The Summer School features advanced courses in Cognitive Science, workshop, participant symposia, panel discussions, student sessions, and intensive informal discussions. Participants will include university teachers and researchers, and graduate students. Working language is English.

International Advisory Board

Mappings in Thought and Language - Gilles Fauconnier (U of California San Diego, USA) Coherence in Thought and Action - Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada) Analogy-Making - Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria) Concepts and Categorization - James Hampton (City University London, UK) The Psychology of Decision Making - Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA) Creative Cognition - Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA) Animal Cognition - Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA) Connectionist Models of High-Level Cognition - John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK)

• Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University, USA): Analogy as the Core of Cognition
• Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD, USA): Analogy and Conceptual Integration
• James Hampton (City Univ. London, UK): The role of similarity in how we categorize the world
• Jaime Carbonell (CMU, USA): Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to the Creative
• Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, USA): Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories?
• Roger K. R. Thompson (Franklin and Marshall College, La Salle University, USA: Analogical problem-solving by chimpanzees
• Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada): Emotional Analogies
• Usha Goswami (U. College London, UK): Analogical Reasoning in Children
• Mark Keane (Trinity College, Ireland): Why Conceptual Combination is Seldom Analogy
• Adam Biela (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland): Analogical Reasoning as a Base for Structuring Cognitive Schemata in New Situations: A Case of Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Countries
• Dedre Gentner (NWU, USA): Comparison and Cognition
• Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA): The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol System
• Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria): Analogy is like Cognition: Complex, Emergent, Context-Sensitive