Connectionists: Fwd: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Call for Abstracts

[Randall C. O'Reilly]

                            ~ Call for Abstracts ~
        2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
                            www.ccnconference.org

To be held in conjunction with the 2006 PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY CONFERENCE,
November 16-19, 2006 at the Hilton Americas hotel in Houston, TX.

* CONFERENCE DATES: Wed-Thu November 15 & 16, 2006

The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
in Washington, DC was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60
presented posters, and strongly positive reviews. In future years, it will
continue to be held on a rotating basis with other meetings such as
(tentative list): Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Organization for
Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS), and Computational and Systems
Neuroscience (COSYNE).
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* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: June 3, 2006

Abstracts to be submitted online via the website: www.ccnconference.org.
Notice will be given by early May when the online submission form becomes
operational.

Like last year, there will be two categories of submissions:
        -Poster only
        -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster

Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented
minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing for posters will be
inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will
be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme,
and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short
talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness
criteria.

* NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 1, 2005.
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Preliminary Program:
* 2006 Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
        Mike Kahana, University of Pennsylvania
        Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin Madison

* 3-4 Symposia, selected from submitted proposals, that will be discussion
  oriented and include a mixture of modelers and non-modelers, all focused on
  a common theme or issue.

* 12 short talks featuring selected posters

* Poster sessions
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2006 Planning Committee:

Suzanna Becker, McMaster University
Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University
Yuko Munakata, University of Colorado, Boulder
David Noelle, Vanderbilt University
Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder
Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center

Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder

For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit:

                            www.ccnconference.org