EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
26th ANNUAL WORKSHOP, 27-29 August 2009, Linz, Austria
First announcement, April/May 2009

The aim of the annual workshops is the exchange of knowledge, information, and opinions 
on all aspects of cognition and related topics, with emphasis on exchanges between different 
disciplines involved. Papers may be either of a general kind, or specific, but with sufficient 
attention for the general aspects, and understandable for the audience from a wide variety 
of disciplines. The following disciplines belong explicitly to the scope of the workshop:
- psychology (cognitive, developmental), perception,
- biology, with emphasis on evolution and cognition,
- artificial intelligence (general aspects),
- associative memory and neural networks, neuroscience,
- language (also origin of language, computational, and disorders),
- education and instruction,
- philosophy, history of concepts.

Accomodation will be available in convenient single and double rooms in a hotel 
near the university. Rooms: € 37 (single room), and € 66 (twin bed room), prices 
per night, including breakfast. A block booking has been made until 30 June 2009.
Please send abstracts of papers as soon as possible. Last-minute participation is 
possible  if room is available. Registration fee 32 Euro for members of the ESSCS, 
ASoCS, LOS;  42 Euro for others, students 15 Euro. Welcome party 26 Aug.

For specific questions on the Workshop, the Society, the Journal, on form and content 
of papers for the workshop, and for registration, please write or mail to:  
esscs.gmw@rug.nl (The webpage will be soon updated: webpage:  http://www.esscs.org/)

ESSCS, Dept. of Psychology (E&A), University of Groningen
Grote Kruisstraat 2-1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands.