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20th July
2001
| Time | Wednesday 1st August | |||
| 8:30a.m.-7:00p.m. | REGISTRATION
Foyer, David Hume Tower | |||
| 9:30a.m.-5:00p.m. | Tutorials and
Workshops For details of tutorials click here. | |||
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Welcome Drinks
Reception Foyer, David Hume Tower | |||
| Time | Thursday 2nd August | |||
| 8:30 - 6:00pm | REGISTRATION
Foyer, David Hume Tower | |||
| 9:00a.m. -10:30a.m. | PLENARY: Jon Elster (Columbia, NY) "Motivated Mental States" DHT Lecture Theatre A | |||
| 10:30am - 11:00am | COFFEE
David Hume Tower | |||
| 11:00am - 12:45pm | Session I:
Invited Symposium: DHT Lecture Theatre A Emotion and Cognition Chair: Keith Stenning Presenters: Paul Seabright, Toulouse University Ziva Kunda, Waterloo University Drew Westen, Boston University |
Session II: Education DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Peter Cheng Using Cognitive Models to Guide Instructional Design Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Kenneth Koedinger Efficacious Logic Instruction: People are not Irremediably Poor Deductive Reasoners Kelsey Rinella, Selmer Bringsjord, Yingrui Yang Toward a Model of Learning Data Representations Ryan Baker, Albert Corbett, Kenneth Koedinger Development of Physics Text Corpora for Latent Semantic Analysis Donald Franceschetti, Ashish Karnavat, Johanna Marineau, Genna McCallie, Brent Olde, Blair Terry |
Session III: Language, Perception and Thought DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: Boicho Kokinov Motor Representations in Memory and Mental Models Daniel Richardson, Michael Spivey, Jamie Cheung The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought Lera Boroditsky, Michael Ramscar, Michael Frank Effects of Linguistic and Perceptual Information on Categorisation in Young Children Vladimr Sloutsky, Anna Fisher The Role of Thought and Experience in the Understanding of Spatio-temporal Metaphors Tracey Alloway, Michael Ramscar, Martin Corely |
Session IV: Language and Context DHT Faculty Room South Session Chair: Gary Cottrell An Integrative Approach to Stroop: Combining a Language Model and a Unified Cognitive Theory Erik Altmann, Douglas Davidson Activating Verbs from Typical Agents, Patients, Instruments and Locations via Event Schemas Ken McRae, Mary Hare, Jeff Elman, Todd Ferretti Rules for Syntax, Vectors for Semantics Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Iraide Zipitria Integrating Distributional, Prosodic and Phonological Information in a Connectionist Model of Language Aquisition Morten Christiansen, Rick Dale |
| 12:45pm - 2:30pm | LUNCH - No Host International Sub-Committee Meeting - HCRC Seminar Room | |||
| 2:30pm - 4:10pm | Session V: Symposium DHT Lecture Theatre A Computational Models of Historical Scientific Discoveries Organisers: Pat Langley, ISLE Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia Presenters: Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia Peter Cheng, University of Nottingham Adrian Gordon, University of Northumbria Sakir Kocabas, Istanbul Technical University Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen |
Session VI: Reasoning and Problem Solving I DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Lance Rips On the Evaluation of If p then q Conditionals Constantinos Hadjichristidis, Rosemary Stevenson, David Over, Steven Sloman, Jonathan Evans, Aidan Feeney Cognitive Uncertainty in Syllogistic Reasoning: An Alternative Mental Models Theory Jeremy Qualye, Linden Ball Structural Determinants of Counterfactual Reasoning Daniel Yarlett, Michael Ramscar A Computational Model of Counterfactual Thinking: The Temporal Order Effect Clare Walsh, Ruth Byrne |
Session VII: Associative Learning DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: TBA Synfire Chains and Catastrophic Interference Jacques Sougne, Robert French The Mechanics of Associative Change Mike Le Pelley, Lan McLaren A Connectionist Investigation of Linguistic Arguments from the Poverty of the Stimulus: Learning the Unlearnable John Lewis, Jeff Elman Generalization in Simple Recurrent Networks Marius Vilcu, Robert Hadley |
Session VIII: Perception and Recognition Faculty Room South Session Chair: Axel Cleermans Spoken Language Comprehension Improves the Efficiency of Visual Search Melinda Tyler, Michael Spivey Visual Statistical Learning In Infants Natasha Kirkham, Jonathan Slemmer, Scott Johnson Visual Expertise is a General Skill Maki Sugimoto, Garrison Cottrell Modeling Tonality:Applications to Music Cognition Elaine Chew |
| 4:10pm - 4:40pm | TEA David Hume Tower | |||
| 4:40pm - 6:00pm | THE 2001 RUMELHART PRIZEWINNER'S LECTURE: Geoff Hinton Designing Generative Models to Make Perception Easy David Hume Lecture Theatre A | |||
| 6:30pm - 7:30pm | THE 2001 RUMELHART PRIZEWINNER'S RECEPTION:
Sponsored by the Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation Playfair Library, Old College | |||
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm | Poster Session I Playfair Library, Old College | |||
| Time | Friday 3rd August | |||
| 8:00am -9:00am | Conference Sub-Committee Meeting -
HCRC Seminar Room | |||
| 8:30 - 6:00pm | REGISTRATION
Foyer, David Hume Tower | |||
| 9:00a.m. -10:30a.m. | PLENARY: Wilfrid Hodges (London) "Some things a logician would like to know about human reasoning" DHT Lecture Theatre A | |||
| 10:30am - 11:00am | COFFEE
David Hume Tower | |||
| 11:00am - 12:45pm | HERB SIMON MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM Chair: John Anderson Presenters: Pat Langley - ISLE, Stanford TBC Fernand Gobet - University of Nottingham "Is Experts' Knowledge Modular?" Kevin Gluck - Air Force Research Laboratory "The Right Tool for the Job: Information Processing Analysis in Categorisation" David Hume Lecture Theatre A | |||
| 12:45pm - 2:05pm | LUNCH - No Host Board of Govenors Meeting - Call Centre, Buccleuch Place | |||
| 2:30pm - 4:10pm | Session IX: Symposium DHT Lecture Theatre A When Learning Shapes its own Environment Organiser: James Hurford, University of Edinburgh Presenters: Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute James Hurford, University of Edinburgh Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh Peter Todd, Max Planck Institute |
Session X: Psycholinguistics DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Ellen Bard Extending the Past-Tense Debate: A Model of the German Plural Neils Taatgen The Influence of Semantics on Past-Tense Inflection Michael Ramscar Regularity and Irregularity in Inflectionally Complex Language: Evidence from Polish Agniesszka Ried, William Marslen-Wilson Activating Verb Semantics from the Regular and Irregular Past Tense Catherine Longworth, Billi Randall, Lorraine Tyler, William Marslen-Wilson |
Session XI: Reasoning and Problem Solving II DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: Richard Catrambone Addition as Interactive Problem Solving Hansjoerg Neth, Stephen J. Payne Adaptive Selection of Problem Solving Strategies Danilo Fum, Fabio Del Missir Training for Insight: The case of the Nine-Dot Problem Trina Kershaw, Stellan Ohlsson Elementary School Children's Understanding of Experimental Error Amy Masnick, David Klahr | Session XII: Agents and Artificial Life Faculty Room South Session Chair: Padraic Monaghan Simulating the Evolution of Modular Neural Systems John Bullinaria How Learning can Guide Evolution in Hierarchical Modular Tasks Janet Wiles, Bradley Tonkes, James Watson The Origins of Syllable Systems: An Operational Model Pierre-yves Oudeyer Modelling Cognition with Software Agents Stan Franklin, Art Graesser |
| 4:10pm - 4:40pm | TEA David Hume Tower | |||
| 4:40pm - 5:55pm | Session XIII: Theory Based Categorisation DHT Lecture Theatre A Session Chair: TBA Theory-based Reasoning in Clinical Psychologists Nancy Kim, Woo-kyoung Ahn Conceptual Combination as Theory Formation Dietmar Janetzko How is Abstract, Generative Knowledge Acquired? Timothy Nokes, Stellan Ohlsson |
Session XIV: Strategy DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: TBA The Strategic Use of Memory for Frequency and Recency in Search Control Andrew Howes, Stephen J. Payne Modelling an Opportunistic Strategy for Information Navigation Craig Miller, Roger Remington Context Affects Risky Choice Neil Stewart, Nick Chater, Henry Stott |
Session XV: Philosophy DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: Michiel van Lambalgen Representation: Where Philosophy Goes when it Dies Peter Slezak How Primative is Self Conciousness? Autonomous Non-Conceptual Content and Immunity to Error through Misidentification Roblin Meeks Sergy Blok, George Newman, Jennifer Behr, Lance Rips |
Session XVI: Theories of Mind Faculty Room South Session Chair: TBA Distributed Cognition in Apes Christine Johnson, Tasha Oswald Metarepresentation in Psychology, Philosophy and Primate Cognition Sam Scott Emotional Impact on Logic Deficits May Underlie Psychotic Delusions in Schizophrenia Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, Tsafrir Greenberg, Robert Bilder, Dolores Malaspina |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Poster Session II Playfair Library, Old College | |||
| 8:00pm - 1:00am | Conference Dinner 8:00pm Drinks Reception and Announcement of 2002 Rumelhart Prize Winner 8:30pm Dinner 10:00pm Ceilidh (TBC) Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road | |||
| Time | Saturday 4th August | |||
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Journal Sub-Committee
Meeting- HCRC Seminar Room | |||
| 9:00a.m. -10:30a.m. | PLENARY: Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris) "Mind, Modularity and Culture" David Hume Lecture Theatre A | |||
| 10:30am - 11:00am | COFFEE
David Hume Tower | |||
| 11:00am - 12:45pm | Session XVII: Invited Symposium: DHT Lecture Theatre A Representation and Modularity Presenters: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Institute of Child Health, London Lawrence Hirschfeld, University of Michigan Dylan Evans, Department of Philosopy, Kings College London | Session XVIII: Memory and Language DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Steven Sloman An Influence of Spatial language on Recognition Memory for Spatial Scenes Michele Feist, Dedre Gentner The Influence of Casual Interpretation on Memory for System States Wolfgang Schoppek Comprehension of Action Sequences: The Case of Paper, Sissors, Rock Patric Bach, Guenter Knoblich, Angela D. Friederici, Wolfgang Prinz Semantic Effect on Episodic Associations Yaron Silberman, Risto Miikkulainen, Shlomo Bentin |
Session XIX: Collaboration and Coreference DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: TBA Interactive models of Collaborative Communication Michael Matessa The Emergence of Effects of Collaboration in a Simple Discovery Task Kazuhisa Miwa Constraints on Linguistic Coreference: Structural vs. Pragmatic Factors Frank Keller, Ash Asudeh Dissecting Common Ground: Examining an Instance of Reference Repair Timothy Koschmann, Curtis LeBaron, Charles Goodwin, Paul Feltovich |
Session XX: Categorisation and Perception Faculty Room South Session Chair: TBA That's odd! How Scientists Respond to Anomalous Data Susan Trickett, Gregory Trafton, Christian Schunn, Anthony Harrison Imagery, Context Availability, Contextual Constraint and Abstractness Katja Wiemer-Hastings, Jan Krug, Xu Xu A Model of Perceptual Change by Domain Integration Gert Westermann Understanding Recognition from the Use of Visual Information Phillipe Schyns, Lizann Bonnar, Frederic Gosslein |
| 12:45pm - 2:30pm | LUNCH- No Host Business Meeting - DHT Faculty Room South | |||
| 2:30pm - 4:10pm | Session XXI : Symposium DHT Lecture Theatre A The Interaction of Explicit and Implicit Learning Organisers: Ron Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia Robert Matthews, Louisiana State University Presenters: Axel Cleermans, Zoltan Dienes, Robert Matthews, Louisiana State University Ron Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia |
Session XXII: Development DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Peter Weimer-Hastings The Emergence of Words Terry Regier, Bryce Corrigan, Rachael Cabasaan, Amanda Woodward, Michael Gasser, Linda Smith On Choosing the Parse with the Scene: The Role of Visual Context and Verb Bias in Ambiguity Resolution Jesse Snedeker, Kristen Thorpe, John Trueswell Do Perceptual Complexity and Object Familiarity Matter for Novel Word Extension? Catherine Sandhofer, Linda Smith Modality Preference and its Change in the Course of Development Amanda Napolitano, Vladimir Sloutsky, Sarah Boysen |
Session XXIII: Concept Learning I DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: TBA The Rational Basis of Representativeness Joshua Tenenbaum, Thomas Griffiths On the Normativity of Failing to Recall Valid Advice David Noelle Randomness and Coincidences:Reconciling Intuition and Probability Theory Thomas Griffiths, Joshua Tenenbaum Cascade Explains and Informs the Utility of Fading Examples to Problems Randolph Jones, Eric Fleischmann |
Session XXVI: Analogy Faculty Room South Session Chair: Dedre Gentner Similarity Processing depends on the Similarities Present Mark Keane, Deirdre Hackett, Jodi Davenport Reference-point Reasoning and Comparison Asymmmetries Brain Bowdle, Douglas Medin Episode Blending as a Result of Analogical Problem Solving Boicho Kokinov, Neda Zareva-Toncheva Working-memory Modularity in Analogical Reasoning Robert Morrison, Keith Holyoak, Bao Truong |
| 4:10pm - 4:40pm | TEA | |||
| 4:40pm - 6:20pm | Session XXV : Symposium DHT Lecture Theatre A The Cognitive Basis of Science:The View from Science Organiser: Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Tech Presenters: Stephen Stich, Rutgers University Ronald N. Giere, University of Minnesota Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Tech Discussant: Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University |
Session XXVI: The Lexicon DHT Lecture Theatre B Session Chair: Terry Regier For Better or Worse: Modelling Effects of Semantic Ambiguity Jennifer Rodd, Gareth Gaskell, William Marslen-Wilson Testing the Distributional Hypothesis: The Influence of Context on Judgemens of Semantic Similarity Scott McDonald, Michael Ramscar Graded Lexical Activation by Pseudowords in Cross-Modal Semantic Priming: Spreading of Activation, Backward Priming or Repair? Jens Bölte Real World Constraints on the Mental Lexicon: Assimilation, the Speech Lexicon and the Information Structure of Spanish Words Monica Tamariz, Richard Shillcock |
Session XXVII: Concept Learning II DHT Lecture Theatre C Session Chair: TBA A Knowledge Reasonance (KRES) Model of Category Learning Bob Rehder, Gregory Murphy Reversing Category Exclusives in Infant Perceptual Categorisation: Simulations and Data Robert French, Martial Mermillod, Paul Quinn, Denis Mareschal Self-Organising Networks for Classification Learning from Normal and Aphasic Speech Sheila Garfield, Mark Elshaw, Stefan Wermter The Interaction of Explict and Implicit: An Intergrated Model Ron Sun, Paul Slusarz |
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