Cognitive Science Society Meeting
Stevan Harnad
harnad at clarity.Princeton.EDU
Tue Jun 12 00:11:15 EDT 1990
The XII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society will take place at MIT, July 25-28, 1990.
(Immediately preceding the meeting of the AAAI,
also to take place in the Boston area).
Conference Chair: M. Piattelli-Palmarini (MIT)
Scientific Advisors: Beth Adelson (Tufts), Stephen
M. Kosslyn (Harvard) Steven Pinker (MIT),
Kenneth Wexler (MIT)
Registration fees:
Members 150$ (before July 1), $200 after July 1
non-members 185 225
student 90 110
Contact the MIT Conference Services, MIT
Room 7- 111 Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel. (617) 253-1700
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Outline of the program
Tuesday July 24, Wednesday July 25
Tutorials: "Cognitive Aspects of Linguistic Theory",
"Logic and Computability",
Cognitive Neuroscience"
(Require separate registrations)
Wednesday, July 26
4.00 - 7.30 pm Registration at Kresge Auditorium
7.30 - 9.00 First plenary session : Kresge Main
Auditorium
Welcoming address by Samuel Jay Keyser,
Assistant Provost of MIT,
Co-Director of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science;
Welcoming address by David E. Rumelhart
(Stanford), Chairman of the Board of the Cognitive
Science Society
Keynote speaker: Noam Chomsky (MIT) "Language
and Cognition"
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Thursday, July 26 9.00 am - 11.15 am
Symposia:
Execution-Time Response: Applying Plans in a Dynamic
World
Kristian J. Hammond (University of Chicago),
Chair
Phil Agre (University of Chicago)
Richard Alterman (Brandeis University)
Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)
R. James Firby (NASA Jet Propulsion Lab)
Cognitive Aspects of Linguistic Theory
Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut), Chair
David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Chair
James T. Higginbotham (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology)
John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts)
Perception, Computation and Categorization
Whitman Richards (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Chair
Aaron Bobick (SRI International)
Ken Nakayama (Harvard University)
Allan Jepson (University of Toronto)
Paper Presentations:
Rule-Based Reasoning,Explanation and Problem-
Solving
Reasoning II: Planning
11.30 - 12.45 Plenary session Kresge Main
Auditorium
Keynote Speaker: Morris Halle (MIT) "Words and
their Parts"
Chair: Kenneth Wexler (MIT)
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Thursday, July 26 Afternoon 2.00 pm - 4.15 pm
Symposia:
Principle-Based Parsing
Robert C. Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Chair
Steven P. Abney (Bell Communications Research)
Bonnie J. Dorr (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Sandiway Fong (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Mark Johnson (Brown University)
Edward P. Stabler, Jr. (University of California,
Los Angeles)
Recent Results in Formal Learning Theory
Kevin T. Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University),
Chair
Self-Organizing Cognitive and Neural Systems
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University), Chair
Ennio Mingolla (Boston University)
Michael Rudd (Boston University)
Daniel Bullock (Boston University)
Gail A. Carpenter (Boston University)
Action Systems: Planning and Execution
Emilio Bizzi (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Chair
Michael I. Jordan (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Paper presentations
Reasoning : Analogy
Learning and Memory : Acquisition
4.30 - 5.45 Plenary Session (Kresge Main Auditorium)
Keynote Speaker: Amos Tversky (Stanford)
"Decision under conflict"
Chair: Daniel N. Osherson (MIT)
Banquet
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Friday July 27 9.00 - 11.45 am
Symposia:
What's New in Language Acquisition ?
Steven Pinker and Kenneth Wexler (MIT), Chair
Stephen Crain (University of Connecticut)
Myrna Gopnik (McGill University)
Alan Prince (Brandeis University)
Michelle Hollander, John Kim, Gary Marcus,
Sandeep Prasada, Michael Ullman (MIT)
Attracting Attention
Ann Treisman (University of California,
Berkeley), Chair
Patrick Cavanagh (Harvard University)
Ken Nakayama (Harvard University)
Jeremy M. Wolfe (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Steven Yantis (Johns Hopkins University)
A New Look at Decision Making
Susan Chipman (Office of Naval Research) and
Judith Orasanu (Army Research Institute and
Princeton University),Chair
Gary Klein (Klein Associates)
John A. Swets (Bolt Beranek & Newman
Laboratories)
Paul Thagard (Princeton University)
Marvin S. Cohen (Decision Science Consortium,
Inc.)
Designing an Integrated Architecture: The Prodigy View
Jaime G. Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University),
Chair
Yolanda Gil (Carnegie Mellon University)
Robert Joseph (Carnegie Mellon University)
Craig A. Knoblock (Carnegie Mellon University)
Steve Minton (NASA Ames Research Center)
Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)
Paper presentations:
Reasoning : Categories and Concepts
Language : Pragmatics and Communication
11.30 - 12. 45 Plenary Session (Kresge main
Auditorium)
Keynote speaker: Margaret Livingstone (Harvard)
"Parallel Processing of Form, Color and Depth"
Chair: Richard M. Held (MIT)
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Friday, July 27 afternoon 2.00 - 4.15 pm
Symposia:
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
David Caplan (Harvard Medical School) and
Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard University), Chair
Michael S. Gazzaniga (Dartmouth Medical School)
Michael I. Posner (University of Oregon)
Larry Squire (University of California, San
Diego)
Computational Models of Category Learning
Pat Langley (NASA Ames Research Center) and
Michael Pazzani (University of California, Irvine),
Chair
Dorrit Billman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University)
Mark Gluck (Stanford University)
The Study of Expertise: Prospects and Limits
Anders Ericsson (University of Colorado,
Boulder),Chair
Neil Charness (University of Waterloo)
Vimla L. Patel and Guy Groen (McGill University)
Yuichiro Anzai (Keio University)
Fran Allard and Jan Starkes (University of
Waterloo)
Keith Holyoak (University of California, Los
Angeles), Discussant
Paper presentations:
Language (Panel 1) : Phonology
Language (Panel 2) : Syntax
4.30 - 5.45 Keynote speaker: Anne Treisman (UC
Berkeley) "Features and Objects"
Chair: Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard)
Poster Sessions
I. Connectionist Models
II. Machine Simulations and Algorithms
III. Knowledge and Problem-Solving
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Saturday, July 28 9.00 am - 11.15 am
Symposia:
SOAR as a Unified Theory of Cognition: Spring 1990
Allen Newell (Carnegie Mellon University),
Chair
Richard L. Lewis (Carnegie Mellon University)
Scott B. Huffman (University of Michigan)
Bonnie E. John (Carnegie Mellon University)
John E. Laird (University of Michigan)
Jill Fain Lehman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Paul S. Rosenbloom (University of Southern
California)
Tony Simon (Carnegie Mellon University)
Shirley G. Tessler (Carnegie Mellon University)
Neonate Cognition
Richard Held (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), Chair
Jane Gwiazda (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Renee Baillargeon (University of Illinois)
Adele Diamond (University of Pennsylvania)
Jacques Mehler (CNRS, Paris, France) Discussant
Conceptual Coherence in Text and Discourse
Arthur C. Grasser (Memphis State University),
Chair
Richard Alterman (Brandeis University)
Kathleen Dahlgren (Intelligent Text Processing,
Inc.)
Bruce K. Britton (University of Georgia)
Paul van den Broek (University of Minnesota)
Charles R. Fletcher (University of Minnesota)
Roger J. Kreuz (Memphis State University)
Richard M. Roberts (Memphis State University)
Tom Trabasso and Nancy Stein
Paper presentations:
Causality,Induction and Decision-Making
Vision (Panel 1) : Objects and Features
Vision (Panel 2) : Imagery
Language : Lexical Semantics
Case-Based Reasoning
11.30 - 12.45 Keynote Speaker
Ellen Markman (Stanford)
"Constraints Children Place on Possible Word
Meanings"
Chair: Susan Carey (MIT)
Lunch presentation: "Cognitive Science in Europe: A
Panorama"
Chair: Willem Levelt (Max Planck, Nijmegen).
Informal presentations by: Jacques Mehler (CNRS,
Paris), Paolo Viviani (University of Geneva), Paolo
Legrenzi (University of Trieste), Karl Wender
(University of Trier).
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Saturday 28 Afternoon 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Paper presentations:
Vision : Attention
Language Processing
Educational Methods
Learning and Memory
Agents, Goals and Constraints
3.15 - 4.30 Keynote Speaker: Roger Schank
(Norhwestern) "The Story is the Message: Memory
and Instruction"
Chair: Beth Adelson (Tufts)
4.30 - 5.45 Keynote Speaker: Stephen Jay Gould
(Harvard) "Evolution and Cognition"
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