NCPW 8 Call for Participation

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                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

  Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW 8)
  Connectionist Models of Cognition, Perception and Emotion

                28-30 August 2003 at the
         University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

The Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW8)
will be held in Canterbury, England from 28-30th August 2003.
The NCPW series is now a well established and lively forum
that brings together researchers from such diverse disciplines
as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science,
neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. 35 papers will be
presented, of which eight will be invited papers. In addition to the
high quality of the papers presented, this Workshop takes
place in an informal setting, in order to encourage interaction
among the researchers present.

Website
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More details, including registration information, can be found on
the conference website,

http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/events/conf/2003/ncpw/

The Programme
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Highlights of the programme include a session on modelling face
perception, including three invited papers,

 Gary Cottrell
 University of California, San Diego, USA
 Modeling Face Perception

 Peter Hancock, Mike Burton and Rob Jenkins
 Stirling University, Scotland
 Face Recognition: Average or Examplar?

 C.J. Solomon, S.J. Gibson, A. Pallares-Bejarano and M. Maylin
 University of Kent at Canterbury
 Exploring the Case for a Psychological "Face-space"

Five more invited papers have been scheduled,

 John A. Bullinaria
 The University of Birmingham
 On the Evolution of Irrational Behaviour

 Bob French
 University of Liege, Belgium
 The bottom-up nature of category acquisition in 3- to 4-month old
infants:
 Predictions of a connectionist model and empirical data

 Richard Shillcock and Padraic Monaghan
 University of Edinburgh, Scotland
 Sublexical units in the computational modelling of visual word
recognition

 John G. Taylor
 King's College Strand, University of London
 Through Attention to Consciousness by CODAM

 Marius Usher and Eddy Davelaar
 Birkbeck College, University of London
 Short/long term memory in terms of activation versus weight based
processes

The full programme can be found at the following site,

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/conf/2003/ncpw/prog/

Conference Chair
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Howard Bowman, University of Kent, UK

Conference Organisers
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Howard Bowman, UKC
Colin G. Johnson, UKC
Miguel Mendao, UKC
Vikki Roberts, UKC

Proceedings Editors
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Howard Bowman, UKC
Christophe Labiouse, Liege

Publication
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Proceedings of the workshop will appear in the series Progress
in Neural Processing, which is published by World Scientific.