only after you have carefully read all the information on this Web site)
• For matters related to member posters/abstracts, email to "cassin AT rpi.edu" (only if the question is important, and only after you have carefully read all the information on this Web site)
• For matters related to ICCS2006, please contact only the ICCS organizers (NOT the CogSci2006 organizers).
• For all other matters, email to "cogsci2006 AT rpi.edu" (only if the question is important, and only after you have carefully read all the information on this Web site)