Concepts

The Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University is happy to announce the summer school “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application” (CARLA), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The summer school will bring together researchers from different disciplines with the goal of providing participants with knowledge about concept research outside of their own fields and to initiate interdisciplinary exchanges and research. A subsequent and co-located workshop provides an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on concepts. The summer school focuses on three main aspects of concepts, namely representation, learning, and application.

"Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" is a workshop series aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. It invites contributions from all fields related to Cognitive Science, including but not limited to Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and Computer Science. Although the workshop series is open for research on any aspect of concepts, there exists a set of core topics that are of special interest: Representation: "How can we formally describe and model concepts?" Learning: "Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?" Application: "How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?"