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[AUDITORY] Cognitive Science Arena (CSA): Brixen-Bressanone (IT), February 17th-18th, 2017



The deadline is approaching! Hurry up!
The CSA team

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Dear colleague,

we are pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of the Cognitive
Science Arena (CSA). The conference will be held in Brixen-Bressanone
(Italy) in 17-18th February 2017.

The aim of CSA is to set a conference where young scientists can
disseminate their scientific contributions in a friendly and
cooperative environment with the participants challenging the
scientist in a fruitful debate. In particular, highly innovative
research ideas as well as “in progress” research are encouraged.

Topics include (but are not limited to): developmental and animal
cognition, developmental education, language, memory, perception,
psychometrics, cognitive neuroscience, social and clinical psychology,
etc.

*NEW THIS YEAR*
*a) "OPEN COGNITIVE SCIENCE"*
This year we will host an invited talk by *Chris Chambers* (Registered
Reports editor of Cortex) on “Registered Reports and the Transparency
and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines: Tools for improving the
reproducibility of psychology and cognitive neuroscience”. The talk is
scheduled for Saturday at the end of the afternoon session.

*b) "SHORT-TALKS FOR POSTERS"*
Poster presenters will be asked to prepare a three-minutes talk (with
powerpoint-like presentation) that summarizes and introduces the
audience to the content of the poster.

*c) INVITED SENIORS*
Well established scientists have been invited, in order to provide
participants with their thoughtful suggestions. This year we are
delighted to guest: *Chris Chambers* (University of Cardiff), *Günther
Knoblich* (Central European University), *Igor Marchetti* (Ghent
University) and *Natalie Sebanz* (Central European University).

The key-ideas of CSA are the following:
[1] works by young scientists only (students, doctoral students and
post-doctoral students, researchers with a fixed-term contract...);
[2] long time for talks and discussion: 20 minutes talk + 10 minutes
discussion for each speaker;
[3] "You will never talk alone" poster-session with dedicated time for
each poster. Poster presenters are also asked to prepare a
three-minute talk to show the content of the poster to the audience;
[4] "Verba volant, scripta manent" (aka, several anonymous reviewers):
at the end of each talk and poster, attendees can write comments,
criticisms and suggestions to the speaker. Comments are delivered to
the speaker at the end of the talk (or poster) session;
[5] in progress and high-risk research are also welcome!

Abstracts submission
Participants willing to present a contribution at CSA must submit an
abstract through the conference website (please, specify "talk" or
"poster" when submitting). Abstracts will be selected on the basis of
the principle "first come first served" until slots for talks and
posters will be available. In the case the number of submission
exceeds availability, the scientific committee will operate a
selection among the received contributions. *Abstract can be submitted
starting from the 13/12/2016 12:00 to the 13/01/2017 23:59 CET
(deadline)* Authors will be email-notified within one week after
submission deadline: the authors of the selected abstracts will be
asked to confirm their participation by replying to our email (those
who will not reply in the due time, will be excluded from the final
program).

Spirit and mood
The idea of CSA is to reverse the usual format of scientific
conferences. Young researchers first: they play the starring role (no
talks or posters from senior researchers are allowed), they pay no
fees (senior do) and they compete for a prize for the best talk and
poster voted by the audience. We would like to bring together young
and promising minds now working in cognitive science and to provide
them with a fruitful and cooperative environment.

Registration fees
The CSA has no registration fees for students, doctoral students and
post-doctoral researchers. A fee of 50 euro will be asked to tenured
researchers. This fee will be used to cover part (or all) of the
conference expenses.

“Valiant" and "Painter" awards 2017
During the conference, the audience votes for the best CSA talk and
poster. At the end of the conference, the best speaker and the best
poster presenter will receive a certificate and a monetary award.

Language
The official language of CSA is English. 

Social events
CSA includes two social events. We hope to arrange once again the
sleigh ride (usually held the first evening of the meeting: be
prepared!) and for the "Cheers, cheese & wine" buffet at the end of
the conference.

A tip for all
Brixen is well known ski-resort. Enjoy this chance and come to the
conference snow-equipped.

Suggested accommodations
- Youth hostel: http://brixen.jugendherberge.it/
- Cusanus Academie: http://www.cusanus.bz.it/de/index.asp

How to get to CSA:
The closest airports are Innsbruck (INN) and Verona (VRN). The city of
Brixen-Bressanone is along the railway line connecting the two cities
(see maps here: http://cogsci.altervista.org/cityinfo.html)

Conference website
More information, abstract submission and registration forms can be
found here:
http://cogsci.altervista.org/

Contacts & info:
cog.sci.arena@xxxxxxxxx

The organisers:
Demis Basso: demis.basso@xxxxxxxx
Chiara Begliomini: chiara.begliomini@xxxxxxxx
Massimo Grassi: massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx
Manila Vannucci: manila.vannucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Supporting institutions:
- Faculty of Education, UniBZ
- Department of General Psychology, UniPD
- Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale
- Centre for Applied Cognitive Neuroscience (CeNCA)

Feel free to forward this call to other colleagues of yours that may
be interested.
See you in Brixen!
The CSA team