Third Biennial Meeting
Cognitive Development Society
Park City, Utah
October 24-25, 2003

Schedule of Events
Friday Oct 24, 2003

8:00-9:00
Registration/Light Breakfast (Summit Ballroom hallway)

9:00-9:15
Plenary Welcome (Summit Ballroom A & B)

9:15-10:15
Plenary Talk #1 (Summit Ballroom A & B)
Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia
“The dawn of symbolization”
(Chair: David Klahr)

10:15-10:45
Break (coffee in Summit Ballroom hallway)

10:45-11:45
Plenary Talk #2 (Summit Ballroom A & B)
Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Affective style: Neural substrates and biobehavioral correlates”
(Chair: Nora Newcombe)

12:00-1:30
Lunch
APA Science Directorate/Cognitive Development Society “Burning Questions of
the Professoriate” Workshop (Ivers Room, 2nd floor; Advanced registration
required)

1:30-3:15
Symposium #1 (Summit Ballroom A)
New Directions in Stress and Memory (Organizers: Jodi Quas & Robyn Fivush)

Paper 1: Children’s memory for mild stressors: Combined influence of child and contextual factors
Jodi Quas

Paper 2: Predicting children’s recall of stressful events
Carole Peterson & Michelle Rees

Paper 3: Individual differences in stress and memory for a natural disaster
Robyn Fivush, Jessica McDermott Sales, Lorraine Bahrick, & Janat Parker

Paper 4: The relations between abuse exposure, psychopathology, and adolescents’ autobiographical memory
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Rebecca Johnson, & Laura A. McCloskey

Discussant: Katherine Nelson

Symposium #2 (Summit Ballroom B)
Infant Social Cognition: Emerging Understanding of Attentional Relations (Organizers: Rechele Brooks & Amanda Woodward)

Paper 1: Eying social cognition: Developmental changes in infants' understanding of eye gaze
Rechele Brooks & Andrew N. Meltzoff

Paper 2: Gaze-following and gaze comprehension in the first year of life
Amanda L. Woodward & Camille Wilson

Paper 3: Understanding vision vs. understanding perception/attention: Rethinking what it means to follow another's orientation
Matthias Bolz, Patricia Zettler, & Susan C. Johnson

Paper 4: The object of my attention: Infants’ implicit understanding of seeing=knowing
Diane Poulin-Dubois, Kara M. Olineck, & Tamara L Demke

Discussant: Chris Moore

3:30-5:15
Symposium #3 (Summit Ballroom A)
The Impact of Fantasy on Cognitive Development (Organizer: David M. Sobel)

Paper 1: Effects of context on children’s judgments of the reality status of novel entities
Jennifer Van Reet & Jacqueline Woolley

Paper 2: The influence of a fantasy context on preschoolers’ analogical problem solving
Rebekah A. Richert

Paper 3: Pretense and executive functioning in preschoolers
Stephanie M. Carlson

Paper 4: Are fantasy effects fantastic? The role of causal violations in children’s understanding of pretense
David M. Sobel

Discussant: Marjorie Taylor

Symposium #4 (Summit Ballroom B)
The Embodied Representation as a Mechanism of Learning: Evidence from Neurological, Cognitive, and Social Research (Organizer: R. Breckinridge Church)

Paper 1: The role of multi-modal instruction in deep learning: Does the instructor’s gesture embody the concept for the learner?
R. Breckinridge Church, S. Ayman-Nolley, D. Glover, M. Vasich, & Martha Alibali

Paper 2: Making the learner gesture: Can facilitating embodiment through gesture enhance learning?
S. Wagner

Paper 3: What happens when teachers mirror children’s variable knowledge in their speech and gesture? Children learn
M. Singer & S. Goldin-Meadow
Paper 4: Multimodal experience changes the brain during word learning
S. Kelly

5:30-7:00 (Abstracts and location information on following pages)
Poster Session #1
Posters 1-59 Courtyard Tent
Posters 60-90 Summit Ballroom C
(Snacks and Cash Bar – Summit Ballroom hallway)

Contact Email: secretary at cogdevsoc.org