Conference Announcement

[George Sperling]

            TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
                  Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
                      January 28 - February 2, 1996
      Organizer:  George Sperling, University of California, Irvine

The TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE will meet in
Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, January 28 - February 2, 1996.
The conference covers a wide range of subjects in what has come to be
called cognitive science, ranging from visual and auditory physiology
and psychophysics to human information processing, cognition, learning
and memory, to computational approaches to these problems including
neural networks and artificial intelligence.  The aim is to provide
overview talks that are comprehensible and interesting to a wide
scientific audience --such as one might fantasy would occur at a
National or Royal Academy of Science if such organizations were
indeed devoted to scientific interchange.  Attendance is limited
by the size of the conference facility to about 50 persons.

The Conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, January 28,
at 6:00p. Regular sessions meet from Monday through Friday at 4:00p to
8:00p; rest of the day is free.  On Friday, 8:00p, there is a banquet
for participants.  A preliminary program is appended.

The conference hotel, the Inn at Jackson Hole, is directly at the
base of the ski slopes, a short walk from the tram and other ski lifts.
The Conference has arranged special room rates for registered
participants.  To reserve lodging, telephone The Inn 1-800-842-7666 and
inform the desk that you are with the Interdisciplinary Conference (AIC).
Other hotels, restaurants, ski rental facilities, shops, and cross
country ski trails, are all within walking distance.  There are flights
directly to Jackson Hole AP (taxi or bus to the hotel).  Alternatively,
Jackson is a five-hour drive from Salt Lake City.

Additional information about the conference, previous programs, etc,
are available at the WWW site below.  To attend the conference, fill out
the online registration form or request hardcopy from the organizer, and
send the registration fee ($100) to the address below.  To be sure of
receiving future mailings, return a copy of the registration form with
your current address.

                                 Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
                                 c/o Prof. George Sperling
                                 Cognitive Science Dept., SST-6
                                 University  of California
                                 Irvine, CA 92717

                                 E-mail:  sperling at uci.edu

 http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/HIPLab/AIC     (for info about AIC-21)

 http://www.jacksonhole.com/ski                 (info about Jackson, WY)

 http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci   (for info about UCI Cognitive Sciences)


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P.S.  UCI Update from the organizer:
In spite of the fiscal difficulties faced by the State of California, UCI
continues to move forward (two Nobel Prizes in 1995) and the Department
of Cognitive Science is flourishing.  In fall, 1995, the Department of
Cognitive Science will be recruiting for three faculty positions with
considerable flexibility in areas.  There is an opening for a graduate
student and a postdoc in my lab, and there are excellent opportunities for
graduate students in the department --see the enclosed announcement and
the WWW site above.

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              TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
  
                    Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
                        January 26 - February 2, 1996

        Organizer:  George Sperling, University of California, Irvine
  
                       Preliminary Schedule (16Jan96)
  
Sunday, January 28: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. ** Reception **  Registration, Appetizers, Snacks, Refreshments.
  
Monday, January 29, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.    Auditory Biology and Psychophysics;  Visual Physiology
  
Karen Glendenning,  Psychology, Florida State U.  Hearing: A Comparative Perspective.
Bruce Masterton,  Psychology, Florida State U.  Role of the Central Auditory System in Hearing.
Sam Williamson,  Physics, New York University.  The Decay of Sensory Memory.  
  
Randy Blake,  Psychol, Vanderbilt U.  Tachistoscopic Review of Mark Berkley's Research.
Adina Roskies,  Dept. Neurol, Washington U Med.  Topographic Targeting of Retinal Axons in Development.

Tuesday, January 29, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.    Motion Perception: Physiology, Psychophysics

Larry O'Keefe,  Center for Neural Science, NYU.  Motion Processing in Primate Visual Cortex.
Scott Richman,  Cognitive Sci., UCI.  A Specialized Receptor for Moving Flicker?
Erik Blaser,  Cog. Sci, UC Irvine.  When is Motion Motion?
Sophie Wuerger,  Communic & Neurosci, Keele U.  Colour in Moving and Stationary Orientation Discrimination.
George Sperling,  Cognitive Science, UC Irvine.  Model of Gain-Control in Motion Processing.
  
  
Wednesday Feb. 1, 4:00 - 8:00  Visual Learning, Learning; Information Processing
  
Lorraine Allan,  Psychology, McMaster U.  New Slants on the McCollough Effect.
Shepard Siegel,  Psychology, McMaster U.  What Contingent Color Aftereffects Tell Us About Drug Addiction.

Hal Pashler,  Psychology, U Cal., San Diego.  Dual-Task Bottlenecks:  Structural or Strategic?
Geoffrey Loftus,  Brain and Cog Sci, MIT.  Information Acquisition and Phenomenology.
Bill Prinzmetal,  Dept of Psychology, UC Berkely.  The Phenomenology of Attention.
Zhong-Lin Lu,  Cogn. Sci., U Cal. Irvine.  Salience Model of Spatial Attention.
  

Thursday 4:00 - 8:00    Memory
  
Tim McNamara,  Psychology, Vanderbilt.  Viewpoint Dependence in Human Spatial Memory. 
Roger Ratcliff & Gail McKoon,  Psychology, Northwestern U.  Models of RT and Word Identification
Richard Shiffrin,  Psychology, Indiana U.  A Model for Implicit and Explicit Momory.
Barbara Dosher,  Cogn. Sci., U Cal. Irvine.  Forgetting in Implicit and Explicit Memory Tasks.
David Caulton,  Natl Inst Health. Memory Retrieval Dynamics:  Behavioral and Electrophysiological Approaches. 

Friday 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.   Computational Issues

Sandy Pentland,  Media Lab., MIT.  The Perception of Driving Intentions.
Leonid Kontsevich,  Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.  The Role of Partial Similarity in 3D Vision.
Misha Pavel,  EE., Oregon Graduate Institute.  The Role of Features in the Perception of Symmetry.
Maria Kozhevnikov,  Physics, Technion, Israel.  A Mathematical Model of Conceptual Development.
Shulamith Eckstein,  Physics, Technion, Israel.  A Dynamic Model of Cognitive Growth in a Population.

 * * * 8:00  Fireside Banquet at The Inn * * *