EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS 16th ANNUAL WORKSHOP, 24-27 May 1998 Ghent, Belgium The 16th workshop will take place in Ghent (Gent), Belgium, from Monday 25 May, 9 hours (9 a.m.) to Wednesday 27 May in the afternoon, depending on the number of papers. There will be a welcome party on Sunday 24 May, from 18.00 hours (6.00 pm.). It will be possible to stay from Saturday (important for cheap airline tickets). The aim of the annual workshops is the exchange of knowledge, information, and opinions on all aspects of cognition and related topics, with emphasis on exchanges between different disciplines involved. Papers may be either of a general kind, or specific, but with sufficient attention for the general aspects, and understandable for the audience from a wide variety of disciplines. The following disciplines belong explicitly to the scope of the workshop: - psychology (cognitive, developmental), perception, - artificial intelligence (general aspects), - associative memory and neural networks, neuroscience, - linguistics (also computational), disorders of language, - education and instruction, - philosophy, history of concepts. Experimental papers should be placed within a theoretical framework. Papers accepted for the workshop may be published in the journal of the ESSCS, 'Cognitive Systems'. Accomodation in single rooms is available in hotels, including breakfast, at about Bfr 1600 per person per night. A block booking has been made in a hotel in the historical centre until 1st May 1998. (It is recommended to book before 1 April since the month of May is a busy month in Ghent.) The scientific meetings will take place in a room of the University, at walking distance from the hotel. Ghent can be reached by train and by car; the nearest international airport is Brussels, Ghent can be reached by train in about an hour. Details how to reach the hotel, and the place of the lectures will be given later. Please send abstracts of papers as soon as possible. Last-minute participation is possible if room is available, but the number of papers is limited to 24, and the number of participants to about 40. Length of abstracts: between 20 and 40 lines (1-2 kByte), to be sent by ordinary mail, and possibly also by E-mail. The fee is Bfr 1200 for members of the ESSCS, and DM 1500 (about US$ 37 in Jan 1998) for others, for students the fee is Bfr. 700. Membership is NLG 25.- per annum, the Journal (Volume 5) is NLG 80.- for members, NLG 95.- for others, NLG 140.- for institutions. (US$ is about NLG 2.00). For all questions on the Workshop, the Society, and the Journal, on form and content of papers for the workshop, and for registration, please write to: Further information on the ESSCS and previous workshops will soon be available on a web page. ESSCS (Dr. G.J. Dalenoort) Dept. of Psychology, University of Groningen P.O.Box 41 096, 9701 CB Groningen, The Netherlands. (after 1 Oct. Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands) Telephone Netherlands +31-50-3636448 / 3636454 (or 3636472), Fax +31-50-3636304 E-mail ================================================ EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS Registration form for the 16th Annual Workshop, 24-27 May 1998, Ghent, Belgium Name (and title) Full address I want to present a paper: yes/no (provisional) title: I want accomodation in the conference centre: yes/no Special wishes Date of arrival: (welcome party on 24 May) Date of leave: Please enclose a (crossed) Eurocheque of NLG 200,- dated 25 May 1998, made payable to ESSCS, account nr. 4431.44.044 ABN-AMRO-bank, Groningen (it is only to serve as a guarantee for hotel reservation, you will receive it back at the workshop, or you may use it for payment, please notice that for other cheques than Eurocheques usually costs of about NLG 21.- are involved). If you buy a cheque from the bank, we are obliged to charge you for the costs of cashing. The fee is payable at the workshop. Please keep a photocopy of this filled-in form. ===================================