The following scientists will give keynote addresses
at the ECDP-2013 Congress:
Prof. Ann S. Masten, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA,
President of SRCD (Society for Research in Child Development)
“Resilience in Science and Action: Promoting Success in Homeless and Highly Mobile Children”
Prof. Stella Vosniadou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
“Examining cognitive development from a conceptual change point of view”
Prof. Benoist Schaal, Centre des Sciences du Goût, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
“Olfaction, cognition and adaptive responsiveness in early life”
Prof. Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Institut de psychologie et éducation,
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Tentative title: “Social interactions, thinking space and psychological development”
Prof. Pierre Magistretti, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Brain plasticity and the emergence of individuality ”
Prof. Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
“Creeping and scooting on two languages”
Prof. Gyorgy Gergely, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
“Understanding Communicative Agency: Ostension, Reference, and Relevance-based reasoning in young infants”
Prof. Yoko Yamada, Rhitsumeikan University, Kinugasa Research Organization, Kyoto, Japan
“The visual narratives and cultural representations of life-span development”
Presidential keynote address:
Prof. Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, University of Athens, Greece, EADP President-elect
“Immigrant youth adaptation in context: Risk and resilience processes“




