The conference is designed to provide a forum for faculty and students to present their research to their peers from across the Midwest. The full-day conference will consist of talk sessions with two parallel tracks, and a poster session in the evening.

Research abstracts may be submitted by researchers in cognitive science and related disciplines including industry researchers, faculty, post-docs, graduate students and undergraduate students.

Any one person may present only one paper, but may also be a co-author of other papers.

The conference invites submission in any area of cognitive science, including:

• Animal cognition
• Artificial intelligence
• Attention
• Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience
• Categorization
• Cognitive development
• Cognitive psychology
• Computational and mathematical models of cognition
• Dynamical systems
• Ethology
• Evolution of cognition
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Learning sciences
• Language and linguistics
• Machine intelligence and learning
• Memory
• Methodology
• Robotics
• Social Cognition
• Philosophy of mind