4th workshop of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture

Friday, 1st October 2021

15:00 - 16:30 Registration
16:30 - 16:50

Welcome address

Falk Huettig (President Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture)

Thomas Lachmann (Head of Center for Cognitive Science)

 

Opening Talk

Thomas Lachmann (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; Universidad Nebrija, Spain)

Specific learning disabilities: cultural factors must be considered for diagnosis

 Session 1 (Chair: Falk Huettig)
16:50 - 17:20

José Morais (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

A cognitive view of culture, or a cultural view of cognition?

17:20 - 17:50

Alexandra Reis (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)

Developmental Dyslexia across orthographies: A cross-cultural comparison

18:00 - 19:00Discussion Meeting: The future of the SCSC
19:00Dinner & social gathering

Saturday, 2nd October 2021

 Session 2: Impact of Literacy on Cognition (Chair: Thomas Lachmann)
9:00 - 9:30

Falk Huettig (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands; Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Do illiterates have illusions? A conceptual (non)replication of Luria (1976)

9:30 - 10:00

Tânia Fernandes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Reading glasses on the Ebbinghaus illusion

10:00 -10:30

Alexis Hervais-Adelman (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

How does literacy affect speech processing? Not by enhancing cortical responses to speech, but by promoting connectivity of acoustic- phonetic and graphomotor cortices

10:30 - 11:00

Régine Kolinsky (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Does literacy impact high-level cognitive functions?

11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
 Session 3: Impact of Culture on Cognition (Chair: Régine Kolinsky)
11:30 - 12:00

Aleksandar Bulajić (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Cognitive capacities and learning success in formal adult basic education

12:00 - 12:30

São Luís Castro (University of Porto, Portugal; ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)

Nature and nurture in learning to read

12:30 - 13:00

Jon Adoni Duñabeitia (Universidad Nebrija, Spain; The Arctic University of Norway)

Culture, knowledge and cultural knowledge

13:00 - 13:30

Zohar Eviatar (University of Haifa, Israel)

Culture, Language, and Physical Bodies

13:30 - 14:30Lunch
 Session 4: Reading & Writing (Chair: Jon Andoni Duñabeitia)
14:30 - 15:00

Susana Araújo (University of Lisbon, Portugal; Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)

The role of handwriting experience in the ability to discriminate letters

15:00 - 15:30

David Share (University of Haifa, Israel) & Mithun Haridas (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerala, India)

A multi-dimensional framework for characterizing the role of writing system variation in literacy learning: A case study in Malayalam

15:30 - 16:00

Manuel Perea (Universitat de València, Spain; Universidad Nebrija, Spain)

When the nuances of each orthography shape reading: The case of diacritics

16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
17:00Transfer to the Meeting Center in Kaiserslautern
17:30 - 18:30Tea break and discussions
18:30 - 19:30

Business Meeting

“Cooking” a business plan

19:30 - 21:00Dinner
21:30 - 22:30

Evening lecture and closing ceremony

Thomas Lachmann: “Intercultural Cuisine Effect” (ICE)

22:30Social gathering