First Graduate Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science

Since its early days, cognitive science has been characterized by analogies between the human and other minds, be them (non-human) biological or artificial. The consideration of non-human minds has played, and still plays, its role in many ways: they can be inspiring metaphors; they can work as theoretical or empirical models; they can be used to simulate the human mind; and even those who minimize their similarity with human minds are somehow exploiting one of their functions — as sources of potentially informative disanalogies.

In this workshop, we sought to hear the perspective of younger scholars from the disciplines of cognitive science (broadly construed), and to provide them with constructive feedback on their research. PhD students and early career researchers (up to 3 years from completion of their PhD) were invited to present their work, which was discussed with a senior discussant and with the audience.

Each submission selected was sent to a senior member of the Italian Cognitive Science Association with relevant expertise serving as a discussant. Accepted authors were invited to send a full manuscript to the discussant at least 1 week before the conference to facilitate her/his work.