Tentative schedule (note titles of talks may change)

8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and opening remarks

8:45 – 9:15 Scott P. Johnson “A constructivist view of object perception in infancy”

9:15 – 9:45 Richard N. Aslin “Perceptual constraints on implicit memory for visual features: Statistical learning in human infants”

9:45 – 10:15 Alan Slater “The role of perceptual processes in infant addition/subtraction experiments”

10:15 – 10:45 Marianella Casasola & Cara H. Cashon "Adapting to input: The connection between processing faces and spatial relations during infancy"

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30 John Richards "Infant attention: A developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective"

11:30 – 12:00 John Colombo  “Varieties of attention in infancy”

12:00 – 12:30 Rachel Keen "Planning sequential actions in early childhood""

12:30 – 1:30 Catered Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 Lisa M. Oakes, David H. Rakison, & Kelly L. Madole "Mechanisms of categorization in infancy: The role of features and function"

2:00 – 2:30 Mark S. Strauss "The development of categorization and facial knowledge: Implications for the study of autism"

2:30 - 3:00 Thomas Shultz "Comparative computational modeling of a developmental shift in category learning"

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee break

3:15 – 3:45 Kim Plunkett " The Role of Auditory Stimuli in Infant Visual Categorization"

3:45 – 4:15 Janet Werker "Perceptual change and language development"

4:15 – 4:45 Barbara A. Younger "Emerging Competence with Symbolic Artifacts: Implications for Studying Categorization and Concept Development in Infants?"

4:45 - 5:15 Judy DeLoache "How young children become symbol-minded"

5:15-5:30 Closing remarks