The Second International Symposium for Comparative Cognitive Science
FEB 17-20, 2002
Kyoto and Inuyama, Japan

This symposium is the second international symposium for Comparative Cognitive Science (SCCS2002). The first one was held in March 2000, that was titled "Phylogeny of Cognition and Language". The result was already published in the special issues of two journals, "Psychologia" Vol.44 No.1 and "Animal Cognition" Vol. 4, No. 3-4. Please visit the following site for
the program and the abstracts of the previous meeting SCCS2000. This will help you to understand the purpose of the symposia for Comparative Cognitive Science: http://www.saga-jp.org/coe_abst/coe00_FS.html
 The second one this time, SCCS2002, is titled "Social transmission of knowledge". However, we aim to organize this meeting from a broader perspective, sharing the framework of Comparative Cognitive Science. The real goal of the symposium is to promote the comparative study for understanding the evolutionary origins of human cognition and behavior, and to promote the mutual understanding among the researchers. For that purpose, we invited the following foreign participants.

Andrew Whiten, aw2@st-andrews.ac.uk, Univ of St. Andrews, UK
Frans_de_Waal, dewaal@emory.edu, Emory Univ., USA
Joseph Garner, JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu, UC Davis, USA
Juliane Kaminski, Kaminski@eva.mpg.de, Max Plank Institute, Germany
Laurie Santos, lrsantos@wjh.harvard.edu, Harvard Univ., USA
Nathan Emery, nje23@cam.ac.uk Univ. of Cambridge,UK
Jozsef Topal, kea@axelero.hu Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary

As you see, this is a mixture of well-established distinguished researchers and the ones in early career (but the rising stars). Through our previous experience, such a kind of mixture makes the meeting more exciting, pleasant, and fruitful. There should be a lot more Japanese participants, too. The organizing committee in charge is as follows:

Tetsuro Matsuzawa, matsuzaw@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp, PRI, Kyoto Univ., Japan, chair
Masaki Tomonaga, tomonaga@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp, PRI, Kyoto Univ,, Japan, vice-chair
Masayuki Tanaka, mtanaka@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp, PRI, Kyoto Univ., Japan, secretary
Shozo Kojima, kojima@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Masako Myowa, myowa@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Akihiro Izumi, izumi@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Satoshi Hirata, hirata@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Kazuo Fujita, fujita@psy.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Shoji Itakura, itakura@psy.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Yoshio Sakurai, sakurai@psy.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Masuo Koyasu,Kyoto University, HGB03675@nifty.ne.jp
Kazuhide Hashiya, Kyoto University, hashiya@mindless.com
Toshikazu Hasegawa, University of Tokyo, thase@darwin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Masako Jitumori, Chiba University, masako@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp
Shigeru Watanabe, Keio University, swat@flet.keio.ac.jp
Kazuo Okanoya, Chiba University, okanoya@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp
Masayuki Nakamichi, Osaka University, naka@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp
Hideko Takeshita, Shiga Prefectural University, LEJ01500@nifty.ne.jp
Nobuyuki Kawai, Nagoya University, kawai@info.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Posters and abstracts:
All participants are requested to prepare one poster for the presentation regardless of the oral/poster dichotomy. Instead of your name card, please bring the poster of your presentation. The size should be 90 x 180 cm. The poster will be used in the poster session scheduled on the 18th in Inuyama and will facilitate the communication among the participants. The oral presentation for foreign participants will be 40 min. The oral presentation of the Japanese participants should be varied from 30 min to 10 min that will be informed by the organizing committee. All of the participants are requested to submit the abstract of the presentation in advance: the title and within 300 words summary, your name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail. Please attach your photograph when you send the information through e-mail. The dead line should be February 2nd,2002.

Schedule:
On Feb 17th in Kyoto, in the morning, let us visit the University Museum and the special exhibition of Kinji Imanishi's Centinary of his birth. Imanishi is the father of primatological research in Japan. In the afternoon of the 17th , there will be a talk by Frans de Waal for "Imanishi-Itani Memorial Lecture for Primatology 2002". Toshisada Nishida, the former president of IPS (International Primatological Society) will also join us to introduce Dr. de Waal to the audience. In the evening, there will be a welcome party in Kyoto.

On Feb 18th, let us move from Kyoto to Inuyama, that is located about 120 km away from Kyoto. It will take 2 hours and a half on the trains. The hotel, Inuyama Central Hotel (tel: 0568-61-6611, fax: 0568-61-0019) is recommended. We have some rooms in the dormitory of PRI, too. The entire afternoon will be used for the poster session and the brief 10 min oral
explanation on the posters. The meeting place is the international convention center of the city Inuyama called "Freude", that is located 5 min walk from the hotel. There will be another welcome party in the evening.

On Feb 19th, there will be oral sessions in the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. The institute is located 15 min away from the hotel. You may walk but we will provide the transportation. The participants will have an opportunity to visit the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in the morning to see what is going on. We have a group of 14 chimpanzees that participate various kinds of cognitive studies. The evening will be free to the participants.

On Feb 20th, there will be oral sessions in PRI. There will be another opportunity to see the facility of the institute. A farewell party will be held in the evening.

Please visit the www site for the information of the institute in Inuyama
http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
To know what is going on here, click Chimpanzee Ai.

Thank you for your participation.
We are looking forward to meeting you in February in Kyoto.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Masaki Tomonaga
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University
The organizers of SCCS2002