<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:auto;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:2qe" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="gmail-:1jk" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">Dear All,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"> </span></font></p></div><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"></p></div><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">We are pleased to announce that </span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;font-weight:bold">submissions are now open </span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">for </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.6667px">the XVI. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science devoted to Understanding the Self and the Other. The conference will take place between </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.6667px">22 and 25 May 2025</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.6667px"> in Dubrovnik, Croatia.</span></font></p><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Distinguishing oneself from others is a precursor to the development of many social skills, including coordination and communication. Representing others’ perspectives, while still distinguishing it from our own is an essential part of human interactions, and therefore of our mental lives. This supports our understanding of ourselves and others around us – it helps us make sense of what we are doing, make predictions, and plan our subsequent actions appropriately. How do we learn to distinguish our bodies and minds from those of other people, and what are the mechanisms and relation between understanding ourselves and others? In this conference, we will bring together researchers that have attempted to address this broad question from different angles such as social-, developmental- and comparative cognition and philosophy, to explore the topic of how we understand and distinguish our own and others’ intentions, actions, thoughts, and ultimately, self and other.</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"> </span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><b style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Invited speakers will include:</b><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"> </span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Josep Call (University of St Andrews)</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Senay Cebioglu (MPI EVA)</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Arvid Guterstam (Karolinska Institutet)</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Marlene Meyer (Radboud University)</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, EHESS, ENS-PSL)</span><br style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-align:justify">Philippe Rochat (Emory University)</span></font><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">We invite </span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;font-weight:bold">poster submissions</span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px"> from</span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;line-height:20.7px;font-weight:bold"> all areas of</span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px"> cognitive science. Both theoretical and empirical posters are welcome.<br></span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">You may submit your poster abstract here: </span><a href="https://ducog.cecog.eu/submit" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span lang="HU" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;text-decoration-line:underline;line-height:20.7px">https://ducog.cecog.eu/submit</span></a><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"> </span></font></p></div><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"></span></font></p></div><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;font-weight:bold"></span></font></p><div style="direction:ltr"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;font-weight:bold">The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2025.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"><br></span><span lang="HU" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px">Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by 15 March 2025.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"> </span></font></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;text-align:justify;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:20.7px;color:windowtext"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">For more information please visit </span><a href="https://ducog.cecog.eu/" target="_blank">https://ducog.cecog.eu</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">or email us at: </span><a href="mailto:ducog@cecog.eu" target="_blank">ducog@cecog.eu</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">On behalf of the organisers,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Louise Goupil (CNRS / University Grenoble Alpes) & Dora Kampis (University of Copenhagen)</i><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">- Conference chairs</i></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>