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| Imaginative Minds: An Interdisciplinary Symposium30 April-1 May 2004The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AHProgrammeFULLY BOOKED Friday 30 April 2003 | 8.45 | Coffee and Registration | 9.10 | Introduction: Dr Ilona Roth, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University
Imaginative Minds: themes and perspectives | | Session 1: Evolution and Development of Imagination
Chair: Dr Richard Stevens, Pychology Department, Open University
Discussant: Professor Robert Foley, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge | 9.30 | Professor Steve Mithen, Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading
Evolution of the human imagination [ABSTRACT] | 10.15 | Professor Paul Harris, FBA, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (with Dr Melissa Koenig) [ABSTRACT]
Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: the cautious disciple? | | 11.00 | Coffee
| | 11.30 | Professor Andrew Whiten, FBA, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, University of St Andrews (with Dr Thomas Suddendorf)
Great Ape Cognition and the Evolutionary Roots of Human Imagination [ABSTRACT] | 12.15 | Dr Susan Blackmore, Psychologist and writer [ABSTRACT]
Memes, minds and imagination | 1.00 | Discussion | | 1.15 | Lunch | | Session 2: Imagination, cognition and creative thinking
Chair: Dr Ilona Roth
Discussant: Professor Margaret Boden, FBA, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex | 2.15 | Professor Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
The origin of human creativity [ABSTRACT] | 3.00 | Professor Greg Currie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Imagination and point of view [ABSTRACT] | | 3.45 | Tea | 4.15 | Professor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin
Mental imagery and imagination [ABSTRACT] | | 5.00 | Discussion | 5.30 | Reception |
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Saturday 1 May 2004 | 8.45 | Coffee | | Session 1: Mind into Culture
Chair: Dr Daniel Nettle
Discussant: Professor Dan Sperber, Directeur de Recherche, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS
| 9.15 | Professor Nicholas Cook, FBA, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London
Imagining things: mind into music (and back again) [ABSTRACT] | 10.00 | Dr Ian Cross, Reader in Music and Science, University of Cambridge
Music, science and culture [ABSTRACT] | 10.45 | Coffee
| | 11.15 | Professor Karin Barber, FBA, Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham
The anthropology of the textual imagination [ABSTRACT] | | 12.00 | Professor Pascal Boyer, Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory, Washington University, St Louis
The products of imagination: by-products or adaptations? [ABSTRACT] | 12.45 | Discussion | | 1.15 | Lunch | | Session 2: Atypical Imagination and Brain mechanisms
Chair: Professor Uta Frith, FBA, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London | 2.15 | Dr John Harrison, Honorary Research Psychologist, Russell Cairns Unit, Oxford
The Decadent imagination: Synaesthesia or the influence of the Green Fairy? [ABSTRACT] | 3.00 | Dr Daniel Nettle, Division of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Myelin or module? The place of imagination in the architecture of the mind [ABSTRACT] | | 3.45 | Tea | 4.15 | Dr Ilona Roth, Department of Psychology, Open University
Conceptualising the imaginative mind: insights from Autism Spectrum Disorders | | 5.00 | Plenary Discussion | 5.30 | Reception with jazz performance |
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