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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red">Updated March 10, 2016: New Submission Date, Speaker Titles,
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Submission + Publication Details</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">NCPW15 – August 8-9, 2016 – Philadelphia, PA, USA</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">15<sup>th</sup> Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Contemporary Neural Network Models:
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Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Funded by the W. K. & K. W. Estes Fund, Google DeepMind<br>
and the Rumelhart Emergent Cognitive Functions Fund</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Organized by:
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jay McClelland, Stefan Frank & Daniel Mirman</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">500-Word Abstracts and Applications to Attend Due:
<b><span style="color:red">April 15</span></b><br>
Notification of Acceptance and Travel Awards: <b>May 15</b></span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">We are pleased to announce a workshop on <b><i>Contemporary Neural Network Models</i></b>, bringing the latest developments in Deep Neural Networks, Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks, and Recurrent Neural Networks with Long-Short-Term
Memory Units into contact with contemporary cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience research. Plenary speakers are established and emerging experts in the development of deep neural network models of perception, action and cognition, and include authors
of Google DeepMind’s projects achieving human-level performance in Atari games and Go and in creating innovative Cognitive architectures such as the Neural Turing Machine. The workshop will take place on Aug 8-9, 2016 in Philadelphia – in North America for
the first time after 14 previous meetings in Europe.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>The Workshop has both a research dissemination and tutorial purpose</i></b>. Research submissions are welcome based on a 500-word abstract for spoken and poster presentations in any area of computational research that applies neural
network models or related approaches to understanding human cognition. <b><i>To foster exchange of ideas, presentation of recently published work or work also submitted elsewhere is welcome, and there will be a publication option for new work.
</i></b> Both junior and senior scientists interested in learning more about the latest developments are encouraged to attend (space is limited and application is required) with or without making a presentation. Thanks to generous support, costs will be low
and travel awards will encourage participation by a diverse population of participants with relevant goals. The
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/">conference website</a> provides full details and instructions for those interested in participating. Abstracts and applications to attend are due April 15 and notification of acceptance and travel awards will
be made by May 15.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Keynote Presentations</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Nikolaus Kriegeskorte</b>, MRC-CBU Cambridge, UK. <i>Deep Convolutional Nets and Biological Object Vision.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Marco Zorzi</b>, University of Padova. <i>Unsupervised Deep Learning Models of Perception and Cognition: Space, Numbers, Words</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Andrew Saxe</b>, Harvard University. <i><span style="color:black">A Theory of the Dynamics of Deep Learning: Consequences for Perceptual Learning and Semantic Development</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Greg Wayne</b>, Google DeepMind. <i>Integrating Neural and Symbolic Computation: The Neural Turing Machine and Beyond</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Timothy Lillicrap</b>, Google DeepMind. <i>Deep Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms and Applications from Reaching and Grasping to Winning at Go</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Linda Smith</b>, Indiana University. <i>What’s Deep about Deep Learning? What Can it Tell us About the Mind?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Workshop Structure</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Each of the two days of the NCPW workshop will include three 75 minute sessions led by invited speakers. The first five of these sessions will each focus on a different aspect or topic in contemporary neural network research, and each
will be led by a different expert. The final session will begin with a commentary by a senior Cognitive Scientist (Linda Smith) followed by a panel discussion with the other five speakers. During lunch each day, the day’s speakers will each hold a smaller
discussion session with a subset of the workshop participants, and materials will be circulated in advance. Two 1.5-hour sessions each day will be devoted to submitted presentations selected for their scientific value and the extent to which they advance
the use of neural network architectures, tools, and concepts in both computational and cognitive (neuro)science domains. A poster session at the end of the first day will allow all of the participants an opportunity to present and obtain feedback from the
invited speakers, and to learn from and network with each other. A conference dinner on the first evening and a reception on the second evening will allow for informal interactions.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">NCPW15 will be complemented by a separate day-long tutorial on Wednesday, August 10, as part of the Cognitive Science Society meeting also in Philadelphia (pending acceptance by the Program Committee). This day-long event will provide
additional tutorial presentations, followed by in depth how-to sessions associated with the actual implementation and effective practical mastery of deep learning networks for cognitive science research.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Participants, Publication, Travel Awards, Costs, and Logistics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The target population is PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, and more advanced researchers at any level. Both contributing researchers and non-presenting attendees are welcome to apply. Contributing researchers will be selected based
on a 500-word submitted research abstract, according to past policies of NCPW. As noted above, presentation of recently published work or work also submitted elsewhere are welcome. Participants will be invited to contribute otherwise unpublished work to
a planned <i>Frontiers in Cognitive Science </i>Research Topic on contemporary neural network models.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Selection of non-presenting attendees will be based on the
<i>relevance</i> of the workshop to the attendee’s goals as described in a short essay as well as a CV and, for junior scientist, a mentor’s letter of support. Both trainees and contributing researchers not selected for oral presentations have the option to
present a poster in the poster session. A total of 25 travel support awards ($250 domestic/$750 international) are available both for trainees and for contributing researchers to partially defray costs of attendance; support will be awarded based on the criteria
above as well as need with attention to encouraging diversity. There is no registration fee for accepted participants. A low-price accommodation option ($50/night) will be available. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Application Process and Venue: </b>More detailed information on the application process and the venue are available at the
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/">conference website</a>. The deadline for presentation abstract submissions and for applications to attend will be April 15, 2016, and notification of acceptance and travel awards for trainees and participating
researchers will be on May 15, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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