Mental Imagery Workshop Today

The Stanford Humanities Center and Center for the Study of Language and Information are sponsoring a workshop today on Mental Imagery and Cognition (1:15 – 6:15pm in Cordura 100). The all-star lineup of talks includes Stephen Kosslyn, Tanya Luhrmann, David Kraemer (U Penn), and Lera Boroditsky. Plus there’s free lunch at noon!

The program is reproduced below. See the website for abstracts and more details!

12:00pm-1:15pm Lunch.
1:15pm-2:15pm: Stephen Kosslyn
The Imagery Debate 30+ Years Later: Can Neuroscientific Data Settle the Issue?

2:30pm-3:30pm: Tanya Luhrmann
Prayer and mental imagery

4:00pm-5:00pm: David Kraemer (UPenn)
Individual Propensities for Visual and Verbal Cognition

5:15pm-6:15pm: Lera Boroditsky
Imagining the visible, the invisible, and the impossible