NCPW3: Programme & registration (176 lines)

[Peter J.B. Hancock]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Third Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop.

Wednesday Aug 31 - Fri Sept 2 1994.

Location: University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.

Provisional Programme:

Tue Aug 30th 

14:00-19:00  registration
19:30	reception

Wed Aug 31st

09:00 Introduction. 

Session 1: Cognition. Chair: Prof Vicky Bruce.
09:10 David Willshaw (Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh),: 
title tba
09:50 Dienes Z., Altmann G., Gao S-J, Goode A. (Experimental Psychology, 
University of Sussex),  Mapping across domains without feedback: a neural 
network model of transfer of information.

10:25 Coffee

10:50 Bullinaria J. (Dept of Psychology, University of Edinburgh), Modelling 
reaction times
11:25 Glasspool D., Houghton G., Shallice T. (Dept of Psychology, University 
College, London), Interactions between knowledge sources in a dual-route 
connectionist model of spelling 
12:00 Slack J.M. (Institute of Social and Applied Psychology, University of 
Kent), Distributed representations: a capacity constraint.

12:35 Lunch

Session 2: Low-Level perception. Chair: Peter Hancock
14:00 Stone J.V. (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex), 
Learning spatio-temporal visual invariances using a self-organising neural 
network model. 
14:35 Baddeley R. (University of Oxford), A Bayesian framework for 
understanding topographic map formation.

15:10 Tea

15:40 Fyfe C., Baddeley R. (University of Oxford), Edge sensitivity from 
exploratory projection pursuit. 
16:15 Herrmann M., Bauer H.-U, Der R. (Nordita, Copenhagen, Inst. f. Theor 
Physik, Universitaet Frankfurt, and  Inst f. Informatik, Universitaet Leipzig), 
The "perceptual magnet" effect: a model based on self-organizing maps. 
16:40 Smyth D,  Phillips W.A. , Kay J.W. (Dept of Psychology, University of 
Stirling, and SASS, Aberdeen), Discovery of high-order functions in 
multi-stream, multi-stage nets  without external supervision.
17:15 Session ends



Thur Sept 1st

Session 3: Audition. Chair: Prof David Willshaw.
09:00 Meddis R. (Dept of Human Sciences, Loughborough University of 
Technology), The conceptual basis of modelling auditory processing in the 
brainstem.
09:45 Scott S. (MRCAPU, Cambridge), `Beats' in speech and music: a model of the 
perceptual centres of acoustic signals.

10:20 Coffee

10:45 Smith L. (Dept of Computing Science, University of Stirling), Data-driven 
Sound Segmentation.
11:20 Beauvois M.W. , Meddis R., (IRCAM, Paris, and Dept of Human Sciences, 
Loughborough University of Technology), Computer simulation of auditory stream 
segregation in pure-tone sequences. 
11:55 Wiles J., Stevens C. (Depts of Computer Science and Psychology, 
University of Queensland), Music as a Componential Code: Acquisition and 
Representation of Temporal Relationships in a Simple Recurrent Network
12:30 Session Ends.

12:40 : Poster introductions (3-5 mins per poster).

13:10 Lunch

14:10 Poster Session. CCCN

15:45 Tea

Session 4: Sequence Learning. Chair: Leslie Smith.
16:15 Lovatt P.J., Bairaktaris D. (Dept of Computing Science, University of 
Stirling), A computational account of phonologically mediated free recall. 
16:50 Harris K.D., Sanford A.J. (Dept of Psychology, University of Glasgow), 
Connectionist and process modelling of long-term sequence: the integration of 
relative judgements, representation and learning. 
17:25 Bradbury D. (Human Cognition Research Lab, Open University), A model of 
aspects of visual perception that uses temporal neural network techniques.
18:00 Session Ends

19:00 Conference Dinner. To be arranged.  



Fri Sept 2nd

Session 5:  Vision 2. Chair: Prof Roger Watt
09:30 Tao L-M, (IIASS, Vietri sul Mare, Italy) Compuatational color vision: the 
force of combination computational theory with ecological optics. 
10:05 Shillcock R., Cairns P. (Centre for Cognitive Science, University of 
Edinburgh), Connectionist modelling of the neglect syndrome. 

10:40 Coffee

11:20 Smith K.J., Humphreys G.W. (School of Psychology, University of 
Birmingham), Mechanisms of visual search:an implementation of guided search.
11:55 Burton M. (Dept of Psychology, University of Stirling),  title tba

12:30 Lunch

End of Conference

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NCPW3: Neural Computing And Psychology Workshop
Aug 31 - Sept 2 1994  Cottrell Building, University of Stirling.

Registration Form:

Please return this form (by post) to 
Dr. Leslie Smith, Department of Computing Science, University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland.

Conference fee:
Before 1 August	#60   After 1 August	#80		----------
This includes coffees and lunches on all three days.


	    	|	    Dinner (#6.72)	|	B&B(#16.08)
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Wed	    	|				|
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Thur	    	|     Conference Dinner	(#20)	|
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Fri	     	|				|

Dinner and B&B subtotal:				----------

Total							____________

Payment may be made by
* Cheque in UK# drawn on a UK bank
* Eurocheque in UK#
* Bank transfer (in UK#) to
	Account: University of Stirling No 1 
	Bank of Scotland, Craigs House, 78 Upper Craigs, Stirling FK8 2DE, Scotland.
	Sort code: 80 91 29    Account number: 00891500
	Mark the transfer: NCPW3.
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