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Dear Cognitive Science Club member,
   You may be interested in the following conference:

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We are pleased to announce a conference on the basic cognitive
processes that underlie creativity in general, and the emergence of new
ideas in particular. The conference is funded by the American
Psychological Association, and will take place on May 18-20, 1995 at
Texas A&M University.

Creative thinking is essential for scientific, technological, artistic,
and personal accomplishment, and hence, cognitive psychology must begin
to examine its nature. Where do new ideas come from? How are
discoveries made? How is old knowledge mapped onto novel situations?
How are old, incorrect representations replaced with more accurate,
innovative ones? Answers to these important questions are beginning to
emerge from careful analyses of basic cognitive structures and
processes. The conference will feature presentations and discussion by
some of the preeminent researchers working on these issues. The
scheduled topics, presenters, and discussants are:

Session I: Emergence of Novelty in Conceptual Combination
James Hampton (City University, London)
  Emergent attributes in combined concepts
Edward Shoben (University of Illinois)
  Comprehending novel non-predicating combinations
Friedrich Wilkening (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
  Combining dimension & multiplicative emergence
Edward Wisniewski (Northwestern University)
  Creativity and conceptual combination

Session II: Creating and Extending Concepts and Meanings
Lawrence Barsalou (University of Chicago)
  Creativity in perceptual symbol systems
Gregory Murphy (University of Illinois)
  Creation & comprehension of new word meanings via polysemy
Arthur Markman (Columbia University)
  The creation of new categories: form follows function
Cristina Cacciari (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Imagination at work: conceptual & linguistic creativity in children

Session III: Analogy, Mental Models, Discovery, and Change
Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University)
  Analogy & creativity: processes of knowledge change 
Kevin Dunbar (McGill University)
  How scientists make discoveries: strategies for conceptual change
Arthur Glenberg (University of Wisconsin)
  Mental models, Space, & Embodied cognition
Michelene Chi (University of Pittsburgh)
  Expertise & Conceptual change in scientific discovery

Session IV: Metaphor and the Creation of New Categories
Sam Glucksberg (Princeton University)
  How metaphors create new categories
Raymond Gibbs (University of California-Santa Cruz)
  How language reflects the embodied nature of creative cognition

General Discussants
David Perkins (Harvard University)
Dean Simonton (University of California-Davis)
Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo)

There will be formal presentations on May 19 and 20, and a reception on
Thursday evening, May 18. The registration fee is $25 payable to the
"Creative Concepts Conference."

Interested researchers are encouraged to submit 1000-word abstracts for
poster presentations related to the conference themes. Abstracts may
be submitted by surface or e-mail, and must be received by April 10,
1995. Eight graduate students whose poster submissions are judged to
be of the highest quality will be given free accommodations on campus.
Please specify if you are a student, and wish to be included in the
competition.

Conference organizers are Thomas Ward, Steven Smith, and Jyotsna Vaid.
For additional information, or to submit an abstract contact Thomas
Ward, Department of Psychology. Texas A&M University, College Station,
TX, 77843, Phone (409)-845-2506, Fax (409)-845-4727, e-mail
TBW@PSYC.TAMU.EDU.