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[Jean-Marc Fellous]

Subject: CNE Workshop on Emotions

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The Center for Neural Engineering of the University of Southern California is happy to announce that its student Workshop on Emotions will be held Monday March 18th from 8.30am to 4.00pm in the Hedco Neuro-Science Building Auditorium (on U.S.C campus).

The papers presented will be the following:

Affect versus Cognitive-repair Behaviors. 
       Sharon Ruth Gross - U.S.C (Social Psychology)

A Mathematical representation of Emotions.
       Charles Rapp - Illinois Institute of Technology (Computer Science).

Cognitive and Emotional disorders in Parkinson's Disease.
       Peter Dominey - U.S.C (C.N.E, Gerontology).

Cognitive-Emotional interaction using subsymbolic paradigm.
       Aluizio Fausto Ribeiro Araujo - University of Sussex (U.K) 
       (School of cognitive and Computing Sciences)

Emotional expressions conceptualized as uniquely effective communication devices
       Heidi M. Lincer - U.S.C (Psychology).

Taxi world: Computing Emotions.
       Clark Eliott - Northwestern University. 
       (Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences).

Zeal: A Sociological perspective on Emotion, cognition and organizational structure. 
       Gerardo Marti - U.S.C (Gerontology, Sociology)


In addition, the following papers have been accepted but will not be presented orally during the Workshop. 
They will be put on loan during the Workshop.

Emotions and autonomous machinery.
Douglas A. Kerns - California Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering).

Representation, Action, and Emotion.
Michael Travers - M.I.T (Media-Lab).

Toward an Emotional Computer: Models of Emotions.
Jean-Marc Fellous - U.S.C (C.N.E Computer Science)


There will not be any registration fees but, as to get an estimation of the number of persons attending the Workshop, interested people are invited to  announce their attendance by email (or surface mail).
We remind the participants that this event being a Workshop not a Conference they are strongly encouraged to participate to the debates by their comments and questions to the speakers.

Thank you for forwarding this announcement to potentialy interested persons/instituions/mailing_lists.

Further informations requests (and email registration) can be addressed to

       Jean-Marc FELLOUS 
  Center For Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
    U.S.C - University Park
Los Angeles        CA 90089-2520
U.S.A

Tel: (213) 740-3506
Fax: (213) 746-2863
email: fellous at rana.usc.edu
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