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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Dear valued colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We will be organizing a one-day workshop on mental effort within this year’s CogSci 2020 conference (see details below or in the attached document).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We would be grateful if you could forward our call for posters to your students, or anyone else who you think would be interested in attending the workshop.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Poster presentations will be available particularly for early career researchers.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Thank you very much for your support!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Maria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Virtual Workshop:
<b>Mental Effort: One Construct, Many Faces?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">July 29, 2020; 42<sup>nd</sup> Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Organizers: Sebastian Musslick, Maria Wirzberger, Ivan Grahek, Laura Bustamante, Amitai Shenhav and Jonathan D. Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Website:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mental-effort"><span lang="EN-US">https://sites.google.com/view/mental-effort</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Contact email:
<a href="mailto:mentaleffort2020@gmail.com">mentaleffort2020@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">======= Important Dates ======= </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Submission of 250 word abstract: June 29, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Decision of acceptance: July 6, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Workshop: July 29, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">======= Call for abstracts =======</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Are you working on a project or thesis related to mental effort and want to discuss your ideas? If so, we are inviting you to present a poster during our virtual
poster session. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">To apply, please submit a 250 word abstract as PDF to
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="mailto:mentaleffort2020@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US">mentaleffort2020@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">.
Your submission title should follow the format "LastName_poster.pdf".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Conference registration fees are being offered at substantially reduced rates and the Cognitive Science Society is offering free membership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">For more information about the CogSci virtual poster format see:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-virtual/"><span lang="EN-US">https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-virtual/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">======= Scope and Goal of the Workshop ======= </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">We can all feel exhausted after a day of work, even if we have spent it sitting at a desk. The intuitive concept of mental effort pervades virtually all domains
of human information processing and has become an indispensable ingredient for general theories of cognition. However, inconsistent use of the term across cognitive sciences, including cognitive psychology, education, human-factors engineering and artificial
intelligence, makes it one of the least well-defined theoretical constructs across fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">A number of recent approaches lay the foundation for a consensus by offering formal accounts of mental effort. Yet, reaching a multifield-wide consensus on the
operationalization of mental effort will require cross-talk between different empirical and computational approaches, including symbolic architectures, non-parametric Bayesian statistics and neural networks. The purpose of this full-day workshop is to review
and integrate these emerging perspectives. To achieve this goal, we invited experts in these fields to present an accessible summary of their research, and allocate ample time for dialogue and audience participation across two panel discussions and a poster
session. Key questions of discussion will include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">What are the experimental phenomena that lay a foundation for theories of mental effort?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">What is the common ground in operationalizing mental effort across different domains of cognitive science?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Which modeling approach(es) is (are) best suited to answer which questions regarding mental effort?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The workshop is specifically designed to attract scholars with expertise in different modeling frameworks who seek to expand their interest to other methodologies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">======= List of Speakers =======</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Matthew M. Botvinick (Google Deepmind, University College London)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Jonathan D. Cohen (Princeton University, Princeton Neuroscience Institute)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Ivan Grahek (Brown University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Thomas L. Griffiths (Princeton University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Wouter Kool (Washington University in St. Louis)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Sebastian Musslick (Princeton University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Lena Rosendhal (Princeton University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Nele Russwinkel (Technische Universität Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Amitai Shenhav (Brown University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Eliana Vassena (Radboud University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Tom Verguts (Ghent University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Maria Wirzberger (University of Stuttgart)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department of Teaching and learning with intelligent systems<br>
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University of Stuttgart<br>
Institute of Educational Science<br>
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70174 Stuttgart, Germany<br>
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Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems<br>
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Phone: +49 711 685 - 81176<br>
Email: maria.wirzberger@ife.uni-stuttgart.de<br>
Web: https://www.ife.uni-stuttgart.de/llis/ | https://maria-wirzberger.de</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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