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Segundo simposio virtual psicología comparada organismos inferiores - 2nd Virtual symposium comparative psychology lower organisms

Where: via Zoom 
Organizes: Jose Prados, University of Leicester, UK and Beatriz Álvarez, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

Introduction

The Invertebrate Research Group is a research network that meets annually to discuss ongoing research on the field of Comparative and Evolutionary Cognition. Following the successful Virtual Symposium that was hosted last year by the Public University of Navarre, in response to the COVID-19, we will celebrate another online meeting under the title “2nd Virtual Symposium of Comparative Psychology and Learning in Lower (or not) Organisms”.

The research on cognition in non-vertebrate animals, plants, fungi or single cells is of great interest for understanding the evolution of intelligence, consciousness and psychological processes such as learning, memory or perception. In this symposium our guest speaker will be Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University and London School of Economics), whose main interests are the understanding of evolution, especially the evolution that is driven by non-genetic hereditary variations, and the evolution of nervous systems and consciousness. The second invited lecture will be given by Ignacio Loy (University of Oviedo), an expert on associative learning, with a special interest in its philosophical implications, the concept of minimal consciousness and the problem of knowledge.
 

Participants

Participants of this 2nd Virtual Symposium will be:

  • Matías Gámez (University of Córdoba)
  • Jesús García Salazar and Rodolfo Bernal-Gamboa (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  • Concepción Paredes-Olay, Alejandro Ramírez-Gómez, Ainoa Mejía-López, Enrique J. Cabrera-Salamanca, M. José F. Abad, and Sergio Iglesias-Parro (University of Jaén)
  • Leonardo Cardona, Marta Rapone and Roberto Álvarez (University of Almería)
  • Cody A. Freas and Marcia L. Spetch (University of Alberta)
  • Antoine Wystrach (Université Paul Sabatier)
  • Kanta Terao and Yukihisa Matsumoto (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
  • Beatriz Álvarez (Public University of Navarre)
  • Makoto Mizunami (Hokkaido University)
  • Zehra B. Turel and José Prados (University of Leicester)
  • Gonzalo P. Urcelay (University of Nottingham)
  • Adam Linson (University of Stirling)
  • Judit Muñiz-Moreno, Ignacio Loy and Pablo Rubio (University of Oviedo)

 

As it can be checked in the programme of the Symposium, the talks will focus on learning and cognition in a diversity of invertebrate animal models (crickets, beetles, desert ants, snails, planarians, and earthworms) as well as in plants.

Scientific Committee

  • Beatriz Álvarez, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
  • Pablo Ruisoto, Universidad Pública de Navarra,  Spain
  • Raúl Cacho, Universidad Pública de Navarra,  Spain
  • Jose Prados, University of Leicester, UK 

Program

Program

Communications

Vídeos de las sesiones

Sesión 1 - 1 de julio

  1. I. Loy: Mind or Matter? Just comparative psychology
  2. R. Bernal-Gamboa: Instrumental learning in the mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
  3. J. Muñiz-Moreno: The magnitude of the renewal effect in the snail Cornu aspersum
  4. C. Freas: Effects of context pre-exposure on the habituation response in earthworms (Eisenia foetida)
  5. L. Cardona: Aversive view memory and risk sensitivity in the navigatingdesert ant, Cataglyphis velox

Sesión 2 - 2 de julio

  1. K. Terao: Overexpectation and its spontaneous recovery in crickets
  2. M. Mizunami: Habit formation by extended Pavlovian training in crickets
  3. Z. Turel: Amnesia for acquisition or extinction of place preference memories: interaction with length of extinction
  4. A. Linson: The observer who mistook the ideal for the real: Modelling, measurement, and plant cognition
  5. C. Paredes-Olay: Differential habituation of retraction response to the light in earthworms in function of species and stimulus intensity
  6. P. Rubio: Primacy and recency in the snail Cornu aspersum
  7. E. Jablonka: Who is conscious? An evolutionary approach to the distribution question

 

Contact

symposium.invertebrates@gmail.com