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

Schedule of Events
Saturday Oct 25, 2003

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

9:00-12:00
“Big Symposium” A (Summit Ballroom A)
Memory Development in the New Millennium (Organizer: David F. Bjorklund)

Paper 1: Getting declarative memory off the ground: Behavioral and electrophysiological insights into neuro-cognitive developments in the first two years of life
Patricia J. Bauer

Paper 2: Learning to remember: Social-communicative exchanges and the development of children’s memory skills
Peter A. Ornstein & Catherine A. Haden

Paper 3: Memory and cognitive development
Charles J. Brainerd

Paper 4: Children’s testimony: Memory and so much more
Debra Poole

Discussant: Robert S. Siegler

“Big Symposium” B (Summit Ballroom B)
New Perspectives on Language Acquisition (Organizer: Susan Goldin-Meadow)

Paper 1: Infant speech perception sets the stage for language acquisition
Janet Werker

Paper 2: Socio-cognitive foundations for language acquisition and how they are acquired
Dare Baldwin

Paper 3: Language acquisition and creolization: How children shape languages
Elissa Newport

Paper 4: What we can learn about language acquisition from gesture?
Susan Goldin-Meadow

Discussant: Nora Newcombe

12:00-1:30
Lunch

1:30-3:15
Symposium #5 (Summit Ballroom A)
How Do Children Reason about Nature? (Organizers: E. Margaret Evans & Giyoo Hatano)

Paper 1: Essentialism, culture, and the primacy of folk biology
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

Paper 2: The role vital power plays in young children's understanding of the biological world
Kayoko Inagaki & Giyoo Hatano

Paper 3: Are children "intuitive theists"? Teleological reasoning about purpose in nature
Deborah Kelemen

Paper 4: Causal flexibility in children's and adults' reasoning about living kinds
E. Margaret Evans & Devereaux A. Poling

Discussant: Susan Gelman

Symposium #6 (Summit Ballroom B)
Source Monitoring and Memory in Preschoolers (Organizer: Amy Hammond)

Paper 1: The effect of emotional focus on children’s source monitoring
Stacie L. Kovacs, Jennifer Rosentrater, & Nora S. Newcombe

Paper 2: Did I do that or did you do that? Remembering “who” vs. remembering “what” in the context of joint activity
Jessica A. Sommerville & Amy J. Hammond

Paper 3: Another source to monitor: Interviewer gesture affects children's recall
Sara C. Broaders

Paper 4: Winning, losing, and compromising: How outcomes influence memories for what was said and who said it
Marc W. Hernandez & Nancy L. Stein

Discussant: Amy Hammond

3:30-5:15
Symposium #7 (Summit Ballroom A)
In Search of Domain-General Mechanisms Underlying Children’s Competencies (Organizers: Bradley J. Morris & Vladimir Sloutsky)

Paper 1: Children learning properties: Are domain-specific mechanisms necessary?
Catherine Sandhofer & Kelly S. Mix

Paper 2: Are linguistic labels "born" special or do they achieve this status? A domain-general mechanism that makes them special
Vladimir M. Sloutsky & Chris Robinson

Paper 3: There’s more than one way to skin a syllogism: A strategy model of logical reasoning
Bradley J. Morris & Chris Schunn

Paper 4: Comparison and the development of cognition and language
Dedre Gentner, Laura Namy, & Jeff Loewenstein

Discussant: David Klahr

Symposium #8 (Summit Ballroom B)
Points-of-View and Opacity: Dual Identity, Mutual Exclusivity, and False Belief (Organizers: Elizabeth J. Robinson & Manuel Sprung)

Paper 1: Embedding perspectives: Explaining later development in theory of mind and metalinguistic awareness
Manuel Sprung, Josef Perner, & Martin Doherty

Paper 2: Metalinguistic development in 4- and 5-year olds: A new basis for reasoning about mental states?
Ian Apperly & Elizabeth J. Robinson

Paper 3: Co-ordinating points-of-view
Jill G. deVilliers

Paper 4: Children's sensitivity to opacity: Similarities and differences across a variety of contexts
Deepthi Kamawar

Discussant: Elizabeth J. Robinson

5:30-7:00 (Abstracts and location information on following pages)
Poster Session #2
Posters 1-59 Courtyard Tent
Posters 60-90 Summit Ballroom C
(Snacks and Cash Bar – Summit Ballroom hallway)

Contact Email: secretary at cogdevsoc.org