Introduction to the Special Issue: Highlights from the 2010 Cross-Strait Forum on the Joint Development of Cognitive Science Studies

Introduction to the Special Issue: Highlights from the 2010 Cross-Strait Forum on the Joint Development of Cognitive Science Studies

While Lin Chen (LC) was organizing the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2010) in Beijing under the auspices of International Association for Cognitive Science and Chinese Society for Cognitive Science, he wrote to Jong-Tsun Huang (JTH) to pursue the possibility of a joint forum in the Conference. LC and JTH have been close friends since the initiation of the series of “International Symposium on Cognitive Aspects of Chinese Language” in the late 1970s. Time elapsed, and cognitive science continued to flourish. Now, “the brain and cognitive sciences” have been priorities on the subsidized list of China's Outline of the National Program for Long- and Middle-Term Science and Technology Development (2006-2020). The emerging discipline has been recognized as one of the eight frontier topics in basic science research. State key laboratories, neuroimaging core facilities, and sizable research projects on the study of cognitive processes are blossoming these days in universities and academic institutions.