Speakers

13:30-14:00 Social learning (Development of social understanding). Speaker: Arkadiusz Bialek

14:00-14:30 Social Learning (Early language development in social interactions). Speaker: Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

14:30-1500 Self-perception (Body knowledge acquisition and self-perception). Speaker: Kevin O'Regan

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 Developmental Disorders (Developmental Psychopathology). Speaker: Thusha Rajendran

16:00 – 16:30 Executive Functioning and Embodied Cognition (The Development of Executive Functions and Embodied Cognition). Speaker: Peter McKenna

16:30 – 17:00 Speaker panel discussion

Arkadiusz Białek (Jagiellonian University) is a developmental psychologist interested in early stages of development of social cognition and communication, joint action and cultural developmental psychology. He is co-founder of Childlab at the Jagiellonian University, where he conducts research on development of interpersonal coordination and perspective taking abilities in children. He has been a Co-PI in several research teams on different stages of mindreading and communication development founded by Polish National Science Centre.

Kevin O'Regan (University Paris Descartes & CNRS) Kevin O'Regan is an experimental psychologist, ex-director of the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception at Paris Descartes University. He was one of the discoverers of Change Blindness, has written a book about Phenomenal Consciousness, and now studies infant learning with the aim of helping roboticists build autonomous and conscious agents.

Peter Edward McKenna (Heriot-Watt University) is a Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) currently working on the EPSRC funded Socially Competent Robots (SoCoRo) projects. His research interests include developmental psychology, social robotics, and Autism-spectrum conditions (ASC). The study of ASC underlies much of Peter’s work, as he is passionate about creating equal opportunities for people with the condition.

Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi (University of Warsaw) is a cognitive scientist with a background in psychology and psycholinguistics and dynamical systems approach to cognition. PhD in Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, FAU (USA). Presently heading Human Interaction and Language Lab at the University of Warsaw. Main interests: the emergence of symbolic communication from embodied interaction.

Gnanathusharan (Thusha) Rajendran (Heriot-Watt University) is a developmental psychologist who has been a Co-PI in multiple interdisciplinary teams in CHI and HRI funded by the EU, ESRC and EPSRC. He’s interested in how technologies can be used to change the environment and not the person, to enable an equally of access to health, social and education for people with developmental conditions, like autism.