From janetw@cs.uq.oz.au Mon Nov 1 14:28:15 EST 1993 Article: 4959 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:4959 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!sparky!rick From: janetw@cs.uq.oz.au (Janet Wiles) Subject: Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology (Australia) Message-ID: <1993Oct30.031302.7431@sparky.sterling.com> Keywords: connectionism psychology neural nets Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Reply-To: janetw@cs.uq.oz.au Organization: Sterling Software Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 03:13:02 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 89 X-Md4-Signature: b87ac07ddd88dcedd55efb1d2aaede28 First Announcement: Call to participants SYMPOSIUM ON CONNECTIONIST MODELS AND PSYCHOLOGY University of Queensland Brisbane Australia Saturday, 29 January 1994 (back-to-back with the Australian Conference on Neural Networks) The symposium is aimed at psychologists and psychological modelers, specifically those who are studying or questioning the relevance of neural networks to experimental psych. We are aiming to provide a structured forum for discussion of issues. The symposium is structured into three sessions, focussed on the following themes: TENTATIVE PROGRAMME (8.10.93) SESSION 1. The rationale for psychologists using models: What benefits (if any) are there to be gained from using neural nets and other computational devices as models of human perception and cognition? Chair: Peter Slezak Target Address: Danny Latimer Discussants: Max Coltheart; Sally Andrews; Margaret Charles SESSION 2. Correspondence between human and network performance: What methods and measures are available for comparing network variables and human experimental data? Chair: Danny Latimer Speakers: Kate Stevens; Graeme Halford; Simon Dennis SESSION 3. Basic computational processes: Psychological theories of cognition assume the operation of basic processes such as comparison, storage, search etc. What do the connectionist and symbol-manipulating approaches provide as means for modeling these processes? Chair: Steve Schwartz Target Address: Janet Wiles Discussants: Mike Johnson; Zoltan Schreter; George Oliphant For the first and third sessions the role of the speaker is to raise issues and, possibly, defend a position. The reviewers will provide a commentary on the issues raised by the target speaker. For the second session, the role of the speakers is to raise and discuss conceptual and empirical issues. In all sessions the chair will lead the discussion. We're aiming to circulate a pre-proceedings two weeks in advance of the symposium to registered participants. _______________________________________________________________________ Details ------- Date: Saturday 29th January, 1994 Time: 9.00am - 6pm Location: Dept of Psychology, Room 304, University of Queensland St Lucia, Brisbane. _______________________________________________________________________ Please indicate your interest in attending the Symposium by returning this form or by contacting one of the organizers by email, telephone or fax by January 3, 1994. I will be attending the Symposium. Please keep me informed of developments Name: ................................................................ Address:................................................................ ................................................................ Phone: ................................................................ Fax: ................................................................ Email: ................................................................ _______________________________________________________________________ Janet Wiles Kate Stevens Danny Latimer Dept of Comp Sci Dept of Psychology Dept of Psychology Uni of Queensland Uni of Queensland Uni of Sydney St Lucia 4072 St Lucia 4072 NSW 2006 Phone: 07 365-2902 Phone: 07 365-6203 Phone: 02 692-2481 Fax: 07 365-1999 (International: +61-7-365-1999) Email: janetw@cs.uq.oz.au Email: kates@psych.psy.uq.oz.au Email: cyril@psychvax.psych.su.oz.au