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Opening event at ICACS March 10th - 12th, 2009 |
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
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 It is our pleasure to invite faculty members and students of SWPS to a series of lectures and workshops delivered by distinguished German and Chinese cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists. Their research focuses on how the dynamics of language-related and oculomotor processes subserve attentional control using reading, spatial attention, and working memory tasks as experimental venues. The lectures and workshops accompany the official opening of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (ICACS) and the signing of an agreement of intent of scientific collaboration between ICACS, ICCS (Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany), and State Key Laboratory for Neuroscience and Learning (Beijing, Normal University, P. R. China).
Director of ICACS, Prof. Grzegorz Sędek and Full Members of ICACS |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 March 2009 )
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
 Greg Sedek's research team
Cognitive functions have become one of the most important topics in many areas of psychology, experimental biology or medicine, and cognitive sciences.
In the interdisciplinary research domains covered by ICACS, one might differentiate the basic research fostering our understanding of cognitive processes and several applied research fields that combine recent advances in cognitive psychology with the investigation into different types of individual or group differences:- Basic research in cognitive functions. Among the most intensively studied by full and affiliated members of ICACS are functions of attention, inhibition and working memory as well as the so-called executive functions, or higher-level cognitive abilities (e.g., reasoning or mental models).
- Research in cognitive psychopathology examines emotional, mental and brain disorders in terms of the underlying basic cognitive mechanisms that are affected in these states
- Research in cognitive aging links the research lines on aging to those on cognitive processes
- Research in social cognition aims to identify the cognitive mechanisms of social processes
Surprisingly, international research in the abovementioned fields of applied cognitive studies tends to evolve and progress largely in separation of each other, although they share common concepts and objectives, and are tightly linked by their central interest in obtaining insights into the cognitive functions research. The members of ICACS attempt to tackle that problem by proposing international research projects, conferences, summer schools and workshops. Many of full and affiliated members of ICACS were involved in recently published volumes integrating basic research on cognitive processes with research on cognitive aging, cognitive psychopathology, and social cognition: - Engle, R.W., Sedek, G., von Hecker, U., & McIntosh, D. N. (Eds.). (2005). Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- von Hecker, U., Dutke, S., Sedek, G. (Eds.). (2000). Generative mental processes and cognitive resources: Integrative research on adaptation and control. Dordrecht (Netherlands): Kluwer.
The ICACS and affiliated research centers have been submitting grant proposals for different programs potentially supported by FR7 and other internationally-oriented granting institutions in Europe and USA. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 24 January 2009 )
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