International conference on Cognition, Experience and Creativity   Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar   Schedule     October 29, 2010   09.15 – 10.45: Inaugural    Prof. Sudhir Jain (Director, IIT Gandhinagar) Dr. H. B. Singh (Scientist, Dept of Science and Technology)   Virtual Creativity Thomas Ward   10.45 – 11.00: Tea/Coffee break   11.00 – 01.15: Scientific Session I, Chair: Uri Hasson   Robots-mediated interaction Hideki Kozima   Computational models of creativity: taking development seriously Georgi Stojanov   Analogy and creativity Boicho Kokinov   01.15 – 02.15: Lunch   02.15 – 03.45: Scientific Session II, Chair: Amita Chatterjee   Socio ergo sum: experience and cognitive knowledge in a nonhuman primate species Anindya Sinha   Practice makes perfect – cortical reading networks in second language learners Nandini Singh   03.45 – 04.00: Tea/Coffee Break   04.00 – 06.00: Scientific Session III, Chair: Mathai Baker Fenn   From Human beings to human knowing or from knowing paradigm to knowledge paradigm Jinan K B Creativity and Working Memory Snehlata Jaswal   Creativity and Cognition in patients with left and right side lesion of the Brain Jamuna Rajan   6.00 - 6.20: Eye tracking (presentation by Parag Amodkar, TOBII )   October 30, 2010   09.00 – 10.30: Scientific Session IV, Chair: Nandini Singh   Creativity: A Gap Analysis Mark Keane   Creation and discovery: opposite ends of a continuum of constraints. Robert French   10.30 – 10.45: Tea/Coffee breaks   10.45 – 01.15: Scientific Session V, Chair: Koshy Tharakan   A model of ‘creative’ perceptual experience Amita Chatterjee   Creativity and Consciousness Sam Coleman   A feeling for the truth Rajesh Kasturirangan   01.15 – 02.00: Lunch   02.00 – 04.30: Scientific Session VI, Chair: H. B. Singh   Appraisal of Happy & Sad Musical Emotion: Influence of pitch distribution and tempo Shantala Hegde   Anthropology of Experience: Discourse and cognition in Portuguese colonialism in India Rosa Maria Perez   Cognitive dynamics of perception: Perception as enactment Avinash Jha Retelling the Relativity: Cognition, Creativity and Poetry Falguni P. Desai   Jungian Archetypes: visual metaphors of psychological process Ilaria Anzois 04.30 – 04.45: Tea/Coffee breaks   04.45 – 06.15: Poster presentations   Consciousness: Discussions at cellular level Pradeep Kumar Sow & Richa Singhal Word Sense Disambiguation in languages through the ‘Law of Conservation of thought’ Rudranarayan Mohapatra Model of Human Creativity Apratim Majumder & Niladri Banerjee Experience: The root of personality, the pillar of development and the support of existence Niladri Banerjee & Apratim Majumder Cognitive insights into the nature of logic Naresh Keerthi & Rajesh Kasturirangan Perceptual experience: Nonconceptual or Conceptual Manoj Kumar Panda The Effect of Indian Classical Music on the Stress Levels of College Students Archita Bhalotia Neural Organization and Connectionist Models of Spatial Cognition: A Review Jigar Patel & S. Bapi Raju Role of Cognition, Creativity & Ordinary Thinking in Technology Revolution Lipi K. Chhaya The role of environment in personality development as a mode of experiences Trusha Desai Perceptual metaphors and creativity Amitash Ojha & Bipin Indurkhya Gestures: Shared Creativity across Languages and Cultures Rolla Das, Rajesh Kasturirangan and Anindya Sinha Gender and socio economic differences in problem solving abilities of young adults Shahin Ghani & Bhupinder Singh Creativity and Experience in an Uncertain World: Behavioural Innovations in Primate Communication Shreejata Gupta, Rajesh Kasturirangan & Anindya Sinha The Role of Human Creativity in Understanding Animal Cognition Sartaj S. Ghuman, Rajesh Kasturirangan & Anindya Sinha Creativity, Cognition and the Compound Verb in Hindi Samiksha Bajpai Development of cognition in the persperctive of Samkhya Darshan Siddharth Jain and Rajat Jain Experience and the Development of Animal Personality Subhankar Chakraborty & Anindya Sinha Acquisition of PECS and VOCA – A Single Subject Study Harini Sampath, Suvarna Rekha ,Veera Reddy, Jayanthi Sivaswamy & Bipin Indurkhya 07.30 – 10.30: Conference Dinner, Fortune Inn Haveli, Gandhinagar       October 31, 2010 09.00 – 10.30: Scientific Session VII, Chair: Robert French   Creative information retrieval: a practical marriage of text retrieval and figurative language processing Tony Veale   Creativity, curiosity, and language Ilhan Inan   10.30 – 10.45: Tea/Coffee breaks   10.45 – 01.15: Scientific Session VIII, Chair: Prakash Padakannya   Do we click? Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication Uri Hasson   Serial order and sequencing as the scaffold for cognition and creativity Bapi Raju   Creativity and incubation effect: a behavioral and EEG study Narayanan Srinivasan   01.15 – 02.00: Lunch 02.00 – 03.30: Scientific Session IX, Chair: Hideki Kozima   Creativity: an overview of definitions and its measurement Prakash Padakannya   Reporting Experience: The Role of the Subject Harinarayanan V   The Recognizability of Individual Creative Style within and Across Domains Apara Ranjan, Liane Gabora Brian O’Connor   03.30 – 04.00:  Concluding Session 04.30 – 07.30: Local sight seeing