Invited Speakers
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Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago and the co-Director of the Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania. Her focus is on the ways that the body can affect learning––how the body provides insight into a learner’s skills and how the body contributes to changing those skills. She is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, APA, and LSA, and was president of the Psychology Section of AAAS in 2015. In 2001, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, which led to her two published books, Resilience of Language and Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Learn. In 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2015, she received the William James Award for Lifetime Achievement in Basic Research from APS. She is currently the President of the APS. |
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Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE,is Professor of Visual Cognition at University of Glasgow, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology and Research Investigator of the Wellcome Trust. After receiving his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1992, he worked at the Centre for Biological and Computational Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993-1994, the Department of Psychology at University of Montreal, in 1994-1995. He joined University of Glasgow in 1995 and was promoted to full professor in 1998. He was the Editor of Frontiers in Perception Science, is Associate Editor of Psychological Science and Current Biology. His research concerns the information processing bases of face, object and scene categorizations in the brain. |
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Aleix M. Martinez is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), where he is the founder and director of the Computational Biology and Cognitive Science Lab. He is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and to the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, where he is a member of the executive committee. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Image and Vision Computing, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He has been an area chair for many top conferences and was a Program co-Chair for CVPR 2014. He is also a member of NIH’s Cognition and Perception study section. Aleix is most known for being the first to define many problems and solutions |