Journal Launch: NOETICA, A Cognitive Science Forum

[Simon Dennis]

          Welcome to NOETICA: A COGNITIVE SCIENCE FORUM

We are pleased to announce the International launch of Noetica: A
Cognitive Science Forum - a world wide web journal devoted to the
interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. The journal is open for
submissions and can be accessed using browsers such as Netscape, Mosaic
and lynx at:

http://psy.uq.edu.au/CogPsych/Noetica/

or alternatively you may access the mirror site at:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/Noetica/toc.html

If you would like to subscribe to the cogpsy mailing list (which
includes receiving a regular list of the new contents of Noetica) use
the subscription form under "To Subscribe" on the home page or email us
at noetica at psy.uq.edu.au. We would welcome any feedback you might have
on the journal and look forward to providing a timely, lively, high
quality forum for the discussion of cognitive science issues.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Dennis
Cyril Latimer
Kate Stevens
Janet Wiles


                          TABLE OF CONTENTS

JOURNAL

Volume 1 - 1995

Issue 1. The Impact of the Environment on the Word Frequency and Null
List Strength Effects in Recognition Memory by Simon Dennis

OPEN FORUM

Volume 1 - 1995

The first three issues of volume one are papers which were
presented at the Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology
which took place in January, 1994 at the Department of Psychology,
The University of Queensland, Australia. 

Issue 1: The rationale for psychologists using (connectionist) models

 Introduction: Peter Slezak.
 Target paper: 
   Cyril Latimer. Computer Modelling of Cognitive Processes
 Invited Commentary: 
   Max Coltheart. Connectionist Modelling and Cognitive Psychology
   Sally Andrews. What Connectionist Models Can (and Cannot) 
   Tell Us
   George Oliphant. Connectionism, Psychology and Science
 Commentary: 
   Paul Bakker. Good models of humble origins
   Richard Heath. Mathematical models, connectionism and 
   cognitive processes
   Ellen Watson. Definitions and Interpretations: Comments on the
   symposium on connectionist models and psychology

Issue 2. The correspondence between human and neural network
performance

 Introduction: Cyril Latimer
 Review: 
   Kate Stevens. The In(put)s and Out(put)s of Comparing Human and
   Network Performance: Some Ideas on Representations, Activations
   and Weights
 Review: 
   Graeme Halford and William Wilson. How Far Do Neural Network
   Models Account for Human Reasoning? 
 Commentary: 
   Steven Phillips. Understanding as generalisation not just
   representation.
 Review: 
   Simon Dennis. The Correspondence Between Psychological and 
   Network Variables In Connectionist Models of Human Memory 
 Commentaries: 
   Andrew Heathcote. Connectionism: Implementation constraints for
   psychological models
   Phillip Sutcliffe. Contribution to discussion

Issue 3. Computational processes over distributed memories

 Introduction: Steven Schwartz 
 Review: 
   Janet Wiles. The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit: A review of
   some basic processes over distributed memories
 Invited Commentary: 
   Mike Johnson. On the search for metaphors
   Zoltan Schreter. Distributed and Localist Representation in the
   Brain and in Connectionist Models

Issue 4. The Sydney Morning Herald Word Database by Simon Dennis 

Issue 5. Introducing a new connectionist model: The spreading waves of
activation network by Scott A. Gazzard 



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Dr Simon Dennis                  Address: Department of Psychology 
Email: mav at psy.uq.edu.au                  The University of Queensland
WWW: http://psy.uq.edu.au/~mav            Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia