Welcome to the CSA conference!

We would like to invite you to the Cognitive Science Arena (CSA).

Our aim is to set a conference where young researchers can present their work in a friendly and cooperative environment with the audience challenging him/her in a fruitful debate. The goal of CSA is to provide a competent and useful “boot camp” for anyone how would like to a) practice the skills of giving a talk or discussing a poster, and b) develop his/her research based on suggestions from the audience. Along this line, highly innovative research ideas are encouraged as well as "in progress" research.


The key-ideas of the CSA are the following:
  1. papers by young scientists only without a full-term position (master students, PhD students and post-doctoral students, researchers with a fixed-term contract...);
  2. long time for each speaker: 15 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion;
  3. "You will never talk alone": poster-session with dedicated time for each poster.
  4. "Short-talks for posters": Poster presenters are also asked to prepare a three-minute talk (with PowerPoint-like presentations) that summarizes and introduces the audience to the content of the poster;
  5. "Verba volant, scripta manent" (aka, several anonymous reviewers): attendees can write comments, criticisms and suggestions to the speaker, via paper and pencil. Comments are delivered to the speaker at the end of the talk (or poster) session;
  6. PADLET: Starting from 2018 edition at CSA we use padlet. Padlet is a virtual blackboard where you can write (anonymously or not: you decide!) questions, comments, criticisms, hurray, etc. while the speaker is giving his/her talk;
  7. in progress and high-risk research is also welcome!

The conference will be held in Brixen-Bressanone (Italy) in February 7-8th, 2020 at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, viale Ratisbona 16, in Brixen-Bressanone (BZ, Italy). How to get there?

New this year!

"HOT TOPIC. HOW IS RESEARCH QUALITY ASSESSED IN EUROPE? IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR CV"

This year we will host an invited talk by Raffaella Rumiati (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste and former vice president of the ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems). The talk is scheduled for Saturday at the end of the afternoon session.

c) INVITED SENIORS

Well established scientists have been invited, in order to provide participants with their thoughtful suggestions. This year we are delighted to guest Lisa Webster (Leeds Trinity University) and Marcel Zentner (University of Innsbruck).