Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology (Australia)

[janetw@cs.uq.oz.au]

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.
 
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Details
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Date: Saturday 29th January, 1994
Time: 9.00am - 6pm
Location: Dept of Psychology, Room 304, University of Queensland
	  St Lucia, Brisbane.
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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.

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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 at cs.uq.oz.au 
Email: kates at psych.psy.uq.oz.au
Email: cyril at psychvax.psych.su.oz.au