UTism 2024 will be February 10-11

Imagination is boundless, knowing no limits or restrictions. It is able to take our minds beyond the norm, where strings of thought are spun together into a tapestry of ideas, innovations, questions and answers. While often undervalued when compared to testable knowledge, the impact of imagination in our everyday lives may be deeper than we expect. 

For the 20th anniversary of UTism (the University of Toronto Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind), CASA (the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Students Association) brings to you a conference which will aim to examine the interplay between imagination and the mind through various interdisciplinary fields. 

Admission for UofT students is 10$, and general admission is 15$. 

Save the date for February 10-11, 11am-5pm, 2024. 

This year's UTism invites you to imagine the possibility of imagination through contemporary research in philosophy, psychology, computer science, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Our own Myrto is a speaker!

 

Instagram: https://instagram.com/casa.uoft

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/uoftcasa/

Discord: https://tinyurl.com/casa-discord

 

UofT Linguists at the Cognitive Science Society's Annual Meeting!

The Cognitive Science Society held their Annual Meeting here in Toronto from July 27th - 30th 2022.  This year's meeting hosted the latest theories and data from the world's best cognitive science researchers. No surprise, we found many UofT faculty members and students in the programme! The Submitted papers have been published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44(44).  

UofT papers include: 

• "Communicative Need Modulates Lexical Precision Across Semantic Domains: A Domain-Level account of Efficient Communication" by Laurestine Bradford (former MA student now at McGill University), Guillaume Thomas (Faculty) and Yang Xu (Department of Computer Science, Cognitive Science UofT).

• "How do young children interpret conditionals?" From Amina Shmanova (Department of Cognitive Science UofT), Myrto Grigoroglou (Faculty) and Patricia Ganea (Applied Psychology and Human Development UofT). 

• "Do I need to repeat myself? Getting to the root of the Other Accent Effect" by Madeline E. Yu (Department of Psychology UTM), Jessamyn Schertz (Faculty) and Elizabeth K. Johnson (Department of Psychology UTM).

• "LSTMs Can Learn Basic Wh- and Relative Clause Dependencies in Norwegian" from Anastasia Kobzeva (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Suhas Arhalli (John Hopkins University), Tal Linzen (New York University) and Dave Kush (Faculty). 

Overall,  this was a VERY eventful conference for our linguists! 🎉🎉🎉