- IIAS Research Conference 2012
- Overview
- Program
- Invited Speakers
- Registration
- Remarks from Participants
- Photo Library
- IIAS Research Conference 2011
- Overview
- Program
- Participants
- Remarks from Participants
- Photo Library
IIAS Research Conference2012
"Evolutionary Origins of Human Mind"
Program
- Monday, December 3 -
- Tuesday, December 4 -
- Wednesday, December 5 -
- Thursday, December 6 -
| 12:00-13:00 | Registration |
| 13:15-13:30 | Welcome Address Kazuo Oike (IIAS) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Overview of the International Conference Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 14:00-17:30 | Session 1 "Chimpanzee Culture" Chair Person: Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 1.Chimpanzee Culture Revisited William McGrew (Univ. Cambridge, UK) |
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| < Coffee Break 15:00-15:30> | |
| 2.Chimpanzee Technology in Changing Ecological and Social Contexts Crickette Sanz (Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA) |
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| 3.Social information use: a chimpanzee perspective Dora Biro (Univ. Oxford., UK) |
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| 17:30-19:30 | Welcome Reception |
| 9:00-12:00 | Session 2 "Cognitive Development and Disorders" Chair Person: Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 1.What do we know about the structure and
functions of the "autistic brain"? David Skuse (Univ. London, UK) |
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| 2.Toward a "cure" and a better understanding of autism Shigeru Kitazawa (Osaka Univ.) |
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| 3.The development of self-awareness and the mirror system: Comparative perspectives Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi (Kyoto Univ.) |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-16:00 | Session 3"Cognitive Robotics" Chair Person: Shoji Itakura (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 1.Cognitive Developmental Robotics: today and tomorrow Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ.) |
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| 2.Origins of Humanoid Mind Giulio Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) |
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| 3.Android Science Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univ.) |
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| 16:00-16:30 | < Coffee Break> |
| 16:30-18:30 | Poster Presentation |
| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner |
| 9:00-12:00 | Short Talks( by winners of the poster awards) 1.Blink-related momentary activation of the default mode network while viewing videos. Tamami Nakano (Osaka Univ.) 2.Coordinated problem solving by chimpanzees in a shared numerical sequencing task. Chiristopher Martin(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Session 4 "Neural Basis" Chair Person: Masataka Watanabe (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) |
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| 1.Cognitive niche construction Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN) |
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| 2.Sensory behavior of mammals based on innate vs. learned decisions Hitoshi Sakano (Univ. Tokyo) |
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| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-16:00 | Session 5 "Primates and Nonprimates" Chair Person: Kazuo Fujita (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 1.Evolutionary origin of human irrationality Shigeru Watanabe (Keio Univ.) |
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| 2.Sociobehavioral study of human-dog interactions: an approach from neuroendocrinology Takefumi Kikusui (Azabu Univ.) |
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| 3.Are crows feathered apes? The state of the art Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) |
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| 16:00-16:30 | < Coffee Break> |
| 16:30-18:30 | Session 6 “Empathy and Trust” Chair Person: Shigeru Watanabe (Keio Univ.) |
| 1.A multilayered view of mammalian empathy and prosociality Frans de Waal (Emory Univ., USA) |
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| 2.Ingroup cooperation and reputational psychology Toshio Yamagishi (Tamagawa Univ.) |
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| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner |
| 9:00-12:00 | Session 7 "Human Uniqueness" Chair Person: Masaki Tomonaga (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 1.Using natural videos to map social circuits in the nonhuman primate brain David Leopold (National Institute of Mental Health., USA) |
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| 2.Cross/Intra modal correspondences in Chimpanzees Ikuma Adachi (Kyoto Univ.) |
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| 3.Origins of human color perception, crossmodal integration, and social communication Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
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| 12:00-12:15 | Concluding Remarks Yoshiro Shimura (IIAS) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Final Announcement |
| 12:30 | Lunch |