Connectionists: Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology

[Mark Steyvers]

CALL FOR PAPERS

40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology

Wednesday Evening July 25, 2007 - Saturday Noon July 28, 2007
The Wyndham Hotel Orange County near the University of California, Irvine

Conference website:
http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/mathpsych2007/

Submission deadline for abstracts:
April 1, 2007 for spoken presentation & April 20, 2007 for posters

Conference Theme:
Computational modeling and Inference in Complex Cognitive Models

The /40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology/ 
will follow the usual two and a half day format and will be held at The 
Wyndham Hotel Orange County near the University of California, Irvine. 
The conference will feature symposia on fMRI analysis and modeling, 
modern Monte Carlo techniques, Markov decision processes, and complex 
decision making. Immediately following the meeting will be a /Special 
Symposium Celebrating the Career of George Sperling/ (see 
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~sperlingfest/ for additional details). 
Contact the local organizers Mark Steyvers and Michael Lee 
(mathpsych2007 at gmail.com) for further information.

Abstracts for the meetings may be submitted by regular members, student 
members, and non-members. Any one person may present only one talk, but 
may be a co-author of other papers, or may be an invited speaker or 
symposium participant. Papers will be limited to those in which 
mathematical, statistical, or simulation methods play a significant role 
in the development of psychological hypotheses or the interpretation of 
results. Purely theoretical developments should clearly relate to 
substantive issues or contribute to methodologies of obvious use in 
psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and related 
areas. Experimental results should bear directly on some mathematical or 
simulation model.

Papers will be accepted on the basis of their quality and suitability 
and not according to the author's affiliation with the Society. 
Presentations that bridge disciplines, treat issues of mathematical 
interest in the behavioral and social sciences, cognitive science, and 
cognitive neuroscience are highly encouraged. For oral papers, 
presentation time will be limited to a maximum of 25 minutes including 
five minutes for discussion. Sessions will be strictly timed. As was the 
case in past years, we will also have a poster session. Poster 
presentations have the advantage of longer discussion time, less 
formality, and closer audience contact. The "status" associated with 
poster presentations will be equal to that associated with oral 
presentations.